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The fundamental burden of a theory of inductive inference is to determine which are the good inductive inferences or relations of inductive support and why it is that they are so. The traditional approach is modeled on that taken in accounts of deductive inference. It seeks universally applicable schemas or rules or a single formal device, such as the probability calculus. After millennia of halting efforts, none of these approaches has been unequivocally successful and debates between approaches persist. The Material Theory of Induction identifies the source of these enduring problems in the assumption taken at the outset: that inductive inference can be accommodated by a single formal account with universal applicability. Instead, it argues that that there is no single, universally applicable formal account. Rather, each domain has an inductive logic native to it.The content of that logic and where it can be applied are determined by the facts prevailing in that domain. Paying close attention to how inductive inference is conducted in science and copiously illustrated with real-world examples, The Material Theory of Induction will initiate a new tradition in the analysis of inductive inference.

"A thoroughly biblical and compassionate approach to addressing issues of poverty, Jesus' Economy shows how individuals and churches can best alleviate the plight of the impoverished in their communities and nations; it presents a holistic plan for creating jobs, planting churches, and meeting basic needs, while focusing on community development and sustainability for lasting change, globally and locally"--

Joseph Smith and Latter-day science -- The world we thought we knew -- God's universe revealed -- What the eye can't see -- Kingdoms and space -- Light in science and theology -- God of nature -- Knowledge, truth, and reason -- Faith in religion and science -- Cosmos and chaos -- Opposition and free will -- Time : God, angels, and Einstein -- The dogma trap -- Discerning between truth and error -- Joseph the seer.

Vico's legal milieu -- Vico's universal law: religion, rhetoric and the Roman paradigm -- Natural law in the first new science -- Natural law land the revised new science -- Reprise : the senses of the sensus communis -- The Aristotelian-Thomist tradition -- Vico's place in the natural law tradition -- Conclusion : natural law in the barbarism of reflection.

This collection of original essays focuses on the dynamics of the contemporary system of inter-American relations, with emphasis on changes in the hemispheric political economy, the control exercised by the United States over the behavior of Latin American governments, and the issue of human rights. The authors discuss varying facets of the complex

The last twenty years have seen an unprecedented rise in the use of secret courts or closed material proceedings' largely brought about in response to the need to protect intelligence sources in the fight against terrorism. This has called into question the commitment of legal systems to long-cherished principles of adversarial justice and due process. Foremost among the measures designed to minimise the prejudice caused to parties who have been excluded from such proceedings has been the use of special advocates' who are given access to sensitive national security material and can make representations to the court on behalf of excluded parties. Special advocates are now deployed across a range of administrative, civil and criminal proceedings in many common law jurisdictions including the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Australia. This book analyses the professional services special advocates offer across a range of different types of closed proceedings. Drawing on extensive interviews with special advocates and with lawyers and judges who have worked with them, the book examines the manner in which special advocates are appointed and supported, how their position differs from that of ordinary counsel within the adversarial system, and the challenges they face in the work that they do. Comparisons are made between different special advocate systems and with other models of security-cleared counsel, including that used in the United States, to consider what changes might be made to strengthen their adversarial role in closed proceedings. In making an assessment of the future of special advocacy, the book argues that there is a need to reconceptualise the unique role that special advocates play in the administration of justice.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Aims and plans -- PART I Techniques and practices -- 1 The origins of Hellenistic diplomacy -- 2 Royal marriages -- 3 Cities, summits, states, envoys -- PART II Diplomacy in action - the East -- 4 The diplomacy of the earlier Syrian Wars (274-241) -- 5 Aegean diplomacy: Ptolemy I to Aratos of Sikyon -- 6 The diplomacy of Antiochos III - I: the Greek world -- PART III Diplomacy in the West -- 7 Ionian Sea diplomacy -- 8 The diplomacy of Rome and Carthage - I -- 9 The diplomacy of Rome and Carthage - II

In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine's ancient question 'what do I love when I love my God?' and presses it into service in the post-modern world. Accessible but without compromising the big ideas, he raises the question of what religion means today in the face of widespread religious violence after 9/11, of spreading secularization, the dazzling discoveries of contemporary cosmology, and the eerie advent of the 'post-human' world.

Introduction -- A young nobleman -- The runaway bestseller -- Monarchs and philosophes -- Pride and privilege-and political economy -- The revolutionaries -- The celebrated marquis -- Conclusion