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Legal access to death certificates varies widely from state to state. Because death records are crucial to in-depth journalistic reporting, we examined laws related to data access across the United States to determine how possible such reporting would be in each state under current laws. In addition to conducting a survey of state legislation on death certificates, we also conducted a meta-analysis of state legislative history related to these records, sought stories that have relied on death records, and interviewed the reporters who wrote some of those stories. We found that state laws could be categorized in three ways: open access, partial access and closed or very limited access. Only 12 of 50 states were found to have laws that could be considered "open." We propose solutions and call for actions from key stakeholders to change these laws.

Legal access to death certificates varies widely from state to state. Because death records are crucial to in-depth journalistic reporting, we examined laws related to data access across the United States to determine how possible such reporting would be in each state under current laws. In addition to conducting a survey of state legislation on death certificates, we also conducted a meta-analysis of state legislative history related to these records, sought stories that have relied on death records, and interviewed the reporters who wrote some of those stories. We found that state laws could be categorized in three ways: open access, partial access and closed or very limited access. Only 12 of 50 states were found to have laws that could be considered "open." We propose solutions and call for actions from key stakeholders to change these laws.

Cover -- Rorty and the Prophetic -- Rorty and the Prophetic: Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter Previews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Social Hope and Solidarity -- Chapter 1 -- Rorty, My Atheist Rabbi? -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Prudence in the Twenty-First Century -- Philosophy and Prudence -- Maimonides on Prudence: Four Types of Wisdom -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Charlottesville Pragmatism -- The Rabbinic Pragmatism of Peter Ochs -- Notes -- Part II: Politics and Prophecy -- Chapter 4 -- The Grounds of Prophecy -- Rorty and Religion: Hope versus Sin -- You Commanded the Prophets, "Prophesy Not": On Social Sin and Redemption -- Conclusion: And I Will Turn the Captivity -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Messianism as a Conversation-Stopper? -- Cold War Anti-Messianism -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- How to Read Rorty as a Political Theologian -- Rorty on Religion and Secularism -- Levinas's Reframing of Religion -- Notes -- Part III: Conversation and Cruelty -- Chapter 7 -- All in the Details -- Rorty's Kicks -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Two Faces of Heteronomy -- Autonomy and Liberal Irony: Rorty -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- "A Faith without Triumph" -- A Pragmatic Intervention -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- Rabbinic Reasoning and a Rortyan Ethic -- Rorty: Ethics without Gawkiness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Heidegger's Nazism and Anti-Semitism, and Their Effect on Heidegger Scholarship -- Notes -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Promise and Peril of James's Philosophy for Feminism -- 1 The Feminine- Mystical Threat to Masculine- Scientific Order -- 2 "The Woman Question" James's Negotiations with Natural Law Theory and Utilitarianism -- 3 Women and William James -- 4 Lady Pragmatism and the Great Man The Need for Feminist Pragmatism -- Part II Pragmatist Ethics of Care -- 5 The Energies of Women William James and the Ethics of Care -- 6 William James and the Will to Care for Unfamiliar Others The Masculinity of Care? -- Part III Embodiment and Emotion -- 7 Habit, Relaxation, and the Open Mind James and the Increments of Ethical Freedom -- 8 James and Feminist Philosophy of Emotion -- 9 "A Perverse Kind of Pleasure" James, the Body, and Women's Mystical Experience -- 10 The Will Not to Believe Pragmatism, Oppression, and Standpoint Theory -- 11 Incredulity and Advocacy Thinking After William James -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index