Suchergebnisse

Chess in eighteenth- century France -- Rousseau's infatuation with chess -- The structure and logic of chess in Rousseau's dialogues -- Rousseau and the philosophy of chess -- The individual in Rousseau's social game of chess -- The social body in Rousseau's social game of chess -- The legislator in Rousseau's social game of chess.

THIS PAPER EXAMINES, FROM A BIOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE, THE METHODOLOGIES BY WHICH SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE INTERPRETED THE CONSTITUTION, ASSESSING THEIR DECISIONAL ALGORITHMS AGAINST MODELS OWING AN INTELLECTUAL DEBT TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY. THE MODELS THEMSELVES ARE DRAWN FROM THE CHESS LITERATURE, ITSELF THE MOST VIABLE GAME THEORETIC CONTEXT FOR "LIVING CONSTITUTIONAL" PLAY. A PROPER APPRECIATION OF CHESS MASTERY YIELDS THE SALIENT CONCLUSION THAT A FUNCTIONALIST ALGORITHM OF DATA CHARACTERIZATION IS OPTIMALLY ADAPTIVE FOR THESE PURPOSES, USUALLY PROVING MORE ROBUST THAN COMPETING STRUCTURALIST AND HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS IN RESOLVING COMPLEX CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES.