Word: rationale
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Nozick's work spans a number of areas, including political philosophy, free will, personal identity, epistemology, the foundations of ethics and theories of rational decision and rational belief.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nozick received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he wrote his thesis on theories of rational decision.
It's a bad sign when you want the Speaker of the House to keep his mouth closed. We've spent the better part of the 104th Congress hoping that Newt Gingrich would zip it, and his reckless comments have resulted in his being considered merely laughable even when he...
"I'm very pleased," says Gaddis. "One can always find portions with something this big and this extensive that one might have done differently. But I think it's fair and accurately reflects current cold-war scholarship." A recent finding from Soviet archives, for example, is that the Soviet leaders...
Mills Lane tries desperately not to be an imitation. His show originally planned all kinds of innovations: one case per episode, scenes inside the judge's chambers, footage from the scene of the crime. Most of them were abandoned, however, and the slight changes actually implemented are ineffective. Instead, the...