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History --- Realism. --- Objectivity. --- Philosophy. --- Geldigheid [Objectieve ] --- Objectieve geldigheid --- Objectiviteit --- Objectivity --- Objectivité --- Realism --- Realisme --- Realisme (Filosofie) --- Réalisme --- Réalisme (Philosophie) --- Histoire --- Réalisme --- Objectivité --- Philosophie --- 930.11 --- 930.11 Filosofie van de geschiedenis. Geschiedenisfilosofie --- Filosofie van de geschiedenis. Geschiedenisfilosofie --- Empiricism --- Philosophy --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Nominalism --- Positivism --- Rationalism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reality --- Personal equation --- History, Modern

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"When it comes to climate change, the greatest difficulty we face is that we do not know the likely degree of change or its cost, which means that environmental policy decisions have to be made under uncertainty. This book offers an accessible philosophical treatment of the broad range of ethical and policy challenges posed by climate change uncertainty. Drawing on both the philosophy of science and ethics, Martin Bunzl shows how tackling climate change revolves around weighing up our interests now against those of future generations, which requires that we examine our assumptions about the value of present costs versus future benefits. In an engaging, conversational style, Bunzl looks at questions such as our responsibility towards non-human life, the interests of the developing and developed worlds, and how the circumstances of poverty shape the perception of risk, ultimately developing and defending a view of humanity and its place in the world that makes sense of our duty to Nature without treating it as a rights bearer. This book will be of interest to students, scholars of environmental studies, philosophy, politics and sociology as well as policy makers"--

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Climatic changes --- Environmental policy --- Environmental policy --- Klimaänderung. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Unsicherheit. --- Development --- Sustainable Development. --- Philosophy. --- Forecasting. --- Forecasting. --- Public Policy --- Environmental Policy.

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If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In Buying Freedom, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl bring together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for the first comprehensive examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. While recognizing the obvious virtue of the desire to buy the freedom of slaves, the contributors ask difficult and troubling questions: Does redeeming slaves actually increase the demand for--and so the number of--slaves? And what about cases where it is far from clear that redemption will improve the material condition, or increase the real freedom, of a slave? Buying Freedom includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan and Alan Krueger, Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau, Stanley Engerman, Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane, Jok Madut Jok, Ann McDougall, Lisa Cook, Margaret Kellow, John Stauffer, and Howard McGary.

Redemption (Law) --- Redemption (Law) --- Enslaved persons --- Slavery. --- Economic aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Emancipation.