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Abstract What is a politics of reason? Often associated with the democratic search for truth, but also regularly criticized as a smokescreen to justify the government of experts, the idea of a politics of reason raises questions about both the ends it …
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Abstract philosophy," writes Bouveresse, "is - or should be - to an essential extent, an art of dealing correctly with what we don't know." In the practice of this art, what place belongs to reason? Which reason? And how to conduct it? Bouveresse is …
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Abstract Reason and sensibility are often contrasted, but more often than not at the cost of distorting both, as denounced by authors such as Musil, Kraus and Wittgenstein, as well as by classical pragmatists such as James and Peirce. It's no coincidence …
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Eric Chevallier Born April 5, 1960. Doctor of Medicine (thesis at the University of Paris V, 1989) and graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (PES section, 1987), Eric Chevallier is currently French Ambassador for Syria. Chargé de mission …
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Abstract Since the 1970s, humanitarian issues have been a key feature of international life. Among the main characteristics of contemporary humanitarian action, three stand out : its adaptability, its evolutionary character, and the existence of a " aid …
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Abstract A brief review of the Malian government's efforts to organize its health sector program with the PTFs (technical and financial partners) to achieve better results, with mechanisms for greater aid effectiveness. The current crisis, the measures …
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Abstract The overall aim of this paper is to show that managing healthcare in a crisis situation is both a strategic and frustrating exercise. First, we'll attempt to define a humanitarian crisis situation, bearing in mind that one crisis can conceal …
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Abstract Emergency humanitarian action and development aid are the two ways in which the international community intervenes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The former acts in the short term to save as many human lives as possible, while the latter takes a …
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Abstract Sociological reflection on reason is caught between two sets of considerations. The aspiration to objective knowledge of the social world presupposes the possibility of freeing oneself from a set of various dependencies (institutional, economic, …
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Abstract The idea of a social determination of scientific activity - whether it relates to the formation of the hypotheses or theories of which this activity consists, and/or to the credit given to them within the scientific field - is often held to be …
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Abstract In his essay "The 'causality' of reasons" (Essays III , pp. 159-188), Jacques Bouveresse not only examines the conceptual distinction between reasons and causes. He also proposes a certain image of the subject as a rational agent engaged in a …
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Abstract Over the last twenty years, the compilation of morbidity and mortality figures has become standard practice in aid organizations. Morbidity and mortality surveys are usually carried out for practical reasons. Measuring the prevalence of …
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Abstract The " Health care at risk " project is an initiative of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement aimed at limiting the serious and widespread consequences of illegal and sometimes violent acts that prevent the provision of health …
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Abstract The humanitarian situation in Syria has reached catastrophic proportions, according to the United Nations. The number of refugees and displaced persons has exceeded six million, more than a quarter of the country's total population. With no safe …
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Abstract After the last two genocides of the 20th  century (in Rwanda and Srebrenica), we said " never again ", but the new century has seen Darfur described as " the world's most successful genocide ". How can genocide happen again and again ? In …
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Abstract Filmmaker Idriss Diabaté will engage in a discussion based on the screening of excerpts from two documentaries he has made. The first film, "Espace vécu, espace raconté, les horizons de l'intégration", describes the two existing systems for …
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Abstract This paper addresses the challenge posed to our ordinary conception of theoretical rationality by cases of so-called "epistemic acrasia", which can be defined prima facie as cases in which a subject finds himself believing what he otherwise knows …
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