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This short paper looks at the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act decision through a wider and more critical jurisprudential lens. In so doing, I demonstrate that the courts are no less political ... , one of the most pressing concerns on the contemporary political agenda is how to deal with the many challenges and serious ramifications of climate change. A major part of that is about what to do about
This paper explains how the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Chouhan concerning jury impartiality is an illustrative example of “baselines”, or how implicit political positions held by ... expectations are reasonable?5 In my view, shifting those baselines froimmplicit to explicit enables a much better appreciation for the unavoidably political character of legal interpretation that can be obscured
the POGG’s National Concern Test” (2021) 55:1 Revue Juridique Thémis 103-135. 43 Peter Rinderle, “The Political Philosophy of European Subsidiarity” in Günter Walzenbach & Ralf Alleweld, edsV.,arieties ... national concern for fear of morphing vast social, political and economic questions into new permanent and exclusive heads of federal jurisdiction. In R. v. Crown Zellerbach, Le Dain J. had also concluded
The Supreme Court of Canada’s political process cases cover a wide array of issues, including the right to vote, electoral redistricting, campaign finance and the regulation of political parties ... /iss1/5 Yasmin Dawood* * Canada Research Chair in Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Electoral Law, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
whether a welfare-oriented philosophy should be the exclusive guiding principle in society’s response to juvenile offending. In true Canadian political fashion, then Minister of Justice Lucien Cardin struck ... and political considerations specific to section 15, particularly in the context of young people, inevitably formed part of the backgroun11d.Slippery slope concerns about constitutionalizing appellate
Philosophy, Politics, Policy and Law(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006), a seminal Canadian treatise on critical disability theory in law. equality rights doctrine and discuss the ... , but rather is the byproduct of a collection of disadvantages manufactured by social norms and regulations, policies and practices and economic and political ac9toErss.ential to the social model is the
distinction, exclusion or preference based on race, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age except as provided by law, religion, political convictions ... ,isability Rights and Wrongs Revisited, 2d ed. (Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxon: Routledge, 2013), especially at 12-21; D. Pothier, D. Devlin & R. Devlin, Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics
–2):272–289, 1970; Stalnaker, in Milton, Unger (eds) Semantics and philosophy, New York University Press, New York, 1974; Karttunen in Theor Linguist 1:181–194, 1974), formal presuppositions reflect ... , Jon Ander Mendia and the audiences at MIT, Harvard, McGill and NYU, as well as two anonymous Linguistics and Philosophy reviewers. For help with data collection, we thank Leo Rosenstein and the RAs at
Canada Human Rights Trust, the British Columbia Humanist Association, the Association for Reformed Political Action (“ARPA”) Canada, the Canadian Center for Christian Charities, the Evangelical Fellowship ... A group of interveners, namely the Association for Reformed Political Action Canada (“ARPA”), Canadian Center for Christian Charities, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Catholic Civil
In this paper, we present two experimental studies on reference of complex demonstratives. The results of our experiments challenge the dominant view in philosophy of language, according to which ... role speakers’ intentions play in determining reference, i.e. the semantic value of an expression like ‘‘this’’, ‘‘that’’, ‘‘this F’’, etc., in a context. In philosophy of language, the dominant view is
). Existential generics . Linguistics and Philosophy , 27 ( 2 ), 137 - 168 . Fennell , J. ( 2013 ). The Meaning of 'Meaning is Normative' . Philosophical Investigations , 36 , 56 - 78 . Gabrielcik , A. , & Fazio ... ). Against hybrid theories of concepts . Anthropology & Philosophy , 10 , 99 - 127 . Murphy , G. L. , & Wisniewski , E. J. ( 1989 ). Categorizing objects in isolation and in scenes: What a superordinate is
and the editors of Linguistics and Philosophy. Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. During part of the work on this paper, Lukas Lewerentz was generously supported by a ... Jacobsen Studentship from the Royal Institute of Philosophy and by the Vice-Chancellors’ Fund at the University of Oxford. Emanuel Viebahn would like to acknowledge generous support through a Career
syntactic rules with semantic (i.e. meaning) rules. But what is a semantic rule? The key insight, from the philosophy of language (e.g. Davidson, 1967), was that to know the meaning of a sentence is to know ... -Linguistic Representation; Crete Summer School of Linguistics course Introduction to Super Linguistics. Finally, we thank Emar Maier in his capacity as handling editor for Linguistics and Philosophy, for the
this morphosyntactic marking: “counterfactual” and “subjunctive”. The former is more common in linguistics, the latter in philosophy and logic. However, both terms are problematic.1 1.1 Not necessarily
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This paper discusses a set of observations, many of which are novel, concerning differences between the adjectival modals certain and possible and their adverbial counterparts certainly and possibly. It argues that the observations can be derived from a standard interpretation of certain/certainly as universal and possible/possibly as existential quantifiers over possible worlds...
This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents. Given the general consensus that a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires discourse referents separately from the truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected that the anaphoric information that discourse referents carry play a role in the...
. Ahn , D. ( 2022 ). Indirectly direct: An account of demonstratives and pointing . Linguistics and Philosophy , 45 , 1345 - 1393 . Altshuler , D. ( 2009 ). Meaning of 'now' and other temporal location ... . Linguistics and Philosophy , 31 , 57 - 99 . Cardinaletti , A. & Starke , M. ( 1996 ). Deficient pronouns: a view from Germanic-a study in the unified description of Germanic and Romance . In H. Thrainsson, S. D
The laws regulating political participation by third parties have long been constitutionally controversial in Canada. Third parties are generally understood to include all individuals, groups and
one vis-a`-vis the implied content— one beholden to the KPR rule. My performance would be wrong if I am not putting you in a position to know that X is no good at philosophy and not a good hire for your ... put it to us that X is no good at philosophy? You knew perfectly well that X is a first-rate philosopher, whom you yourself have hired!’’ The same applies to the false implicatures conveyed in the
