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Plans of pluralism: comments on 'explanatory pluralism in psychiatry' Ghent University
In this paper, I comment on Raffaella Campaner’s (forthcoming) overview of the debate on explanatory pluralism in psychiatry. In her overview, Campaner distinguishes between, on the one hand, pluralists that consider pluralism to be a temporary state and, on the other hand, pluralists that consider it to be a persisting state. I suggest that it would be helpful to distinguish more than those two plans of pluralism, i.e. different understandings ...
From plurality to pluralism in social science: what can we learn from international political economy? Ghent University
Legal Pluralism, Human Rights and the Right to Vote: The Case of the Noken System in Papua Hasselt University
The goal of this article is to explore the clash between international human rights law and a legal pluralist framework in the case of the noken system and also to investigate potential solutions to the clash. Elections in Indonesia are generally founded on the principle of direct, universal, free, secret, honest and fair voting. There is a notable exception in the Province of Papua, where tribes in the Central Mountains area are following the ...
Connolly's pluralising of pluralism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In my contribution, I offer a critique of the existing conception of pluralism in Western thought from the work of William Connolly. With Connolly, I formulate an alternative to monotheism and monosecularism.
Moral imagination and pluralism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Synonymy and Intra-Theoretical Pluralism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The starting point of this paper is a version of intra-theoretical (logical) pluralism that was recently proposed by Hjortland [2013]. In a first move, I use synonymy-relations to formulate an intuitively compelling objection against Hjortland's claim that, if one uses a single calculus to characterise the consequence relations of the paraconsistent logic LP and the paracomplete logic K3, one immediately obtains multiple consequence relations ...
Thanatological pluralism and the epistemic openness of 'death' Ghent University
This article discusses the conceptual ambiguities in relation to the current definitions of ‘death’. It addresses the need for an essentially pluralistic approach that probes the limits of epistemic singularity and perceives death as an open concept. Despite the views dependent upon the irrevocable termination of existence, I assume the opposite: first, that there are manifold ways to respond philosophically to the issue, without giving priority ...