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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- CONSERVATISM IN RISK ASSESSMENT: COMMENTS -- DE MINIMIS RISK -- De Minimis Risk and Conflicting Social Objectives -- Individual Versus Societal Definition of De Minimis Risk -- Multiple Sources of Risk -- Applying the De Minimis Concept -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- Scientists, Engineers, and the Burdens of Occupational Exposure: The Case of the Lead Standard -- BACKGROUND OF THE OSHA LEAD STANDARD -- HEARINGS ON THE OSHA STANDARD: SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND THE CLASH OF INTERESTS -- THE FINAL LEAD STANDARD -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- PART 2 EQUITY AND COMPENSATION -- Hypersusceptibility to Occupational Hazards…”

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“…Cosmopolitanism is an emerging theme in studies of global justice and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wilson -- A Darwinian left : politics, evolution, and cooperation / Peter Singer -- Darwinian conservatism / Larry Arnhart -- Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…16 Darwinism and Public Policy: The View From Political ScienceAuthor Index; Subject Index…”

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“…Wide ranging and up to date, this is the single most comprehensive treatment of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls. * An unprecedented survey that reflects the surge of Rawls scholarship since his death, and the lively debates that have emerged from his work * Features an outstanding list of contributors, including senior as well as "next generation" Rawls scholars * Provides careful, textually informed exegesis and well-developed critical commentary across all areas of his work, including non-Rawlsian perspectives * Includes discussion of new material, covering Rawls's work from the newly published undergraduate thesis to the final writings on public reason and the law of peoples * Covers Rawls's moral and political philosophy, his distinctive methodological commitments, and his relationships to the history of moral and political philosophy and to jurisprudence and the social sciences * Includes discussion of his monumental 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, which is often credited as having revitalized political philosophy…”

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