35 research outputs found

    Qu’apporte l’étude des town meetings Ă  la quĂȘte d’une dĂ©mocratie plus participative et dĂ©libĂ©rative?

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    Comme annoncĂ© dans l’introduction, ce numĂ©ro spĂ©cial de Participations se clĂŽt sur un entretien collectif, menĂ© par Paula Cossart et Andrea Felicetti, rassemblant certains des plus Ă©minents reprĂ©sentants de la recherche sur les town meetings de Nouvelle-Angleterre. Trois ensembles de questions ont Ă©tĂ© soumis Ă  chaque interviewĂ©, qui y a rĂ©pondu individuellement par Ă©crit. Hors corrections mineures, le texte des rĂ©ponses n’a pas Ă©tĂ© modifiĂ© ; mais il a parfois Ă©tĂ© segmentĂ© de maniĂšre Ă  rendre la lecture plus fluide, et Ă  mettre en Ă©vidence les interactions entre les diffĂ©rentes perspectives prĂ©sentes dans ces lignes. La version finale de ce texte a Ă©tĂ© Ă©ditĂ©e et approuvĂ©e par les chercheurs interrogĂ©s

    Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy

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    Epistemic democracy is standardly characterized in terms of “aiming at truth”. This presupposes a veritistic conception of epistemic value, according to which truth is the fundamental epistemic goal. I will raise an objection to the standard (veritistic) account of epistemic democracy, focusing specifically on deliberative democracy. I then propose a version of deliberative democracy that is grounded in non‐veritistic epistemic goals. In particular, I argue that deliberation is valuable because it facilitates empathetic understanding. I claim that empathetic understanding is an epistemic good that doesn't have truth as its primary goal

    Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction in Humans:Tale or Myth

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    Hypoxic Pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) describes the physiological adaptive process of lungs to preserves systemic oxygenation. It has clinical implications in the development of pulmonary hypertension which impacts on outcomes of patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery. This review examines both acute and chronic hypoxic vasoconstriction focusing on the distinct clinical implications and highlights the role of calcium and mitochondria in acute versus the role of reactive oxygen species and Rho GTPases in chronic HPV. Furthermore it identifies gaps of knowledge and need for further research in humans to clearly define this phenomenon and the underlying mechanism
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