Morele neutraliteit bestaat niet : Levensbeschouwelijke posities moeten verantwoord worden

Dit is de beknopte versie van de inaugurele rede die professor dr. J. Hoogland donderdagmiddag uitsprak bij zijn aanvaarding van het ambt als bijzonder hoogleraar reformatorische wijsbegeerte aan de Universiteit Twente

Party finance reform as constitutional engineering? The effectiveness and unintended consequences of party finance reform in France and Britain

In both Britain and France, party funding was traditionally characterized by a laissez faire approach and a conspicuous lack of regulation. In France, this was tantamount to a 'legislative vacuum'. In the last two decades, however, both countries have sought to fundamentally reform their political finance regulation regimes. This prompted, in Britain, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, and in France a bout of 'legislative incontinence' — profoundly transforming the political finance regime between 1988 and 1995. This article seeks to explore and compare the impacts of the reforms in each country in a bid to explain the unintended consequences of the alternative paths taken and the effectiveness of the new party finance regime in each country. It finds that constitutional engineering through party finance reform is a singularly inexact science, largely due to the imperfect nature of information, the limited predictability of cause and effect, and the constraining influence of non-party actors, such as the Constitutional Council in France, and the Electoral Commission in Britain

Batilly-en-Gâtinais – Les Perrières

La campagne 2016 est la quatrième année consacrée à l’étude de la partie résidentielle de l’établissement aristocratique de Batilly-en-Gâtinais. La campagne 2008 s’était concentrée sur un important bâtiment situé non loin du centre du site (Bât J) et sur la cour dans laquelle il était placé. Les campagnes 2014 à 2016 ont permis de fouiller la partie sud de cet enclos. L’organisation générale du sondage La campagne 2016 s’est plus spécifiquement intéressée à l’angle sud-ouest de l’enclos centr..

WHAT WE DO WHEN WE SAY ‘MEISJE’: An essay on the relation between word, action and convention

This paper provides a philosophical reflection on a very common word in the Dutch language. Referring to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s book Philosophical Investigations, this paper explains how the meaning of every word is based on convention. Moreover, by argu-ing that language is an act, this paper shows how using the word meisje in contemporary Dutch perpetuates the convention on which the meaning of that word has been built. From a contemporary per-spective, this convention seems sexist. Despite the fact that this paper is written from a philosophical perspective, it does make an argument that is important for other academic fields, such as cul-tural studies, gender studies, history, and in fact any discipline that makes use of language: that the language one uses is not neutral. Understanding the conventions words are built upon allows one to gain insight into the historically created dynamics which influence societal and interpersonal relations