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425Compensation for Geoengineering Harms and No-Fault Climate Change CompensationThe Climate Geoengineering Governance Working Papers. 2014.While geoengineering may counteract negative effects of anthropogenic climate change, it is clear that most geoengineering options could also have some harmful effects. Moreover, it is predicted that the benefits and harms of geoengineering will be distributed unevenly in different parts of the world and to future generations, which raises serious questions of justice. It has been suggested that a compensation scheme to redress geoengineering harms is needed for geoengineering to be ethically a…Read more
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14Names and assertions : Soames's Millian DescriptivismDissertation, University of Hong Kong. 2005.The topic of this thesis is about one of the simplest linguistic expressions in our natural languages, names. The debate about the meaning of names has a longstanding history in philosophy of language. One camp, as known as Millianism, maintains that a name only contributes its referent to the meaning of sentence which contains it, and the other camp, as known as Descriptivism, maintains that a name is disguised definite description. My thesis aims to contribute to this continuing debate. Millia…Read more
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Hong Kong Baptist UniversityDepartment of Religion and Philosophy, Faculty of ArtsAssistant Professor
University of Twente
PhD, 2012
Berlin, BE, Germany