1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162707403321

Autore

Graham Mary <1944->

Titolo

Presidents' secrets : the  use and abuse of hidden power / / Mary Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-300-22768-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

352.3790973

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Decision making

Official secrets - United States

Freedom of information - United States

Executive privilege (Government information) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Constitutional Convention: The President's Limited Power -- 2. George Washington: A Culture of Openness -- 3. Woodrow Wilson: A Foundation for Secret Government -- 4. Harry Truman: Institutional Secrecy -- 5. Lyndon Johnson: Stealth Attacks on Openness -- 6. Gerald Ford: A Time of Reckoning -- 7. George W. Bush: A Test of the Limits -- 8. Barack Obama: A Twenty-First-Century Bargain? -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting-the Constitutional Convention-presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations. For the first one hundred and twenty years, a culture of open government persisted, but new threats and technology have long since shattered the old bargains. Today, presidents neither protect vital information nor provide the open debate Americans expect.   Mary Graham tracks the rise in governmental secrecy that began with surveillance and loyalty programs during Woodrow Wilson's administration, explores how it developed during the Cold War, and



analyzes efforts to reform the secrecy apparatus and restore oversight in the 1970s. Chronicling the expansion of presidential secrecy in the Bush years, Graham explains what presidents and the American people can learn from earlier crises, why the attempts of Congress to rein in stealth activities don't work, and why presidents cannot hide actions that affect citizens' rights and values.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698652803321

Autore

Yiaueki Sequoya

Titolo

Action, Meaning, and Argument in Eric Weil's Logic of Philosophy : A Development of Pragmatist, Expressivist, and Inferentialist Themes / / by Sequoya Yiaueki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031240829

9783031240812

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 pages)

Collana

Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, , 2214-9139 ; ; 32

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Philosophy

Linguistics

Language and languages - Philosophy

Pragmatism

Philosophy of Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse and Violence in Eric Weil’s Logic of Philosophy -- 3. Logic as the Organization of Forms of Coherence -- 4. Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Expressivism -- 5. Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Inferentialism in the Logic of Philosophy -- 6. The Language of Conflict and Violence -- 7. The Logic of Philosophy as a Theory of Argumentation -- 8. Justification and Pluralism in the Logic of Philosophy -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography.



Sommario/riassunto

This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence’s relationship to language and to discourse. Weil presents violence as the central philosophical problem. According to this reading, the western philosophical tradition commonly conceptualizes violence as an expression of error or as a consequence of the weakness of will. However, by doing so, it misses something essential about the role that violence plays in our conceptual development as well as the place violence holds in our discursive practices. The author draws comparisons between Weil’s work and that of Robert Brandom. Brandom’s inferentialism creates a sophisticated program at the junction of pragmatics and semantics, philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of mind. The monograph builds on these insights in order to show how an inferentialist reading of Eric Weil is fruitful for both Weilian studies and for inferentialism. This volume will notably be of interest to scholars in philosophy, argumentation theory, and communication studies.