As department chair, Williams has guided the Epidemiology Department through a period of notable transition, while contributing to the conception and implementation of a range of School-wide initiatives, including recent major reforms in the doctoral and master's programs.
Rawls included these two conceptions of justificatory reasons in a single account of political justification due to the need to identify a common, political conception of justice that all reasonable persons could share as regulative of their actions while simultaneously justifying the conception for each reasonable point of view.
While the Concretist conception promises a definitional reduction of modal concepts, the Abstractionist presupposes modal concepts.
One way of handling these emotions and protecting the child from the parents' sorrow was by practising talking about the conception while the child was still too small to understand.
With the work of Gödel and Tarski, paradoxical arguments were reshaped into fixed point results, while the semantic conception of truth, the formalization of semantics and the arithmetization of syntax yielded firm grounds for systematic metamathematical investigations.
While the Christian conception of democracy recedes (but does not entirely disappear) in Dewey's later work, the idea that democracy should be viewed as a form of relationship that cuts across different spheres of social life and unifies them remains important.
While technological progress has fostered the conception of an urban society that is increasingly decoupled from ecosystems, demands on natural capital and ecosystem services keep increasing steadily in our urbanized planet.
During that time Mr. Whately and his writers have managed to let Lewis grow — from the sidekick on "Morse," whom Mr. Whately has called "a donkey," to the wise veteran of his own show — while staying remarkably true to the conception of the role.
In some countries, host nationals put great emphasis on citizenship as a mark of being part of their nation, while it matters less for the conception of national membership in other populations.
Generally speaking, relations of toleration are hierarchically ordered according to the first conception, quite unstable according to the conception of "coexistence," while the "esteem conception" is the most demanding in terms of the kind of mutual appreciation between the tolerating parties.
