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Päivi Lehtonen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Requirement of Accessibility: European automated border control systems for persons with disabilities
Technology in Society, 2017Co-Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen, Päivi LehtonenAbstract:This exploratory study investigates whether automated border control systems should be provided for persons with disabilities at European airports. While the special assistance provided to disabled passengers has improved in the last decade, some may want to travel independently using automated gates. This is currently not possible, nor is there an explicit plan to include the Accessibility Requirement in future technology development. We reflect this questionable situation against the notion of the good society and consider airports as normatively laden socio-physical zones contributing to experiences of exclusion. Our research stresses the need to consider human abilities as a spectrum, which should be addressed with the use of universal design principles to benefit as many travelers as possible. Interviews and a survey of disabled passengers help us explore the views of stakeholders; to find out whether persons with disabilities wish to use automated systems instead of assistance services, and whether stakeholders consider accessible systems technologically possible, cost-effective, and recommendable.
Jason Tyndal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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public reason non public reasons and the Accessibility Requirement
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2019Co-Authors: Jason TyndalAbstract:In Liberalism without Perfection, Jonathan Quong develops what is perhaps the most comprehensive defense of the consensus model of public reason – a model which incorporates both a public-reasons-o...
Marcin Matczak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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legal text as a description of a possible world preliminary discussion of a model of legal interpretation
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Marcin MatczakAbstract:In this paper I would like to outline a comprehensive theory of legal interpretation based on an assumption that legal text, understood as the aggregate of texts of all legal acts in force at a particular time and place, describes one rational and coherent possible world. The picture of this possible world is decoded from the text by interpreters and serves as a holistic model to which the real world is adjusted when the law is applied.From the above premise I will limit myself to drawing two conclusions for how legal interpretation should be carried out. First, I argue that the possible world described by the legal text has to be ‘accessible’ from the real world, i.e. it has to be feasible to transform the actual world into the described one. Were it otherwise, the possible world could not serve as a model for adjustment. The Accessibility Requirement imposes obligations on the interpreters to secure the rationality of the possible world decoded from the text, amongst other to secure that the description of this world is not contradictory and – as a consequence – the law of excluded middle is obeyed in the possible world described by the legal text. Secondly, I argue for the inevitability of interpretative discretion arising from the Requirement to decode a sufficiently ‘saturated’ picture of the possible world., i.e. possessing enough properties to resemble the actual world. As texts have a limited number of sentences and worlds have an unlimited number of properties, interpreters have to supplement the picture of a possible world to achieve its coherence. This involves the inclusion of some additional, non-predetermined features that integrate with the properties of the world predefined by the legal text. This process of saturation consists of filling in so-called ‘places of indeterminacy’ (Roman Ingarden) with content implicated by other features of the possible world. I also argue that the discretion resulting from the necessity of filling in the places of indeterminacy is justified by the Requirement of fulfilling the intention of the lawmaker to make the possible world described by the legal text real. The theory presented here is based on contemporary theories of discourse representation and so-called ‘text-world theory’ by J. Gavins. Phenomenalism and causal (historical) theories of reference provide its philosophical background.
Anne-marie Oostveen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Requirement of Accessibility: European automated border control systems for persons with disabilities
Technology in Society, 2017Co-Authors: Anne-marie Oostveen, Päivi LehtonenAbstract:This exploratory study investigates whether automated border control systems should be provided for persons with disabilities at European airports. While the special assistance provided to disabled passengers has improved in the last decade, some may want to travel independently using automated gates. This is currently not possible, nor is there an explicit plan to include the Accessibility Requirement in future technology development. We reflect this questionable situation against the notion of the good society and consider airports as normatively laden socio-physical zones contributing to experiences of exclusion. Our research stresses the need to consider human abilities as a spectrum, which should be addressed with the use of universal design principles to benefit as many travelers as possible. Interviews and a survey of disabled passengers help us explore the views of stakeholders; to find out whether persons with disabilities wish to use automated systems instead of assistance services, and whether stakeholders consider accessible systems technologically possible, cost-effective, and recommendable.
Baldwin Wong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Accessibility pluralism and honesty a defense of the Accessibility Requirement in public justification
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2019Co-Authors: Baldwin WongAbstract:Political liberals assume an Accessibility Requirement, which means that, for ensuring civic respect and non-manipulation, public officials should offer accessible reasons during political advocacy...
