Bill Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6705-3487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Answer Dworkin’s Argument from Theoretical Disagreement Without Attributing Confusion or Disingenuity to Legal Officials
Ronald Dworkin’s argument from theoretical disagreement remains a pressing challenge for legal positivists. In this paper, I show how positivists can answer Dworkin’s argument without having to attribute confusion or disingenuity to legal officials. I propose that the argument rests on two errors. The first is to assume that positivism requires legal officials to converge on precise grounds of law when convergence on more general grounds will do.…
Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech
In Defense of the Standard Picture: What the Standard Picture Explains That the Moral Impact Theory Cannot
How do legal texts determine legal content? A standard answer to this question—sometimes called “the standard picture”—is that legal texts communicate something and what they communicate is identical to legal content. Mark Greenberg criticizes the standard picture and offers in its place his own “moral impact theory.” My goal here is to respond to Greenberg by showing how the standard picture better explains legal practice than the moral impact t…
Assessing the Registered Nursing Care Contribution for older people in care homes: Issues of reliability and validity
The present paper reports on a study designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Registered Nursing Care Contribution (RNCC) tool for assessing the level of nursing care required by care home residents. Care plan data from 186 residents in participating care homes were assessed by multiple assessors using the RNCC tool (i.e. care home registered nurses, a nurse researcher, an external care home expert and a nurses consultant). The…
Muslim politics and the coming elections in Indonesia
The development of an applied whole-systems research methodology in health and social service research: A Canadian and United Kingdom collaboration
This paper provides a description of a 'whole system' research model developed in Canada and adapted for use in the United Kingdom. The model tests the assumption that service utilization across the whole system is driven by a complex mix of psychosocial factors, rather than disease characteristics, of the population and, second, that proactive, integrated and communitybased packages of care are equally or more effective and less expensive than f…
Beyond Translation: Essays Toward a Modern Philology
Beyond Translation: Essays Toward a Modern Philology
The development of an applied whole-systems research methodology in health and social service research: A Canadian and United Kingdom collaboration
This paper provides a description of a 'whole system' research model developed in Canada and adapted for use in the United Kingdom. The model tests the assumption that service utilization across the whole system is driven by a complex mix of psychosocial factors, rather than disease characteristics, of the population and, second, that proactive, integrated and communitybased packages of care are equally or more effective and less expensive than f…
Muslim politics and the coming elections in Indonesia
Assessing the Registered Nursing Care Contribution for older people in care homes: Issues of reliability and validity
The present paper reports on a study designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Registered Nursing Care Contribution (RNCC) tool for assessing the level of nursing care required by care home residents. Care plan data from 186 residents in participating care homes were assessed by multiple assessors using the RNCC tool (i.e. care home registered nurses, a nurse researcher, an external care home expert and a nurses consultant). The…
In Defense of the Standard Picture: What the Standard Picture Explains That the Moral Impact Theory Cannot
How do legal texts determine legal content? A standard answer to this question—sometimes called “the standard picture”—is that legal texts communicate something and what they communicate is identical to legal content. Mark Greenberg criticizes the standard picture and offers in its place his own “moral impact theory.” My goal here is to respond to Greenberg by showing how the standard picture better explains legal practice than the moral impact t…
How to Answer Dworkin’s Argument from Theoretical Disagreement Without Attributing Confusion or Disingenuity to Legal Officials
Ronald Dworkin’s argument from theoretical disagreement remains a pressing challenge for legal positivists. In this paper, I show how positivists can answer Dworkin’s argument without having to attribute confusion or disingenuity to legal officials. I propose that the argument rests on two errors. The first is to assume that positivism requires legal officials to converge on precise grounds of law when convergence on more general grounds will do.…
Metalinguistic Negotiation in Legal Speech
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works)