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In this paper I argue that the disagreement between modern moral philosophers and (some) virtue ethicists about whether motive affects rightness is a result of conceptual disagreement, and that when they develop a theory of ‘right action,’ the two ...
van Zyl, Liezl
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‘Attitude Problems’: Racializing Hierarchies of Affect in Post‐Brown U.S. Science Education
ABSTRACT Attending to the affect of minoritized students now appears crucial to promoting just and dignity‐affirming science education. Yet, elevating affect as an objective of science learning has a history that predates equity reforms. This study explores the politics of scientific uptakes of affect that have long served to mark hierarchical ...
Kathryn L. Kirchgasler
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ABSTRACT This paper employs a feminist political ecology and an intersectionality framework to examine the multiple dimensions of local women's vulnerability and adaptation to climate change impacts in selected locations in Durban, KwaZulu‐Natal Province, South Africa.
Fidelis Udo+3 more
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Pathways to Achieving Sustainable Development and Green Governance in Chinese Companies
ABSTRACT Under the objectives of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, green and low‐carbon development has become a guiding principle for social and economic process. The new Company Law explicitly stipulates the company's obligation to protect the ecological environment, which is also the legislative embodiment of the green principle enshrined in ...
Hua Li, Qin Xia
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A Programming Platform Design for Children to Create and Explore Hybrid Musical Instruments
ABSTRACT Engaging young learners in coding activities is increasingly important to prepare them to participate in a contemporary computationally centred society. Engagement comes from finding appropriate motivation and the use of materials and methods that are suitable to the educational stage and learning opportunities. In this article, we present our
Nicolas Gold+3 more
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The accident of logical constants [PDF]
Work on the nature and scope of formal logic has focused unduly on the distinction between logical and extra-logical vocabulary; which argument forms a logical theory countenances depends not only on its stock of logical terms, but also on its range of ...
Haze, Tristan Grøtvedt
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Beat the (Backward) Clock [PDF]
In a recent very interesting and important challenge to tracking theories of knowledge, Williams & Sinhababu claim to have devised a counter-example to tracking theories of knowledge of a sort that escapes the defense of those theories by Adams & Clarke.
Adams, Fred+2 more
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Why not be a desertist?: Three arguments for desert and against luck egalitarianism [PDF]
Many philosophers believe that luck egalitarianism captures “desert-like” intuitions about justice. Some even think that luck egalitariansm distributes goods in accordance with desert. In this paper, we argue that this is wrong.
Brouwer, Huub, Mulligan, Thomas
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