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Responsibility for Attitudes, Object-Given Reasons, and Blame [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
I argue that the problem of responsibility for attitudes is best understood as a puzzle about how we are responsible for responding to our object-given reasons for attitudes – i.e., how we are responsible for being (ir)rational. The problem can be solved,
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Competing Reasons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter investigates different ways that pro tanto reasons bearing on our options can compete with one another in order to determine the overall normative status of those options. It argues for two key claims: (i) any theory of this competition must
Snedegar, Justin
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Reason for immigration and immigrants' health [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health, 2017
The existing literature on the health trajectories of the UK immigrants has mainly focussed on the relationship between ethnicity and health. There is little information on the role of immigration status and no previous information on the role of reason for immigration to the country.
Giuntella, O   +3 more
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With rhyme and reason: Recognizing reasons for disliked practices increases tolerance [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Social Psychology, 2021
Disapproval of others’ beliefs and practices is an inevitable consequence of living with diversity, and the ability to tolerate, or put up with, these differences is crucial to maintain a functional society. Considering reasons to condone what one disapproves of is considered a key aspect of tolerance. Across three national samples
Verkuyten, Maykel   +3 more
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Startups and reasons for their failure [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2020
The world is one big agreement. When we are going to school, when we are going to work or shopping. We can meet some type of agreement totally everywhere. In shop, we cannot take a thing without remittance.
Mikle Lenka
doaj   +1 more source

Reasons for action, acting for reasons, and rationality [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2016
What kind of thing is a reason for action? What is it to act for a reason? And what is the connection between acting for a reason and rationality? There is controversy about the many issues raised by these questions. In this paper I shall answer the first question with a conception of practical reasons that I call ‘Factualism’, which says that all ...
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The right and the wrong kind of reasons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In a number of recent philosophical debates, it has become common to distinguish between two kinds of normative reasons, often called the right kind of reasons (henceforth: RKR) and the wrong kind of reasons (henceforth: WKR).
Gertken, Jan, Kiesewetter, Benjamin
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“The journey will be relaxed. You will watch television. Just like a VIP”: Misinformation, secrecy, and the information behaviour of repatriated migrants in Bangladesh

open access: yesOpen Information Science, 2021
This paper explores the information behaviour of repatriated migrants in Bangladesh in the context of their irregular migration. Using an exploratory qualitative research design, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight repatriated migrants ...
Shuva Nafiz Zaman
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Reasons for Agreeing, Reasons for Complying: The Paris Agreement and the Compliance Issue

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2020
How should we deal with noncompliance in the context of the Paris Agreement? After having delimited the scope of noncompliance as a motivational issue, I will argue that two kinds of reasons can motivate agents to comply, moral and prudential reasons ...
Silvia Bacchetta
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropic Reasons for Non-Zero Flatness and Lambda

open access: yes, 2002
In some cosmological theories with varying constants there are anthropic reasons why the expansion of the universe must not be too {\it close} to flatness or the cosmological constant too close to zero.
Barrow, J. D.   +2 more
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