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Does Exposure to Community Violence Predict Higher Suicide Rates? The Case of Mexico

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite both homicide and suicide being identified as global public health concerns, it is unclear whether and how homicide trends could shape suicide patterns, particularly in low‐or‐middle income countries. We use the case of Mexico, an upper‐middle‐income country that experienced a dramatic increase in homicide after a shift in drug ...
Mónica L. Caudillo, Jaein Lee
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Assessing Animal Welfare and Service Needs in a Community-Based Program. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Patterson-Kane E.
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Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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Protecting Companion Animals Under Chinese Criminal Law: Current Practice and Future Paths. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Liu C, Su D, Nie A.
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Styles of Action

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discussions of style in contemporary analytic philosophy have been confined almost exclusively to aesthetics, yet many bodily actions seem to exhibit styles as well. We can have an aggressive or a placid style of driving; a sloppy or a meticulous style of washing the dishes; an idiomatic or a weird way of playing jazz.
Noam Tiran
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Recognizing Non-Human Animals as a Vulnerable Class in Assessments of "Dangerousness to Others": Application in Animal Hoarding. [PDF]

Behav Sci Law
Patronek GJ, Smith-Blackmore M.
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Two Moralities of Recognition

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morality of recognition maintains that moral norms have their authority in virtue of the ways in which those norms enact an ideal moral relationship. T. M. Scanlon argues that this approach can yield an account of the distinctive force of morality and an attractive account of moral motivation. We find this approach to theorizing about morals
Barry Maguire, Oded Na'aman
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Sharp force trauma analysis without animal bones: A proposal for sustainable and ethical bone proxies. [PDF]

J Forensic Sci
Lawrence B, Steiger GS, Borrini M.
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Fittingness and Consequentialism

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires fit their objects. Others do not. This paper considers whether consequentialist ethics can plausibly be reconciled with the fittingness of beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires.
Brad Hooker
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