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The Problem of Ignorance [PDF]

, 2020
Holly Smith (2014) contends that subjective deontological theories – those that hold that our moral duties are sensitive to our beliefs about our situation – cannot correctly determine whether one ought to gather more information before acting.
Lee-Stronach, Chad
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"Ought" and Error [PDF]

, 2020
The moral error theory generally does not receive good press in metaethics. This paper adds to the bad news. In contrast to other critics, though, I do not attack error theorists’ characteristic thesis that no moral assertion is ever true.
Tiefensee, Christine
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Consequentialist Options [PDF]

, 2014
According to traditional forms of act-consequentialism, an action is right if and only if no other action in the given circumstances would have better consequences.
Suikkanen, Jussi
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A plea for the study of the relation between the Aretaic Morality and the Deontic and Responsibility Moralities

Psychologica, 2019
Although the deontic, responsibility/caring, and aretaic moralities have been extensively investigated, the relation among them, namely the relation between the aretaic and the deontic and responsibility moralities, have rarely been studied.
Orlando M. Lourenço
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Deontic logic as a study of conditions of rationality in norm-related activities [PDF]

, 2016
The program put forward in von Wright's last works defines deontic logic as ``a study of conditions which must be satisfied in rational norm-giving activity'' and thus introduces the perspective of logical pragmatics.
Žarnić, Berislav
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Ethical intuitionism and the linguistic analogy [PDF]

, 2018
It is a central tenet of ethical intuitionism as defended by W. D. Ross and others that moral theory should reflect the convictions of mature moral agents.
Schwind, Philipp
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Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
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Athetic Validity

Phenomenology and Mind, 2020
Starting from the analysis of three conceptual paradigms formulated by Theodor Geiger, this paper elaborates the concept of the athetic validity of a norm, in contrast to the concept of thetic validity. Thetic validity is the deontic validity that is the
Amedeo G. Conte
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Logical Semantics and Norms: A Kantian Perspective [PDF]

, 2017
It’s widely accepted that normativity is not subject to truth values. The underlying reasoning is that truth values can only be predicated of descriptive statements; normative statements are prescriptive, not descriptive; thus truth value predicates ...
Mascarenhas, Sérgio
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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