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Collective Care and Rural Transitions: The Role of Empathy in Addressing Land Degradation

Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Land degradation in rural areas is often addressed through technical and economic measures, while the relational and emotional dimensions of governance remain underexplored. This study examines how empathy operates within participatory land governance, drawing on a participatory scenario planning (PSP) workshop conducted in the Târnava Mare ...
Ruxandra Malina Petrescu‐Mag, Dacinia Crina Petrescu, Ramona Balc   +2 more
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Inference and Imagination

Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract Our ability to imagine alternatives to reality is central to everyday cognition. Our competence in reasoning depends not only on our capacity to envisage the relevant facts, but also on our proficiency in simulating alternatives to them. I discuss how our skill in making deductive inferences depends on imagining possibilities. To illustrate, I
Ruth M. J. Byrne
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Interpretative Models of Legal Language

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The interpretative process of legal language is an activity aimed at reconstructing the mental representation of meaning. According to juridical linguistics, correct understanding of legal language requires more than mere linguistic skills: it needs ...
Olga V. Kobzeva
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An Adaptive Normative Multi Agent System using Web 3.0 for e-Learning Platform

Online Academic Journal of Information Technology, 2013
The growing concern for education and innovative technologies has led to a new dimension of learning. The paper proposes a new framework NormATel using the concept of Normative Multi-Agent system, Activity Theory and e-Learning.
.ımran Ali Siddiqu, Neelu Jyoti Ahuja, Manuj Darbari, Namrata Dhanda   +3 more
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Norm Circles and Critical Realism

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT An increasing number of scholars have employed the critical realist concept of norm circles in empirical research. Norm circles are social structures, composed of human agents, that tend to encourage people to conform with norms. As such, they provide a (partly) structural explanation for social normativity, which in turn plays an important ...
Dave Elder‐Vass, Manuel Heckel
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Free choice permission as resource-sensitive reasoning

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
Free choice permission is a long-standing puzzle in deontic logic and in natural language semantics. It involves what appears to be a conjunctive use of "or": from "You may eat an apple or a pear", we can infer that "You may eat an apple" and that "You ...
Chris Barker
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Conditionals and KK

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 371-384, June 2026.
Abstract In this paper, we explore the tension between the KK thesis and an attractive principle concerning the assertability of conditionals. We explore the prospects for defending the KK thesis against the problems posed, and conclude that they are dim.
John Hawthorne, Yoaav Isaacs
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FIVE STEPS TO RESPONSIBILITY - DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2013v63p125

Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2014
Responsibility has entered the academic discourse of logicians hardly more than few decades ago. I suggest a logical concept of responsibility which employs ideas both from a number of theories belonging to different branches of logic as well from other
Elena Lisanyuk
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Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 372-388, May 2026.
ABSTRACT We argue in favor of affirmative action. There are two central points to our argument. First, if two or more candidates for a position are matched in competence, then one ought to prefer a candidate from a disadvantaged, disenfranchised, or minority background rather than defer to the outcome of a lottery.
Shalom Chalson, James Bernard Willoughby
wiley   +1 more source

Applying the Agent-Deed-Consequence (ADC) Model to Smart City Ethics

Algorithms
Smart cities are an emerging technology that is receiving new ethical attention due to recent advancements in artificial intelligence. This paper provides an overview of smart city ethics while simultaneously performing novel theorization about the ...
Daniel Shussett, Veljko Dubljević
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