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Journal of Language and LiteratureSexual harassment in higher education is a pervasive issue that carries serious implications for both institutional reputation and the well-being of victims.
Bernard Ayine +3 more
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Modal Auxiliaries in Sorani Kurdish [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 “Modality is concerned with the status of the proposition that describes the event” (Palmer, 2001: 1). This grammatical category is common to every language, shown by the help of some grammatical or lexical elements such as mood, auxiliaries, clitics ...
Roonak Moradi
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A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents the history of Georg Henrik von Wright's well‐known biographical sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which first appeared in English in 1955 and was later included in Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. It will be shown that von Wright, during the years 1954–1984, published as many as six versions of the ...
Bernt Österman
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The Motive of Duty and Kantian Moral Worth
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, it is argued that action from duty has special moral worth on Kant's account because (i) it is an instance of good willing, and (ii) the good will is the only unconditional good. This is used to argue, contrary to various commentators, that Kant's doctrine of moral worth is central, not only to Kantian ethics, but to any ...
Samuel Kahn
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External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT External‐world skepticism challenges, among other things, the epistemic credentials of beliefs about other people. Some external‐world skeptics deny that I know my loved ones exist; some claim that my belief that my loved ones exist is epistemically impermissible. However, abandoning this belief would be highly unattractive.
James Fritz
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Romantic relationships between professors and students, between employers and employees, and between other partners at different points on an institutional hierarchy are widely regarded as morally troubling. Popular explanations as to why have appealed variously to violations of institutional duties, to the impossibility of sexual consent ...
Lucy McDonald
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Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
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Dancing with Foucault: On the Sources of Telic Power in Nonideal Social Ontology
Journal of Social OntologyThis paper argues that Åsa Burman's concept of telic power in nonideal social ontology can be deepened by integrating Michel Foucault's account of power in both his mid-period work on governmentality and his later work on ethics.
Peter Sucaet
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