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How Requests Create Reasons

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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Dynamic Deontic Logic for Permitted Announcements

, 2022
peer reviewedIn this paper, we introduce and study a dynamic deontic logic for permitted announcements. In our logic framework, it is permitted to announce something if announcing it would not lead to forbidden knowledge.
LI, Xu, GABBAY, Dov M., MARKOVICH, Réka
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There Are No Abilities to Succeed

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
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Dancing with Foucault: On the Sources of Telic Power in Nonideal Social Ontology

Journal of Social Ontology
This 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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Fittingness and Bioethics

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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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 362-374, October 2026.
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, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 349-361, October 2026.
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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Where authority, speech acts and modality meet: A pragmatic analysis of the trial record of King Charles I

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This paper investigates how speakers perform speech acts coordinating with modality in the flux of power in Early Modern courtroom interactions along the lines of historical pragmatics. The text used for analysis is the trial record of King Charles I in
Minako Nakayasu, Michi Shiina
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When Is Social Value Proportionate to Research Risks?

Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 707-716, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethical human subjects research must have an acceptable risk‐benefit ratio, which requires that the net risks participants face be proportionate to the research's social value. Yet existing scholarship does not explain what makes risks proportionate to social value.
Robert Steel
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Beyond Literacy: Embracing Illiteracies as Strategic Resistance in Citizenship Education

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the role of citizenship illiteracies in citizenship education, particularly in challenging contexts where direct confrontation is untenable. Traditionally, citizenship education often equates citizenship literacies with positive civic engagement, overlooking the potential value of illiteracies as forms of resistance ...
Jason Cong Lin
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