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When Is Social Value Proportionate to Research Risks?

open access: yesBioethics, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Literacy: Embracing Illiteracies as Strategic Resistance in Citizenship Education

open access: yesEuropean 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
wiley   +1 more source

No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 606-618, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
wiley   +1 more source

Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 157-168, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 532-553, September 2026.
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Domesticating robots, domesticating language: The hylomorphic paradox of “openness” in large language models

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how openness is interpreted in human–LLM interaction through an ethnographic study of a robotics experiment. Focusing on an episode in which a robot produced an unexpected utterance, I analyze how engineers classify the output as inconsequential noise.
Raffaele Andrea Buono
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnosing Institutional Design‐Implementation Gaps: A Dual‐Layer Systems Modeling Language Protocol for Visualizing Institutional Change Mechanisms

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a dual‐layer protocol for diagnosing how formal institutional designs are implemented in practice in complex governance systems. The protocol builds two linked process maps; one for the formal rules and procedures (rules‐in‐form) and one for the routines actors actually follow in practice (rules‐in‐use).
Sina Jangjoo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le credenziali: parole, disegni e poteri deontici Credentials: Words, Drawings, and Deontic Powers

open access: yes, 2020
Abstract: Driving licenses, identity cards, passports, boarding passes, credit cards, ATM cards are examples of credentials. Credentials are documents that play a fundamental role in all modern societies. However, philosophers and social ontologists have not yet addressed the analysis of their nature and function.
Lorini Giuseppe   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Modeling the dynamics of contractual relations. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Artif Intell, 2023
Griffo C   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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