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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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When Do Sustainability Tensions Harm or Benefit Innovation Portfolios? A Paradoxical Perspective
Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The coexistence of a competitive and sustainability strategy often introduces tensions within organizations. These tensions, if not appropriately managed, can lead to defensiveness and destruction, while they also have the potential to drive creativity and foster sustainability.
Jadena Bechtel +2 more
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The link between suspect verbosity during investigative interviews and observer‐rapport
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Rapport enhances both the quantity and quality of information in investigative interviews and is recommended by multiple frameworks and training manuals. As interviewers are trained to associate rapport with more detailed responses, they are likely to assess rapport based on the amount of information provided.
Lynn Weiher +2 more
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Menorah Review (No. 41, Fall, 1997) [PDF]
, 1997 The Jewish Image in American Fiction -- An Endless Journey?
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Some Weird Events Have Been Told in the Baker Street – 2nd Part [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2009 The study analyses composition, motifs and stylistic structure of Doyle´s Holmes detective stories. The author of the study tries to determine their value in the context of their development within transformations of the detective genre.
Tomáš Horváth
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The Status of Science Fiction as Literature [PDF]
, 1960 In this discussion I want to say something about where science fiction has been and where it is now and then comment on where I think it stands in relation to what we ordinarily call "good" literature. But as in all discussions ot science fiction, it
Janes, Adrian
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Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Having evidence does not in itself make a doxastic attitude justified even if the evidence supports the attitude in question. Plausibly, one must also appreciate the support one's evidence provides for the doxastic attitude. Although such appreciation seems central to the picture of justification offered by Evidentialism, its nature has been ...
Kevin McCain
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