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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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Embedding mental files in the world
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention.
Lejla Voloder
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Diachronic Change within the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Archer W +4 more
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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are cases of psychiatric disorder where affective states produce severely self‐destructive behavior. Sufferers do not appear to be making autonomous decisions, and appear to be severely impaired in their decision‐making capacity. Suffers of these kinds of cases of these kinds of disorders fall into a “gray area” in the law.
Joe Gough
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Evidence and Policy‐Making: An Organizational Approach
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Strengthening the role of evidence in policy‐making is increasingly seen as crucial for the quality and legitimacy of public policies. Both among practitioners and scholars, there is a growing awareness that evidence‐informed policy‐making not only depends on the rigor and relevance of the research, science communication or features of policy ...
Johan Christensen
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article pursues two objectives. First, it aims to trace the genealogy of data protection regulation in major liberal democracies. To do so, it examines the evolution of this regulation in the United States, France, and Germany, among others, and relies on the policy actors' triangle framework.
Nicolas Bocquet
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
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