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The Epistemic Theory of Democracy

Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University
At the beginning of the 21st century, some Western political theorists tried to justify democracy in an epistemic way. They wanted to prove that democracy leads to the most correct political decisions. Consequently, it is reasonable to say that a new normative theory of democracy has emerged — the epistemic theory.
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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
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Developing Reliable Epistemic Processes for Civic Life: A Response to “‘Beyond “Yelling at Them’: Exploring the Impact of a Political Simulation in Polarized Times” [PDF]

PurpleState, the political communications simulation at the heart of “Beyond ‘Yelling at Them,’” was designed to foster in students the epistemic aim of building knowledge by investigating a civic issue and the epistemic ideal of considering multiple ...
McGrew, Sarah, Reynolds, Elizabeth C
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Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
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Truth, Communication, and Democracy

International Journal of Communication, 2019
This article argues that truth is vital to deliberative democracy and to communication as an academic discipline. Our definition of truth is critical realist in nature—that is, it refers to an ontologically objective reality.
Douglas Porpora, Seif Sekalala
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Organizational separateness and general manager turnover: Behavioral theory in the international context

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Under what conditions do headquarters replace the general manager (GM) of an underperforming subsidiary? We argue that translating performance feedback into managerial intervention requires an inferential step the behavioral theory of the firm has only partially theorized.
Liang (Arthur) Li, Vanessa C. Hasse, Marketa Rickley   +2 more
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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The Imperative of De‐Marginalisation

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On what basis, if any, can we legitimately justify spatial integrationist policies? Through a relational egalitarian lens, this article disentangles two phenomena that the wrong of residential segregation typically conflates: minimal segregation (mere clustering) and marginalisation (the production of unequal social standing through spatially ...
Elisabetta Gobbo
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Trustworthy AI Is Not Valuable

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Trustworthy AI’ is a buzzword in AI research, with scores of scholars discussing whether AI systems can be trustworthy. This demand for trustworthy AI is intuitive, especially when AI is used in healthcare or criminal law, where the stakes are incredibly high. In this article, I push back on calls for trustworthy AI.
James Edgar Lim
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Who Has the Right to Fight? Rethinking Legitimate Authority in War

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a Razian account of legitimate authority in war. It rejects the traditionalist assumption that legitimate authority is confined to states and state‐like groups while defending the criterion as a distinct and morally significant element of the jus ad bellum against revisionism.
Brianna Rosen
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