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Equal Rights for Zombies?: Phenomenal Consciousness and Responsible Agency [PDF]

, 2019
Intuitively, moral responsibility requires conscious awareness of what one is doing, and why one is doing it, but what kind of awareness is at issue? Neil Levy argues that phenomenal consciousness—the qualitative feel of conscious sensations—is entirely ...
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan, Salariato, Diego, Zuloaga, Fernando   +2 more
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Amelioration vs. Perversion [PDF]

, 2020
Words change meaning, usually in unpredictable ways. But some words’ meanings are revised intentionally. Revisionary projects are normally put forward in the service of some purpose – some serve specific goals of inquiry, and others serve ethical ...
Marques, Teresa
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Sustaining the teaching profession: Innovating the ‘golden thread’ in university‐led teacher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the implications of England's ‘golden thread’ policy framework for teacher education, which describes a state‐mandated, linear model of professional learning from initial teacher training and education through to continuing professional development.
Amanda Nuttall, Ed Podesta, Aimee Quickfall, Megan Stephenson   +3 more
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Do the Type of Learning Material and Prior Knowledge Impact Students’ Success in Learning and Their Epistemic Emotions?

Psychological Topics
The aim of this study was to test the impact of the type of learning material and the level of prior knowledge on students’ success in learning and their epistemic emotions.
Matija Crnković, Barbara Balaž, Nina Pavlin-Bernardić   +2 more
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Seeing the impossible: the impact of watching magic on positive emotions, optimism, and wellbeing [PDF]

PeerJ
Watching a magic trick is a unique experience in which seemingly impossible events appear possible but without any suspension of disbelief. Unfortunately, relatively little work has examined the psychological impact of this fascinating experience. In the
Richard Wiseman, Caroline Watt
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Non-standard Emotions and Aesthetic Understanding

Estetika, 2020
Winner of the Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize. For cognitivist accounts of aesthetic appreciation, appreciation requires an agent (1) to perceptually respond to the relevant aesthetic features of an object o on good evidential grounds, (2) to have an ...
Irene Martínez Marín
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Unravelling social constructionism [PDF]

, 2001
Social constructionist research is an area of rapidly expanding influence that has brought together theorists from a range of different disciplines. At the same time, however, it has fuelled the development of a new set of divisions.
Anderson, B., Aries, P., Austin, J.L., Barthes, R., Barthes, R., Baudrillard, J., Burkitt, I., Connell, R.W., Derrida, J., Derrida, J., Edwards, D., Edwards, D., Foucault, M., Foucault, M., Foucault, M., Garfinkel, H., Geertz, C., Geertz, C., Gergen, K., Gill, R., Harré, R., Koslfk, K., Latour, B., Lyotard, J.-F., Nigel Edley, Nightingale, D.J., Potter, J., Potter, J., Sampson, E.E., Saussure, F. de, Sontag, S., Soper, K., Wittgenstein, L., Woolgar, S., Woolgar, S.   +34 more
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‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
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Epistemic feelings in moral experiences and moral dynamics of everyday life

Digithum, 2016
The philosophy of emotions has identified a class of affective phenomena called epistemic feelings (e.g. certainty, doubt, or surprise). Such feelings are thought to inform about the quality of one's knowledge and beliefs and to influence processes of ...
Sylvia Terpe
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Some Epistemic Roles for Curiosity [PDF]

, 2018
I start with a critical discussion of some attempts to ground epistemic normativity in curiosity. Then I develop three positive proposals. The first of these proposals is more or less purely philosophical; the second two reside at the interdisciplinary ...
Whitcomb, Dennis
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