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Rediscovering Tomkins' polarity theory: Humanism, normativism, and the psychological basis of left-right ideological conflict in the U.S. and Sweden.

PLoS ONE, 2020
According to Silvan Tomkins' polarity theory, ideological thought is universally structured by a clash between two opposing worldviews. On the left, a humanistic worldview seeks to uphold the intrinsic value of the person; on the right, a normative ...
Artur Nilsson, John T Jost
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Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah, Canista Arthie Hensman   +1 more
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Epistemic Abstainers, Epistemic Martyrs, and Epistemic Converts [PDF]

, 2010
An intuitive view regarding the epistemic significance of disagreement says that when epistemic peers disagree, they should suspend judgment. This abstemious view seems to embody a kind of detachment appropriate for rational beings; moreover, it seems to
Aikin, Scott F., Harbour, Michael, Talisse, Robert B.   +2 more
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Arrogance and deep disagreement [PDF]

, 2020
I intend to bring recent work applying virtue theory to the study of argument to bear on a much older problem, that of disagreements that resist rational resolution, sometimes termed "deep disagreements".
Aberdein, Andrew
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It's Not You, It's the System: Women Professors in TESOL and the Persistence of Gender Bias

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Although progress has been made with respect to the role and position of women in academia, overt and covert discrimination as well as structural and systemic bias persist. In this article, we report on research conducted with 14 women professors from 10 different countries to explore to what extent these issues affect women professors in ...
Sarah Mercer, Tammy Gregersen, Amy S. Thompson, Su Yon Yim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oral potentially malignant disorders: Challenges for patient participation due to opacity

Oral Oncology Reports
Opacity – or the lack of transparency - impacts patients' ability to participate in and contribute to decision-making. This contribution examines how opacity affects patient engagement in the context of oral potentially malignant disorders.
Brenda Bogaert
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Authority and Trust: Reflections on Linda Zagzebski’s Epistemic Autohrity [PDF]

, 2014
Our modern egalitarian and individualistic age is suspicious of authority, and in recent times there have been almost daily reports in the press of cases where trust in various authorities, including financial, governmental, political and religious, has ...
Cottingham, John
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
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Engaged Solidaristic Research

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2023
Reshaping our methodological research tools for adequately capturing injustice and domination has been a central aspiration of feminist philosophy and social epistemology in recent years.
Marie-Pier Lemay
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