Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
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Is There Room for Justified Beliefs without Evidence? A Critical Assessment of Epistemic Evidentialism [PDF]
In the first section of this paper I present epistemic evidentialism and, in the following two sections, I discuss that view with counterexamples. I shall defend that adequately supporting evidence is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for ...
Faria, Domingos
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ABSTRACT Philosophical accounts of long‐term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about ...
Mario I. Juarez‐Garcia
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Emerging Issues for Counselors Applying Neuroscience With Black Clients: Avoiding Scientific Racism
ABSTRACT Neuroscience‐infused methods are heavily impacting the manner in which counselors, educators, and researchers approach working with clients and conducting research. While some scholars perceive neuroscience as scientifically objective and culturally neutral, that is not entirely true.
Isaac Burt
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Justifications, Exculpations, Causes: Epistemology and Our Image of Nature [PDF]
There is a way of thinking about epistemic justification that holds that it dwells solely in beliefs. According to this view, any relation between what is believed and any item different from beliefs – maybe even if it is an item that could be a belief
Bensusan, Hilan
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Shaping the Future of Radiography Education: Lessons From ChatGPT and Generative AI
ChatGPT can provide structured guidance, support self‐assessment and scaffold learning processes that bridge classroom knowledge and clinical expectations. However, AI must be embedded in ways that uphold the core principles of radiographic practice: accuracy, reflective judgment, ethical reasoning, empathy and patient‐centred care.
Minh T. Chau +5 more
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In Defence of Epistemic Relativism: The Concept of Truth in Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money [PDF]
As one of the first modern philosophers, Georg Simmel systematically developed a “relativistic world view” (Simmel 2004, VI). In this paper I attempt to examine Simmel’s relativistic answer to the question of truth.
Steizinger, Johannes
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The Role of Intellectual Virtues in the Practice of Humanistic Mental Health Counseling
ABSTRACT The function of intellectual virtues as a foundation for the development of excellence in the humanistic practice of clinical mental health counseling is explored. First, the unique characteristics of intellectual virtues are described. Second, 10 specific intellectual virtues are identified and briefly defined.
Mark S. Gerig
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Phenomenal Conservatism and the Demand for Metajustification
This paper is on the justification of (PC), the epistemic principle defended by M. Huemer in his Phenomenal Conservatism theory. Put in a straightforward way, we can (and should) ask: what reasons are there for thinking that (PC) is true, that is, for ...
Rogel E. Oliveira
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