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Expanding on the Expanding Englishes of the Expanding Circle

World Englishes, 2019
AbstractIssue after issue of such journals as World Englishes and English Today deliver insights into and an understanding of the nature of the world's Englishes. Most of these scholarly contributions rely upon the Concentric Circle Model of World Englishes, a central feature of the Kachruvian paradigm since 1985. While the Englishes of each circle are
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The Expanding Circle

2011
Preface to the 2011 Edition xi Preface xv 1 The Origins of Altruism 3 2 The Biological Basis of Ethics 23 3 From Evolution to Ethics? 54 4 Reason 87 5 Reason and Genes 125 6 A New Understanding of Ethics 148 Notes on Sources 175 Afterword to the 2011 Edition 187 Index ...
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Expanding the Moral Circle

2019
Relational inequality theory (RIT) is summarized, and its implications for social science practice, data collection, and causal attributions are outlined. To advance equality and justice agendas RIT also implies a series of global goals including moving from tribalism to universalism, from hierarchy to citizenship rights, and from markets to human ...
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Bioethics Education Expanding the Circle of Participants

The Hastings Center Report, 1993
Bioethics education now takes place outside universities as well as within them. How should clinicians, ethics committee members, and policymakers be taught the ethics they need, and how may their progress best be evaluated?
B C, Thornton, D, Callahan, J L, Nelson
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Elaborating on the Expanding Circle

World Englishes, 2019
AbstractWhile the Inner and Outer Circle varieties are recognized by all linguists and educationists, the status of any Expanding Circle English as a variety per se is still a subject of incessant discussions. This article, based on Russian English as a typical variety of the Expanding Circle, focuses on the reasons for misconceptions and inaccuracies.
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Ever-Expanding Circles

2020
Chapter 2 looks at the development of algorithms for estimating the value of Pi and analysing waveforms. Early estimates for Pi – the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter – were produced in Babylonia. The ancient Greek mathematian, Archimedes, produced improved estimates by means of a clever algorithm which used polygons to approximate the
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The ‘Outer Circle’ as a role model for the ‘Expanding Circle’

English Today, 2011
The post-World War II emergence of the linguistic phenomenon called ‘World English’ has given rise to seemingly endless discussion and much speculation among scholars and the lay public alike. The topics of discussion range from horrified exclamations at the mysterious apparition (like Horatio's ‘Look my Lord it comes!
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Artificial agents and the expanding ethical circle

AI & SOCIETY, 2012
I discuss the realizability and the ethical ramifications of Machine Ethics, from a number of different perspectives: I label these the anthropocentric, infocentric, biocentric and ecocentric perspectives. Each of these approaches takes a characteristic view of the position of humanity relative to other aspects of the designed and the natural worlds—or
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The Expanding Circle.

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1983
Anthony Manser, Peter Singer
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“Expanding Circles” of Empathy

Abstract This chapter discusses the scales of empathy through architectural metaphors of subjective experience and the image of “expanding circles” of care in moral philosophy. It takes the postmillennial novels of Ian McEwan as its focus and examines these in relation to Virginia Woolf’s perspectival strategies.
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