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Balconies' visual preferences: The case of residential apartments in Tehran, Iran. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Akbari P   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Social movements and the synecdoche problem

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

Virtuous Deferral

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Virtue epistemology has long struggled with the “Creditability Dilemma”: how can knowledge gained through deference be creditable to the knower if it primarily depends on others’ cognitive work? We propose a novel solution by developing a telic account of doxastic deference as a distinctive kind of social‐epistemic performance.
J. Adam Carter, Jesper Kallestrup
wiley   +1 more source

What Can the State of Nature Justify?

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source

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