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Revenge Wars

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 344-353, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT In the wake of widescale deadly attacks, desire and support for military revenge are prevalent. Rather than dismissing it as due to ignorance, moral depravity or heat of the moment, I propose that support for military revenge is more charitably understood as support for a “retributive revenge war,” aimed at inflicting deserved harms on the ...
Uri Eran
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SOUTHGATE'S COMPOUND ONLY‐WAY EVOLUTIONARY THEODICY: DEEP APPRECIATION AND FURTHER DIRECTIONS

Zygon, 2018
Christopher Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a “compound evolutionary theodicy.” Here I summarize the arguments and ...
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“We, to Them, Are Their Heroes”: Narratives of Rescue in White Australian Veterans' Memories of the Vietnamese

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 3, Page 496-519, September 2025.
This article examines white Australian veterans' views and memories of Vietnamese people in three stages: during the war, after the Fall of Saigon, and upon return to Vietnam. Drawing on original oral histories with veterans who returned to Vietnam, this article shows that veterans' characterisations of Vietnamese were fundamentally about defining ...
Mia Martin Hobbs
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A corpus‐based analysis of adjective amplification in Hong Kong, Indian and Philippine English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 456-473, September 2025.
Abstract This study considers a corpus‐based approach for analysing adjective amplifier systems (very, really, so, etc.) in Hong Kong English (HKE), Indian Englsih (IndE) and Philippine English (PhiE) based on data from the International Corpus of English. The current study adds to existing research by providing insights into the understudied adjective
Martin Schweinberger
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Repealing the Eighth Amendment: Counter Stories and Storytelling for Resistance, Empowerment and Social Change in Irish Reproductive Politics

Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 468-483, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the pivotal role played by counter accounts in reshaping public sentiment and disrupting the power and reach of hegemonic discourse. While prior scholarship has largely focused on the emergence of counter accounts as alternative perspectives to dominant and institutionalised narratives, we highlight the prevalence and ...
Rebecca Bolt, Susan O'Leary
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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.
Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
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Symbolic value and the limits of good‐for theory

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 542-563, June 2025.
Abstract Good‐for theorists claim that to be valuable is to be good for someone, in the sense of being beneficial for them. Their opponents deny this, arguing that some things are good‐simpliciter: good independently of being good for anyone. In this article I argue in favor of good‐simpliciter.
Aaron Abma
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Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass Migration

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 601-619, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Essays on the ethics of monuments tend to focus on their morality in relation to domestic populations. In this article we turn our attention to how the principles we favor for the ‘ingroup’ apply to various ‘outgroups’, including foreigners and foreign governments, guest workers, visiting scholars, forcibly annexed or colonized peoples, and ...
Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo
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Intellectual Humility and the Argument from Evil: A Reply to Zain Ali

Religions
This is a response to Zain Ali’s critique in this journal of our presentation of a ‘right relationship’ normatively relativised ‘logical’ Argument from Evil.
John Bishop, Ken Perszyk
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The interplay of Christianity and Ndau African traditional religion in shaping climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe: An Afrocentric analysis

Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 2266-2277, April 2025.
Abstract This paper utilizes Afrocentric tenets to explore how the Ndau people's shift from African traditional religion to Christianity affects their understanding and experience of climate change. Set against recent climate‐induced disasters in Chimanimani, the study employs Afrocentric qualitative methods, including talking cycles and philosophical ...
Happy Mathew Tirivangasi, Louis Nyahunda
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