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A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong
ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
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Intellectual Humility and the Argument from Evil: A Reply to Zain Ali
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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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
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ABSTRACT Politicians from around the world are increasingly subject to harassment, with women disproportionately targeted. Recent changes in the sociopolitical landscape have influenced the nature and intensity of this harassment, with New Zealand being no exception. This qualitative study explores the experiences and impacts of harassment among female
Rhiannon Watson +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background Statutory guidance relating to the prevention of institutional abuse, neglect and harm does not reflect the contemporary organisation of UK community mental health services. Historical associations with inpatient and residential settings have created a practice and conceptual gap despite lived experience testimony, inquiries and ...
Bethan M. Edwards +11 more
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Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil
Abstract In this article I engage with Kathryn Tanner's theological framework for understanding God's agency, focusing on the way her rules of non‐contrastive transcendence and non‐competitive immanence govern her account of God's acts of creation, providence, incarnation, and atonement.
Sameer Yadav
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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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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
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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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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