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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
wiley   +1 more source

When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
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Wittgenstein and Idealism

open access: yes, 1982
Recently some philosophers have proposed that the later philosophy of Wittgenstein tends towards idealism, or even solipsism. The solipsism is said to be of a peculiar kind. It is characterized as a ‘collective’ or ‘aggregative’ solipsism.
Norman Malcolm
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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
wiley   +1 more source

Responsible Leadership Types: Understanding the Variety and Implications of Different Forms of Leading Responsibly

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Responsible leadership can be manifested in a variety of ways but we lack understanding of what drives this variation and what the implications are of different approaches. In this conceptual article, we develop a novel typology of responsible leadership approaches based on leaders' different perceived obligations as experts, facilitators, and
Christian Voegtlin, Andrew Crane
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Business Realism—A New Account of Morality and Power in Business Ethics

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a new account of morality and power in business ethics called “business realism”. To this end, it first outlines the political realism literature—a view in political philosophy that deals with the question of the relation between morality and politics.
Iwan Alijew
wiley   +1 more source

Current issues in idealism

open access: yes, 1996
Focused on the idealist/realist dispute, contributors also discuss the relation of idealism to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The volume further explores the differences between ontological and conceptual forms of idealism, the place of idealism ...
Coates, Paul, Hutto, D.
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Health Research Funders and Justice: Obligations to Coordinate and Counterbalance

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government health research funders are frequently criticized on the grounds that their distribution of resources fails to reflect a population's disease burden. These critiques do not take into account what other research funders are doing. In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake.
Joseph Millum
wiley   +1 more source

What is it like to be an infant?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.
Abstract In the philosophy of mind literature, consciousness is commonly defined not in terms of its physical correlates but rather its subjective character – the ‘something that it is like to be' an organism. In this conceptual article, this formulation is applied to the study of neonate subjectivity, giving rise to the question: what is it like to be
Matthew Goldreich
wiley   +1 more source

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