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Moral agency in chimpanzees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
. In their treatment of juveniles, chimpanzees show exceptional tolerance towards the behaviours of juvenile chimpanzees and go to great lengths to care for juvenile chimpanzees.
Gray, Jennifer
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Social exclusion's effect on psychological needs, sense of agency and moral cognition from an embodied cognition perspective

open access: yesActa Psychologica
This study investigated the effects of social exclusion on fundamental psychological needs—namely, sense of belonging, self-esteem, existential meaning, and sense of control—as well as on the sense of agency, focusing on its two components: voluntariness
Sara Adnani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting ethical practice: moral agency in a hostile environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A reflective journey in probation and social work is the subject of this paper, during which the profession?s value base has been challenged by neo-liberal political and economic orthodoxy that has threatened to suppress social work?s �service ideal ...
Elliott, Nigel
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Information Revelation by Informed Investors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper studies the structure of optimal finance contracts in an agency model of outside finance, when investors possess private information. We show that, depending on the intensity of the entrepreneur’s moral hazard problem, optimal contracts induce
Strausz, Roland
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War As Morally Unintelligible: Sovereign Agency and the Limits of Kantian Autonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Kant’s treatment of war is usually discussed as part of his political philosophy or philosophy of history. In contrast, this essay locates these discussions in direct reference to major elements of his moral philosophy: autonomy, the categorical ...
Rossi, Philip J.
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Undoing one’s past

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2018
In contemporary research on memory, the idea of mental time travel (MTT) has been connected, at the functional level, with planning and imagining what might occur in one’s future.
Eduardo Vicentini de Medeiros
doaj   +1 more source

And the Robot Asked "What do you say I am?" Can Artificial Intelligence Help Theologians and Scientists Understand Free Moral Agency? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Concepts of human beings as free and morally responsible agents are shared culturally by scientists and Christian theologians. Accomiplishments of the "artificial intelligence" (AI) branch of computer science now suggest the possibility of an advanced ...
Metzler, Theodore
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