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Predicaments of Communication, Argument, and Power: Towards a Critical Theory of Controversy

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2004
A critical theory of controversy would require the integration ofthe normative study of argumentation with critical studies of practices. Jiirgen Habermas has made a substantial contribution to such a project by embedding argumentation in a theory of ...
G. Thomas Goodnight
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting how US public opinion on moral issues will change from 2018 to 2020 and beyond

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2022
The General Social Survey, conducted every 2 years, measures public opinion on a wide range of moral issues. The data from the 2020 survey are expected to be released in mid-October 2021.
Pontus Strimling   +2 more
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Organic Unities

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2019
The principle of organic unities is a metaphysical claim regarding the nature of moral value.  It states that the value of the whole is not equal to the summation of its parts.
Graham Floyd
doaj   +1 more source

Argument and the 'Moral Impact' Theory of Law

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
The new Moral Impact Theory (“MIT”) of law is novel, innovative, and influential. It claims that the moral impacts of legal institutional actions, rather than the linguistic content of “rules” or pronouncements, determine law’s content. MIT’s corollary is that the practice of legal interpretation consists in the inquiry into what is morally required as
openaire   +2 more sources

Animals, moral risk and moral considerability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
I believe that accounts of the moral considerability of animals can be strengthened in an interesting and novel way if attention is paid to moral risk and epistemic responsibility.
Tanner, Julia K. H., Tanner, Julia K H
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Schooling Trajectories and the Development of Brain Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Montessori and Traditional Education

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
We investigate whether Montessori and traditional schooling systems shape the developmental trajectory of large‐scale brain dynamics in different ways. We quantify the arrow of time (“non‐reversibility”) in neural activity during resting state and movie‐watching, revealing distinct maturational patterns.
Elvira del Agua   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Black Hole

open access: yes, 2009
It is commonly believed that people become selfish and turn to looting, price gouging, and other immoral behaviour in emergencies. This has been the basis for an argument justifying extraordinary measures in emergencies. It states that if emergencies are
Per Sandin   +3 more
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law’s Argumentative Structure Belies the New “Moral Impact” Theory of Law [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (RAIS 2018), 2018
The new Moral Impact Theory (“MIT”) of law is novel, innovative, and influential. It claims that the moral impacts of legal institutional actions, rather than the linguistic content of any “rules” or pronouncements, determine law’s content. MIT’s corollary is thereby that the practice of legal interpretation consists in the inquiry into what is morally
openaire   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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