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Predicaments of Communication, Argument, and Power: Towards a Critical Theory of Controversy
Informal 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
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Predicting how US public opinion on moral issues will change from 2018 to 2020 and beyond
Royal 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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An argument for the use of Aristotelian method in bioethics [PDF]
, 2006 The main claim of this paper is that the method outlined and used in Aristotle's Ethics is an appropriate and credible one to use in bioethics. Here “appropriate” means that the method is capable of establishing claims and developing concepts in ...
A. Bäck +35 more
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Pain for the Moral Error Theory? A New Companions-in-Guilt Argument [PDF]
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2017 ABSTRACTThe moral error theorist claims that moral discourse is irredeemably in error because it is committed to the existence of properties that do not exist. A common response has been to postulate ‘companions in guilt’—forms of discourse that seem safe from error despite sharing the putatively problematic features of moral discourse.
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Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change [preprint] [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter explores some features of pragmatic pluralism as an ethical perspective on climate change. It is inspired in part by Andrew Light’s work on climate diplomacy as U.S.
Fesmire, Steven
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The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states [PDF]
, 2016 Kant described the state as a ‘moral person’, and did so when dealing with international relations. For all the interest in his contribution to the theory of global politics, the locution according to which Kant characterized the state has received very ...
Holland, Ben
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TheoLogica, 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
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Using machine learning on a mega‐scale global dataset (n = 1,336,840) reveals a robust personality trait architecture beyond the Big Five. A Big Two model, broadly capturing social engagement and internal mentation, defines a geometric space that links personality to neurocognitive profiles.
Kaixiang Zhuang +7 more
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Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing
Advanced Science, EarlyView.As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
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Argument and the 'Moral Impact' Theory of Law
SSRN 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
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