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Philosophy and 'the Life of the Law' [PDF]
, 2009 Focusing on the criminal law, I discuss three ways in which analytical philosophers might contribute to the development or health of the law (and of legal theory). The first is as humble under-labourers, who seek only to clarify legal rules and doctrines,
Duff, R A, R. A. DUFF
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian 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
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Ayn Rand’s Answer to Contradiction between Law and Personal Freedom [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2016 Social life requires acceptance of some norms by individuals which in turn restrict their freedom. Though the norms or so-called laws are essential to preserve order and security in the society, the laws conflict with individuals’ freedom in some cases ...
raham sharaf
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The Objectivity of Moral Judgements [PDF]
, 2006 The problem I wish to address is one that is widespread in analytic moral philosophy viz., that of transcending individuality in an attempt to develop theories and arguments that generally explain what occurs when we make moral judgements.
Brockless, Adrian
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Moral Philosophy and the ‘Ethical Turn’ in Anthropology [PDF]
, 2019 Moral philosophy continues to be enriched by an ongoing empirical turn,mainly through contributions from neuroscience, biology, and psychology. Thusfar, cultural anthropology has largely been missing.
Klenk, M.B.O.T. +2 more
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What Are the Criteria of Personality in Artificial Intelligence in Relation to Moral Status? [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsThe present article examines the possibility of attributing personhood to artificial intelligence agents, a concept central to determining moral status.
Saeid karimi +3 more
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Beyond the grave: Do the dead have rights?
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Anatomists who work with the Dead often see themselves as custodians of the Dead. To those who opine that the Dead no longer have Rights (legal or moral) or privileges and have nothing more to contribute to the development of Society or to human endeavor, the Dead's custodians might respond that there is ample evidence that some Rights and ...
Beverley Kramer, Bernard Moxham
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Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2016 The new media offer a valuable tool to spread the results of academic research outside the boundaries of academia, but they can also have a chilling effect on academic freedom.
F Minerva
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When AI outputs become documents: Documentation activity in human–AI dialogue
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) generate texts that increasingly circulate as documents in knowledge infrastructures, yet their documentary status remains theoretically underdetermined. Unlike traditional documents, LLM outputs lack identifiable authorship, stable provenance, or testimonial grounding.
Sascha Donner
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