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NEURAL GRAFTING: IMPLICATIONS FOR PERSONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITY; pp. 168–178 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2011
It is often suggested that advances in neurosciences will force us to re-think our customary notions of personal identity and personality. In this paper, we study a number of philosophical positions on these notions, especially in connection with ...
Tuija Takala, Tom Buller
doaj   +1 more source

Causes for Conscientious Objection in Medical Aid in Dying: A Scoping Review

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
In the light of current legislation on Medical Aid in Dying ─euthanasia and assisted suicide─ in different countries worldwide, there have been some arguments devoted to the right to conscientious objection for healthcare professionals in these specific
Rosana Triviño-Caballero   +3 more
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Anscombe on the mesmeric force of ‘ought’ and a spurious kind of moral realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I discuss the second of the three theses advanced by Anscombe in ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’. The focus is the nature of entities to which – if Anscombe’s diagnosis is correct – ought and cognate modals are assumed by modern moral philosophers to refer.
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Scottish Common Sense and Nineteenth-Century American Law: A Critical Appraisal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
One overriding concern I have with Susanna Blumenthal\u27s insightful and stimulating article, The Mind of a Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law, is whether there is anything ...
Bailey   +28 more
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A Philosophical Basis for Judicial Restraint [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The purpose of this article is to establish a principled basis for restraint of judicial lawmaking. The principle is that all findings of fact, whether of legislative or adjudicative facts, must be based on evidence in the record of a case.
Gold, Michael Evan
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The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
wiley   +1 more source

“It was a foregone conclusion”: a qualitative study of women’s experiences and meaning-making of later-in-life abortion in Belgium

open access: yesSexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Abortion is an indispensable healthcare service for women of all reproductive ages. Research on abortion is often focused on younger women, neglecting those who are closer to the end of their reproductive lifespan.
Kato Verghote   +4 more
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Dewey’s moral philosophy

open access: yes, 2010
In his 1930 foreword to Human Nature and Conduct, Dewey wrote: “In the eighteenth century, the word Morals was used in English literature with a meaning of broad sweep. It included all the subjects of distinctly humane import, all of the social disciplines as far as they are intimately connected with the life of man and as they bear upon the interests ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaethical Relativism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Although relativism may be said to be one of the oldest doctrines in philosophy, dating back to the teachings of Protagoras in the 5th century B.C., when it comes to contemporary philosophy, there is no consensus on what makes a view qualify as ...
Isidora, Stojanovic
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