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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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The utilitarian imagination: an inquiry into the relationship between character formation, moral freedom and social reform in John Stuart Mill’s Moral Science. [PDF]

, 2010
This thesis examines John Stuart Mill‘s conception of moral character and his views on the possibility and importance of moral self-development. The purpose and substance of Mill‘s project were conceived and developed within a dense intellectual nexus of
Goldstone, Alan
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The Pro‐Office Mindset. Anticorruption Beyond Legal Instruments

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
wiley   +1 more source

A Second‐Order Moral Twin‐Earth

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How to understand metaphysical disputes is a disputed matter. Within this broader dispute, deflationist approaches read some of the traditional metaphysical debates as having metalinguistic negotiations at their roots. That is, some metaphysical disagreements are read as speakers commending each other to use some concepts over others ...
Pyro Suarez
wiley   +1 more source

Social Epistemology and the Project of Mapping Science

, 2015
One area of debate in naturalized epistemology is how to best interpret the relationship between naturalism and traditional analytic epistemology. This is particularly the case for epistemologists who commit to methodological forms of naturalism: First ...
Posey, Kamili
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

‘The uses of ethnography in the science of cultural evolution’. Commentary on Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A. and K. Laland ‘Toward a unified science of cultural evolution’

, 2006
There is considerable scope for developing a more explicit role for ethnography within the research program proposed in the article. Ethnographic studies of cultural micro-evolution would complement experimental approaches by providing insights into the “
Tehrani, J.
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate: Using a Model to Explain Textbook Representations of Human Evolutionary Theory

, 2008
In this paper we develop a general model to explain the hostility toward, and ignorance of, human evolutionary theory (ET) in the social sciences. We first provide relevant theoretical background explaining the basics of ET.
Winegard, Ben
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Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier [PDF]

This paper investigates conceptions of explanation, teleology, and analogy in the works of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and Georges Cuvier (1769–1832).
van den Berg, H.
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