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Is Liberalism Disingenuous? Truth and Lies in Political Liberalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Rawlsian political liberalism famously requires a prohibition on truth. This has led to the charge that liberalism embraces non-cognitivism, according to which political claims have the moral status of emotions or expressions of preference.
McGill, Emily
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Better movers, better friends? A test for the environmental stress hypothesis in typically developing primary school children

open access: yesBritish Journal of Developmental Psychology, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 217-236, March 2026.
Abstract Relations between children's motor skills and internalizing problems are poorly understood. The environmental stress hypothesis (ESH), originally developed for motor‐impaired children, may provide understanding, yet has been scarcely examined in typically developing children.
Anne G. M. de Bruijn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intending is Believing: A Defense of Strong Cognitivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We argue that intentions are beliefs—beliefs that are held in light of, and made rational by, practical reasoning. To intend to do something is neither more nor less than to believe, on the basis of one’s practical reasoning, that one will do it.
Marušić, Berislav, Schwenkler, John
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.
When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
wiley   +1 more source

Wittgenstein on the Grammar of Unshakeable Religious Beliefs

open access: yesReligions
The paper offers a reinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s 1938 lecture on religious belief and challenges a prominent view that it commits Wittgenstein to a form of non-cognitivism and/or that it reflects a lack of understanding of religious practices.
Sindre Olaussen Søderstrøm
doaj   +1 more source

Individualism, Libertarianism and Non-Cognitivism

open access: yesAnalyse & Kritik, 1986
Abstract This paper suggests that libertarian and (related) contractarian ideas would be less vulnerable to certain forms of criticism if they would more carefully disentangle their legal and moral standards for the assess­ment of institutions from empirical, methodological, and epistemological assumptions about individualism and non ...
openaire   +1 more source

Thick Concepts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A term expresses a thick concept if it expresses a specific evaluative concept that is also substantially descriptive. It is a matter of debate how this rough account should be unpacked, but examples can help to convey the basic idea.
Kyle, Brent G.
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No Coincidence? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper critically examines coincidence arguments and evolutionary debunking arguments against non-naturalist realism in metaethics. It advances a version of these arguments that goes roughly like this: Given a non-naturalist, realist metaethic, it ...
Bedke, Matthew S.
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Enhancing Immersive Learning: An Exploratory Pilot Study on Large Language Model‐Powered Guidance in Virtual Reality Labs

open access: yesComputer Applications in Engineering Education, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Laboratory learning is central to engineering education, yet physical lab access is often limited by resource constraints, safety requirements, and instructor availability. Immersive virtual reality (IVR) environments can expand access, but learners working independently may lack the procedural guidance required to progress confidently.
Amir Abbas Yahyaeian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Thinkableness of All Thoughts and the Irreplaceability of Pictures: Cora Diamond on Religious Belief

open access: yesReligions
Under the ideas of ‘hinges’ and ‘pictures’, as these relate to deep disagreement, Wittgenstein’s view of religious belief is a multifaceted challenge to conceptions of thought-world relations.
Sofia Miguens
doaj   +1 more source

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