The Intersection between Descriptivism and Meliorism in Reasoning Research: Further Proposals in Support of ‘Soft Normativism [PDF]
The rationality paradox centres on the observation that people are highly intelligent, yet show evidence of errors and biases in their thinking when measured against normative standards.
Edward J. N. Stupple, Linden John Ball
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Rediscovering Tomkins' polarity theory: Humanism, normativism, and the psychological basis of left-right ideological conflict in the U.S. and Sweden. [PDF]
According to Silvan Tomkins' polarity theory, ideological thought is universally structured by a clash between two opposing worldviews. On the left, a humanistic worldview seeks to uphold the intrinsic value of the person; on the right, a normative ...
Artur Nilsson, John T Jost
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How (not) to draw philosophical implications from the cognitive nature of concepts: The case of intentionality [PDF]
Philosophers have often appealed to intuitive judgments in various thought experiments to support or reject particular theses. Experimental philosophy is an emerging discipline that examines the cognitive nature of such intuitive judgments. In this paper,
Kazuki eIijima +2 more
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Editorial: From is to ought: The place of normative models in the study of human thought [PDF]
Shira eElqayam, David E Over
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Intellectual history of a textbook: Radomir Lukić's introduction to law between Marx and Kelsen [PDF]
Radomir Lukić's Introduction to Law was a model textbook in Communist Yugoslavia for nearly fifty years. Still in use as a learning source in present-day Serbia, it combines Marxist theory of law with Kelsen's normativism in order to explain the legal ...
Božić Marko
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Europe and its key actors in the Yemeni crisis; from normativism to pragmatism [PDF]
The contradictory policy of the European Union and European countries towards the crisis in Yemen has raised many questions regarding the principle guide of the EU's foreign policy as well as the European approach to conflict resolution.
Behzad Ahmadi Lafouraki, Sohrab Sadoddin
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This text is devoted to commemorating Professor Tomasz Bekrycht, who was an eminent expert in the phenomenology of law. His interests focused particularly on the analysis of the philosophical and legal views of Adolf Reinach. The undoubted achievement of
Sławomir Tkacz, Aleksandra Wentkowska
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The logic of «pure knowledge» and conceptual understanding of principle of causality in normativism [PDF]
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the philosophical foundations of Hans Kelsen’s normativism, presented in the arguments of the Marburg school of neocantianism. With the help of the reconstruction of the «logic of pure knowledge» by H.
A. B. Didikin
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Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists
I expand 'modal normativism', a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of 'metaphysical explanation'. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the normative function ...
Theodore Locke
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How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases
Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on the one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, on the other.
Brandon A. Conley, Shane N. Glackin
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