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Axiomatizing umwelt normativity
Sign Systems Studies, 2011 Prompted by the thesis that an organism’s umwelt possesses not just a descriptive dimension, but a normative one as well, some have sought to annex semiotics with ethics.
Marc Champagne
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Functional Constitutivism’s Misunderstood Resources: A Limited Defense of Smith’s Constitutivism [PDF]
, 2019 In recent work, Michael Smith argues that particular desires are constitutive of ideal agency and draws on his dispositional account of reasons to establish the normative significance of those desires.
Lindeman, Kathryn
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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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A lexicological response to Motschenbacher’s Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity (2022)
LexiqueThis article is a critical engagement with Heiko Motschenbacher’s Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity (2022), which examines the discursive construction of sexuality through the lens of normativity in the aim of empiricizing queer ...
Nicholas Lo Vecchio
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington +2 more
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Practices and normativity: Philosophy of Science, Agency and Epistemic Normativity
Cuadernos de Filosofía LatinoamericanaThe present work aims to present the notion of eidetic agency as a novel account for the understanding of an epistemic normativity based on practices.
Miguel Fonseca Martínez
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Norms, Normative Utterances, and Normative Propositions
, 2006 It is argued that the distinction between the normative and the descriptive interpretation of norm sentences can be regarded as a distinction between two kinds of utterances. A norm or a directive has as its content a normative proposition. A normative (performative) utterance of a normative proposition in appropriate circumstances makes the ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz +7 more
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L’observance dans le dédale des textes normatifs : le cas de la réforme carmélitaine de Touraine
Chrétiens et SociétésThe study of reforms in regular orders often emphasises - and rightly so - the central role of new constitutions, but perhaps also often gives too much weight to the mere performativity of these texts.
Bernard Hours
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‘I Don't Babysit’: Stay‐at‐Home Dads' Perspectives and Experiences Within Australian Society
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Stay‐at‐home‐dads are an emerging group in Australia, impacted by societal assumptions and expectations. However, there is a scarcity of research on the perspectives and experiences of fathers assuming stay‐at‐home dad roles within Australian society.
Elyse Manie +3 more
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