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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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A capability approach to language education in the Gaza Strip: “To plant hope in a land of despair” [PDF]
, 2017 This article proposes a shift away from competence models (Byram 1997) toward a more holistic approach in language education. Drawing on original critical participatory action research with English teachers in the Gaza Strip (Palestine), Imperiale argues
Imperiale, Maria Grazia
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Asymptotic equivalence and adaptive estimation for robust nonparametric regression [PDF]
, 2009 Asymptotic equivalence theory developed in the literature so far are only for bounded loss functions. This limits the potential applications of the theory because many commonly used loss functions in statistical inference are unbounded.
Cai, T. Tony, Zhou, Harrison H.
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Yes, Friendship and Love Can Be Bought and Sold
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can friendship and love be bought and sold? I argue yes, contrary to philosophical consensus. The prevailing view rests on the common error of over‐reliance on idealized conceptions of friendship and love that bear little resemblance to actual relationships.
Simone Sommer Degn
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La función pedagógica de la poesía en el estoicismo y en el platonismo
Ideas y Valores, 2013 En contraste con la interpretación de Marta Nussbaum, que adjudica a los estoicos ortodoxos una concepción meramente cognitivista de las pasiones y de la función pedagógica de la poesía en la formación moral de los individuos, en este artículo se ...
Laura Liliana Gómez Espíndola
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Sen and Nussbaum: Agency and Capability- Expansion1 [PDF]
, 2014 Full Text / Article completCapability approach pioneers Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum both recognize empowerment as an important aspect of human development.
Keleher, Lori
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Output feedback NN control for two classes of discrete-time systems with unknown control directions in a unified approach [PDF]
, 2008 10.1109/TNN.2008.2003290IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks19111873 ...
Cheng Xiang +5 more
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Will I Regret This? Should I Care? On Regret and Wellbeing
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regret colours many areas of our lives, from the vital to the trivial. One example is in medical decision‐making, when physicians hesitate to provide procedures they think their patients will regret. For instance, physicians sometimes refuse younger women's requests for elective sterilization. Hesitating when we believe that we or someone else
Alyssa Izatt
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Ethics education in Polish schools – a multicultural approach with a global view [PDF]
, 2015 Special issue / ENASTEThe aim of this paper is to highlight one of the issues which insufficiently deals with the relationship between globalization, migration and multicultural education: teaching values.
Leek, Joanna
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Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although objectification is prevalent in leadership relations, little is known about (a) why some supervisors objectify their employees to a greater extent than others and (b) when and how such objectification manifests in a supervisor's leadership behavior.
Katerina Tsantila, Frank Walter
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