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Should Environmental Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism? [PDF]
Environmental ethicists have been arguing for decades that swift action to protect our natural environment is morally paramount, and that our concern for the environment should go beyond its importance for human welfare.
Rubin, Michael, Schwenkenbecher, Anne
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The Concept of Life-world in Husserl’s Thinking [PDF]
The term life-world, which is introduced in parallel with topics such as the “natural concept of the world” and the “environment world”, is of great importance in Husserl’s later philosophy.
Bahman Pazouki
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From punishment to universalism [PDF]
Many philosophers have claimed that the folk endorse moral universalism. Some have taken the folk view to support moral universalism; others have taken the folk view to reflect a deep confusion. And while some empirical evidence supports the claim that
Nichols, Shaun, Rose, David
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Objectivism and Prospectivism About Rightness
In this paper I present a new argument for prospectivism: the view that, for a consequentialist, rightness depends on what is prospectively best rather than what would actually be best.
Elinor Mason
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The meta-ethical significance of experiments about folk moral objectivism
The meta-ethical commitments of folk respondents – specifically their commitment to the objectivity of moral claims – have recently become subject to empirical scrutiny. Experimental findings suggest that people are meta-ethical pluralists: There is both
Jeroen Hopster
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From relativism in physics education to objectivism in physics [PDF]
In this paper, we shall analyse the contrast between constructivism in the physics teaching and methodological objetictivism about physics. We will show that many pedagogical, epistemological and ontological constructivist perspectives are at the core of
Marcos Rodrigues da Silva +1 more
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Bayes and health care research. [PDF]
Bayes’ rule shows how one might rationally change one’s beliefs in the light of evidence. It is the foundation of a statistical method called Bayesianism.
A. Chalmers +34 more
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Theories of Contract Interpretation in Iranian and American Law [PDF]
In Iranian law there are two theories in interpretation of the contract: the theory of "Interpretation Based on the Common Intention of the Parties" vs. the theory of "Sociological and Free Interpretation". In American law,"Textualism" and "Contextualism"
Mohsen Akbari +2 more
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
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Relational Epistemology in the Social Sciences: Pierre Bourdieu’s Epistemological Legacy
The distinction between subjectivist and objectivist approaches has persisted as a fundamental dichotomy in sociological theory for many years. Pierre Bourdieu’s epistemological sociology challenges these opposing approaches and aims to overcome the ...
Gürhan Özpolat
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