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Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis. [PDF]

Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
Visual summary of the paper. Taking inspiration from the contractualist tradition in moral philosophy is helpful to better understand morality at three interrelated levels of analysis: Its evolutionary logic, its cognitive organization, and its specific cognitive processes and forms of reasoning.
Le Pargneux A.
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The epistemology of the sophists: Protagoras [PDF]

, 2002
My thesis is on the epistemology of the sophist Protagoras. Through the reading of Plato' Theaetetus and Protagoras, I have reconstructed (a) Protagorean theory of knowledge, according to which Protagoras is an inter-subjectivist (as far as perceptions ...
Zilioli, Ugo, Zilioii, Ugo
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Plato's Protagoras the Hedonist [PDF]

, 2016
I advocate an ad hominem reading of the hedonism that appears in the final argument of the Protagoras. I that attribute hedonism both to the Many and to Protagoras, but my focus is on the latter. I argue that the Protagoras in various ways reflects Plato’
Wilburn, Joshua
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The Sun Also Rises: Tracing the evolution of humanistic values in anatomy pedagogy and research, including cadaveric acquisition practices

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 243, Issue 6, Page 1031-1051, December 2023., 2023
The Cave of the Hands (Cueva de las Manos) in Argentina, where the paintings of multiple human hands are visible. Considered an iconic symbol throughout the planet, it depicts a message from an unknown lost generation to us while symbolising the existence of humanity.
Sourav Bhattacharjee, Sanjib Kumar Ghosh
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Reasonableness in Capacity Law

The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 6, Page 1447-1471, November 2023., 2023
It is not uncommon for people to hold bizarre views. Sometimes, these views appear before the courts in mental capacity cases. Judges must then decide if the views are so bizarre that they constitute evidence of incapacity or, instead, if those views are the everyday sort that do not constitute such evidence. The idea behind the distinction is that the
Binesh Hass
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Framing the tendency to betray one's good intentions. Akrasia as a dialogical dynamic

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 399-416, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Akrasia, otherwise known as ‘weakness of will’, is a state of mind whereby people act deliberately against their better judgment. This paper aims to provide a conceptual framework for understanding akrasia from psychosocial perspectives that assume the self is multiple and strongly interconnected with the relational flow of which it is a part.
Diego Romaioli
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Tackling a lingering infirmity: On the nature and warrant of action research in education

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 439-454, June 2023., 2023
Abstract The BERA initiative on promoting Close‐to‐Practice (CtP) research raises new challenges for action research, particularly as uncertainties about the standing and rigour of action research were expressed in the report of the education panel for the 2015 Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the United Kingdom.
Padraig Hogan, Anthony Malone
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Plato a Disciple of Protagoras? More on the Great Speech of the Protagoras

Peitho, 2013
The great speech of the Protagoras (320c–328d) still leaves many questions open. Particularly striking is the presence of doctrines that later on will be taken up and further developed by Plato in such dialogues as the Politicus, the Timaeus and the Laws.
Michele Corradi
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Human measure and natural fecundity: Mythos and logos in the past and future of the humanities

Future Humanities, Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The beginnings of social forms are shrouded in, and justified by, myths which establish both the manifest content of stories and religion. The replacement of myth by logic is never total and the role of logic depends upon the mythic origin that it partially replaces.
Ian Angus
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SPIRITUALITY AND TECHNOLOGY: A THREEFOLD PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 6-22, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Despite the prominent role that technology plays in twenty‐first‐century societies, the intersections between spirituality and technology have been poorly analyzed. This article develops a cross‐reflection between these two key anthropological aspects, using a philosophical approach that structures the analysis along three classical categories:
Gabriel Fernandez‐Borsot
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