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Towards Cognitive Moral Quasi-Realism [PDF]
Philosophies, 2018 There is a long-standing discussion concerning the nature of moral discourse. Multiple views range from realism—according to which moral discourse is closer to scientific discourse than to fictional discourse—to anti-realism—according to which moral ...
Eduardo García-Ramírez
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Gibbard on Quasi-realism and Global Expressivism
Topoi, 2023 AbstractIn recent work Allan Gibbard claims to be both a local quasi-realist, in Blackburn’s sense, and a global expressivist. His local quasi-realism rests on an argument that for naturalistic discourse but not ethical discourse, the semantic relation of denotation and the causal relation of tracking can and should be identified; that denoting simply ...
Huw Price, Price Huw
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Application of virtual reality haptic simulators in periodontics: insights from dental professionals [PDF]
Frontiers in Oral HealthIntroductionVirtual reality haptic simulator (VRHS)-training devices that integrate visual immersion with tactile feedback- are increasingly used in dental education, yet their application in periodontics remains limited.
Santiago Arias-Herrera +5 more
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Error and the Limits of Quasi-Realism [PDF]
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018 If ethical expressivism is true, then moral judgements are motivational desire-like states and do not robustly represent reality. This gives rise to the problem of how to understand moral error. How can we be mistaken if there is no moral reality to be mistaken about?
Graham Bex-Priestley
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Virtual, Augmented, Mixed, and Immersive Technologies for Prenatal and Childbirth Education: Scoping Review [PDF]
JMIR Pediatrics and ParentingBackgroundVirtual, augmented, mixed, and other immersive technologies, collectively referred to as extended reality (XR), are increasingly used to enhance experiential learning in health education.
Susanna Pardini +2 more
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Quasi-realism and normative certitude [PDF]
Synthese, 2020 AbstractJust as we can be more or less certain that there is extraterrestrial life or that Goldbach’s conjecture is correct, we can be more or less certain about normative matters, such as whether euthanasia is permissible or whether utilitarianism is true. However, accommodating the phenomenon of degrees of normative certitude is a difficult challenge
Stina Björkholm +2 more
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Representation, Deflationism, and the Question of Realism
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 How can we distinguish between quasi-realist expressivism and normative realism? The most promising answer to this question is the “explanation” explanation proposed by Dreier (2004), Simpson (2018), and others: the two views might agree in their ...
Camil Golub
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Simulation-Based Education during COVID-19 Pandemic: Effect on Communication Skills and Clinical Competence of Maternity Nursing Students [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2022 Background: Simulation is a teaching strategy that may help the nursing educators prepare the future nurses to practice in a real environment. It is a teaching strategy that provides students with artificial representation of a complex real-life for ...
Amera Rashed +2 more
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Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists
Metaphysics, 2020 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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African Evaluation Journal, 2022 Background: A complexity-aware approach, realist evaluation is ideal for norms-shifting interventions (NSIs), which are not well-understood but gaining prominence in behaviour change programming in Africa and globally to foster enabling socionormative ...
Susan Igras +3 more
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