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Moral realism, quasi‐realism and moral steadfastness [PDF]

Ratio, 2021
AbstractSome moral propositions are so obviously true that we refuse to doubt them, even where we believe that many people disagree. Following Fritz and McPherson, I call our behaviour in such cases ‘moral steadfastness’. In this paper, I argue for two metaethical implications of moral steadfastness.
Chamberlain, J., James Chamberlain, Chamberlain, James   +2 more
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We Can Believe Quasi-Realism [PDF]

Philosophy
Abstract According to one influential line of thought, quasi-realism is faced with a dilemma. On the one hand, if the quasi-realist project of saying everything the realist wants to say is successful, quasi-realism collapses into realism. On the other hand, if the quasi-realist stops short of saying everything the realist wants to say,
Lillehammer, H., Moller, N.
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Naturalised modal epistemology and quasi-realism [PDF]

South African Journal of Philosophy, 2021
Given quasi-realism, the claim is that any attempt to naturalise modal epistemology would leave out absolute necessity.
Omoge, Michael
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Quantum Quasi-Realism [PDF]

Philosophy of Science
Abstract Attempting to understand quantum claims as describing physical systems leads to well-known difficulties. In this regard, quantum mechanics is like ethics : Attempting to understand moral claims as describing physical systems leads to (different) well-known ...
Lewis, Peter J.
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Quasi-Realism for Realists [PDF]

Philosophers' Imprint
Reductive realists about normative properties are often charged with being relativists: it is often argued that their view implies that when two people make conflicting normative judgements, these judgements can both be true. I argue that reductive realists can answer this charge by copying the quasi-realist moves that many expressivists make.
Streumer, Bart
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Quasi-Realism and Relativism [PDF]

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002
Abstract This essay first appeared as a contribution to a symposium on Simon Blackburn’s book Ruling Passions. In this book Blackburn argues that the quasi-realism that he defends, whereby an ethic reflects the conative states of different people, does not entail that our own ethic is in any interesting sense ‘just’ ours, and so does not,
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The power of authority and the Montessori teachers’ (in)ability to learn – research intervention report

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji, 2020
The article concentrates on the issue of Montessori teachers’ attitude towards pedagogical knowledge they develop during different forms of training.
Jarosław Jendza
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Researching two Compassionate Cities: study protocol for a mixed-methods process and outcome evaluation

Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2022
Background/Objectives: Compassionate Cities are social ecology approaches that apply a set of actions, targeting a broad range of stakeholders, with the intention of renormalising caring, dying, loss and grieving in everyday life.
Bert Quintiens, Tinne Smets, Kenneth Chambaere, Lieve Van Den Block, Luc Deliens, Joachim Cohen   +5 more
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Group Structural Realism [PDF]

, 2009
We present a precise form of structural realism, called 'group structural realism,' which identifies 'structure' in quantum theory with symmetry groups.
Roberts, Bryan W., Bryan W. Roberts
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Critical Realism and Semiosis. [PDF]

, 2002
This paper explores the mutual implication of critical realism and semiosis (or the intersubjective production of meaning). It argues that critical realism must integrate semiosis into its account of social relations and social structuration.
Sayer, Andrew, Fairclough, Norman, Jessop, Bob   +2 more
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