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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Critics of affective moral enhancement generally contend that moral improvement can only be properly achieved through interventions that engage a person's rational faculties. Therefore, they view attempts to achieve moral improvement by targeting emotions as futile at best and detrimental to moral agency at worst.
Pei‐hua Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Revisited: “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion”

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In this invited essay for the 75th Anniversary Special Issue of Educational Theory, I revisit my 2008 article “What Should We Teach as Controversial? A Defense of the Epistemic Criterion.” I briefly summarize my argument, then survey the various objections it has attracted in the years since its publication.
Michael Hand
wiley   +1 more source

How to Imagine Educational AI: The Filling of a Pail or the Lighting of a Fire?

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, generative AI) have led to increased interest in its application in educational settings. AI companies hope to revolutionize teaching and learning by tailoring material to the individual needs of students, automating parts of teachers' jobs, or analyzing educational data to ...
Michał Wieczorek, Alberto Romele
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
wiley   +1 more source

Hegel's Theory of Absolute Spirit. Reflexive Practices in Hegel's Social Philosophy

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that Hegel's concept of absolute spirit should be understood as central to his social philosophy. Rather than designating a metaphysical endpoint, absolute spirit refers to reflexive practices—art, religion, and philosophy—through which societies critically engage with the norms and assumptions that structure social life ...
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source

Critical rationalism and the search for standard (field-normalized) indicators in bibliometrics [PDF]

J. Informetrics, 2018
L. Bornmann, W. Marx
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Between Rationalization and Mystification in Public Sector Recruitment: Understanding the Challenges School Managers Face in Promoting Professionals

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is about the hard and enduring task for managers within the school sector of selecting professional staff for promotion. The aim is to scrutinize how the promotion process emerges and is sustained. The research question is how the potentially conflict permeated process of selection is handled in practice?
Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger, Sanna Eklund   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Popper's Critical Rationalism as a Response to the Problem of Induction: Predictive Reasoning in the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Epidemic. [PDF]

Philos Manag, 2023
Peltonen T.
europepmc   +1 more source