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A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
wiley   +1 more source

Hale\u27s Argument for Philosophical Relativism

, 2008
McLeod-Harrison, Mark
core  

Intellectually Rigorous but Morally Tolerant: Exploring Moral Leniency as a Mediator Between Cognitive Style and "Utilitarian" Judgment. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Gouiran MD, Cova F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Temporal Passage in a Fragmented World

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fragmentalism is a relatively recent and striking addition to the debate between tensed and tenseless theories of time. First introduced by Fine in “Tense and Reality,” it presents a rare instance of both a theoretically intriguing and novel theory of time.
Kyley Ewing
wiley   +1 more source

The ethics of performance care: A pragmatic feminist analysis of policy for singing voice rehabilitation. [PDF]

J Eval Clin Pract
Brown J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
wiley   +1 more source

Mistakes in Thinking about Cognitive Science and How to Reduce Them. [PDF]

eNeuro
Johnson-Laird PN.
europepmc   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
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When Business Breaks the Rules: The Value of a Criminology‐Informed “Organizational” Perspective for the Regulation of White‐Collar and Corporate Crimes

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
wiley   +1 more source

Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source