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The Cradle of Humanity: A Psychological and Phenomenological Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We present an account of the evolutionary development of the experiences of empathy that marked the beginning of morality and art. We argue that aesthetic and moral capacities provided an important foundation for later epistemic developments.
Horne, Spencer, Montemayor, Carlos
core  

Making it explicit and clear: From ‘strong’ to ‘hyper-’ inferentialism in Brandom and Peirce [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article explores how Robert Brandom's original "inferentialist" philosophical framework should be positioned with respect to the classical pragmatist tradition.
Barresi   +19 more
core   +3 more sources

Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decision‐making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision‐making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the comparative scope of decision‐making analyses to phylogenetically diverse organisms.
Liberty Severs, Qiuran Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature [PDF]

open access: yesMetaphysics, 2014
Richard McKay Rorty (1932-2007) is the American neo-pragmatist. Criticizing the prevalent issues of traditional philosophy such as truth, knowledge, objectivity, logic and philosophy, he considers epistemology a modern subject which emerged via forging ...
A Jafari Eskandari
doaj  

Does Inner Awareness Always Accompany Outer Awareness During Perception?

open access: yesProblemos, 2019
In the present paper, we defend the thesis that outer-world-directed perceptual consciousness is always accompanied by an inner awareness (IAOA). This is contrary to the view that outer-world-directed conscious mental states are not accompanied by an ...
Madhu Mangal Chaturvedi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metasemantics, Moral Realism and Moral Doctrines [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, I consider the relationship between Matthew Kramer’s moral realism as a moral doctrine and expressivism, understood as a distinctly non-representationalist metasemantic theory of moral vocabulary.
Tiefensee, Christine
core  

ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenological Realism. Programmatic Considerations [PDF]

open access: yesMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2014
Realism is a term that can be understood only by contrasting it with an opposite term, such as idealism or representationalism. But representationalism has indeed to presuppose something that is represented,in order for the representation to be possible ...
Günter Figal
doaj  

The Hard Problem Of Content: Solved (Long Ago)

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2015
In this paper, I argue that even if the Hard Problem of Content, as identified by Hutto and Myin, is important, it was already solved in naturalized semantics, and satisfactory solutions to the problem do not rely merely on the notion of information as ...
Miłkowski Marcin
doaj   +1 more source

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