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Relative and Absolute Gradable Adjectives: Linguistic Foundations and Philosophical Applications
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT In Ignorance, Peter Unger famously argues for a version of radical skepticism, that everyone knows “hardly anything to be so.” Skepticism, of course, is nothing new. What was unique about Unger's position is that it relied on a distinction between relative and absolute terms, leading to a number of discoveries about the behavior and semantics ...
Robert Weston Siscoe
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 208-221, July 2026.ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 392-412, June 2026.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 1412-1431, October 2025.Abstract Constructive Deviant Behavior (CDB) raises an ethical dilemma that poses a significant challenge within the realm of business ethics. This ethical dilemma is the extent to which individuals should be allowed, or even encouraged, to challenge established norms in the name of organizational and stakeholder well‐being before compromising ethical ...
Irina‐Alina Popescu +2 more
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Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 625-637, October 2025.Abstract In this article I engage with Kathryn Tanner's theological framework for understanding God's agency, focusing on the way her rules of non‐contrastive transcendence and non‐competitive immanence govern her account of God's acts of creation, providence, incarnation, and atonement.
Sameer Yadav
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 854-886, May 2025.Abstract How should we respond to the humanity of others? Should we care for others' well‐being? Respect them as autonomous agents? Largely neglected is an answer we can find in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism: we should love all.
P. Quinn White
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Kant and Overdemandingness II: The Demandingness of Perfect Duties
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, we consider how demandingness objections pertain to perfect duties in Kantian ethics. We revisit the framework of demandingness that we introduced in a previous paper, before introducing three cases that have been suggested to constitute problems for Kant, specifically regarding perfect duties.
Joe Saunders, Joe Slater, Martin Sticker
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Moderate Morality: An Interest-Based Contractarian Defense & its Applied Result in the Political Ethics of International Relations [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2017 What is morality’s scope? Should all our actions be evaluated morally? Is it necessary to be causally responsible for harm to have a responsibility to reduce it?
Shirzad Peik Herfeh
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Martin Luther's Critique of Supererogation
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 112-134, March 2025.ABSTRACT Recent decades have witnessed a surge of philosophical interest in the concept of supererogation. Although Martin Luther figures prominently in the historiography as a critic of supererogation, the particular nature of his critique and its place within his broader moral theology has been underexplored.
John Walker
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 604-622, March 2025.Abstract In this paper, I provide a characterisation of a neglected form of humility: magnanimous humility. Unlike most contemporary analyses of humility, magnanimous humility is not about limitations but instead presupposes that one possesses some entitlement in a context. I suggest that magnanimous intellectual humility (IH) consists in a disposition
Brandon Yip
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