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Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains-Part One. [PDF]

Biol Theory
Levin M, Resnik DB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
wiley   +1 more source

Biology of Superpowers: A Curriculum Activity for Teaching Adaptation, Trade-offs, and Organismal Diversity. [PDF]

Integr Org Biol
Eden A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Redeeming Relative Value: Indexicality and Consequentializing Agent‐Centered Norms

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robert Nozick doubted forms of consequentialism that employ so‐called “agent‐relative value” because he found them “gimmicky.” This doubt has been sharpened by Don Regan, Mark Schroeder, and others into the objection that agent‐relative value lacks the practical importance we associate with good simpliciter.
Nathan Robert Howard
wiley   +1 more source

A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and
Bruce D. McDonald III, Laurence Ferry, Sean A. McCandless, Meagan M. Jordan, Ileana Steccolini, John R. Bartle, Thomas Ahrens, Jim Haslam, Philip G. Joyce, Tobias Polzer   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neoteny and Evolutionary Strategy: Reconsidering Developmental Arrest in the Axolotl and the Olm. [PDF]

Acta Biotheor
Mussies M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agile Digital Transformation and the Rule of Law: Perks and Perils in a Belgian and a Dutch Public Sector Organization

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the interplay between agile digital transformation and the rule of law within the public sector, focusing on case studies from a semi‐large municipal government in the Netherlands and a department of the Flemish regional government in Belgium.
Shirley Kempeneer
wiley   +1 more source

Is God's Being‐with Us the Ultimate End of Creation?

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Andrew B. Torrance
wiley   +1 more source

Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
wiley   +1 more source

A foundational perspective of deontology and deontological codes through Paul Ricoeur´s "little ethics". [PDF]

Med Health Care Philos
Ribeiro Ferreira N, Bicho P, Pereira A, Nunes R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source