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David Jenkins
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Philip Pettit
Summary: The accepted psychology of moral decision-making assumes value connectionism, pluralism, and dispositionalism. However, only utilitarianism or similar theories of value violate these assumptions, not the rival theory mentioned here.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Grzegorz Gaszczyk
Summary: The text discusses different types of inquiries and suggests exam questions as a distinct type of speech act. The author argues that besides the default questioning, there are other different types of speech acts in inquiries, such as exam questions. By proposing exam questions, it expands the normative approach to a variety of speech acts.
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Thomas J. Hughes
Summary: This article discusses the different processes of word generation and diachronic theories, including Originalism, History, and Originalism-Plus-Transfer (OPT). It also introduces the concept of synchronic constraints to limit the space for word generation. The central argument is that diachronic theories can benefit from synchronic data and should consider it as a crucial aspect in explaining word generation.
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Franci Mangraviti
Summary: This paper discusses the specific role of logic in supporting epistemic injustice and presents several possible ways in which it could be implicated. Concrete examples of testimonial, content-based, hermeneutical, and contributory injustices are provided, highlighting the need to address these issues and reconsider our attitudes towards logic.
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Federico Luzzi
Summary: This paper argues for the expansion of Fricker's influential account of testimonial injustice to include cases arising from mutually neutralizing countervailing prejudices. The author describes a relevant case, defends it from objections, and highlights its distinctive features, showing how attention to multiple prejudices operating in concert can broaden our understanding of testimonial injustice.
SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
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Philosophy
Anders Nes
Summary: Emotions, like actions, are embodied processes but typically passive in nature. The widely influential Standard Conception of Action fails to explain the nature of emotions and their lack of intentionality.
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Philosophy
Avram Hiller
Summary: There is a debate about the extent to which we value future generations and how it compares to our valuation of present generations. While Samuel Scheffler argues that we value the future even more, this paper refutes his argument by suggesting alternative ways of comparing our valuations and recommending engagement with social science in studying the moral psychology of valuing future generations.
TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
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Philosophy
Robert Engelman
Summary: This paper examines the historicist turn in theorizing the human senses initiated by Feuerbach and Marx, challenging common ideas about German philosophical anthropology. It also explores Marx's critique of Feuerbach and the philosophical-anthropological legacy of Marxian thought.
PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM
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James Fanciullo
Summary: The passage discusses the alienation constraint on theories of well-being and its significance in well-being theories. It emphasizes the connection between affective engagement and positive affective stances with the proposed good, and highlights the application of this constraint.
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(2023)
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Jelena Pavlicic, Jelena Dimitrijevic, Aleksandra Vuckovic, Strahinja Dordevic, Adam Nedeljkovic, Zeljko Tesic
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SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
(2023)
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Philosophy
William A. Sharp
Summary: Yablo argues that the traditional view that spectral surface reflectances are the causes of color-experience is mistaken, and proposes sui generis color properties to fill the causal gap. However, there are physical posits that align with our experiences to fill the same gap.
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Education & Educational Research
Pedro Vincent Dias Bergheim
Summary: This article argues that curriculum work can promote democracy in public education by incorporating the signifiers of Bildung. The author presents the democratic paradox and emphasizes the importance of pluralism in education. Using discourse theory, the author suggests that signifiers of Bildung can help establish a standard of public education and set limits to popular sovereignty. However, their use requires careful scrutiny and teachers should have the freedom to interpret them.
STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
(2023)
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History & Philosophy Of Science
Bianca Cepollaro, Dan Lopez de Sa
Summary: In this paper, we present two dimensions in which the reclamation of slurs can succeed and differentiate between felicity and accomplishment. This distinction provides a valuable addition to the theoretical tools for analyzing the phenomenon of reclamation.
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Philosophy
Carlo Burelli, Chiara Destri
Summary: Legitimacy is a central requirement for political institutions according to political realists. They argue for a functionalist reading of legitimacy, asserting that descriptive legitimacy plays an evaluative and normative role. Descriptive legitimacy refers to the capacity of a political institution to generate beliefs in its right to rule, and failure to do so may result in non-compliance with its directives.
PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM
(2023)
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Philosophy
Larry Alexander
Summary: This essay discusses whether rights are relative to individual beliefs or to objective facts. The conventional view is that subjective obligations are determined by personal beliefs, while objective obligations are determined by facts. However, the essay argues for a belief-relativity perspective, suggesting that the contours of rights are influenced by individual beliefs.
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Paul Blokker
Summary: Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Democratic Constitutionalism by Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen is a significant contribution to the academic debate on populism in recent years, focusing on (un-)civil society and constitutionalism.
PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM
(2023)
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Philosophy
Rob Compaijen
Summary: This paper takes Nicholas Adams' views as a starting point to explore the complicity of ethics in undermining our moral lives. It aims to shed light on the relationship between reflection and commitment, explaining how ethics as a reflective enterprise weakens our unspoken control over commitments and exploring how reflection falsifies our pre-reflective commitments.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
(2023)
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Philosophy
Graham Oppy
Summary: This paper provides a high-level comparison between Eastern and Western conceptions of deity, exploring similarities and differences in worshipworthiness, the ideal shape of human lives, the ultimate nature of reality, the relation of supreme deity to the rest of reality, and the frequency of divine incarnation.
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Philosophy
Samuel A. Taylor
Summary: This paper develops a version of the acquaintance theory of introspective justification and explains the epistemic significance of acquaintance.
ACTA ANALYTICA-INTERNATIONAL PERIODICAL FOR PHILOSOPHY IN THE ANALYTICAL TRADITION
(2023)