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Aristotle's Correspondence Theory Of Truth And What Does Not Exist, Charlene Elsby

Charlene Elsby

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Losing The Message: Some Policy Implications Of Anthropocentric Indirect Arguments For Environmental Protection, Chad J. Mcguire

Chad J McGuire

Giving Voice To Values: An Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum Project, Sandra Lynch, Bethne L. Hart, Catherine Costa

Catherine M Costa

Among the competency standards stipulated by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council for graduating students are competencies in moral and ethical decision making and ethics education within professions such as nursing has traditionally focussed on these competencies, on raising ethical awareness and developing skills of analysis and reasoning. However, ethics education in tertiary settings places less emphasis on developing students’ capacities to act on their values.

This paper explains and explores the adoption of Dr. Mary Gentile's curriculum (the Giving Voice to Values curriculum) which specifically focuses on developing students’ capacities to act on their values. The curriculum (Gentile, …

Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies, Damian Cox, Michael Levine

Damian Cox

An introduction to philosophy through film, Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies combines the exploration of fundamental philosophical issues with the experience of viewing films, and provides an engaging reading experience for undergraduate students, philosophy enthusiasts and film buffs alike.

Damned Lying Politicians: Integrity And Truth In Politics, Damian Cox, Michael Levine

Damian Cox

Professional roles are often thought to bring role-specific permissions and obligation, which may allow or require role-occupants to do things they would not be permitted or required to do outside their roles, and which as individuals they would rather not do. This feature of professional roles appears to bring them into conflict both with ‘ordinary’ or non-role morality, and with personal integrity which is often thought to demand some form of personal endorsement of one’s conduct. How are we to reconcile the demands of roles with ordinary morality and with personal integrity? This collection draws together a set of papers …

Judgment, Deliberation, And The Self-Effacement Of Moral Theory, Damian Cox

Damian Cox

ExtractIn developing moral theories, philosophers seek to fulfill at least two tasks: to guide moral judgment and to guide moral deliberation. In moral judgment, moral agents assess moral status. In moral deliberation, moral agents decide how to act. It is important to work out how these two things are related. One suggestion is to posit a direct connection between them according to which moral agents are required to deliberate in terms of correct moral judgment. There are various ways of spelling out this requirement. For example, moral agents might be required to rank prospective actions according to a correct moral …

Sustainability As A Core Issue In Diversity And Critical Thinking Education, Danielle Lake

Danielle L Lake

As educators, we recognize that teaching sustainability is not something that need be limited to environmental studies and business courses. I suggest that the integration of sustainability into general education courses is not only appropriate, but necessary. Understanding sustainability as a wicked problem and recognizing how an egoist ethic otherizes the environment and is thus in large part responsible for the abuses that have led to a number of current environmental and social problems are central to the resolution of this pressing situation. While I in part argue that most general education courses have something valuable to say about the …

The Limits Of Regulatory Science In Transnational Governance Of Transgenic Plant Agriculture And Food Systems, Taiwo Oriola

Taiwo Oriola

The current national and transnational regulatory and policy framework for transgenic plant agriculture and food is arguably largely defined by science. Notably, transgenic plant agriculture policy deference to science is ostensibly premised on the general perception that science is neutral, objective, reliable, and agnostic. This is exemplified by cases ranging from Alliance for Bio-integrity v Donna Shalala, European Communities: Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products, to European Commission v Republic of Poland, in which conscientious, ethical, religious, and cultural oppositional grounds to transgenic plant agriculture and food were trumped by scientific imperatives. However, the lack of unanimity …

Natural Resources, Gadgets, And Artificial Life, Steven Luper

Steven Luper

I classify different sorts of natural resources and suggest how these resources may be acquired. I also argue that inventions, whether gadgets or artificial life forms, should not be privately owned. Gadgets and life-forms are not created (although the term 'invention' suggests otherwise); they are discov-ered, and hence have much in common with more familiar natural resources such as sunlight that ought not to be privately owned. Nonetheless, inventors of gadgets, like discoverers of certain more familiar resources, sometimes should be granted exclusive but temporary control over their inventions as an incentive for making unknown items widely accessible

Overriding Reasons And Reasons To Be Moral, Curtis Brown

Curtis Brown

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Introduction, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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La Passione Del Ritardo: Dentro Il Confronto Di Heidegger Con Nietzsche. By Ferdinando G. Menga, (Milano: Francoangeli, 2004), Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Thinking Community And The State From Within, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Voyous. By Jacques Derrida (Paris: Galilée, 2003), Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Le Phénomène Érotique. By Jean-Luc Marion (Paris: Grasset, 2003), Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Edith Stein Gesamtausgabe. Edited By M. Linssen And H.B. Gerl-Falkovitz (Freiburg Im Breisgau: Herder, 2000) 24 Vols, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Heidegger Et Descartes, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Heidegger Et Kierkegaard, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

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Laypersons And Climate Change: The Good Enough View, H Theixos

H Theixos

Climate laypersons are in a difficult epistemic position regarding what they have good reasons to believe about climate change: this is due to the manufacture of the ambiguous meaning of the term climate change in the popular press. In this article I argue that the layperson has an epistemic duty to formulate “good enough” views about the meaning of the term climate change in consideration of the term's meaning ambiguity, in accordance with the facts of climate consensus, and considering the layperson’s own epistemic dependence.

Driving While Beagleated, Diane Michelfelder

Diane Michelfelder

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Becoming Confucian In America Today, Pamela Herron

Pamela Herron

Is Confucianism relevant to students in America in the twenty-first century? Does a 2,500 year old philosophy have anything to offer contemporary society? This paper examines the methodology behind teaching Confucianism and Daoism to students at the University of Texas at El Paso where this course has been taught successfully for the past two years. Using translations of the Daodejing (Roger T. Ames and David Hall) and The Analects of Confucius (Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr.) students are asked to examine and analyze these ancient texts with the intention of determining their relevance to today’s people and culture. …

Poincaré And The Invention Of Convention, Janet Folina

Janet Folina

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Jane Addams And Wicked Problems: Putting The Pragmatic Method To Use, Danielle Lake

Danielle L Lake

The Bad Habit Of Bearing Children, H Theixos

H Theixos

Procreation – the act of having and raising biological children – is generally not a life choice that is subject to moral scrutiny. In this paper the authors argue that decisions to procreate are morally evaluable, and that such evaluation reveals that prospective parents have a defeasible obligation to prioritize adoption over procreation. The obligation is defeated by the lack of desire to become a parent, and also in certain cases where legal are logistically onerous. We conclude that for those prospective parents who are unaffected by the defeasibility conditions have a duty to prioritize adoption, regardless of the strength, …

Lived Experience From The Inside Out: The Social And Political Philosophy Of Edith Stein, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

While most works devoted to Edith Stein’s philosophical legacy focus on her later, more explicitly Christian works, including Finite and Eternal Being, this comprehensive account offers readers a look into the early social and political philosophy of Stein before her conversion to Catholicism. During this period, Stein produced a significant body of philosophical work drawing on advancements in phenomenology, psychology, philosophy of mind, and sociology. As Antonio Calcagno demonstrates, this leads to a rich account of society, community, and the state through Stein’s analysis of certain states of mind, psychology, and a defense of a law-centered state community. Lived Experience …

Spinoza On The Ideality Of Time, Geoffrey Gorham

Geoffrey A. Gorham

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Hobbes On The Reality Of Time, Geoffrey Gorham

Geoffrey A. Gorham

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Values Or Virtues?, Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton

Ethics And The Art Of Sport Governance, Joe Naimo

Joe Naimo

Temporal Being And The Authentic Self, Joe Naimo

Joe Naimo