False Speech: Quagmire?,
2014
University of San Diego
False Speech: Quagmire?, Christopher P. Guzelian
San Diego Law Review
Recently decided cases in several Federal Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court show that First Amendment false speech case law is contradictory and unpredictable. This Article gives examples and concludes that legal liability for false speech will continue to be arbitrary and even susceptible to intentionally unjust decisionmaking if judges and juries individually and collectively disregard or downplay the necessity of an honest search for truth under the guise of tolerance and evenhandedness. If Americans wish to avoid an anything-goes “quagmire” about truth, they must—despite inevitable resistance in a civilization increasingly rife with skeptics—undergo transformations of their …
Hauerwas On Hauerwas: Review Of 'Approaching The End: Eschatological Reflections On Church, Politics, And Life',
2014
University of Dayton
Hauerwas On Hauerwas: Review Of 'Approaching The End: Eschatological Reflections On Church, Politics, And Life', William L. Portier
Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Stanley Hauerwas has achieved singular preeminence among theologians in the United States as a public intellectual. Writing on subjects from Christian ethics to law, pacifism, bioethics, and political philosophy, he has provided bountiful fodder for academics while managing to leave footprints in the general culture-he is surely one of very few theologians ever to appear on Oprah. Any new book bearing Hauerwas' name is noteworthy, and the latest one doesn't disappoint.
Acting Wide Awake: Attention And The Ethics Of Emotion,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Acting Wide Awake: Attention And The Ethics Of Emotion, Jacob Davis
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In cases where two human cultures disagree over fundamental ethical values, metaethical questions about what could make one or the other position correct arise with great force. Philosophers committed to naturalistically plausible accounts of ethics have offered little hope of adjudicating such conflicts, leading some to embrace moral relativism. In my dissertation, I develop an empirically grounded response to moral relativism by turning away from debates over which action types are right and wrong and focusing instead on shared features of human emotional motivation. On my account, being motivated by ill-will is ethically bad (if it is), just because human …
Why Should One Reproduce? The Rationality And Morality Of Human Reproduction,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Why Should One Reproduce? The Rationality And Morality Of Human Reproduction, Lantz Fleming Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Human reproduction has long been assumed to be an act of the blind force of nature, to which humans were subject, like the weather. However, with recent concerns about the environmental impact of human population, particularly resource depletion, human reproduction has come to be seen as a moral issue. That is, in general, it may be moral or immoral for people to continue propagating their species. The past decade's philosophical discussions of the question have yielded varying results. This dissertation takes on the issue in a broader moral perspective and asks not only whether it is moral to reproduce but …
Locke On Territorial Rights,
2014
Chapman University
Locke On Territorial Rights, Bas Van Der Vossen
Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research
Most treatments of territorial rights include a discussion (and rejection) of Locke. There is a remarkable consensus about what Locke's views were. For him, states obtain territorial rights as the result of partial transfers of people's property rights. In this article, I reject this reading. I argue that (a) for Locke, transfers of property rights were neither necessary nor sufficient for territorial rights and that (b) Locke in fact held a two-part theory of territorial rights. I support this reading by appealing to textual and contextual evidence. I conclude by drawing a lesson from Locke's views for current debates on …
Counterfactual Situations And Moral Worth,
2014
Ursinus College
Counterfactual Situations And Moral Worth, Kelly Sorensen
Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
What is the relevance to praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of what one would have done in other, counterfactual circumstances? I defend a moderate form of actualism: what one would have done is important, but less so than what one actually does.
Spinoza’S Critique Of Religion: Reading The Low In Light Of The High,
2014
Xavier University - Cincinnati
Spinoza’S Critique Of Religion: Reading The Low In Light Of The High, Steven Frankel
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
No Grist For Mill On Natural Kinds,
2014
University at Albany, State University of New York
No Grist For Mill On Natural Kinds, P.D. Magnus
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
According to the standard narrative, natural kind is a technical notion that was introduced by John Stuart Mill in the 1840s and the recent craze for natural kinds, launched by Putnam and Kripke, is a continuation of that tradition. I argue that the standard narrative is mistaken. The Millian tradition of kinds was not particularly influential in the 20th century, and the Putnam-Kripke revolution did not clearly engage with even the remnants that were left of it. The presently active tradition of natural kinds is less than half a century old. Recognizing this might help us better appreciate both Mill …
Moral And Professional Accountability For Clinical Ethics Consultants,
2014
Cleveland State University
Moral And Professional Accountability For Clinical Ethics Consultants, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Awakening: Reevaluating The Anthropocentric Framework Of Western Ethics,
2014
Ursinus College
The Awakening: Reevaluating The Anthropocentric Framework Of Western Ethics, Sophie Zander '14
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
No abstract provided.
A Defense Of Stand Your Ground Legislation,
2014
Ursinus College
A Defense Of Stand Your Ground Legislation, Jarrett Field '14
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
No abstract provided.
Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf, Jules Simon
Selected Works Temporary Series
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.5px Times} My thesis is that current cities and the way that cities are beingdeveloped is unsustainable and poses global problems for the long-termflourishing of the world’s inter-related and interdependent economies, formatters of justice and happiness in socio-cultural relations between peoples,and for the health of our natural environments. I argue that ‘urbandesertification’ happens in the complex relationship between cities (both urbanand suburban) and rural environments that support them as both a natural andethical phenomenon that I study using a form of analysis calledphenomenological ethics. First, I briefly present sketches of phenomenologyand sustainability in …
Corporations, The Democratic Deficit, And Voting,
2014
Bentley University
Corporations, The Democratic Deficit, And Voting, Jeffrey Moriarty
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Many writers argue that a “democratic deficit” is created when private actors such as corporations take on state functions. The problem, it is said, is that the course of public life is being shaped by agents who are not accountable to the public. We evaluate this claim and consider what should be done about it. We focus in particular on a recent attempt, put forward principally by Palazzo and Scherer, to address the democracy deficit by “democratizing” corporations. We argue that their proposal, while promising, has a significant defect. We then propose a remedy for this defect. In sum, our …
Developing Sustainable Strategies: Foundations, Method, And Pedagogy,
2014
DePaul University
Developing Sustainable Strategies: Foundations, Method, And Pedagogy, Scott Kelley
Mission and Ministry Publications
While the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a very positive development in the horizon of management education over the last decade, there are still many significant challenges for engaging the mind of the manager in ways that will foster the values of PRME and the UN Global Compact. Responsible management education must address three foundational challenges in business education if it is to actualize the aspirations of PRME: 1) it must confront the cognitional myth that knowing is like looking, 2) it must move beyond mere analysis to systems thinking, and 3) it must transition from …
A Study Of Virtuous And Vicious Anger,
2014
Northern Michigan University
A Study Of Virtuous And Vicious Anger, Zac Cogley
Book Sections/Chapters
In this chapter, I defend an account of an angrily virtuous, or patient, person informed by recent research on emotion in empirical and philosophical psychology. I argue that virtue and vice with respect to anger is determined by excellence and deficiency with respect to all three of anger’s functions: its involvement in (1) appraisal of wrongdoing, (2) its role as a motivating force, and (3) its communicative function. Many accounts of anger assess it only with respect to one of these functions. Most typically, anger is assessed instrumentally with regard to its role in motivation. As I show, any singular …
In Control,
2014
Cleveland State University
In Control, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
In George Sher’s recent article “Out of Control”, he discusses a series of 9 cases that he believes illustrates that some agents are uncontroversially morally responsible for actions they “cannot help” but perform (2006: 285). He argues these agents exert partial control over these actions insofar as their actions are determined from their character; but this is no control at all. Here I argue that in each of these cases the agent exerts morally relevant control over her actions and that none of these are genuine instances of moral luck, nor counterexamples to the control principle.
The Moral Status Of Micro-Inequities: In Favour Of Institutional Solutions,
2014
University of Western Ontario
The Moral Status Of Micro-Inequities: In Favour Of Institutional Solutions, Samantha Brennan
Data and Test Instruments
This chapter is about micro-inequities and their connection to the problem of implicit bias. It begins by defining micro-inequities, goes on to discuss what makes them wrong and what solutions might be appropriate given the institutional context in which they occur.
Urban Desertification And A Phenomenology Of Sustainability: The Case Of El Paso, Texas,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Urban Desertification And A Phenomenology Of Sustainability: The Case Of El Paso, Texas, Jules Simon
Departmental Papers (Philosophy)
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.5px Times} My thesis is that current cities and the way that cities are beingdeveloped is unsustainable and poses global problems for the long-termflourishing of the world’s inter-related and interdependent economies, formatters of justice and happiness in socio-cultural relations between peoples,and for the health of our natural environments. I argue that ‘urbandesertification’ happens in the complex relationship between cities (both urbanand suburban) and rural environments that support them as both a natural andethical phenomenon that I study using a form of analysis calledphenomenological ethics. First, I briefly present sketches of phenomenologyand sustainability in …
Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, And War,
2014
Butler University
Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, And War, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
In this paper I argue that a merit of Iris Young’s social connection model of responsibility for structural injustices is that it directs the American people’s responsibility for unjust wars, such as the recent war against Iraq, toward their responsibility to abolish the “war machine,” including the “empire of bases,” that is a contributing factor of unjust U.S. wars. I also raise two objections to her model. First, her model leads us to downplay the culpability of the American people as a political collective in voting to continue the Iraq war with the re-election of George W. Bush. Second, Young …
Impact Of Online Versus Face-To Face Instruction On Appraisal Student's Morality Levels,
2014
Walden University
Impact Of Online Versus Face-To Face Instruction On Appraisal Student's Morality Levels, Samuel Martin
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The financial markets have been in a state of chaos for a number of years. Some of the chaos was attributed to appraisers bending under unethical pressure exerted by lenders. The purpose of this study was to explore whether mode of instruction affected appraiser morality when participating in a Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) course, as measured by Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). The research question examined the difference between the effect on the morality schema of continuing appraisal students taking the 7-hour USPAP CE course online versus students taking the course in a face-to-face environment. The research …
