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Toward a more natural historical attitude
Modeling his position on Arthur Fine’s Natural Ontological Attitude, Derek Turner proposed the Natural Historical Attitude. Although these positions...
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Non-doxastic Attitude Reports, Information Structure, and Semantic-Pragmatic Interface
Truth conditions of sentences ascribing non-doxastic propositional attitudes seem to depend on the information structure of the embedded clause. In...
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Attitude ascriptions: a new old problem for Russell’s theory of descriptions
In order to explain that sentences containing empty definite descriptions are nevertheless true or false, Russell famously analyzes sentences of the...
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The Ethical Attitude: A Husserlian Account of Striving to Be a Good Person
The phenomenological notion of attitude has gained new traction in recent years, as it proliferates beyond its initial distinction between natural...
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The questioning-attitude account of agnosticism
I defend a proposition-directed, sui generis account of agnosticism, according to which being agnostic about some proposition, P , involves a...
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Why Naturalism cannot (Merely) be an Attitude
Varying forms of ontological and methodological naturalism are among the most popular theses in contemporary philosophy. However, each of these...
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Public Awareness, Attitude and Empathy Regarding the Management of Surplus Dairy Calves
Media reports are increasingly drawing attention to animal welfare issues related to surplus calves in dairy farming. Most calves born on...
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Gottesglaube as Glaubenstrotz. The concessive structure of the Christian religious attitude
The topic of the present reflection is Christian religious belief. Specifically, we will use Husserlian tools in order to examine the positional...
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Understanding, being, and doing of bioethics; a state-level cross-sectional study of knowledge, attitude, and practice among healthcare professionals
BackgroundThe field of bioethics examines the moral and ethical dilemmas that arise in the biological sciences, healthcare, and medical practices....
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Attitude and concerns of healthy individuals regarding post-mortem brain donation. A qualitative study on a nation-wide sample in Italy
BackgroundCollecting post-mortem brain tissue is essential, especially from healthy “control” individuals, to advance knowledge on increasingly...
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Ich will ja, aber… – Das Problem des „Attitude-Behavior-Gaps“
Vielen Menschen ist die Bekämpfung des Klimawandels wichtig. Studien zeigen, dass die Mehrheit der Deutschen den Klimawandel als Bedrohung wahrnimmt...
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An Essay about a Philosophical Attitude in Management and Organization Studies Based on Parrhesia
Management and organization studies (MOS) scholarship is at a crossroads. The grand challenges (such as the climate emergency) humankind must face...
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The New Explanatory Objection Against the Fitting Attitude Account of Value
The explanatory objection against the fitting attitude account of value states that if the properties of attitudes explain fittingness facts, but do...
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Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel
This paper brings together the Italian Existentialist author Alberto Moravia’s novel Boredom and Hegel’s account of empirical cognition from the...
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On the Early Buddhist Attitude Toward Metaphysics
Buddhist scholars in the West broadly agree with the proposition that Buddhism has a philosophical tradition, in many respects comparable to Western...
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Health professionals' knowledge and attitude towards patient confidentiality and associated factors in a resource-limited setting: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundRespecting patients’ confidentiality is an ethical and legal responsibility for health professionals and the cornerstone of care...
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The Development of Schiller’s Philosophical Attitude: Schiller’s Philosophical Education
Schiller’s philosophical attitude developed early on and remained unswerving thereafter, being unaffected by either intellectual or personal events....
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Ideation, Attitude, Reduction
In the present chapter we will reconstruct the development of Husserl’s understanding of the way in which ideal objects are grasped. Three main...
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Moral judgment and the content-attitude distinction
Let cognitivism be the view that moral judgments are cognitive mental states and noncognitivism the view that they are noncognitive mental states....
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Hospice Is Not a Place, but an Attitude
In addition to comprehensive hospice care and palliative care, a central concern of hospice work since its beginnings has been to promote social...