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Self-Focused Emotions and Ethical Decision-Making: Comparing the Effects of Regulated and Unregulated Guilt, Shame, and Embarrassment
Research has examined various cognitive processes underlying ethical decision-making, and has recently begun to focus on the differential effects of...
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Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis
Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial...
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Towards a Non-classical Meta-theory for Substructural Approaches to Paradox
In the literature on self-referential paradoxes one of the hardest and most challenging problems is that of revenge. This problem can take many...
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Co-application, Identity, and Abstraction: A Note on Amie Thomasson’s Easy Ontology
Whereas neo-Fregeans, such as Hale and Wright, as well as other abstractionists, e.g., Linnebo, employ abstraction principles in their views of...
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Exposed: On Shame and Nakedness
This article develops a new phenomenological account of the shame people typically tend to feel when seen naked by others. Although shame at...
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Abstraction and Modest Reflection
In “Neo-fregeanism: An Embarrassment of Riches” (Notre Dame J Formal Logic 44(1):13–48, 2003) Alan Weir introduces a number of formal constraints on...
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Selves, Persons, and the Neo-Lucretian Symmetry Problem
The heavily discussed (neo-)Lucretian symmetry argument holds that as we are indifferent to nonexistence before birth, we should also be indifferent...
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How the social dignity of recipients is violated and protected across various forms of food aid in high-income countries: a sco** review
Scholars have demonstrated that common ways of performing charitable food aid in high-income countries maintain a powerless and alienated status of...
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Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms
Darwin claimed that human and animal minds differ in degree but not in kind, and that ethical principles such as the Golden Rule are just an...
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Begging & power
Much philosophical work has examined both imperatival and non-imperatival forms of address that aim to motivate others to action. But one such kind...
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The Problem(s) of Constituting the Demos: A (Set of) Solution(s)
When collective decisions should be made democratically, which people form the relevant demos? Many theorists think this question is an embarrassment...
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What Does “Vulnerability” Mean? San Representatives Define Vulnerability for Themselves
The Indigenous San peoples, often referred to as South Africa’s “First Peoples”, experienced a violent history of displacement and genocideGenocide....
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When There’s No One Else to Blame: The Impact of Coworkers’ Perceived Competence and Warmth on the Relations between Ostracism, Shame, and Ingratiation
Workplace ostracism is a prevalent and painful experience. The majority of studies focus on negative outcomes of ostracism, with less work examining...
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Damaging Psychological Consequences of the Discourse
However politically correct a racist discourse may be, it has negative consequences on the psyche of the people toward whom it is directed. Research...
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Industries and Organisations Thriving on Superstitious and New Age Beliefs
This chapter considers those organisations where the prime function is to make profit through the sale of products and servicesSelling superstitious...
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Biobanking and consenting to research: a qualitative thematic analysis of young people’s perspectives in the North East of England
BackgroundBiobanking biospecimens and consent are common practice in paediatric research. We need to explore children and young people’s (CYP)...
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Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Causation
In this chapter, I discuss the second metaphysical implication of the Idealist reading, pertaining to causation. Spatial contiguity seems to be one...