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Value-based accounts of normative powers and the wishful thinking objection
Normative powers like promising allow agents to effect changes to their reasons, permissions and rights by the means of communicative actions whose...
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Conventionalism and contingency in promissory powers
Conventionalism about promising is the view that the power to make binding promises depends essentially on the existence of a social practice or...
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Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models
Ethics commissions are government advisory commissions mandated to give expert advice on contentious moral issues. As this requires making explicit...
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The Logical Structure of Normative Attitudes
In contemporary social ontology, normative attitudes are often regarded as the essential element to account for the existence of the social/normative...
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Predicates of personal taste and normative meaning
The main aim of the paper is to reject the idea that predicates of personal taste express normative meanings. According to a recent theory proposed...
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Modelling in Normative Ethics
This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in normative ethics can be interpreted as modelling, the form of...
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Normative Ethical Theories: I
Gain an understanding about consequentialist ethics as a preeminent branch of normative ethics.
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Bridgman and the normative independence of science: an individual physicist in the shadow of the bomb
Physicist Percy Bridgman has been taken by Heather Douglas to be an exemplar defender of an untenable value-free ideal for science. This picture is...
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Normative Ethical Theories: II
Gain an understanding about non-consequentialist ethics as a preeminent branch of normative ethics.
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The Normative Power of Consent and Limits on Research Risks
Research regulations around the world do not impose any limits on the risks to which consenting adults may be exposed. Nonetheless, most review...
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The Normative and Cultural Dimension of Work: Technological Unemployment as a Cultural Threat to a Meaningful Life
The scholarship on meaningful work has approached the topic mostly from the perspective of the subjective experience of the individual worker. This...
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Normative concepts and the return to Eden
Imagine coming across an alternative community such that, while they have normative terms like 'ought' with the same action-guiding roles and...
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Persons as Normative Functions in a Nominalistic Process World
I provide the beginnings of an account about how Sellars’ process ontology can function as a metaphysical model that overcomes and critically...
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Normative Defeaters and the Alleged Impossibility of Mere Animal Knowledge for Reflective Subjects
One emerging issue in contemporary epistemology concerns the relation between animal knowledge, which can be had by agents unable to take a view on...
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Using Spielraum for a Normative Definition of Politics: Obama’s Play Politics and Trump’s Asceticism
The terms “politics” and “political” have become so overdetermined that it is difficult to use them in any effective manner. We argue that this has...
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Another way logic might be normative
Is logic normative for reasoning? In the wake of work by Gilbert Harman and John MacFarlane, this question has been reduced to: are there any...
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Recognition and Work in the Platform Economy: a Normative Reconstruction
The rise of the platform economy in the past two decades (and neoliberal capitalist expansion and crises more in general), have on the whole...
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Individualistic Models in Collective Norm-Based Regulation: The Positive, Normative and Hermeneutic Dimensions
This chapter is an investigation of the links between the positive, normative and hermeneutic dimensions in the role imparted to norms as they are...
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The Normative Challenges of AI in Outer Space: Law, Ethics, and the Realignment of Terrestrial Standards
The paper examines the open problems that experts of space law shall increasingly address over the next few years, according to four different sets...
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Normative View of Natural Resources—Global Redistribution or Human Rights–Based Approach?
This paper contrasts conceptions of global distributive justice focused on natural resources with human rights–based approach. To emphasize the...