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Aim or preference? Reflections on the commitment to the truth in the criminal process
It is widely accepted that the criminal process aims at the truth. It is also widely accepted that convicting the innocent is worse than acquitting...
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Instrumental Needs: A Relational Account
Instrumentalism about need suggests that the normative significance of an agent’s need for x depends on the end for which x is needed. Instrumental...
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Uncontrolled Power: Independence and Markets in Republicanism
This paper discusses three theses of the neo-republican analysis of the market. According to the first, one of the advantages of the market is its...
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Self-Threatening Extortionists Constitute a Problem for Utilitarians, Not Contractualists
Johann Frick has claimed that morality requires that we (in many cases) should give in to the demands of rational agents who attempt to extort us by...
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Blame and Proportionality
The ethics of blame includes conditions determining whether an instance of blame is permissible. One generally recognised condition is that blame...
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Freedom of Religion and Non-discrimination Based on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in Ukraine: Corporate Policy Commitments in Situations of Conflicting Social Expectations
Conflicting social expectations in a particular state affect the interpretation and implementation of international human rights law. Ideological,...
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The Venezuelan Migrant Population’s Right to Health in the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area
Colombia has received the largest influx of Venezuelan refugees and migrants. Since 2015, more than 3 million Venezuelan migrants have entered the...
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Preach! (Practice not Included): A Qualified Defense of Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is generally treated as particularly repugnant, perhaps the “only unforgivable sin.” I argue that this attitude is misplaced....
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Care and resentment. An essay on moral temporality
Whereas caring is commonly perceived as a moral virtue or a socially beneficial ethical practice, resentment appears to represent its opposite....
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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms
The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European...
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Kee** Hohfeld Simple
In this paper, I want to engage in, and move forward, a heated contemporary debate over certain normative positions within the well-known Hohfeldian...
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Moves & Rules: Addressing the Puzzle of Social Rule-Following
I explore a puzzle at the heart of the so-called ‘practice theory of rules’: how can rules, operating as normative standards, be determined by the...
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Arbitrary Power: Caricature and Concept
Arbitrary power is often understood as bearing some kind of relation to tyrannical rule, a relation that is thought to explain why arbitrary power is...
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Recourse, Litigation, and the Rule of Law
Recent high-profile lawsuits have supported competing narratives that alternately depict civil litigation as an essential instrument of the rule of...