A better worldSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 168 - Trang 629-644 - 2013
Ryan Preston-Roedder
A number of moral philosophers have endorsed instances of the following curious argument: it would be better if a certain moral theory were true; therefore, we have reason to believe that the theory is true. In other words, the mere truth of the theory—quite apart from the results of our believing it or acting in accord with it—would make for a better world than the truth of its rivals, and this f...... hiện toàn bộ
The imagination model of implicit biasSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 177 Số 6 - Trang 1611-1633 - 2020
Welpinghus, Anna
We can understand implicit bias as a person’s disposition to evaluate members of a social group in a less (or more) favorable light than members of another social group, without intending to do so. If we understand it this way, we should not presuppose a one-size-fits-all answer to the question of how implicit cognitive states lead to skewed evaluations of other people. The focus of this paper is ...... hiện toàn bộ
Political liberalism and autonomy education: Are citizenship-based arguments enough?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 175 - Trang 1071-1093 - 2018
Gina Schouten
Several philosophers of education argue that schooling should facilitate students’ development of autonomy. Such arguments fall into two main categories: Student-centered arguments support autonomy education to help enable students to lead good lives; Public-goods-centered arguments support autonomy education to develop students into good citizens. Critics challenge the legitimacy of autonomy educ...... hiện toàn bộ
Is Responsible Essentially ImpossibleSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 99 - Trang 229-268 - 2000
S.L. Hurley
Part 1 reviews the general question of when elimination of an entity orproperty is warranted, as opposed to revision of our view of it. Theconnections of this issue with the distinction between context-drivenand theory-driven accounts of reference and essence are probed.Context-driven accounts tend to be less hospitable to eliminativism thantheory-driven accounts, but this tendency should not be o...... hiện toàn bộ