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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Normative Significance"”.
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Gender Terms and Normative Significance
In this paper I will address a puzzle about normative significance of gender terms. On the one hand, gender is tied to many normative judgments, and questions about gender make a difference in what one should do. On the other hand, everyday use of gender terms is in flux, and there is not a …
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Anger and Punishment: Natural History and Normative Significance
… of anger has substantive implications for normative ethics, undercutting some of the evidence for retributive theories of punishment. In the process, I develop an evolutionary account of anger, its relation to psychological traits of other animals, and its influence on action. First, I …
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
… The fundamentally social character of normative facts in the legal domain implies that a legal order is the consequence of a complex interaction of reciprocal forces between norms and human activities. This thesis argues against the prevailing view that characterizes law’s normative …
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DOVERI INDEROGABILI DI SOLIDARIETÀ NELLO STATO COSTITUZIONALE DELL'EMERGENZA
… the margins of doctrinal analysis, despite their normative significance within the constitutional framework. Through a systematic reading of the Italian Constitution, the research reconstructs the legal foundations of duties and examines their interaction with fundamental rights and the principle …
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What Does Value Matter? The Interest-Relational Theory of the Semantics and Metaphysics of Value
… properties of objects and actions, but have no normative significance independent of desires. It is argued that only the interest-relational theory can account for the practical significance of value and reasons for action. Against the Kantian hypothesis of prescriptive rational norms, I attack …
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Advising States: The Government Lawyer in International Law
… has the conceptual resources to evaluate the normative significance of professional role, and subject the values immanent in legal practice to critique. The thesis considers how the core principles in the legal ethics lexicon – the ‘adversary system excuse’, partisanship, neutrality, and …
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What's so private about private property?
… of others to access one’s physical spaces—has normative significance for moral behavior as well as for constitutional law and politics. Privacy’s value is promoted through private property rights, which are themselves shaped by the normative aspects of privacy. Because private property is …
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Not by reasons alone
… idea that desires have irreducible and pervasive normative significance. More particularly, I defend reasons internalism - the claim that desires are a necessary condition on practical reasons - by developing a new version of this thesis. In this version, desires serve to veto practical reasons, …
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It’s more than just ‘how women think’: explaining the nature and causes of gender gaps in political preferences
… “meaningful” political choice. The practical and normative importance of how choices, or political preferences, emerge suggests the centrality of gender gaps for those studying politics and those trying to advance human development. Despite this importance, much remains unknown about how these …