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The input objection: Bane of coherence theory
… relations. This claim gives rise to the input objection, which states that pure coherentism allows empirical justification to be cut off from the world. Laurence BonJour and Michael Williams attempt to rebut the input objection. BonJour does so by means of cognitively spontaneous beliefs. The …
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
… of civil disobedience and conscientious objection, “conscience” remains an opaque concept. The attempt to define and employ it properly is not a purely academic exercise. The political language and behavior we associate with conscientiousness are empty to the point of being vulnerable to …
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Wittgenstein against ‘Positivist' Approaches to International Relations: Replacing the Anti‐Representationalist Objection
… within the discipline. One popular line of objection that is pursued in this context argues that ‘positivist’ approaches to IR are committed to a problematic representational view of language – called the ‘mirror’ or ‘picture’ view – which Wittgenstein decisively criticised in his later …
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Objection! Perspective-taking in the court: How juror's instructions affect empathy, culpability, and verdict decisions
Perspective-taking is the study of how individuals imagine another person feels in a given situation. Prior research has shown that taking the perspective of another person increases feelings of empathy for that person, greater feelings of altruism, and a desire to reduce their suffering. The …
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An evaluation of the modest hero objection and stringency as a solution in the debate over supererogation
… identifies and evaluates a commonly-raised objection to the inclusion of supererogation as a category of moral action. The 'modest hero' objection (as it is here called) maintains that since the moral agent praised for a supererogatory act tends to respond modestly, that she was merely …
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Confronting the Normativity Objection: W.V. Quine’s Engineering Model and Michael A. Bishop and J.D. Trout’s Strategic Reliabilism
… Bishop and J.D. Trout confront the normativity objection against naturalized epistemology. In Chapter One, normativity in epistemology is introduced, followed by a brief look over Quine’s grievances against the traditional approach to epistemology. Quine rejects traditional epistemology and …
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A Defense of Impermissivism
… of evidence. It faces a troubling arbitrariness objection. One variety of Permissivism—Standards Permissivism—does not appear to face this objection. In Chapter One, I argue that the normative structure of Standards Permissivism is under-explored: there is no good explanation for why a subject is …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… Jeff McMahan and Thaddeus Metz. I raise an objection of applicability to McMahan’s revisionist theory and similarly raise three problems for Metz’s African Relational Just War Theory in its application to a single case of intrastate violence in South Africa, the Marikana Massacre of 2012. …
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A Non-Classical Solution To Vague Persistence
… this paper will defend the view from one such objection. Katherine Hawley argues that the endurance theory fails to account for vague persistence on the grounds that endurance cannot account for vagueness semantically. I will show that this claim is based on an assumption of classical logic and …
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Can program explanation confer ontological rights for the Cornell realist variety of moral realism?
… in response to Gilbert Harman’s explanatory objection, a response that uses Frank Jackson’s and Philip Pettit’s account of ‘program explanation.’ However, Miller went on to argue that program explanation fails to successfully defend the moral non-reductive naturalist against Harman’s …
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Identity and modality
… popular worries with Kripke's project: Quine's objection of referential opacity and the problems of transworld identification. I hope to show that both of these worries are merely worries, and the air of serious objection they both carry can be dispelled.
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Egalitarianism, Perfectionism & Support for the Arts
… on the seemingly devastating ‘Levelling Down Objection’ to equality. I am in agreement with Larry Temkin that the Levelling Down Objection is true only if we believe that ‘person-affecting’ value, more specifically, welfare, is the only thing that matters in the moral universe. Hence, the …
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Burden of proof: a historical and theoretical analysis of some aspects of the following concepts in relation to the interpretation of Section 82 of Act 58 of 1962: income, assessment, objection and appeal
Even though Act 58 of 1962 is the culmination of a slow and complex evolution, some of the sections of the Act are virtually identical to sections of the New South Wales Act 1895 (59 Victoria 15). It is unfortunate indeed that the framework of the Act, for the purpose of the statutory formula, is …
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Burden of proof: a historical and theoretical analysis of some aspects of the following concepts in relation to the interpretation of Section 82 of Act 58 of 1962: income, assessment, objection and appeal
A clear understanding of Section 82 of the Income Tax Act No 58 of 1962 [the Act] is of great practical consequence toothed tax consultant. Indeed, many a well chartered voyage: In the uncertain stormy ocean of taxation litigation has floundered on some deep hidden Jagged edge of the iceberg …
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When They Have Opened a Gap
The concept of provider medical conscientious objection is a controversial one that can stir a great deal of emotion. Provider medical conscientious objection involves the refusal by an individual, hospital, pharmacy, managed care organization, or other health industry worker to provide, be …
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Kant and the Neglected Alternative
… and evaluation of the Neglected Alternative objection to Immanuel Kant's philosophy. Kant famously argues in the Transcendental Aesthetic section of the Critique of Pure Reason that space and time are subjective forms of human intuition, and the Neglected Alternative maintains that this …
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Silence, speech, and responsibility
… value on speech. In Chapter 2, I respond to an objection that purports to show that, even if women are silenced, pornography cannot be responsible: in fact, according to this objection, the responsibility for any instance of silencing cannot lie with any party other than the speaker and the …
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Is Ancient Eudaimonism a Defensible Normative Ethical Position?
… and Stoicism will be discussed. Three objections to eudaimonism will then be presented. According to the first objection raised by the Kantian John Hare, eudaimonism is a self-centred theory which posits an improper relation of subordination between moral acts and personal happiness. A …
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The Ontology of Persistence
… offered what he thought would be the decisive objection against endurantism, showing it to be an implausible theory. The problem of temporary intrinsics stated that an object cannot have two complementary intrinsic properties while maintaining identity, as endurantists claim. Perdurantism, …
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Language, Necessity and Convention: Reconsidering the Linguistic Approach to Modality
… the core ideas of the approach against various objections. Notably, I consider the objection that truth cannot be "created" by convention, the objection that necessities cannot be explained in terms of contingencies, and the objection that determining what the linguistic conventions are, unlike …
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