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 | Mallon, Ronald | 'Race': normative, not metaphysical or semantic | In recent years, there has been a flurry of work on the metaphysics of race. While it is now widely accepted that races do not share robust, biobehavioral essences, opinions differ over what, if anything, race is. Recent work has been divided between three apparently quite different answers. A varie... | | 2006 |
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 | Andreou, Chrisoula | Getting on in a varied world | Are greed and ruthlessness contrary to reason? Is immorality a form of irrationality? Much of contemporary ethical theory is a debate between Kantians, who argue that the dictates of morality are dictates of reason, and Humeans, who argue that reason is neutral between morality and immorality. T... | Kantians; Humeans; Immorality | 2006 |
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 | Mallon, Ronald | Innateness as closed process invariance | Although we are enthusiastic about a Darwinian approach to culture, we argue that the overview presented in the target article does not sufficiently emphasize the crucial explanatory role that psychology plays in the study of culture. We use a number of examples to illustrate the variety of ways by... | | 2006 |
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 | Mallon, Ronald | Role of psychology in the study of culture | Although we are enthusiastic about a Darwinian approach to culture, we argue that the overview presented in the target article does not sufficiently emphasize the crucial explanatory role that psychology plays in the study of culture. We use a number of examples to illustrate the variety of ways by... | | 2006 |
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 | Plutynski, Anya | Strategies of model building in population genetics | In 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building in population biology. In this paper, I reply to Orzack and Sober's (1993) critiques of Levins and argue that his view on modeling strategies apply also in the context of evolutionary genetics. In particular, I arg... | | 2006 |
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 | Chatterjee, Deen | Democracy beyond borders: justice and representation in global institutions | A book review of Andrew Kuper's Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions. | Book review; Democracy; Global governance | 2006-04 |
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 | Nichols, Shaun | Do children think of the self as the soul? | Bering's work provides new insight into the child's concept of the self. For his results indicate that children don't regard bodily identity as required for identity of self across time. Bering's methodology for investigating afterlife beliefs might also be exploited to explore the extent to which c... | | 2006-10 |
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 | Landesman, Bruce M. | Confidentiality and the lawyer-client relationship | The Model Rules of Professional Conduct proposed by the American Bar Association differ from the presently enforced Code of Professional Responsibility in a number of ways. This essay focuses on the differences with regard to the scope and limits of confidentiality in the lawyer-client relationship. | Professional Conduct; Confidentiality; Professional Responsibility | 2006-06-16 |
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 | Holzner, Claudio A.; Jameson, Kenneth P.; Maloney, Thomas N.; Abebe, Berhanie; Lund, Matthew; Schaub, Kristen | Economic impact of the Mexico-Utah relationship | This study began during the Summer of 2005 and set out to examine the complexity of the globalized relation between Utah and Mexico, concentrating on broadly defined "economic linkages." It was designed to build upon earlier similar studies done in Arizona and in Texas on those states' relations wit... | Economics, Utah; migration; immigration; Mexico; undocumented immigrants | 2006-03-10 |
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 | Millgram, Elijah | Jonathan Lear, Love and it's place in nature and Open minded: working out the logic of the soul | It's not hard to imagine why Love and Its Place in Nature (now in a second edition, with a new preface by the author) has, in the decade or so it has been in print, received less attention from the philosophical community than it deserves. Its subtitle announces it as a "A Philosophical Interpretati... | Philosophy; Book Review | 2006-09-19 |
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 | Morrow, Carolyn | La "otredad" en el cine español contempóraneo: "Hable con ella y Flores de otro mundo | En 1990 el filósofo de la posmodernidad Gianni Vattimo propone que en la sociedad de los medios de comunicación se abre camino un ideal de emancipación que tiene en su base la pluralidad y la erosión del antiguo "principio de la realidad" (15). Desaparecida la idea de una racionalidad central de... | Films, Spain; Postmodernity, Spain; Cinema, Spain | 2006-07-19 |
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 | Morrow, Carolyn | La generación X en España: "Historias del Kronen" y "Noches de San Juan | El filósofo de la posmodernidad Gianni Vattimo propone que en la sociedad de los medios de comunicación se abre camino un ideal de emancipación que tiene en su base la pluralidad y la erosión del antiguo "principio de la realidad". Desaparecida la idea de una racionalidad central de la historia,... | Young adults, Spain; Generation X, Spain; Culture, Spain; Literature, Spain; Postmodernity | 2006-07-19 |
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 | Morrow, Carolyn | Lenguaje y Cultura de la Generación X en España: Historias del Kronen de Jose Angel Manas | Ska-P, una banda madrileña, ofrece una perspectiva típica sobre las realidades sociales actuales en España en uno de sus versos: "vigilan desde arriba este sistema delincuente". Señala el desencanto ante los escándalos de corrupción y otras lacras sociales que agobian al país al evaporarse el... | Young adults, Spain; Generation X, Spain; Culture, Spain; Literature, Spain | 2006-07-19 |