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2025
Utilitarianism directs us to act in ways that impartially maximize welfare or utility or at least aim to do that. Some find this view highly compelling. Others object that it has intuitively repugnant results, that it condones evildoing and injustice...
An athlete has faith in her unathletic partner to run a marathon, a teacher has faith in her currently poor-performing students to improve in the future, and your friend has faith in you to succeed in the difficult project that you have been pursuing...
How should we respond to the humanity of others? Should we care for others' well-being? Respect them as autonomous agents? Largely neglected is an answer we can find in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism: we should love all...
This article argues that (C) the term “Afro-Latinx” is more apt than “Hispanic” or “Latinx” in a significant number of cases. Three premises support this conclusion. The first premise (P1) is that use of “Afro-Latinx” provides subjects with understanding...
What impact does moral fit have on expectations and engagement in higher education? We conducted two studies with college and university students in the U.S. In Study 1 (N = 151), we manipulated the moral fit of a hypothetical student, assessing its...
In recent years, health systems throughout the United States have made public declarations committing to health equity. Yet clinicians in these systems often feel they are not set up to support equitable care. This discrepancy between proclaimed...
I examine the profound influence of Immanuel Kant’s philosophical anthropology on Ernest Gellner’s social theory. Exploring how Kant’s attempt to preserve human agency in the face of mechanical explanations of nature shaped Gellner’s approach to the...
2024
The global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks. And yet regulatory issues varied from country to country, with some national financial regulatory systems proving more effective than...