Search results for " ethics and religion"
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The sleep of (scientific) reason produces (literary) monsters. : or, how science and literature shake hands
2016
La rao il·lustrada i la imaginacio romantica van ser vistes com dues maneres oposades de concebre l’art i la vida. Ara be, amb la perspectiva que ens atorga la historia, sembla dificil entendre l’una sense l’altra. Com si els malsons de la ciencia no fossin en el fons altra cosa que l’aliment dels monstres romantics. Aquest article analitza l’evolucio de la narrativa fantastica i el naixement de la narrativa cientifica en el segle xix, i l’enfrontament entre allo racional i allo sobrenatural.
Plantinga’s Haecceitism and Simple Quantified Modal Logic
2017
In a series of papers Alvin Plantinga argued for a serious actualist modal semantics based on the notions of possible world, understood as maximal possible state of affairs, and of individual essence (haecceity). Plantinga’s actualism is known as haecceitism. In spite of the fact that haecceitism has been thought by Plantinga to require a Kripke-style semantics, the aim of this paper is to show that it is compatible with constant domains semantics and the simplest quantified modal logic. I will argue that not only does this approach have all the advantages of a greater simplicity in combining quantification and modalities, but also it better conforms to the actualist program.
Absorptive capacity and its impact on innovation and performance: findings from SEM and fsQCA
2018
Innovation can provide sustainable competitive advantages to service companies that consider the absorption of external knowledge a key strategic issue. Using the four dimensions of absorptive capacity, this study examined the impact of absorptive capacity on innovation in service delivery processes and explored how this innovation influences business performance. Structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) were applied to a sample of 134 companies drawn from the Colombian tourism sector. The results of the SEM indicate that innovation in service delivery processes is positively influenced by two of the four dimensions of absorptive capacity…
A Just Criminalization of Irregular Immigration: Is It Possible?
2015
The aim of this paper is to question, from the perspective of a principled theory of criminalization, the legitimacy of making irregular immigration (IM) a crime. In order to do this, I identify three main ways in which the political decision to introduce a crime of IM may be defended: according to the first, IM is a malum in se the wrongness of which resides in its being a violation of states’ territorial sovereignty; according to the second, IM is a justified malum prohibitum the wrongness of which resides in its being a violation of a justified immigration regulation; according to the third, IM is a malum in se the wrongness of which resides in its harmful consequences for receiving stat…
Cultural and psychological variables predicting academic dishonesty: a cross-sectional study in nine countries
2021
Academic dishonesty has serious consequences for human lives, social values, and economy. The main aim of the study was to explore a model of relations between personal and cultural variables and academic dishonesty. The participants in the study were N = 2,586 individuals from nine countries (Pakistan, Israel, Italy, India, the USA, Peru, Romania, Ghana, and Poland). The authors administered the Academic Dishonesty Scale to measure academic dishonesty, the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale to measure distress, the Almost Perfect Scale – Revised to measure perfectionism, the Brief Self-Control Scale to measure self-control, and the Singelis Scale to measure independent self-construal. Th…
The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility
2020
Abstract Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to collective agents would require showing that they are capable of moral reasoning. It is argued here that those theories that understand collective reasoning and collective moral agency in terms of collective decision-making and commitment – as is arguably the case with Christian List and Philip Pettit’s theory of group agency – face the so-called “problem of the first belief” that threatens to make moral reasoning impossible for gr…
You are not alone – Social sharing as a necessary addition to the Embracing factor
2017
AbstractI argue that the Embracing factor cannot be adequately conceptualized without taking into account the regulatory power of the social sharing of emotions. Humans tend to share their negative emotions with close others, and they benefit from it. I outline how this mechanism works in art reception by regulating and transforming negative emotions into positive experiences.
El dispositivo emprendedor : Interpelación ética y producción de nuevos sujetos del trabajo
2021
Asistimos actualmente a una multiplicación de prácticas de promoción del emprendimiento que, aunque desplegadas en diversos espacios y géneros, confluyen en la difusión de nuevos fundamentos de interpelación ética. El artículo propone el concepto foucaultiano de dispositivo como herramienta de acercamiento a estas prácticas. Tras describir el potencial heurístico de esta herramienta, se procede a aplicarla al estudio de la promoción de las éticas de la empleabilidad. Se destacan tres pilares que conforman dichos procesos de interpelación ética y que conforman un nuevo sujeto del trabajo: cultura de la evaluación y de la (auto)vigilancia; ethos de la responsabilidad y de la autonomía (repert…
Les jeux vidéo comme instruments de techno-transe
2016
International audience; This article aims to reopen the genealogy of video games, studying the similarities they share with what the author calls ‘techno-trance devices’. These devices, which are contemporary to the first video games in the early 1960s, rely on the creative hijacking of laboratory instruments. They share numerous technical and media properties with video games. Moreover, there are some records of these techno-trance devices being used during religious practices at the time, which might lead to speculation of a latent trance influence in video games as apparatuses. These shared properties between video games and these devices, derived from counterculture, are thus studied th…
Promesses robotiques et liquidation du politique
2017
EnglishRobots are being feverishly promoted today to the detriment of human labor force, socio-environmental balance and politics. francaisSi les robots sont aujourd'hui promus de maniere frenetique, c’est au detriment de la force humaine de travail, de l'equilibre socio-ecologique et du politique.