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Teaching and Learning Guide for: Relative and Absolute Gradable Adjectives
1 Author's Introduction Words, concepts, and properties are systematically linked. Our words allow us to express particular concepts, which in turn help us to pick out specific properties. Words can also help us express when these concepts and properties come in degrees. In their work on gradable adjectives, linguists have carefully studied the ways in which natural language reveals the structure of degreed properties, and this research is now making its way into a number of philosophical debates.
Knowing Justice When You See It
ABSTRACT Amartya Sen has argued that identifying fully just societies is not necessary for the practical project of diagnosing ways that our society could be made more just. Employing an analogy with tallness, Sen points out that we do not need to identify the tallest mountain in order to compare the heights of other mountains. Likewise, why suppose that we need to identify the perfectly just society in order to make comparative claims about justice?
The Unity of the Ideal Virtues
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly () Even though the virtues may be interconnected, it seems obviously possible to have one of the virtues without having them all. Some have defended the unity thesis against this concern by arguing that the virtues are still unified in their ideal forms. The problem with this defense is that it simply admits that the unity thesis, as traditionally conceived, is mistaken, taking the unity of the virtues to be limited to the ideal case.
Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Epistemic Aims of Democracy
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The Epistemic Aims of Democracy
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