Abstract The aim of this paper is twofold. First, I want to re-examine the epistemic status elaborated delusions. Bortolotti (2016, 2020) claims that they can be epistemically innocent. However, will show type delusions more unique than suggested by existing analyses their status. They typically cause profound harms other kinds delusions, and in most cases, it would counterproductive classify t...

Research notes the broad complicity of white public officials in historical racial violence and repression. These discussions emphasize role criminal justice actors perpetrating enabling this Extending assessment, authors examine coroners’ facilitation dominance through administrative performances constructing innocence. Using cases from post-Emancipation South Carolina, document race-related p...

Drawing from data collected during interviews with grade 2 teachers who work in a black workingclass township school, this paper explores the meanings that teachers attach to HIV and AIDS education. It is argued that the relationship of many teachers to the subject of HIV and AIDS is inscribed within regulatory forces based on the notion of childhood sexual innocence which uphold and construct ...

It is not uncommon for there to be multiple eyewitnesses to a crime, each of whom is later shown a lineup. How is the probative value, or diagnosticity, of such multiple-witness identifications to be evaluated? Previous treatments have focused on the diagnosticity of a single eyewitness's response to a lineup (Wells and Lindsay, Psychol. Bull. 3 (1980) 776); however, the results of eyewitness i...

In June 1908, James Mark Baldwin, then Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and at the pinnacle of his career, was arrested in a Baltimore house of prostitution. Although he insisted on both his legal and moral innocence and all legal charges against him were dismissed, the threat of scandal led Hopkins authorities to demand Baldwin's resignation and Baldwin to rem...

reasons for assigning to them a merely morbid and physical origin ; (4) to suggest means of prevention and cure. (1) By genuine remorse, according to the definition of it given by Clarendon, Bishop Hall, &c., and derived from the etymology of the word, is meant, " the keen pain or anguish excited by a sense of guilt; compunction for a vicious, or sinful act committed." Dr. Thomas Brown describe...

Framing—portraying an issue from one perspective to the necessary exclusion of alternative perspectives—is a central concept in political communication. It is also a powerful political tool, as evidenced through experiments and single-issue studies beyond the lab. Yet compared to its significance, we know very little about framing as a generalizable phenomenon. Do framing dynamics, such as the ...