Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burd...

Donor conception challenges conventional kinship idioms: the involvement of a gamete donor culturally raises questions about parentage and also the meaning of genetic heritage. Although there is now a growing body of literature exploring how people resorting to donor conception negotiate kinship and connectedness, this predominantly focuses on heterosexual couples. Little is yet known about how...

The aim of this paper is to consider the relations between Hegelian conception recognition, which championed by Axel Honneth and others, second-personal authority put forward Stephen Darwall. It argued that despite appearances contrary, they are not be as easily aligned some might suspect or hope, in particular an individual can granted recognition sense, without being authority. This view defe...

Stanley Milgram was motivated to show how something as horrible as the Holocaust could happen. To what extent does his research provide understanding of this? This article reviews a conception of the origins of genocide and other mass violence, based on case studies of actual instances, ranging from the Holocaust to the genocide in Rwanda and great violence in the Congo, in which psychological ...

Case-based reasoning in the law is a reasoning strategy in which legal conclusions are supported by decisions made by judges. If the case at hand is analogous to a settled case, then by judicial authority one can argue that the settled case should be followed. Case-based reasoning is a topic where ontology meets logic since one’s conception of cases determines one’s conception of reasoning with...

On the standard view we assess a person's competence by considering her relevant abilities without reference to the actual decision she is about to make. If she is deemed to satisfy certain threshold conditions of competence, it is still an open question whether her decision could ever be overruled on account of its harmful consequences for her ('hard paternalism'). In practice, however, one no...

In December 2015, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda delivered its final verdict in Butare, bringing to a close after 21-years. Despite important role that tribunal played confirming international criminal justice as key transitional mechanism, and tool of peace security, there has been little retrospective analysis court’s history. This article draws on Bourdieusian field address a...

Does sociology have anything to gain by returning the concept of social role? Has this been irretrievably damaged its significance in functionalist theory? This article aims recover role through a consideration alternative perspectives on normativity, illustrated research motherhood. A pragmatist re-conception is defended as way focusing those aspects structures which exert normative authority ...