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Willingness to Reduce Animal Product Consumption: Exploring the Role of Environmental, Animal, and Health Motivations, Selfishness, and Animal-oriented Empathy
Increasing the willingness to reduce animal product consumption has the potential to contribute to ameliorating the impact of animal agriculture on...
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The Association Between Selfishness, Animal-Oriented Empathy, Three Meat Reduction Motivations (Animal, Health, and Environment), Gender, and Meat Consumption
This study examined how the level of meat consumption was related to two psychological factors, selfishness and animal-oriented empathy, and three...
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Investor’s Explicit and Implicit Attributions for CSR Motives: Neuroscientific Insights
According to dual cognition theory, corporate social responsibility (CSR) motive attribution arises from the interaction between explicit and...
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Blinded by the Bot: Why AI Chatbots Cue Human Unethical Behavior in Negotiations
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in negotiation, with chatbots serving as autonomous bargaining agents. Yet it remains unclear...
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Selfish Genes and Morality
Though the concept of the selfish gene (articulated in Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene) is now dated, it is still influential in evolutionary...
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Validity as a thick concept
This paper presents a novel position in the philosophy of logic: I argue that validity is a thick concept. Hence, I propose to consider validityin...
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Hume’s Philosophy of Money
Hume’s political economy is grounded in the twin assumptions that people face a natural environment of scarcity and that they lack generosity toward...
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Chapter 5 The Concept of fa in Guanzi and Its Evolution
This chapter analyzes the concept of fa 法 in Guanzi from the perspective of conceptual history and explores the significance of this concept’s...
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Introduction on the Ethical “Doctrine of Gongsheng” Based on Song-Ming Confucianism’s “Unity of Consummate Persons and Things”
Drawing from the teachings of Neo-Confucian scholars, particularly Zhang Zai, the Cheng brothers and Wang Yangming, this chapter examines the...
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Being Real About the Ethics of the Fiduciary: What’s Wrong with Self-Interest?
Acting out of self-interest is not selfishness. It is quite different. Selfishness is self-interest at the expense of others and clearly unethical....
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The selfish machine? On the power and limitation of natural selection to understand the development of advanced AI
Some philosophers and machine learning experts have speculated that superintelligent Artificial Intelligences (AIs), if and when they arrive on the...
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“Water is enough.” Nietzsche, intoxication and amor fati
If we follow the motif of intoxication in philosophical reflection, we cannot overlook its role in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Here,...
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The Preference for Unsolicited Advice: When We Have to Make a Trade-Off Between Self-interest and Morality
When faced with important decisions, individuals often receive advice from others. While previous research suggests that unsolicited advice is...
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The Level of Islamic Religiosity of the Local Community and Corporate Environmental Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from Iran
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the Islamic religiosity of the local community and the level of corporate...
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Moral Attention and Bad Sentimentality
In this paper, I challenge standard views of the moral badness of sentimentality defended by art critics and philosophers. Accounts based on...
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Praise, objective rightness and extended action
There’s more to meriting praise than doing what’s objectively right. After all, one might do what’s objectively right as the result of a fluke or...
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The Pursuit of Personal Interest and the Tragedy of the Commons: The Strength of the System
In a now-famous article, Hardin developed the foundational concept of the “tragedy of the commons”. Hardin thus shows that if individuals managing a...