Duties to Oneself and Their Alleged Incoherence

Attributing awareness to oneself and to others.

This study tested the possible relationship between reported visual awareness ("I see a visual stimulus in front of me") and the social attribution of awareness to someone else ("That person is aware of an object next to him"). Subjects were tested in two steps. First, in an fMRI experiment, subjects were asked to attribute states of awareness to a cartoon face. Activity associated with this ta...

Duties of Minimal Wellbeing and Their Role in Global Justice

This thesis is the first step in a research project which aims to develop an accurate and robust theory of global justice. The thesis concerns the content of our duties of global justice, under strict compliance theory. It begins by discussing the basic framework of my theory of global justice, which consists in two aspects: duties of minimal wellbeing, which are universal, and duties of fairne...

Learning by Explaining to Oneself

Faculty Members' Attitude toward Academic Advising and Counseling and their Viewpoints about Counseling Duties

Introduction: Advising and counseling students, a part of faculty members' duties, is a way for overcoming preventable problems and educational failure due to those problems. The aim of this study was to determine the attitude of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences toward advising and counseling students and their views about the duties of counselor faculty members. Method...

Arguing from Facts to Duties (and Conversely)

One of the most controversial issues about arguments involving deontic and ethical matters is whether statements of duty or right can be inferred from statements of fact, and conversely. Most analytical philosophers have inclined to give a negative answer, alleging that duties or rights are not implied by mere facts (or the other way round), and hence that no combination of facts can imply a du...