Tolstoy’s Implicit Moral Theory: An Interpretation and Appraisal

Moral Phenomenology and Moral Theory

Appeals to moral phenomenology—the phenomenology of moral experience—are common in moral philosophy, particularly in metaethical inquiry. But as far as we can tell, the topic of moral phenomenology has not typically been center stage—a focus of inquiry in ethics. And so, going back at least to the writings of G. E. Moore (and with some notable exceptions— see below), very little has been writte...

Appraisal Theory in Translation Studies: An Introduction and Review of Studies of Evaluation in Translation

Translation studies (TS), as a young (inter)discipline, has partly relied on metadiscussions, critical assessments of its literature, and compilation of bibliographies to deal with certain problems of its youth, such as polarity and fragmentation. While the current status of TS shows general maturity, there are still young areas of inquiry in the discipline that are faced with similar issues. T...

Image Interpretation Using Appraisal Analysis

In geophysical inversion, a significant effort is invested to obtain images of the Earth from finite data. The first step is to obtain an image i.e. solve the inverse problem. This step alone provides significant challenges that are not addressed in this paper. The next step is to interpret the image in terms of specific questions. For example, what can we say about the average value of a physi...

Attributionism and Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias

Implicit Attitudes , Social Learning , and Moral Credibility

Dichotomous frameworks for understanding human decision-making often distinguish between spontaneous or intuitive judgments, on the one hand, and deliberative, reasoned judgments, on the other. The precise qualities thought to characterize these two kinds of judgments— sometimes aggregated under the headings “System I” and “System II”—change from theory to theory. Recent years, however, have se...