Two Conceptions of Common-Sense Morality

Common-Sense Chemistry: A Model for Understanding Students’ Alternative Conceptions

Research in science education in the last thirty years has shown that students enter chemistry classes with many preconceived ideas about the behavior of the natural world (1). These ideas, derived from previous physical and social experiences, often lead them to make predictions and build explanations different from those derived by currently accepted scientific theories and practices. Moreove...

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Morality and pretextuality, psychiatry and law: of "ordinary common sense," heuristic reasoning, and cognitive dissonance.

The thesis of this paper is that we will not make significant progress in understanding the tensions between the legal and mental health systems until we look carefully at a series of dissonances that affect both systems. We must consider the way that the law frequently condones pretextuality as a way of dealing with troubling or cognitively dissonant information, and the way that mental health...

Two Conceptions of Fundamentality

This article aims to show that fundamentality is construed differently in the two most prominent strategies of analysis we find in physical science and engineering today: (1) atomistic, reductive analysis and (2) Systems analysis. Correspondingly, atomism is the conception according to which the simplest (smallest) indivisible entity of a certain kind is most fundamental; while systemism, as wi...

Case of morality; a survey of common views

Such criteria as life, human gene, ethical agency, perception and feeling, social or biological relationships, and a combination of them form the basis on which one can speak about case of morality. The views, being based upon man or beings other than man or emphasizing essential values have sought to defend themselves. By essential value is publicly meant non instrumental and independent value...