Abstract Throughout the Western world, people’s policy views are correlated across domains in a strikingly similar fashion. This article proposes that what partly explains structure of ideology is moral universalism: extent to which people exhibit same level altruism and trust towards strangers as in-group members. In new large-scale multinational surveys, heterogeneity universalism descriptive...

There exists in Australia a significant group of intellectuals whose distinguishing feature is their global outlook on politics and law. These are writers and activists who call upon universalist values to criticise and reform institutions and practices in Australia, and in other countries. By universalism is meant a doctrine, such as world peace, international human rights, or ecological susta...

Abstract We present a new notion of mereological sum that is inequivalent to extant ones in the literature and does not fall prey reasonable complaints can be raised against some such notions. In light this notion, we then revisit relation between universalism extensionalism. particular argue Varzi’s claim point entails extensionalism justified only insofar as one sticks sum. effect, distinguis...

This research makes strides toward reconciling mixed findings in the value-behavior relation by positing that values are abstract representations of ideal end states that are more likely to influence behavior when individuals think abstractly (vs. concretely) and focus on high- (vs. low-) level motivations for interpreting their actions. In 6 experiments, the authors measured the importance of ...

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements.