a familiar criticism of kant, made by hegel and his followers, j .s. mill and others, is that there are no maxims that are in fact contradictory, as required for morality on kant's view. in this paper, i discuss the suggestion that our capacity for rational reflection itself implies universality, and that it is this universality that obliges us to act morally. i consider the idea that self...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to evaluate the neural basis of framing effects. We tested the reflexive and reflective systems model of social cognition as it relates to framing. We also examined the relationships among frame susceptibility, intelligence and personality measures. Participants evaluated whether personal attributes applied to themselves from multiple perspectives ...

There are many psychic mechanisms by which people engage with their selves. We argue that an important yet hitherto neglected one is self-appraisal via meta-emotions. We discuss the intentional structure of meta-emotions and explore the phenomenology of a variety of examples. We then present a pilot study providing preliminary evidence that some facial displays may indicate the presence of meta...

Abstract An attractive form of social stability is realized when the members a well-ordered society give that society’s organizing principles their free and reflective endorsement. However, many political philosophers are skeptical there any requirement to show would engender this kind stability. This skepticism at root number objections liberalism, since arguments for liberalism often appeal i...

This article isolates and observes the impact of peer readership on low-stakes reflective writing assignments in two large Introduction to Sociology classes. Through a comparative content analysis of over 2,000 private reflective journal entries and semipublic reflective blog posts, I find that both practices produce distinct forms of reflection. I argue that these differences can be understood...

Abstract Background Teleological reasoning is a cognitive bias purported to disrupt student ability understand natural selection. Few studies have described pedagogical efforts decrease endorsement of teleological and measure the effects this attenuation on understanding acceptance evolution. This exploratory study examined influence explicit instructional activities directly challenging explan...

The Reflective Memory/Memory Channel @h&UC) system represents a modular bus-based system architecture that belongs to the class of distrtbuted shared memory systems. The RWMC system is characterized by an update consistenqv mechanism for shared data and egicient block transfers over the bus. This worh has tnw main goals. First, an extensive simulation anat’ysis using the firnch’onal Ru/MC simul...

In this paper, we propose real-time communication middleware which supports data dissemination with proxy extension. To fulfill stringent QoS requirement such as timing constraint, we employ push-based data delivery approach and real-time channel. Furthermore, by making the most of connected clients, we could permit the increased number of clients and extend the scalability. Since it is also de...