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... but the religious sentiments of the ban's proponents. Theorizing about these matters in a hypothetical mode can mask the urgency of the underlying situation. Agitation against cow slaughter gained force in colonial India as part of the assertion of upper-caste Hindu dominance over particular beef-eating communities...

... aesthetic value in a way that centers these social forms of aesthetic engagement. To this end, the article argues that there is a social practice of aesthetic valuing, characterized as a participatory practice governed by the value of aesthetic community, which engages us in the social development of our...

... . Finally, the author shows how strategic speakers can exploit the structure of open secrecy norms in order to both communicate about the open secret and shield themselves from retaliation for what they communicate. In the simplest and most straightforward kinds of conversations, what is common ground...

... ability to identify intentions from the products of communicative behavior and our knowledge of stylistic conventions. This account avoids the difficulties that face rival attempts to analyze depiction in terms of resemblance. It also clarifies and explains the features that distinguish depictive from...

... brand of sociality is enabled by cognitive capacities that are quantitatively or qualitatively unique on earth. One of these unique capacities is language , which allows us to store and communicate information using precise and informationally rich grammatical structures. A second capacity that makes...

.... Rousseau’s general will, I shall argue, is the totality of unrescinded decisions made by a community-that is, of an association of individuals contractually constituted as a “moral and collective body”-when its deliberation is subject to certain constraints.’ The interpretation of Rousseau...

... communities may author their own laws, thereby manifesting autonomy (“self-legislation”), arises throughout the history of political thought. In Democratic Law , her Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers a distinguished contribution to this long inquiry: she argues that law’s value within...

... instance a single, unified, all-pervasive, substantial, force-field. This ether makes possible the formation of matter into individual bodies. Insofar as bod- ies are subject to the ether’s influence, they are able in turn to have influence on one another. Thus, they form a “dynamical community.” We can...

... and Littlefield, 1997. Pp. xii, 162. Robert Mayhew’s Aristotle’s Criticism of Pluto’s Republic focuses on Aristotle’s main objections to Plato’s political philosophy: the degree of unity envi- sioned by Plato is impossible/undesirable; too much unity undermines self- sufficiency; community of women...

... goes like this (18): (i) there are two different linguistic communities, A and B, where A has the thin, all-things-considered, normative word ‘ought’ and B has the thin, all-things-considered, normative word ‘ought*’; (ii) ‘ought’ and ‘ought*’ have the same normative role (as a matter of conventional...

... as evidence” (129). The trust the hearer has for the speaker is “irreducibly first personal” and is grounded in the hearer's relationship with the speaker (130). The relationships that permit trust between speaker and hearer also provide the basis for communities of various sizes. The authority that other...

..., are essentially communal and that truth is constituted by enduring communal consensus (193). The other three tasks are metaphysical in the sense that the Phenomenology aims (in being comprehended and accepted by its readers) actually to bring about-to produce-new metaphysical realities or truths: (1...

... the obligations surrounding testimony. Promising and Testifying There are at least two ways in which I can inform someone that I am going to do something. Typically, I tell someone what I am going to do by communicating an intention to do it, but I can also convey this infor- mation by predicting that I...

..., specifically as regards the semantics-pragmatics interface for singular terms. Its main idea is that in order to account for the role of linguistic meaning in communication, we will need reflexive semantic contents beside the ordinary, referential ones. The reflexive contents derive from the reflexive...

... to the consent-giver” (149). Now, since the Interpersonal Justification Argument also supports the Successful Communication Account, the reason to favor the Evidential Account over its rival is because it has “the explanatory power to predict intuitive results about the various cases … encountered” (149...

... object on religious grounds to compulsory at- tendance at (secular) schools, Wall argues that “if the children of the community are required to attend state-accredited schools, then . . . either . . . the community will survive because enough of its younger members will return after receiving...

... “for the redemption of at least some perpetrators of injustice” and for a reconciliation with (at least some of) them in our future community (38). Chapter 2 begins with an epigraph from John Dewey: “The task of democracy ... is creation of a freer and more humane experience in which all share and to which all...

... only if the agent can understand them or has “a capacity to be addressed.” In this sense, we should view reactive attitudes as “incipient forms of communication,” and as such, they presuppose that agents targeted by reactive attitudes can make sense of them. According to McKenna, what is correct about...

... than grue is an upshot of our linguistic history but does not reflect anything special about the properties themselves. On this view, a community with a different linguistic history may not be getting anything wrong about the world by theorizing in terms of grue rather than green. We propose...

... for at least certain indigenous communities. In taking a view oriented to this separation, Seymour inadvertently favors some groups over others, contrary to his own value of respect for diversity. To his credit, Seymour is trying to be sensitive to various real problems that arise with collective rights...