... that the SS carriers of the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism, corresponding to the low ratio of serotonin recycling from the synaptic cleft, rated impersonal harmful actions (e.g. flipping a switch to divert a train to hit one person instead of five people) as more permissible as compared with the L-allele carriers...

... normative, appropriate, and desirable. Given its consistent depiction of impersonal sex as normative, appropriate, and desirable, the ₃AM would predict that consumers of pornography would be more likely to hold attitudes favorable toward impersonal sex and more likely to actually engage...

... of ‘for someone's sake’ attitudes has the unwelcome consequence that whatever is good for someone is also necessarily good. It is argued that this consequence can be avoided if we modify the standard way of formulating the fitting-attitude analysis of final impersonal value. Impersonal value personal value good...

... , 1993b) . I shall demonstrate that it rests on an unuttered wrong presupposition, namely that it applies a value judgement that is only valid when a certain condition is met, but it falsely presupposes that abortion meets that condition. abortion impersonal morality person...

... allows entrepreneurs and creditors to choose, and courts to enforce, market-friendly “contract” rules that protect innocent third parties when adjudicating disputes on subsequent contracts. This reduces information asymmetry for third parties, which enhances impersonal trade. It does so without seriously...

...This chapter discusses passive and impersonal reflexives in contemporary and early Italo-Romance varieties. Synchronic and diachronic data (drawn from northern, central, and southern dialects, and from Sardinian) are used to throw light on the controversial theoretical status of the first person...

... support for the theory; indeed, that attempts to respond to the tension within consequentialism suggest a fundamental role for an alternative to the consequentialist's impersonal conception of impartiality, an interpersonal rather than an impersonal conception of equal concern. Unlike...

...On the basis of the dates and definitions provided in dictionaries of Old and Middle English, this chapter offers a focused study of the rise and spread of impersonal constructions in each of the seven ‘Emotion’ categories in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary...

... in the impersonal value of what is cared about. Personal value is value for a particular person, conferred by that individual on something in and through caring. The concept of impersonal value, on the other hand, is regarded only as an objective value, that is, value that inheres in something apart from one's...

...This chapter focuses on caring about that is positive and disinterested, and only as it is directed at other persons. It distinguishes impersonal from personal care, and within the latter, between caring that does and caring that does not involve certain desires whose content essentially refers...

... theory, saw the ruler's responsibilities as extending to the social and economic infrastructure. Europeans saw the state, Muslims the caliphate, as impersonal offices. Byzantine empire amirs Azmeh A al‐ Bulgaria Caliphate imamate leadership Christendom eastern church ecclesia ekklesia coercive...

...List of Tables 4.1 Distribution of impersonal verbs in the HTOED Emotion categories 91 5.1 Complementation patterns of impersonal constructions with impersonal verbs of Fear 103 5.2 Impersonal and near-synonymous non-impersonal verbs of Fear before the fourteenth century: Examples of Experiencer...

... D Kymlicka W libertarianism Narveson J Rakowski E Rawls J Sen A health care hypothetical insurance market theory of disability compensation personal resources and impersonal resources perfect liberal equality person circumstances distinction envy test market organ transplants risk...

... allows some partiality and whether there is a difference between personal and impersonal values. contractualism equal respect ideal contractor ideal observer motivation Requirement of Psychological Realism personal aims self‐interest Prisoner's Dilemma utilitarianism Rawls John Bentham Jeremy...

...(1) (a) The reanalysis of impersonal constructions in English resulted from the emergence of A–movement where there had been none. Contrary to traditional accounts, this was not due to morphological syncretism. (b) There is no implicational relation...

...Derek Parfit's Reductionist view of persons is a combination of reductionism about personal identity and the impersonal description thesis. This chapter argues against the impersonal description thesis, the thesis that it is possible to give a complete description of reality without claiming...

... “genre” in a way that fuses poetics with hermeneutics, lyric is a genre; 4) lyric and affiliated subgenres and modes live historically but survive transhistorically, albeit often dramatically refashioned; 5) lyric is neither merely personal nor entirely impersonal, making it readily appropriable; 6...

...This chapter examines how functional land registries enable impersonal markets. Starting with the regime of purely private transactions, it focuses on the main public titling solutions in use today: the recordation of deeds with or without title insurance, found in the United States and France...

...An account is procedurally objective just in case it is either impersonal or impartial. This is compatible with its being perspectival. As van Fraassen argues, science must be perspectival if it is to be responsive to evidence. Nagel Thomas Objectivity Representation Williams Bernard Denotation...

... (communitas) and immunity (immunitas) to his theorizations of the impolitical and the impersonal. Terms of Politics: Community, Immunity, and Biopolitics presents a decade of Esposito's thought on the origins and possibilities of political theory. With interlocutors...