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What's really disgustingCarman, Mary Elizabeth 28 July 2009 (has links)
Abstract
Finding something disgusting involves a particular sensuous experience and
an evaluation that the thing is of little or no value. Sensuous properties such
as digustingness are constituted by these two aspects, the sensuous and the
evaluative. In “The Authority of Affect” (2001a), Mark Johnston argues
for a detectivist account where our affective states detect mind-independent
properties of sensuous value, like disgustingness. He argues that the other
two standard positions, projectivism and dispositionalism, do not account
for the authority of affect or are incoherent. In this paper, I argue that he
is wrong to rule out dispositionalism for being incoherent and that it does
account for the authority of affect. In addition, I argue that it is best able to
capture the nature of sensuous properties and that it should be the default
account of the relation between sensuous properties and affect.
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The Core-based Worldview modelOldfield, Edwin January 2019 (has links)
This essay starts at the proposition that there is not yet a satisfying way to differentiate between different worldviews. Although many attempts have been made, they fail in ways that are difficult to pinpoint. The usual way of researching a worldview is to start from a set of questions that are deemed fundamental to our beliefs, a method the author regards as flawed. In this essay it is instead proposed that we should regard actions and behaviour to determine worldview, because they lead us to the essential part of worldview, the core. To get a worldview with this method, we would categorise different tendencies of actions of individuals, instead of trying to ask them questions and categorising the answers. From this, a model of four different worldviews is established based of four different aims that are sought in actions. These for are: the way of virtue; the way of empowerment or worldly security; the way of pleasure; and the way of spiritual liberation or salvation. The aim of this model is to increase our explanatory power in terms of what people believe, why they act as they do, and what decisions they reach.
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