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    Animal genetic manipulation – a utilitarian response.Kevin R. Smith - 2002 - Bioethics 16 (1):55–71.
    I examine the process and outcomes of animal genetic manipulation (‘transgenesis’) with reference to its morally salient features. I consider several objections to transgenesis. I examine and reject the alleged intrinsic wrongness of ‘deliberate genetic sequence alteration’, as I do the notion that transgenesis may lead to human genetic manipulation. I examine the alleged wrongness of killing inherent in transgenesis, and suggest that the concept of ‘replaceability’ successfully justifies such killing, although not for entities deemed to possess ‘personhood’. I examine (...)
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    Psychotherapy as applied science or moral praxis: The limitations of empirically supported treatment.Kevin R. Smith - 2009 - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 29 (1):34-46.
    Proponents of empirically supported treatment have argued that psychotherapists have an ethical obligation to make an EST the first choice in clinical practice. This paper challenges this idea. The EST program assumes a model of therapy as technology or applied science that poorly fits the reality of psychotherapeutic practice. The problems brought to therapy implicate fundamental questions regarding what constitutes a good life. A therapeutic response to such problems is not a technical means to change a circumscribed disorder, but an (...)
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    Therapeutic Ethics in Context and in Dialogue.Kevin R. Smith - 2020 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Psychotherapy helps one enact ideas about a good life, and therapists practice orientations rooted in their chosen approach. A 'good life' can therefore mean different things depending on the therapy. Building on the philosophy of Charles Taylor, Smith examines the link between therapy, ethics and the root of therapeutic views in comparison to modern, Western ideas about 'living well'. This is one of two complementary volumes. This volume builds on the last to explore what it means to engage the different (...)
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    The Ethical Visions of Psychotherapy.Kevin R. Smith - 2020 - Routledge.
    Psychotherapy helps one enact ideas about a good life, and therapists practice orientations rooted in their chosen approach. A 'good life' can therefore mean different things depending on the therapy. Building on the philosophy of Charles Taylor, Smith examines the link between therapy, ethics and the root of therapeutic views in comparison to modern, Western ideas about 'living well'. This is one of two complementary volumes. This volume explores the links between therapeutic aims and conceptions of wellbeing. It examines three (...)
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    Religion, secular medicine and utilitarianism: a response to Biggar.Kevin R. Smith - 2015 - Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (11):867-869.
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    Paternal age bioethics.Kevin R. Smith - 2015 - Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (9):775-779.
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    Re-Thinking Therapy with Taylor: Beyond the Therapeutic.Kevin R. Smith - 2021 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (5):776-790.
    In his critique of the therapeutic, Taylor argues that therapy fails to engage with the ethical and spiritual significance of human suffering. Therapy’s denial of ethics is representative of a wide...
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    Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology.John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith & John R. Alford - 2014 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (3):297-307.
    Disputes between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and deep-seated, and they often follow common, recognizable lines. The supporters of tradition and stability, sometimes referred to as conservatives, do battle with the supporters of innovation and reform, sometimes referred to as liberals. Understanding the correlates of those distinct political orientations is probably a prerequisite for managing political disputes, which are a source of social conflict that can lead to frustration and even bloodshed. A rapidly growing body of empirical evidence (...)
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    Liberals and conservatives: Non-convertible currencies.John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith & John R. Alford - 2015 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.
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    Negativity bias and political preferences: A response to commentators.John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith & John R. Alford - 2014 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (3):333-350.
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    Sorting through citizenship: A case study on using cognitive scaffolding to unpack adolescent civic identity formation.Victoria Davis Smith, Kevin R. Magill, Brooke Blevins & Nate Scholten - 2022 - Journal of Social Studies Research 46 (3):223-235.
    Civic engagement requires individuals to have both knowledge of democratic principles and the skills for enacting change. Acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for a productive civic life can be difficult for students if they are not provided conceptual scaffolds and opportunities to practice citizenship. We implemented and studied an activity using Westheimer and Kahne's (2004) citizenship typology during a summer civics institute to help students grapple with their understandings of “good” citizenship. We found (1) students appropriated the language of (...)
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    Dynamics of Group-Based Emotions: Insights From Intergroup Emotions Theory.Eliot R. Smith & Diane M. Mackie - 2015 - Emotion Review 7 (4):349-354.
    Over-time variability characterizes not only individual-level emotions, but also group-level emotions, those that occur when people identify with social groups and appraise events in terms of their implications for those groups. We discuss theory and research regarding the role of emotions in intergroup contexts, focusing on their dynamic nature. We then describe new insights into the causes and consequences of emotional dynamics that flow from conceptualizing emotions as based in group membership, and conclude with research recommendations.
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  13. Towards a History of Speech Act Theory.Barry Smith - 1990 - In Armin Burkhardt (ed.), Speech acts, meaning, and intentions: critical approaches to the philosophy of John R. Searle. New York: W. de Gruyter. pp. 29--61.
    That uses of language not only can, but even normally do, have the character of actions was a fact largely unrealised by those engaged in the study of language before the present century, at least in the sense that there was lacking any attempt to come to terms systematically with the action-theoretic peculiarities of language use. Where the action-character of linguistic phenomena was acknowledged, it was normally regarded as a peripheral matter, relating to derivative or nonstandard aspects of language which (...)
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  14. Mach und Ehrenfels. Mulligan, Kevin und Smith & Barry - 1986 - In Reinhard Fabian (ed.), Christian von Ehrenfels: Leben und Werk. Rodopi.
     
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    Multiply-constrained semantic search in the Remote Associates Test.Kevin A. Smith, David E. Huber & Edward Vul - 2013 - Cognition 128 (1):64-75.
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    Increasing Price and Reducing Access to Tobacco in New York City.Kevin R. J. Schroth - 2019 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 47 (S2):87-90.
    This paper describes novel tobacco control laws passed in New York City in 2017. These laws are designed to improve the city's strategy of using price to decrease tobacco consumption, and over time, change the city's landscape by making tobacco less accessible.
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  17. Against homeopathy – a utilitarian perspective.Kevin Smith - 2012 - Bioethics 26 (8):398-409.
    I examine the positive and negative features of homeopathy from an ethical perspective. I consider: (a) several potentially beneficial features of homeopathy, including non-invasiveness, cost-effectiveness, holism, placebo benefits and agent autonomy; and (b) several potentially negative features of homeopathy, including failure to seek effective healthcare, wastage of resources, promulgation of false beliefs and a weakening of commitment to scientific medicine. A utilitarian analysis of the utilities and disutilities leads to the conclusion that homeopathy is ethically unacceptable and ought to be (...)
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    Philosophical issues in journalism (book).Kevin R. Stoner - 1993 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 8 (1):58 – 60.
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    Sources of Uncertainty in Intuitive Physics.Kevin A. Smith & Edward Vul - 2013 - Topics in Cognitive Science 5 (1):185-199.
    Recent work suggests that people predict how objects interact in a manner consistent with Newtonian physics, but with additional uncertainty. However, the sources of uncertainty have not been examined. In this study, we measure perceptual noise in initial conditions and stochasticity in the physical model used to make predictions. Participants predicted the trajectory of a moving object through occluded motion and bounces, and we compared their behavior to an ideal observer model. We found that human judgments cannot be captured by (...)
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    Physicians' Dual Agency, Stewardship, and Marginally Beneficial Care.Kevin R. Riggs & Matthew DeCamp - 2014 - American Journal of Bioethics 14 (9):49-51.
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    Deterministic Attributions of Behavior: Brain versus Genes.Kevin R. Peters, Alena Kalinina, Nastassja M. Downer & Amy Van Elswyk - 2021 - Neuroethics 14 (3):507-528.
    This research examined the influence of social-, genetic-, and brain-based explanations on attributions of others’ behaviors. Participants were university students in Studies 1, 2, and 3. Participants read a vignette about an individual who possessed several undesirable behaviors and answered related questions. The first two studies had within-subjects designs. Participants in Study 1 were provided with social-, genetic-, and brain-based explanations for the individual’s behavior. The order of the genetic- and brain-based explanations was reversed in Study 2. Study 3 used (...)
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    Kantian "Publicity" and Political Justice.Kevin R. Davis - 1991 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 8 (4):409 - 421.
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    Hume's Alleged Lapse on the Causal Maxim.Kevin R. Busch - 2016 - Hume Studies 42 (1/2):89-112.
    In his account of our belief in the Causal Maxim Hume argued, among other things, that it is not absolutely necessary for any event to be caused. Harold Noonan attempts an objection to Hume’s argument: in showing (i) the absolute possibility for any event to exist without its actual cause, Hume would not thereby show (ii) the absolute possibility for any event to exist uncaused. For this objection to succeed, Noonan needs two further assumptions: first, that Hume indeed could not (...)
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  24. Homeopathy is unscientific and unethical.Kevin Smith - 2012 - Bioethics 26 (9):508-512.
    In opposition to the premises of Against Homeopathy – a Utilitarian Perspective, all four respondents base their objections on the central claims that homeopathy is in fact scientifically plausible and is supported by empirical evidence. Despite ethical aspects forming the main thrust of Against Homeopathy, the respondents’ focus on scientific aspects represents sound strategy, since the ethical case against homeopathy would be weakened concomitant with the extent to which any plausibility for homeopathy could be demonstrated. The trouble here is that (...)
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    The Role of Sequential Dependence in Creative Semantic Search.Kevin A. Smith & Edward Vul - 2015 - Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (3):543-546.
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    Time to start intervening in the human germline? A utilitarian perspective.Kevin Smith - 2019 - Bioethics 34 (1):90-104.
    Focusing on present‐day possibilities raised by existing technology, I consider the normative aspects of genetically modifying the human germline from a utilitarian standpoint. With reference to a hypothetical case, I examine the probable consequences of permitting a well‐conceived attempt to correct a disease‐associated gene in the human germline using current CRISPR gene‐editing technology. I consider inter alia the likely effects on utility of creating healthy new lives, of discouraging adoption, and of kickstarting a revolution in human germline genetic modification (HGGM). (...)
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    Shining a Light on Race: Contrast and Assimilation Effects in the Perception of Skin Tone and Racial Typicality.Kevin R. Brooks, Daniel Sturman & O. Scott Gwinn - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
    Researchers have long debated the extent to which an individual’s skin tone influences their perceived race. Brooks and Gwinn demonstrated that the race of surrounding faces can affect the perceived skin tone of a central target face without changing perceived racial typicality, suggesting that skin lightness makes a small contribution to judgments of race compared to morphological cues. However, the lack of a consistent light source may have undermined the reliability of skin tone cues, encouraging observers to rely disproportionately on (...)
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    The Social Construction of Talent: A Defence of Justice as Reciprocity[Link].Steven R. Smith - 2002 - Journal of Political Philosophy 9 (1):19-37.
    Debates concerning principles of justice need to be attentive to various types of social process. One concerns the distribution of resources between groups defined as talented and untalented. Another concerns the social mechanisms by which people come to be categorised as talented and untalented. Political philosophers have paid considerable attention to the former issues, much less to the latter. That, I shall argue, represents a significant oversight.
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    Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary: a radical's struggle to remake America.Kevin R. C. Gutzman - 2017 - New York: St. Martin's Press.
    Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans who were full citizens and the role of education in the new country. In his new book, Kevin Gutzman gives readers a new view of Jefferson--a revolutionary who effected radical change in a growing country. Jefferson's philosophy about the size (...)
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  30. Anselmian Defense of Hell.T. Parker Haratine & Kevin A. Smith - 2024 - TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 8 (1).
    This article constructively retrieves St. Anselm of Canterbury’s theory of retributive justice and provides a defense of what can be called the retributive model of hell. In the first part of this article, we develop the place of retributive punishment in Anselm’s thinking and discuss how and when retributive punishment is a good thing. In the second part, we apply Anselm’s thinking on retributive justice to the problem of hell and provide a defense of how hell, defined as a state (...)
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    9 Local: Global.Kevin R. Cox - 2005 - In Paul Cloke & Ron Johnston (eds.), Spaces of geographical thought: deconstructing human geography's binaries. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. pp. 175.
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    Synthetic Biology: A Utilitarian Perspective.Kevin Smith - 2013 - Bioethics 27 (8):453-463.
    I examine the positive and negative features of synthetic biology (‘SynBio’) from a utilitarian ethical perspective. The potential beneficial outcomes from SynBio in the context of medicine are substantial; however it is not presently possible to predict precise outcomes due to the nascent state of the field. Potential negative outcomes from SynBio also exist, including iatrogenesis and bioterrorism; however it is not yet possible to quantify these risks. I argue that the application of a ‘precautionary’ approach to SynBio is ethically (...)
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    Kant’s Different “Publics” and the Justice of Publicity.Kevin R. Davis - 1992 - Kant Studien 83 (2):170-184.
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    Are Moral Intuitions Heritable?Kevin Smith & Peter K. Hatemi - 2020 - Human Nature 31 (4):406-420.
    Two prominent theoretical frameworks in moral psychology, Moral Foundations and Dual Process Theory, share a broad foundational assumption that individual differences in human morality are dispositional and in part due to genetic variation. The only published direct test of heritability, however, found little evidence of genetic influences on moral judgments using instrumentation approaches associated with Moral Foundations Theory. This raised questions about one of the core assumptions underpinning intuitionist theories of moral psychology. Here we examine the heritability of moral psychology (...)
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    The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America (review).Kevin R. West - 1997 - Symploke 5 (1):241-242.
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    On the history of political diversity in social psychology.Kevin R. Binning & David O. Sears - 2015 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.
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    Decreased Cerebellar-Orbitofrontal Connectivity Correlates with Stuttering Severity: Whole-Brain Functional and Structural Connectivity Associations with Persistent Developmental Stuttering.Kevin R. Sitek, Shanqing Cai, Deryk S. Beal, Joseph S. Perkell, Frank H. Guenther & Satrajit S. Ghosh - 2016 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.
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    Spener’s Eschatology.Kevin R. Baxter - 2005 - In Udo Sträter (ed.), Interdisziplinäre Pietismusforschungen: Beiträge Zum Ersten Internationalen Kongress Für Pietismusforschung 2001. De Gruyter. pp. 145-154.
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    Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Body Image, Representation and Perception.Kevin R. Brooks, Jason Bell, Lynda G. Boothroyd & Ian D. Stephen - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
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    The Sin of Heresy: Opposition to Heresy in Augustine’s Confessions.Kevin A. Smith - 2023 - Heythrop Journal 64 (1):111-119.
    Throughout the Confessions, Augustine repeatedly complains about heresy with a special focus on the heresy he once belonged to, Manicheanism. To those of us who live in a culture in which respectable people rarely, if ever, care about religious orthodoxy to such a degree, these complaints seem rather bizarre. Despite this initial appearance, Augustine presents in the Confessions several plausible reasons for thinking heresy is sinful and, therefore, detrimental to a person’s sanctity and ultimate salvation. In this paper, I argue (...)
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    ‘Complementary & Alternative Medicine’ (CAM): Ethical And Policy Issues.Kevin Smith, Edzard Ernst, David Colquhoun & Wallace Sampson - 2016 - Bioethics 30 (2):60-62.
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    The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China.Nick R. Smith - 2021 - University of Minnesota Press.
    How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a (...)
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  43. Human Germline Genetic Modification – A Utilitarian Bioethical Perspective.Kevin Smith - 2004 - Ethics 4 (2).
     
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    Sperm‐mediated gene transfer: Applications and implications.Kevin Smith & Corrado Spadafora - 2005 - Bioessays 27 (5):551-562.
    Recent developments in studies of sperm‐mediated gene transfer (SMGT) now provide solid ground for the notion that sperm cells can act as vectors for exogenous genetic sequences. A substantive body of evidence indicates that SMGT is potentially useable in animal transgenesis, but also suggests that the final fate of the exogenous sequences transferred by sperm is not always predictable. The analysis of SMGT‐derived offspring has shown the existence of integrated foreign sequences in some cases, while in others stable modifications of (...)
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  45. Biomedical Ethics: A Utilitarian Perspective.Kevin Smith - 2008 - Ethics 5 (3-4):179-196.
     
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    Can Children Write Philosophical Exercises.Kevin J. Smith - 1993 - Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 10 (4):48-48.
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    Fodor on Language Comprehension as Inferential Process: A Phenomenological Critique.Kevin Smith - 1987 - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 18 (1-2):143-186.
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    Problems of Affluence in Morality.Kevin Smith - 2002 - Philosophy Now 38:28-31.
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    Reductionism and Practicality.Kevin Smith & Edward Vul - 2014 - Cosmos and History 10 (1):78-85.
    Like most domains of science, the study of the mind has been tackled at many scales of analysis, from the behavior of large groups of people, to the diffusion of ions across cellular membranes. At each of these scales, researchers often believe that the critical phenomena of interest, and the most powerful explanatory constructs and mechanisms, reside at their scale of analysis, with finer scales argued to be incapable of predicting the interesting phenomena, while coarser scales are purported to miss (...)
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    Verbal Behavior and Authentic Speech.Kevin Regan Smith - 1983 - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 14 (1-2):3-20.
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