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    The Public Policy Pedagogy of Corporate and Alternative News Media
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 30 (2): 185-198. 2011.
    This paper argues for seeing in-depth news coverage of political, social, and economic issues as “public policy pedagogy.” To develop my argument, I draw on Nancy Fraser’s democratic theory, which attends to social differences and does not assume that unity is a starting point or an end goal of public dialogue. Alongside the formation of “subaltern counterpublics”, alternative media outlets sometimes develop. There, members of alternative publics debate their interests and strategize about how t…Read more
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    Researchers who argue that moral judgment is based on emotions (`emotion-backers') and those who believe that it is based on reasoning and deliberation (`reasoning-backers') have both struggled to account for the notorious moral deviance of incarcerated psychopaths. Emotion-backers, such as Jonathan Haidt, focus on psychopaths' lack of a affect,or defciencies in particular emotions, such as sympathy. Reasoning-backers, such as Lawrence Kohlberg, focus instead on psychopaths' de ci…Read more
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    Further routes to psychological constructionism
    with Courtney Humeny and Andrew Brook
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (3): 153-154. 2012.
    In this commentary, we do two things. First, we sketch two further routes to psychological constructionism. They are complementary to Lindquist et al.'s meta-analyses and have potential to add new evidence. Second, we look at a challenging kind of case for constructionism, namely, emotional anomalies where there are correlated, and probably relevant, brain anomalies. Psychopaths are our example
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    "Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind," ed. Uriah Kriegel (review)
    with Ted Lougheed
    Teaching Philosophy 37 (3): 440-445. 2014.