Philosophers and linguists currently lack the means to reliably identify evaluative concepts
and measure their evaluative intensity. Using a corpus-based approach, we present a new …

The most common approach to understanding the semantics of the concept of pain is third-
person thought experiments. By contrast, the most frequent and most relevant uses of the …

Acts that are considered undesirable standardly violate our expectations. In contrast, acts
that count as morally desirable can either meet our expectations or exceed them. The zone …

The standard view in philosophy is that responsibility entails causation. Most philosophers
treat this entailment claim as an evident insight into the ordinary concepts of responsibility …

Semantic features are components of concepts. In philosophy, there is a predominant focus
on those features that are necessary (and jointly sufficient) for the application of a concept …

Recent research on thick terms like “rude” and “friendly” has revealed a polarity effect,
according to which the evaluative content of positive thick terms like “friendly” and …

Some expressions, such as 'generous' and 'stingy', are used not only to describe the world
around us. They are also used to evaluate the things to which they are applied. In this paper …

The reasonable person standard is key to both Criminal Law and Torts. What does and does
not count as reasonable behavior and decision-making is frequently deter-mined by lay …

Legal professionals need to be objective in many respects. For instance, each defendant
has a constitutional right to be given a fair trial, independent of any personal liking or …

Recent experimental work revealed that rule violation judgments are sensitive to morality.
For instance: when someone blamelessly violates a rule's text, about half of the participants …