Marion Godman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1311992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Godman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Godman |
| SIGNATURE | GODMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7728-0720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A troubled inheritance
What are historical injustices? They are not merely injustices of historical significance, such as the trial of Captain Dreyfus. Instead, they are historical in the sense that they occurred in the remote past such that many, if not all, of those directly concerned can neither be brought to justice nor given justice. But historical injustices are also not irrelevant to the present. Indeed, to give a positive account of the relationship between his…
On the Very Concept of Discrimination
I argue for a radical publicity of normative theorizing. Such radical publicity derives from the fact that it is not chiefly the normative principles that should enjoy some stable public acceptance, but the key concepts themselves such as ‘democracy’ and ‘discrimination’. These ‘thick concepts’ contain both descriptive and normative content and are up for grabs in normative theorizing to an extent that has not been appreciated thus far by philoso…
Why multiculturalism is good for women
Two emancipatory political philosophies have for the past two decades had an uneasy relationship with one another: multiculturalism and feminism. The late Susan Moller Okin in her seminal paper, “Is multiculturalism is bad for women?” largely initiated this feminist pushback against multiculturalism. Okin argued that giving ethnic minorities special group-differentiated rights based on their cultural membership comes into conflict with the rights…
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology
In this paper, we consider how latent variables of mainstream quantitative psychology fits with two different models of scientific kinds. On the one hand, there is a good reason to think they fit with taxonomic and predictive success criteria that are popular within an epistemic understanding of scientific kinds. On the other hand, they conflict with widely shared person-based ontological commitments that underwrite psychological kinds because th…
Eyeing up life’s social instincts
Scientific realism with historical essences
Natural kinds, real kinds, or, following J.S. Mill simply, Kinds , are thought to be an important asset for scientific realists in the non-fundamental (or “special”) sciences. Essential natures are less in vogue. I show that the realist would do well to couple her Kinds with essential natures in order to strengthen their epistemic and ontological credentials. I argue that these essential natures need not however be intrinsic to the Kind’s members…
The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds
Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy – the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature. Natural kinds are often opposed to the idea of kinds in the human and social sciences, which are typically seen as social constructions, characterised by changing norms and resisting scientific reduction. Yet human beings are also a subject of scientific study.Does th…
Essential Properties Are Super-Explanatory
This article aims to build a bridge between two areas of philosophical research: the structure of kinds and metaphysical modality. Our central thesis is that kinds typically involve super-explanatory properties, and that these properties are therefore metaphysically essential to natural kinds. Philosophers of science who work on kinds tend to emphasize their complexity, and are generally resistant to any suggestion that they have essences. The co…
The Social Motivation Hypothesis for Prosocial Behavior
Existing economic models of prosociality have been rather silent in terms of proximate psychological mechanisms. We nevertheless identify the psychologically most informed accounts and offer a critical discussion of their hypotheses for the proximate psychological explanations. Based on convergent evidence from several fields of research, we argue that there nevertheless is a more plausible alternative proximate account available: the social moti…
Assessing socially disruptive technological change
European Public Advice on Nanobiotechnology—Four Convergence Seminars
The Social Motivation Hypothesis for Prosocial Behavior
Existing economic models of prosociality have been rather silent in terms of proximate psychological mechanisms. We nevertheless identify the psychologically most informed accounts and offer a critical discussion of their hypotheses for the proximate psychological explanations. Based on convergent evidence from several fields of research, we argue that there nevertheless is a more plausible alternative proximate account available: the social moti…
Assessing socially disruptive technological change
European Public Advice on Nanobiotechnology—Four Convergence Seminars
Scientific realism with historical essences
Natural kinds, real kinds, or, following J.S. Mill simply, Kinds , are thought to be an important asset for scientific realists in the non-fundamental (or “special”) sciences. Essential natures are less in vogue. I show that the realist would do well to couple her Kinds with essential natures in order to strengthen their epistemic and ontological credentials. I argue that these essential natures need not however be intrinsic to the Kind’s members…
European Public Advice on Nanobiotechnology—Four Convergence Seminars
Assessing socially disruptive technological change
The Social Motivation Hypothesis for Prosocial Behavior
Existing economic models of prosociality have been rather silent in terms of proximate psychological mechanisms. We nevertheless identify the psychologically most informed accounts and offer a critical discussion of their hypotheses for the proximate psychological explanations. Based on convergent evidence from several fields of research, we argue that there nevertheless is a more plausible alternative proximate account available: the social moti…
The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds
Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy – the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature. Natural kinds are often opposed to the idea of kinds in the human and social sciences, which are typically seen as social constructions, characterised by changing norms and resisting scientific reduction. Yet human beings are also a subject of scientific study.Does th…
Essential Properties Are Super-Explanatory
This article aims to build a bridge between two areas of philosophical research: the structure of kinds and metaphysical modality. Our central thesis is that kinds typically involve super-explanatory properties, and that these properties are therefore metaphysically essential to natural kinds. Philosophers of science who work on kinds tend to emphasize their complexity, and are generally resistant to any suggestion that they have essences. The co…
Scientific realism with historical essences
Natural kinds, real kinds, or, following J.S. Mill simply, Kinds , are thought to be an important asset for scientific realists in the non-fundamental (or “special”) sciences. Essential natures are less in vogue. I show that the realist would do well to couple her Kinds with essential natures in order to strengthen their epistemic and ontological credentials. I argue that these essential natures need not however be intrinsic to the Kind’s members…
Eyeing up life’s social instincts
Latent variables, psychological constructs, and the prospect of scientific kinds in psychology
In this paper, we consider how latent variables of mainstream quantitative psychology fits with two different models of scientific kinds. On the one hand, there is a good reason to think they fit with taxonomic and predictive success criteria that are popular within an epistemic understanding of scientific kinds. On the other hand, they conflict with widely shared person-based ontological commitments that underwrite psychological kinds because th…
On the Very Concept of Discrimination
I argue for a radical publicity of normative theorizing. Such radical publicity derives from the fact that it is not chiefly the normative principles that should enjoy some stable public acceptance, but the key concepts themselves such as ‘democracy’ and ‘discrimination’. These ‘thick concepts’ contain both descriptive and normative content and are up for grabs in normative theorizing to an extent that has not been appreciated thus far by philoso…
Why multiculturalism is good for women
Two emancipatory political philosophies have for the past two decades had an uneasy relationship with one another: multiculturalism and feminism. The late Susan Moller Okin in her seminal paper, “Is multiculturalism is bad for women?” largely initiated this feminist pushback against multiculturalism. Okin argued that giving ethnic minorities special group-differentiated rights based on their cultural membership comes into conflict with the rights…
A troubled inheritance
What are historical injustices? They are not merely injustices of historical significance, such as the trial of Captain Dreyfus. Instead, they are historical in the sense that they occurred in the remote past such that many, if not all, of those directly concerned can neither be brought to justice nor given justice. But historical injustices are also not irrelevant to the present. Indeed, to give a positive account of the relationship between his…
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Convergence (economics (2 works)