J C Wright

Dados Biográficos

ID14135
NOMEJ C Wright
PRENOMESJ C
SOBRENOMEWright
ASSINATURAWRIGHT J C
AFILIAÇÕESCollege of Charleston
ORCID0000-0001-7878-0252
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES72
TOTAL COMO AUTOR50
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1962
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H5

  • Implicit Metaethical Intuitions

    Open AccessJohannes Wagner, Johannes M J Wagner et al.ARTICLEReview of Philosophy and Psychology2023

    Philosophical arguments often assume that the folk tends towards moral objectivism. Although recent psychological studies have indicated that lay persons’ attitudes to morality are best characterized in terms of non-objectivism-leaning pluralism, it has been maintained that the folk may be committed to moral objectivism implicitly . Since the studies conducted so far almost exclusively assessed subjects’ metaethical attitudes via explicit cogniti…

  • An empirical argument against moral non-cognitivism

    Open AccessThomas Pölzler, J C WrightARTICLEInquiry2023

    According to non-cognitivism, moral sentences and judgements do not aim to represent how things morally are. This paper presents an empirical argument against this view. We begin by showing that non-cognitivism entails the prediction that after some reflection competent ordinary speakers’ semantic intuitions favor that moral sentences and judgements do not aim to represent how things morally are. At first sight, this prediction may seem to have b…

  • Should morality be abolished? An empirical challenge to the argument from intolerance

    Open AccessJ C Wright, Thomas PölzlerARTICLEPhilosophical Psychology2022

    Moral abolitionists claim that morality ought to be abolished. According to one of their most prominent arguments, this is because making moral judgments renders people significantly less tolerant toward anyone who holds divergent views. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that morality’s tolerance-decreasing effect only occurs if people are realists about moral issues, i.e., they interpret these issues as objectively grounded. We found s…

  • Against neutrality

    Michael T Warren, J C Wright et al.ARTICLEJournal of Moral Education2022

    We appreciate and respond to Cokelet’s thoughtful criticisms of our book. First, he points to deliberative forms of practical wisdom as objectionable to anti-rationalist’s. In response, we point to non-conscious (yet complex) forms of deliberation that occur as individuals automatically process and respond to virtue-relevant stimuli. Second, Cokelet states that reflecting upon one’s life as a whole may be unnecessary and ineffective for virtue de…

  • Humility, Personality, and Psychological Functioning

    Open AccessLisa Thomson Ro, J C WrightARTICLEPsychological Reports2021

    As part of the shift to a more positive psychology, researchers have demonstrated a relatively new and intense fascination with humility. Following a discussion of this construct and its correlates, we investigate how humility relates to personality dimensions, anxiety and depression, love of life and happiness, and self-efficacy in two samples-college students and adult Mturk workers. In both studies, we used the Dual Dimension Humility Scale, a…

  • In-Group Love Versus Out-Group Hate

    Open AccessKaryn Amira, J C Wright et al.ARTICLEPolitical Behavior2021Citada por: 31Referências: 28

  • Empirical research on folk moral objectivism

    Open AccessThomas Pölzler, J C WrightARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2019Citada por: 7Referências: 55

    Lay persons may have intuitions about morality's objectivity. What do these intuitions look like? And what are their causes and consequences? In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have begun to investigate these questions empirically. This article presents and assesses the resulting area of research as well as its potential philosophical implications. First, we introduce the methods of empirical research on folk moral objectivism. Sec…

  • Be it ever so humble

    J C Wright, Thomas Nadelhoffer et al.ARTICLESelf and Identity2017

    What does it mean to be humble? We argue that humility is an epistemically and ethically aligned state of awareness – the experience of ourselves as a small part of a larger universe and as one among a host of other morally relevant beings. So conceived, humility can be operationalized and measured along the dual dimensions of low self-focus and high other-focus and is distinct from other related constructs (e.g., modesty and open-mindedness). We…

  • Imaginative Role-Playing as a Medium for Moral Development

    Open AccessJ C Wright, Daniel E Weissglass et al.ARTICLEJournal of Humanistic Psychology2017Citada por: 8Referências: 51

    This study investigates the use of imaginative role-play games to sponsor positive development in young adult moral reasoning. Twelve college students participated in six approximately 4-hour gaming sessions using a customized game system based on Dungeons & DragonsTM (D&D, 1974, 4th ed.). The games contained embedded social/moral dilemmas (e.g., whether to torture a prisoner for information) that participants encountered and had to work through …

  • On the Value Integration of Successfully Reformed Ex-Convicts

    Open AccessJ C Wright, Heath C Hoffmann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Humanistic Psychology2015Referências: 19

    The issue of successfully reintegrating ex-prisoners into society is a critical one. To assess the process of successful reintegration, we interviewed five male ex-convicts about their past versus present lives. Their responses were coded for self-oriented (agency) and community-oriented values. We found a shift away from “unmitigated” agency, toward community values from past to present, and also an integration of agency with community similar t…

  • The Social Cost of Atheism

    J C Wright, Ryan NicholsARTICLEJournal of Cognition and Culture2014Citada por: 7Referências: 10

    Social psychologists have found that stereotypes correlate with moral judgments about agents and actions. The most commonly studied stereotypes are race/ethnicity and gender. But atheists compose another stereotype, one with its own ignominious history in the Western world, and yet, one about which very little is known. This project endeavored to further our understanding of atheism as a social stereotype. Specifically, we tested whether people w…

  • Predictors of Severity and Duration of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities in the Saskatoon Health Region

    Riley A Glew, Molly Bell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2013

    Introduction Infectious disease outbreaks in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) pose a significant threat to the health and well-being of residents. While prevention of all outbreaks is not realistic, minimising the severity and duration of outbreaks can be achieved through the prompt implementation of infection control policies, outbreak reporting to Public Health, and outbreak management. In this study, we investigated variables associated with …

  • Folk Moral Relativism

    Open AccessHagop Sarkissian, John Park et al.ARTICLEMind & Language2011

    It has often been suggested that people's ordinary understanding of morality involves a belief in objective moral truths and a rejection of moral relativism. The results of six studies call this claim into question. Participants did offer apparently objectivist moral intuitions when considering individuals from their own culture, but they offered increasingly relativist intuitions considering individuals from increasingly different cultures or wa…

  • Causal Mechanisms Generating Writing Competency Discourses in a Radiography Curriculum in Higher Education

    J C Wright, Jennifer WrightARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2011

    When education is jointly managed by a workplace and academia, causal mechanisms in the culture, structure and agency of these two contexts may unintentionally generate discourse that conveys conflicting messages for learners regarding some of the priorities of the profession. Using the concepts of culture, structure and agency as they are used in critical realism to analyse the discourse generated in two teaching and learning contexts (a radiogr…

  • Hāla's stanzas on life and love in Ancient India

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2011

    A new English translation, by Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken, of “Hāla's 700” Prakrit verses caters for a long-felt want in the field of classical Indology. It is an attractive literary rendering, succinctly annotated, of stanzas epitomizing the delights and sorrows of love. The result is not, however, in every case an improvement upon previous efforts, and it emphasizes the need for more objective textual criticism. It is the compilers' person…

  • The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions

    Open AccessJ C Wright, Galen L Baril et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2011Citada por: 12Referências: 23

  • Young Children's Persuasion in Everyday Conversation

    Open AccessKaren Bartsch, J C Wright et al.ARTICLESocial Development2009Citada por: 3Referências: 11

    Young children's persuasion tactics, and how these reflected attunement to others' mental states, were explored in archived longitudinal samples of transcribed at-home conversations of four children, three to five years old. Over 87,000 utterances were examined to identify conversation ‘chunks’ involving persuasion; 1,307 chunks were then coded for who initiated the persuasion, the persuader's goal, tactics employed, the presence of cues about ot…

  • The Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Moral Conviction

    Open AccessJ C Wright, Jerry Cullum et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2008

    The present studies investigate the role of both cognitive and affective dimensions of moral conviction in contributing to negative interpersonal responses. After demonstrating that the cognitive and affective dimensions of moral conviction are distinct constructs, the studies show that the cognitive dimension is sufficient to produce many forms of interpersonal intolerance. Simply believing an issue to be moral (i.e., objectively grounded, non-n…

  • Theragāthā

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2008

    The Theragāthā anthology of “Elders' Verses” is one of the canonical Pali verse texts for which K. R. Norman provided much-needed fundamentally revised English translations, with full-scale philological annotation that in most respects supersedes all that had gone before. He has now again revised these in the light of the progress that has been made over nearly forty years since their original publication. What emerges in Theragāthā is in large m…

  • Obituary

    Open AccessJ C Wright, Jane WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2008

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  • The Sāmavedasamhitā

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2004

    The historical development of Vedic exegesis, as attested in the Rgvedic and Sāmavedic commentaries, remains virtually unexplored, although those that survive have long been available in print, those of the Sāmaveda since the 1870s (the Sāmavedic Sāyana) and 1941 (the relatively early Mādhava and the later Bharatasvāmin). A new edition of the Ārcika or recitation text of the chanted Sāmaveda, currently appearing in the Harvard Oriental Series, co…

  • The Pali Subodhālankāra and Dandin's Kāvyādarśa

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2002

    The only notable works on poetics and prosody that survive in Pali are the Subodhālankāra (comprising, in effect, Kārikā and Vrtti) and Vuttodaya. They have been ascribed to the twelfth-century Sinhalese monk Sangharakkhita and described, almost from the outset, as 'dependent upon Sanskrit models' and 'based entirely upon Sanskrit prosody' respectively. Indeed the Vrtti names a 'Dandi' as its basic source. The Pali Text Society's 2000 edition of …

  • Aśoka's 256-night campaign

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…2000Referências: 1

    The two recent discussions of the chronology of Aśoka's early missionary activities, as described in his first Minor Rock Edict, came to different conclusions. For the idea of a 256-day pilgrimage, which stems ultimately from mistranslation, Falk had sought to substitute a calculation involving 256 non-consecutive Uposatha nights. Without detailed refutation of Falk's arguments, Norman rejected this result and retained the assumption of a date co…

  • The supplement to Ludwig Alsdorf's Kleine Schriften

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1999

    Continuing the work of Jacobi and Lüders, Ludwig Alsdorf made a decisive contribution to Middle Indian studies, above all to the elucidation of its prosody and the evolution of its narrative literature. He died some four years after the appearance in 1974 of his original Kleine Schriften , edited by Albrecht Wezler. 1 The supplementary volume, also edited by Wezler, 2 includes six articles from the period 1974–78, together with a welcome reprinti…

  • Old wives' tales in Theīgāthaā

    Open AccessJ C WrightARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1999

    The commentary on the Pali Theīgāthā , without which Pischel would ‘hardly have ventured to publish this text at all’ (PTS ed., 1883, 120), has lacked, certainly a complete translation, but more importantly a satisfactory romanized edition. Edward Müller's edition of the commentary (PTS ed., 1893 = Thī-a E e ), based on transcripts of the one Burmese palm-leaf manuscript that had been available to Pischel, contained numerous misreadings and was n…