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Bonnett, A. "Situationism, Geography, and Poststructuralism." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 7, no. 2 (June 1989): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d070131.

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After an introduction to situationism and the theory of the spectacle, the movement's intellectual roots in postwar French Marxism are summarised. The situationist theory of social subversion and a contemporary example of the practice are then introduced. Situationism's critique of human geography and the development of similar perspectives within geography and other disciplines are assessed. It is suggested that situationism immobilises political judgment and that this tendency is paralleled within the poststructuralist philosophies of Derrida, Lyotard, and Baudrillard.

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Spino, Joseph. "Situationism and the Virtues of Business." Business and Professional Ethics Journal 39, no. 1 (2020): 97–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/bpej20202491.

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Many ethicists endorse a character-based approach to business ethics (CBE). This approach includes a focus on the development of particular traits of character amenable to virtuous business practices. Situationists claim, however, that traditional understandings of character are challenged by various findings in empirical psychology. While defenders of CBE have responded this claim, these responses are very similar to those made in defense of a more general virtue ethical theory against situationist arguments. I argue that whatever promise such responses to situationism have in defending a general virtue ethical theory, they are not up to the task of defending CBE. As a result, CBE is in need of novel responses to situationism or significant revision.

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Bleakley, Paul. "Situationism and the recuperation of an ideology in the era of Trump, fake news and post-truth politics." Capital & Class 42, no. 3 (February 12, 2018): 419–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816818759231.

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As a variant ideology based on libertarian Marxism, the philosophy of situationism failed to achieve widespread popularity beyond a relatively brief time frame between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Despite this short-lived period of ascendency, the impact of Situationist concepts such as psychogeography, recuperation and the Spectacle have continued to play a role in the ongoing study of how reality is constructed in a system of advanced capitalism. Situationism’s concern with the perception of reality as shaped by the mass media is of particular significance in the context of contemporary politics that has been dubbed the ‘post-truth era’. The disavowal of the mass media by US President Donald Trump may give the impression of a Situationist approach that rejects the impact of such reality-shaping tools, yet a closer inspection of his actions suggests that Trump himself is responsible for the construction of a neo-Spectacle in which the recuperation of anti-establishment sentiment provides the basis for the reconsolidation of the position held by the capitalist elite within American society.

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Eagles, Julian. "Marxism, Anarchism and the Situationists’ Theory of Revolution." Critical Sociology 43, no. 1 (July 27, 2016): 13–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920514547826.

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In recent protest movements, such as those against ‘globalization’, Situationist ideas and practices – which were developed in the late 1950s to the early 1970s − have inspired some of those radicals involved in such dissent. Given this revived interest in the Situationist International, this article takes the opportunity to examine the Situationists’ theory of revolution in relation to both Marxism and anarchism. It argues that while the Situationists’ theory of revolution, in respect of some of its key characteristics, corresponds to Bakunin’s vision of a revolutionary upheaval, the intellectual ancestry of the Situationists’ theory can be traced, chiefly, to the thought of Marx and the ideas of several Marxist thinkers, as well as to the ideas of pre-Situationist avant-garde ‘artists’.

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Brink, David O. "SITUATIONISM, RESPONSIBILITY, AND FAIR OPPORTUNITY." Social Philosophy and Policy 30, no. 1-2 (January 2013): 121–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026505251300006x.

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AbstractThe situationist literature in psychology claims that conduct is not determined by character and reflects the operation of the agent's situation or environment. For instance, due to situational factors, compassionate behavior is much less common than we might have expected from people we believe to be compassionate. This article focuses on whether situationism should revise our beliefs about moral responsibility. It assesses the implications of situationism against the backdrop of a conception of responsibility that is grounded in norms about the fair opportunity to avoid wrongdoing that require that agents to be normatively competent and possess situational control. Despite the low incidence of compassionate behavior revealed in situationist studies, situationism threatens neither situational control nor normative competence. Nonetheless situationism may force revision of our views about responsibility in particular contexts, such as wartime wrongdoing. Whereas a good case can be made that the heat of battle can create situational pressures that significantly impair normative competence and thus sometimes provide a full or partial excuse, there is reason to be skeptical of attempts to generalize this excuse to other contexts of wartime wrongdoing. If so, moral responsibility can take situationism on board without capsizing the boat.

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Bolt, Mikkel. "Den uundgåelige opløsning af afsavnets verden: Situationisterne som manifestskrivere." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 37, no. 107 (May 22, 2009): 74–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v37i107.22012.

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The Inevitable Liquidation of the World of Privation: The Situationists as Manifesto Writers:The article presents a reading of the short, four-page manifesto written in 1960 by the Situationist International and published in the fourth issue of the situationist journal Internationale situationniste. Through an analysis of both the text and the glossy cover of the issue it is argued that the situationists sought to subvert the spectacle while coming dangerously close to staging this subversion as yet another spectacle to be consumed. According to the situationists’ ultra leftist approach, modern capitalist society was characterized by alienation and boredom but held together by images and representations that prevented people from realising another life and taking matters into their own hands. The situationists tried to attack this repressive image-world, drawing on both the historical avant-garde and the revolutionary tradition advancing an all-encompassing revolutionary approach that could not take place as an isolated artistic gesture or as a political action but had to address all of human existence. This total-istic approach for better or worse no longer seems to be an option for present artistic and activist projects.

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White, G. D. "Digging for Apples: Reappraising the Influence of Situationist Theory on Theatre Practice in the English Counterculture." Theatre Survey 42, no. 2 (November 2001): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557401000096.

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This article is a development of a paper submitted to last year's ASTR conference at City University of New York as part of a panel discussion on the legacy of the 1960s. That paper was prepared to the conference brief that submissions should involve some reflexive investigation of research methods and scholarly practices. Reviewing existing material written on the causal links between Situationist theory and theatre practice in the 1960s counterculture in England, I began to question the “fit” between these two areas. A critical narrative concerning the development of a post-Brechtian theatrical style in the work of a generation of English political dramatists — such as Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths, and David Edgar — during the late 1960s and early 1970s has come to read Situationism as a dominant shaping force. On closer examination, however, this relationship is neither as clear nor as convincing as this now commonplace critical model would suggest. Additionally, neglected and underreported instances and examples — some of which are explored in this article — seem to tell contrasting, or more complex, stories about the forms and practices of English theatre in the counterculture. Investigation of some of these issues has led me to consider why it is that particular historical orthodoxies develop to account for movements and moments in cultural and performance history. What happens to make a small and, at the time, not widely published or read group of theorists such as the Situationists take on a retrospectively key position in scholarly accounts of cultural history? Thus, this article investigates the transmission of Situationist ideas in English theatre practice to conclude that there may be a broader, more idiosyncratic, history to read against dominant accounts of influence and causation.

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McKenna, Michael, and Brandon Warmke. "Does Situationism Threaten Free Will and Moral Responsibility?" Journal of Moral Philosophy 14, no. 6 (December 9, 2017): 698–733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455243-46810068.

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The situationist movement in social psychology has caused a considerable stir in philosophy. Much of this was prompted by the work of Gilbert Harman and John Doris. Both contended that familiar philosophical assumptions about the role of character in the explanation of action were not supported by experimental results. Most of the ensuing philosophical controversy has focused upon issues related to moral psychology and ethical theory. More recently, the influence of situationism has also given rise to questions regarding free will and moral responsibility. There is cause for concern that a range of situationist findings are in tension with the reasons-responsiveness putatively required for free will and moral responsibility. We develop and defend a response to the alleged situationist threat to free will and moral responsibility that we call pessimistic realism. We conclude on an optimistic note, exploring the possibility of strengthening our agency in the face of situational influences.

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Ben-Porath, Sigal, and Gideon Dishon. "Taken Out of Context: Defending Civic Education From the Situationist Critique." Philosophical Inquiry in Education 23, no. 1 (July 7, 2020): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1070363ar.

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Situationists have suggested that educational efforts to improve character and instill virtues should be abandoned, as individuals’ behavior is predicted by contexts and situations rather than by character traits. More recently it has been suggested that civic education and especially the effort to cultivate civic virtues are ineffective for similar reasons and should be replaced by the introduction of desirable social norms and institutions. After surveying the debate on this topic in the first part of the essay, we suggest that in fact virtues should not be judged as existing within one person and absent from another based on their behavior in a single instance. Rather, virtues should be understood as composite and probabilistic and therefore strengthening them is a valuable endeavor. In considering civic virtues specifically we argue that the social and public nature of their expression make schools excellent contexts for cultivating and practicing democratic civic virtues. Even the best institutional structures of a well-functioning democratic society rely on the compliance of virtuous citizens, and the situationist preference for desirable social norms is implicitly predicated on virtuous citizens to institute and follow those norms. Moreover, civic education in a democracy strives to cultivate more than compliance with norms of conduct. It aspires to nurture youth who see themselves as responsible to, and capable of shaping the norms of the society in which they live. We thus incorporate some of the insights from situationism into a revamped view of civic education.

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RUSSELL, LUKE. "Is Situationism All Bad News?" Utilitas 21, no. 4 (November 12, 2009): 443–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820809990215.

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Situationist experiments such as the Milgram experiment and the Princeton Seminary experiment have prompted philosophers to warn us against succumbing to fear of embarrassment and sliding down slippery slopes. Yet it would be a mistake to conclude that situationism is all bad news for moral agents. Fear of embarrassment can often motivate right actions, and slippery slopes can slide us away from wrongdoing. The reason that philosophers have seen situationism as bringing all bad news is that they have focused on the very demanding moral goals of virtuous and autonomous action, while ignoring important moral goals that are less demanding. Fear of embarrassment does undermine virtuous and autonomous action, but that very same fear can help us to act resolutely and rightly, and allows us to manipulate would-be wrongdoers into doing the right thing. This is good news.

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McDonough, Tom. "Cinema at a Standstill." October, no. 177 (2021): 79–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00433.

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Abstract “Cinema at a Standstill” examines the theory and practice of film within the Situationist International, circa 1968. Questioning Guy Debord's refusal to document the group's participation in the abortive revolution of May-June ‘68, the essay explores the Situationists' ambivalence to the image as mnemonic device. Their refusal of film's iconicity did not, however, mean a complete refusal of its logic: The austere, text-based posters produced by the SI during the uprising are here read as a species of revolutionary intertitle for a film running in real time along the streets. Sharing the aniconic quality found at the same moment in the work of Daniel Buren and Jean-Luc Godard, this Situationist imageless cinema is read through the dialectic of repetition and stoppage first developed by Giorgio Agamben.

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Croom, Adam M. "Aristotelian Moral Psychology and the Situationist Challenge." Polish Psychological Bulletin 46, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 262–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ppb-2015-0011.

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Abstract For some time now moral psychologists and philosophers have ganged up on Aristotelians, arguing that results from psychological studies on the role of character-based and situation-based influences on human behavior have convincingly shown that situations rather than personal characteristics determine human behavior. In the literature on moral psychology and philosophy this challenge is commonly called the “situationist challenge,” and as Prinz (2009) has previously explained, it has largely been based on results from four salient studies in social psychology, including the studies conducted by Hartshorne and May (1928), Milgram (1963), Isen and Levin (1972), and Darley and Batson (1973). The situationist challenge maintains that each of these studies seriously challenges the plausibility of virtuous personal characteristics by challenging the plausibility of personal characteristics more generally. In this article I undermine the situationist challenge against Aristotelian moral psychology by carefully considering major problems with the conclusions that situationists have drawn from the empirical data, and by further challenging the accuracy of their characterization of the Aristotelian view. In fact I show that when properly understood the Aristotelian view is not only consistent with empirical data from developmental science but can also offer important insights for integrating moral psychology with its biological roots in our natural and social life.

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Röhrborn, Anne. "Against Aspiration: The Psychogeography of Berlin-Kreuzberg in Stephan Geene’s Umsonst." New German Critique 46, no. 3 (November 1, 2019): 79–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-7727427.

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Abstract Stephan Geene’s film Umsonst premiered in the Forum program at the 2014 Berlinale. A portrait of postmillennial Berlin-Kreuzberg, the film in crucial ways takes its inspiration from the French New Wave and the Situationist International. It focuses on members of a young generation who oppose the economic determinations that frame experience in advanced capitalism. They refuse to fit in and “aspire” and instead become drifters. Employing what the Situationists called a psychogeographic approach, Umsonst probes the prevalent discourses and historical mythologies of Kreuzberg and, in so doing, furthers understanding of how the people who now inhabit it exist and interact.

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Rodgers, Travis J., and Brandon Warmke. "Situationism versus Situationism." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 18, no. 1 (November 30, 2013): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-013-9481-9.

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Kristjánsson, Kristján. "An Aristotelian Critique of Situationism." Philosophy 83, no. 1 (January 2008): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819108000302.

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AbstractAristotle says that no human achievement has the stability of activities that express virtue. Ethical situationists consider this claim to be refutable by empirical evidence. If that is true, not only Aristotelianism, but folk psychology, contemporary virtue ethics and character education have all been seriously infirmed. The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to offer a systematic classification of the existing objections against situationism under four main headings: ‘the methodological objection’, ‘the moral dilemma objection’, ‘the bullet-biting objection’ and ‘the anti-behaviouristic objection’; (2) to resuscitate a more powerful Aristotelian version of the ‘anti-behaviouristic objection’ than advanced by previous critics; and (3) to explore some of the implications of such resuscitation for our understanding of the salience of character and for future studies of its nature.

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Radford, Raymond. "Psychogeography." Fieldwork in Religion 14, no. 2 (March 31, 2020): 195–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.40567.

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The way that humanity both inhabits and views its surroundings directly influences individual and collective thoughts and emotions. Yet in a society that is constantly over-stimulated, taking in the surroundings becomes secondary to consumerism, and the distractions inherent within the spectacle. The spectacle, according to Guy Debord and the European revolutionary organization Situationist International (SI), diverted the populace from the reality that surrounds it, and the SI deemed themselves the correct ones to re-envision reality. Fifty years after the 1968 Paris riots, the Situationists no longer exist, but new groups have risen from their ashes to explore and view the world in new ways, groups such as those involved in Urban Exploration (UrbEx). UrbEx involves small, often self-guided groups that investigate the ghosts of modernity, and the detritus of capital that remains in the wake of the spectacle. Utilizing the Situationist International's concept of the dérive, the ideas that fuel urban exploration, and conspiracist ideologies, this article explores the urban world viewed through psychogeography: those who seek the new sacred in a gnostic quest to gain a greater insight into what lurks in the shadows of the myth of modernity.

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PARIS, PANOS. "Scepticism about Virtue and the Five-Factor Model of Personality." Utilitas 29, no. 4 (November 28, 2016): 423–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820816000327.

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Considerable progress in personality and social psychology has been largely ignored by philosophers, many of whom still remain sceptical concerning whether the conception of character presupposed by virtue theory is descriptively adequate. Here, I employ the five-factor model of personality, currently the consensus view in personality psychology, to respond to a strong reading of the situationist challenge, whereby most people lack dispositions that are both cross-situationally consistent and temporally stable. I show that situationists rely on a false dichotomy between character traits and situations, and that evidence supports the empirical adequacy of the sorts of character traits presupposed by virtue ethics. Additionally, I suggest that the personality traits of the five-factor model are relevant to virtue theory, in so far as they are malleable, morally salient, and seem to structurally parallel Aristotelian virtues and vices. Thus,contrasituationism, the five-factor model supports the descriptive adequacy of a virtue-theoretical framework.

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Overend, David, Jamie Lorimer, and Danielle Schreve. "The bones beneath the streets: drifting through London’s Quaternary." cultural geographies 27, no. 3 (November 5, 2019): 453–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474019886828.

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This article reflects on a Situationist dérive in Central London, which mobilised a creative engagement with the city’s Quaternary history (the last 2.6 million years). The aim was to animate paleoecological knowledge in the resistant, opaque and frenetic environment of a dense urban centre. This brief excursion into an alternative London is offered as a model for contemporary drifting that stretches out beyond our immediate situation to connect to successive geological and biological strata, reframing experiences of the urban environment through shifting scales and chronologies. The Situationists had declared ‘sous les pavés, la plage!’ (under the paving stones, there is a beach!), evoking the playful space of possibility behind the veneer of the city’s systems and structures. This drift aimed to search even deeper, encountering spectral inhabitations revealed by the bones beneath the streets. The article argues that uncovering these hidden ecologies has the potential to counter the urban prevalence of spectacular representations of wildlife and develop an eco-politics of co-existence.

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Varga, Somogy. "Embodied Situationism." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96, no. 2 (June 20, 2017): 271–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1341538.

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Kurczynski, Karen. "Leveraging Situationism?" Third Text 22, no. 5 (September 2008): 605–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528820802440474.

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YILMAZTÜRK, Nergis Hazal, and Begüm SERİM-YILDIZ. "PSİKOLOJİK DANIŞMAN ADAYLARININ ETİK KONUMLARININ BİLİNÇLİ FARKINDALIK DÜZEYLERİ İLE İLİŞKİSİ." Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 22, no. 88 (September 15, 2023): 1643–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17755/esosder.1273375.

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Ethical positions shape within life experiences via confronting and resolving ethical dilemmas of moral issues, and were consisted of idealism and relativism. Within cultural context, Western cultures had low scores on both idealism and relativism (exceptionists) while Eastern ones had high relativism scores with both high idealism (situationists) and low idealism (subjectivists) scores on Ethical Position Questionnaire. Recently, a combination of ethical decision making and awareness started to be investigated under the roof of ethical mindfulness while enabling ethical clinical practices and implementation. Prior to stepping into that area, more explanatory presentation of the relationship between ethical decision making process and mindfulness among prospective psychological health professionals, psychological counseling students were presented in this descriptive study. Results of preliminary analyses showed that approximately half of the participants (39.85 %) are on the situationist side on ethical decision making. As a result of main analyses, it was found that level of mindfulness is related with high scores on both idealism (Mlow=3.90, Mmiddle=4.02, Mhigh=4.26) and relativism (Mlow=3.34, Mmiddle=3.75, Mhigh=4.08).

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Woodcock, Jamie, and Mark R. Johnson. "Gamification: What it is, and how to fight it." Sociological Review 66, no. 3 (August 21, 2017): 542–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026117728620.

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‘Gamification’ is understood as the application of game systems – competition, rewards, quantifying player/user behaviour – into non-game domains, such as work, productivity and fitness. Such practices are deeply problematic as they represent the capture of ‘play’ in the pursuit of neoliberal rationalization and the managerial optimization of working life and labour. However, applying games and play to social life is also central to the Situationist International, as a form of resistance against the regularity and standardization of everyday behaviour. In this article, the authors distinguish between two types of gamification: first, ‘gamification-from-above’, involving the optimization and rationalizing of work practices by management; and second, ‘gamification-from-below’, a form of active resistance against control at work. Drawing on Autonomism and Situationism, the authors argue that it is possible to transform non-games into games as resistance, rather than transferring game elements out of playful contexts and into managerial ones. Since the original ‘gamification’ term is now lost, the authors develop the alternative conception as a practice that supports workers, rather than one used to adapt behaviour to capital. The article concludes with a renewed call for this ‘gamification-from-below’, which is an ideal form of resistance against gamification-from-above and its capture of play in pursuit of work.

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Maruszewska, Ewa. "The effect of agency relationship and individual ethical ideology on decision duplication with regard to questionable accounting policy choice. An experimental study." Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości 107, no. 163 (July 9, 2020): 159–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.2468.

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Recent studies confirm that the principal-agent relationship adversely affects managers’ decisions. This study experimentally investigates willingness to copy a decision that is ethically suspect in both high and low adverse selection criteria. It revealed that when the agency problem was observed, the respondents were less eager to misuse accounting discretion within foreign currency. It showed that without adverse selection criteria, respondents behave unreflectively, duplicating a choice to the detriment of financial reporting. The findings were also compared with Forsyth’s taxonomy of personal moral philosophies, which show that most respondents represent the situationist and absolutist orientation, while situationists and exceptionists are less prone to misbehave. It suggests that individual moral orientation has an unex-pectedly small impact, whereas witnessing the agency relationship tends to make subjects duplicate the choice described in the scenario to a lesser degree. Idealists are more severe in ethical evaluation com-pared to relativists, although the majority of respondents, who did not observe adverse selection condi-tions, showed a high propensity to would duplicate the misconduct. The most important variable is the existence of adverse selection criteria, indicating that decision-making and the choice of professionals lie at the heart of accounting policy choice, and that further research should be considered.

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Shaw, Anthony. "Pragmatic Situationism: Dirty Words?" Law, Medicine and Health Care 13, no. 1 (February 1985): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1985.tb00881.x.

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Swanson, Carrie. "John Doris' Excellence Adventure." Journal of Ancient Philosophy 12, no. 1 (June 18, 2018): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v12i1p173-223.

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Abstract: In his book Lack of Character (2002 Cambridge University Press) John Doris argues that both virtue ethics and common sense or folk psychology are committed to the claim that the attribution of character to persons is predictive, explanatory, and determinative of behaviour. Doris contends however that this claim is empirically false. Citing the results of experiments in the situationist research tradition in experimental social psychology, Doris argues that it is a person’s situation, and not his or her character, that determines how a person will behave in a given situation. Doris concludes that virtue ethics in particular is in need of radical revision, since the attribution of character to persons is thereby shown to be otiose at best, and empirically misleading at worst. In this essay I defend traditional virtue ethics against Doris’ situationist critique. My discussion falls into four parts. In Section 1 I set out the key claims that Doris makes about the empirical inadequacy of traditional virtue ethics. In Section 2 I describe three of the most important experiments which Doris adduces in his argument for situationism. In Section 3 I offer alternative interpretations of all three experiments, largely, but not exclusively, from an Aristotelian perspective. In Section 4 I respond to Doris’ positive account of moral character, viz., his ‘fragmentation hypothesis’ and his theory of ‘local traits’. Here I argue that Doris’ positive account is lacking in explanatory power; I suggest as well that his positive account is poorly motivated, since he has largely misunderstood the traditional concept of a moral disposition. In particular, it is crucial to Doris’ critique of virtue ethics that virtues and traits of character are cross-situationally consistent (or ‘robust’); since according to Doris, it will only be attributions of character so conceived that are shown to be empirically inadequate by the situationist experiments he discusses. Doris’ notion of a robust disposition is however alien to Aristotle and the virtue ethicists who are inspired by him. I demonstrate that the virtue ethicist conceives of a virtue as a rational disposition. A virtue is a disposition to act and feel in an appropriate way as a result of and in response to rational considerations about the good in particular circumstances. The acquisition of virtue is a difficult moral achievement because it involves the complex and interdependent development of both the intellectual and emotional capacities of a human being. It is precisely because the virtues are not robust traits in Doris’ sense that the deliverances of practical reason, even when it is operating in its fullest capacity, will issue in decisions in particular circumstances that cannot be captured by the notion of ‘cross-situational consistency’. I conclude that insofar as that is the case Doris has managed to make very little dialectical contact with the concept of virtue as that has been conceived in the virtue ethics tradition.

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Fattor, Eric. "Revolution or Ecocide." Radical Philosophy Review 23, no. 2 (2020): 201–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev2020720112.

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This article addresses the place of situationist ideas in the current drive to make meaningful social and political change to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change. After a brief review of some key situationist concepts, the article shows how situationist thinkers post-1968 saw the prospect of environmental degradation as one of the key consequences of the social apathy induced by the spectacle and the grim prospects for the prevailing liberal assemblage of power to address the problem. The article concludes by briefly discussing the place of a situationist-inspired environmentalism in the larger debates about radical solutions to climate change.

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Ciurria, Michelle. "The Meaning(s) of Situationism." Teaching Ethics 15, no. 1 (2015): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/tej201515111.

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Sabini, John, and Maury Silver. "Lack of Character? Situationism Critiqued." Ethics 115, no. 3 (April 2005): 535–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/428459.

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Gough, Harriet. "Situationism, Futurism and May 1968." Australian Journal of Politics & History 42, no. 2 (June 28, 2008): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1996.tb01360.x.

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Mower, Deborah S. "Situationism and Confucian Virtue Ethics." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16, no. 1 (November 9, 2011): 113–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-011-9312-9.

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Miller, Christian B. "Character and Situationism: New Directions." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20, no. 3 (March 30, 2017): 459–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9791-4.

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Pamental, Matthew P. "DEWEY, SITUATIONISM, AND MORAL EDUCATION." Educational Theory 60, no. 2 (May 25, 2010): 147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-5446.2010.00351.x.

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Ciurria, Michelle. "Situationism, Moral Responsibility and Blame." Philosophia 41, no. 1 (August 7, 2012): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9382-5.

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Hansson, Sven Ove. "Situationist Deontic Logic." Journal of Philosophical Logic 26, no. 4 (August 1997): 423–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1004233913104.

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Bonnett, A. "Art, Ideology, and Everyday Space: Subversive Tendencies from Dada to Postmodernism." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 10, no. 1 (February 1992): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d100069.

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This is a paper about the transgression of the boundary between art and everyday space. It traces the development of a practical and theoretical critique of this divide from Dada and surrealism to situationism and postmodernism, whilst showing how these movements have themselves often perpetuated a specialized notion of cultural production. The ultimate failure of these movements, with the exception of situationism, to develop a coherent and effective challenge to the dualism art—everyday space is related to their reliance upon the artistic ideologies of antiart, indifference, and spontaneism.

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Kavanaugh, Leslie. "Situating Situationism: Wandering aroundNew BabylonwithMille Plateaux." Architectural Theory Review 13, no. 2 (August 2008): 254–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13264820802216874.

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Sarkissian, Hagop. "Situationism, Manipulation, and Objective Self-Awareness." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20, no. 3 (May 29, 2017): 489–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9814-1.

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Snow, Nancy E. "Comments on Intelligent Virtue: Outsmarting Situationism." Journal of Value Inquiry 49, no. 1-2 (January 8, 2015): 297–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-014-9476-3.

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Hutton, Eric L. "Character, Situationism, and Early Confucian Thought." Philosophical Studies 127, no. 1 (January 2006): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-005-1729-3.

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Murray, Dylan. "Situationism, going mental, and modal akrasia." Philosophical Studies 172, no. 3 (May 31, 2014): 711–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0330-z.

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Tuters, Marc. "From mannerist situationism to situated media." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 18, no. 3 (August 2012): 267–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856512441149.

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Evans, David. "The situationist family album." History of Photography 29, no. 2 (June 2005): 174–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2005.10441369.

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D'CRUZ, JASON. "Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Moral Consequence of Consistency." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1, no. 3 (2015): 467–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2015.3.

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ABSTRACT:Situationists such as John Doris, Gilbert Harman, and Maria Merritt suppose that appeal to reliable behavioral dispositions can be dispensed with without radical revision to morality as we know it. This paper challenges this supposition, arguing that abandoning hope in reliable dispositions rules out genuine trust and forces us to suspend core reactive attitudes of gratitude and resentment, esteem and indignation. By examining situationism through the lens of trust we learn something about situationism (in particular, the radically revisionary moral implications of its adoption) as well as something about trust (in particular, that the conditions necessary for genuine trust include a belief in a capacity for robust dispositions).

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OH, Gilyoung. "The Revolution of Everyday Life and Situationism." In/Outside: English Studies in Korea 44 (May 31, 2018): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.46645/inoutsesk.44.10.

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Kaczmarek, Przemysław. "Agency in Legal Institutions: Dispositionism and Situationism." Principia, no. 65 (2018): 145–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843887pi.18.006.9889.

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Sears, John. "Pranksters in revolt: situationism in the Academy." Art History 26, no. 5 (November 2003): 768–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0141-6790.2003.02605007_5.x.

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NELKIN, DANA K. "Freedom, Responsibility and the Challenge of Situationism." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29, no. 1 (September 2005): 181–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4975.2005.00112.x.

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Herdova, Marcela, and Stephen Kearns. "Get lucky: situationism and circumstantial moral luck." Philosophical Explorations 18, no. 3 (April 9, 2015): 362–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2015.1026923.

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Taylor, Matthew C. "Situationism and the problem of moral improvement." Philosophical Explorations 22, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 312–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2019.1656281.

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Lott, Micah. "Situationism, Skill, and the Rarity of Virtue." Journal of Value Inquiry 48, no. 3 (February 14, 2014): 387–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-014-9415-3.

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