This community contains the ePrints and eTheses produced by Law and Philosophy staff and students. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/10 2026-10-25T17:32:18Z 2026-10-25T17:32:18Z Lai, Ten-Herng Archer, Alfred http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38416 2026-10-23T00:04:55Z 2026-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Outsourcing Emotions to GenAI: The Risk of Bypassing Identity Development Author(s): Lai, Ten-Herng; Archer, Alfred Abstract: There is growing research on how and when the use of Generative AI (henceforth GenAI) in cognitive tasks may lead to a decline in the users' cognitive capacities. There is emerging evidence that Generative AI also presents us with the opportunity to outsource some emotional tasks, such as flirting on dating apps or apologising. We believe that this may enable unsuspecting users to outsource too much of their affective capacities. Here, we wish to focus on a particular problem: insofar as articulating our own emotions is essential to discovering what we value and thereby shaping what sorts of persons we are, users who are heavily dependent on GenAI for emotional tasks risk forgoing crucial opportunities to develop a proper sense of their own identity.

2026-12-01T00:00:00Z Casimiro, Tânia Sequeira, Joao Santos, Joel Henriques, Susana Filipe, Vanessa http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38406 2026-10-22T17:46:55Z 2026-07-25T00:00:00Z

Title: Arqueologia do Isolamento Sénior ética, memória e metodologias de registo Author(s): Casimiro, Tânia; Sequeira, Joao; Santos, Joel; Henriques, Susana; Filipe, Vanessa Abstract: In Lisbon, archaeological interventions during urban rehabilitation works often reveal homes where everything is in its right place: the bed is made, the medication is on the bedside table, the dirty dishes are on the sink. Th ese are not old ruins or century-old archaeological deposits, but the homes of recently deceased people without direct heirs, suspended between life and abandonment. These recent environments are loaded with meaning and their imminent destruction raises a fundamental question: should they be ignored as contemporary litter or acknowledged as relevant archaeological contexts? This article stems from this debate to propose a reflection about the Archaeology of old age isolation (albeit abandonment).

2026-07-25T00:00:00Z Stewart, Calum http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38359 2026-10-07T00:01:57Z 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Cristy Clark and John Page, The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice Author(s): Stewart, Calum Abstract: First paragraph: The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice is a welcome addition to the growing literature on legal geography and a compelling read for anyone interested in issues of land, justice and environment. Authors Cristy Clark and John Page set forth a critical account of private property through the novel lens of the ‘lawful forest’, vivified through a series of historic (and at times contemporary) stories which highlight alternative, ‘other’ histories of property. These stories highlight that the lawful forest is alive, yet hidden from view. Clark and Page argue that this obscurity is far from innocent: it is the result of centuries of violent dispossession, enclosure, colonisation and commodification, all of which have contributed to global crises such as the climate emergency and widespread biodiversity loss and, crucially, which are all enabled by private property. While historiographical storytelling is the key lens of analysis, The Lawful Forest is, at its core, concerned with law – specifically property law. It stresses that questions of who is entitled to be on land, for what reasons and for how long are fundamentally contingent on property law, which is itself undergirded by the totalising and individual logic of private property. This form of property is fundamentally detached from material life, deeply implicating it in ongoing global socio-environmental crises.

2026-05-01T00:00:00Z Hope, Simon http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38336 2026-09-18T16:46:15Z 2026-06-25T00:00:00Z

Title: In Defense of (Kantian) Imperfect Duty Author(s): Hope, Simon Abstract: This paper argues for three points. First (very briefly): Kant’s criteria of perfect/ imperfect duty should not be conflated with other perfect/imperfect distinctions. Second (less briefly): when you reflect on the duties you, as a human being, are under, you find reason to accept Kant’s distinction; it tracks important considerations. Third (and not at all briefly): the common objection to Kant’s distinction in modern philosophy—that it misclassifies some duties of aid—fails. I argue for this last point on two lines. I show that familiar arguments for reclassification face serious difficulties. I then attempt to undermine the assumption that “directed” duties are all, or almost all, of what matters

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