This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one advanced in Davis (2003c). The paper...

Psychological distance, or the extent to which something seems far away spatially, temporally, socially, or hypothetically, often influences humor perception. The benign violation theory of humor explains why psychological distance has a different effect on tragedies than minor mishaps. Distance...