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Geopolitics views the relationship of oil to climate change [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2017 Today, in the modern and dynamic development of humanity almost all activities are related to dependence on energy, especially oil dependence, starting from the economy as well as activities in society and international politics. Since the development of
Nikolco SPASOV +2 more
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AI Ethics Beyond the Anglo-Analytic Approach
Asian Studies, 2023 That artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and related technologies could use a few good booster shots of “humanism” is widely apparent. In both program code and implementation, AI and algorithms have been accused of harbouring deep-seated flaws ...
Paul D'Ambrosio
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Free agency and determinism: is there a sensible definition of computational sourcehood? [PDF]
Entropy 25(6), 903 (2023), 2021 Can free agency be compatible with determinism? Compatibilists argue that the answer is yes, and it has been suggested that the computer science principle of "computational irreducibility" sheds light on this compatibility. It implies that there cannot in general be shortcuts to predict the behavior of agents, explaining why deterministic agents often ...
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A critical look at human agency and educational principles resulting from it in Mullah Sadra's philosophy Based on the Islamic theory of action [PDF]
حکمت صدراییConsidering the importance of action in Islamic philosophy, this component is vague and discussed briefly in Mulla Sadra's view. Based on this, this research tries to take steps towards increasing fundamental knowledge after explaining the concept of ...
najmeh ahmadabadi arani
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Book Review on Free Will, Agency and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (edited by Mathew R. Dasti and Edwin F. Bryant) [PDF]
, 2020 SEN, Prabal K.
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Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2018 Book review: Menachem Fisch, Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency.
Sheldon Richmond
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Ethics of Technology needs more Political Philosophy [PDF]
Communications of the ACM 63(1) (2020) 33-35, 2020 The ongoing debate on the ethics of self-driving cars typically focuses on two approaches to answering ethical questions: moral philosophy and social science. I argue that these two approaches are both lacking. We should neither deduce answers from individual moral theories nor should we expect social science to give us complete answers.
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Action and Agency in The Red Shoes
Film-Philosophy, 2018 In this paper, I argue that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ballet musical The Red Shoes (1948) is concerned with topics surrounding phenomenology, action, and embodied agency, and that it exploits resources that are uniquely cinematic in order ...
Paul Schofield
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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from interdisciplinary angles in ...
Tracey Chirara, Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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Post-Modernism, Agency, and Democracy
Philosophies, 2018 This essay presents a general summary of post-modern philosophy’s conception of agency. It argues that while post-modern philosophers offer formidable intellectual tools for criticizing contemporary restrictions on agency, their conception falters ...
Matthew McManus
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