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Trust, Agency and Discrimination
Rivista di Estetica, 2017 This paper attempts to clarify the relations between trust, agency and latent forms of discrimination. Its main argument is in social philosophy, and it articulates considerations from moral psychology and the philosophy of language.
Jacopo Domenicucci
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A minimalist account of agency in physics [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We adopt a top-down approach to agency aimed at developing a minimalist, scalable and naturalized account of it. After providing a general definition, we explore some possible extensions and refinements, domain of applicability, as well as a comparison with other recent accounts of agency, and possible objections to our proposal.
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Tracking and managing deemed abilities [PDF]
, 2021 Information about the powers and abilities of acting entities is used to coordinate their actions in societies, either physical or digital. Yet, the commonsensical meaning of an acting entity being deemed able to do something is still missing from the existing specification languages for the web or for multi-agent systems.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 442-461, December 2022., 2022 Intimate partner violence is a major problem in Australia, impacting many families that are on the cusp of disruption and intervention by the child protection system. Using an innovative method of inquiry, the article explores the role of dedicated men's workers in a South Australian non‐government organisation's intensive family service that works ...
Alex Haines +10 more
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This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like
Foucault Studies, 2015 With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise.
Shelley Tremain
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Anti-Trafficking Review, 2018 In the context of recent large-scale migratory flows from North Africa to the European Union, significant convergence and overlap has been observed between human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and between ‘economic’ and ‘forced’ migration. This paper
Giorgia Serughetti
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Transcendental Freedom and Kant's Philosophy of History [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2020 The concept of freedom is one of the most central concepts in Kant’s Philosophy which has a critical role in both theoretical and practical reason.
Seyedeh Massoumeh Mousavi
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arXiv, 2020 I discuss three aspects of the notion of agency from the standpoint of physics: (i) what makes a physical system an agent; (ii) the reason for agency's time orientation; (iii) the source of the information generated in choosing an action. I observe that agency is the breaking of an approximation under which dynamics appears closed.
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Do Robots powered by a Quantum Processor have the Freedom to swerve? [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Any scientific attempt to explain consciousness is tasked with reconciling the third person objective perspective of science with our first person subjective experience of the world. A good point of departure is to consider situations in which these two perspectives are correlated. We note that behaviors conducive to our well-being, i.e.
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Despite knowledge that health outcomes vary according to patient characteristics, identity, and geography, including underrepresented populations in arthritis research remains a challenge. We conducted interviews to explore how researchers in arthritis have used equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) principles to inform their research ...
Megan M. Thomas +8 more
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