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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions and Acceptance of Generative Artificial Intelligence Influencing Chinese EFL Learners’ Engagement in Informal Digital Learning of English: Mediating Roles of Self‐Efficacy and Motivation

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a powerful tool in the Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) environment, offering personalized, interactive, and innovative language learning experiences that may enhance learning engagement.
Jin Liu, Meilu Liu, Yuan Yao, Dechao Li
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational AI Agents: The Effect of Process and Outcome Variation on Anthropomorphism and Trust

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organisations increasingly deploy conversational AI agents (CAs) in agentic roles where behavioural variations are inevitable. Prior work often conflates two distinct forms of variation: outcome variation (where success fluctuates) and process variation (where the path to completion varies).
Kambiz Saffarizadeh, Mark Keil
wiley   +1 more source

Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024)

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 592-594, April 2025.
Maheux et al.s' annual review (2024) summarizes a rapidly evolving literature on the specific components (including content, features and functions) of social media that can help or hinder healthy adolescent development, highlighting how proposed effects of social media components appear to matter more for some adolescents than others.
Michaeline Jensen
wiley   +1 more source

The search for the Jew's gene : science, spectacle, and the ethnic other [PDF]

, 2009
This paper considers the collision of spectacle, science, and racial-ethnic identifications in the contemporary scientific search for a "Jewish gene." It aims not so much to distinguish the "line between ‘real’ and ‘fabled’ aspects of the Jew" (as ...
Steinberg, Deborah Lynn
core  

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Changing with the whims of dogs: An inter‐species exploration of self‐alteration with companion animals

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers an alternative understanding to the therapeutic experiences of human interactions with companion species, particularly dogs and horses, through a phenomenological discussion of more‐than‐human intersubjectivity. In an ethnographic account of residents of the Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia, the lived experience of
Katherine Joy Fletcher
wiley   +1 more source

Service robots and memorable customer experience: The influence of perceived anthropomorphism

Future Business Journal
The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of perceived anthropomorphism of service robots on the memorable customer experience (MCE) and the mediating role of HRI satisfaction. Two research questions and five hypotheses are proposed.
Miguel Ángel Moliner-Tena, Luis José Callarisa-Fiol, Javier Sánchez-García, Rosa María Rodríguez-Artola   +3 more
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Study of the Importance of Adequacy to Robot Verbal and Non Verbal Communication in Human-Robot interaction

, 2012
The Robadom project aims at creating a homecare robot that help and assist people in their daily life, either in doing task for the human or in managing day organization. A robot could have this kind of role only if it is accepted by humans.
Duhaut, Dominique, Jost, Céline, Pévédic, Brigitte Le   +2 more
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Exploring Student Perceptions of Generative AI Therapists and Their Benefits and Challenges in Schools

International Journal of Psychology, Volume 61, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates secondary school students' perceptions of generative AI (GenAI) as virtual mental health therapists within educational settings. Leveraging data from the written reflections of 69 Hong Kong secondary school students engaged in an AI literacy programme, the study applied inductive thematic analysis to explore perceived ...
Cecilia K. Y. Chan, Samson Tse
wiley   +1 more source