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Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision‐making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes. This paper shows, first, that under realistic levels of ‘background uncertainty’ about sources of value independent
Christian Tarsney
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Exploring support systems for young people with climate anxiety: Suggestions from Brazil
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Climate anxiety is a rising concern among young people worldwide. This study explored youth‐generated coping strategies to alleviate climate anxiety. In 2022, data were collected from 60 students (ages 10–16 years) from a public school in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, identified with high levels of climate anxiety from a larger sample of 272 youth.
Mirna Albuquerque Frota +5 more
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Editorial: Asteroid modeling: Processing and combining diverse datasets
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Dagmara Anna Oszkiewicz +2 more
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Categorial versus naturalized epistemology
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract How do we know what kinds of things constitute knowledge or justified belief? Naturalized epistemology is committed to denying a priori insight into the kinds of kinds that are and are not knowledge or justification makers. By contrast, it is argued here that knowledge of these matters is a priori knowledge of a special kind.
Nick Zangwill
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.Abstract A background assumption in much contemporary political philosophy is that justice is the first virtue of social institutions, taking priority over other values such as beneficence. This assumption is typically treated as a methodological starting point, rather than as following from any particular moral or political theory.
Jacob Barrett
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First spacecraft encounter with an asteroid approaches [PDF]
During the course of the Galileo spacecraft's journey to Jupiter it will make two excursions through the steroid belt situated between Mars and Jupiter.
Tholen, David J.
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Public Attitudes to Responding to Global Catastrophic Risks: A New Zealand Case Study
Risk Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human civilization faces a range of global catastrophic risks (GCRs), including nuclear war, bioengineered pandemics, major solar storms, and uncontrolled artificial intelligence. In New Zealand, limited information exists on public views about whether the government should respond to such risks.
John Kerr, Matt Boyd, Nick Wilson
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract The belief that we have to act now to avoid a future lost knowingly to self‐inflicted extinction operates through what I term ‘the extinction script’. As a technology of power that regulates climate futures, the extinction script implores the already threatened subject to act now and to do so urgently.
Amy Robson
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Will Galileo resolve the S-asteroid controversy? [PDF]
The longest running argument in asteroid science concerns mineral composition and meteoritic association of the asteroids assigned to taxonomic type S. The approaching flyby of the S-type asteroid Gaspra by the Galileo spacecraft will drag an even larger
Bell, Jeffrey F.
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Veterinary Ophthalmology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 371-385, March 2025.Abstract Purpose To describe the clinical features surgical technique, early and long‐term outcome with or without surgery, and histopathological findings of melanocytic anterior uveal lesions in young dogs. Methods Medical records of dogs at a guide dog facility removed from training due to a pigmented iris lesion were reviewed from 2014 to 2021 ...
Valerie Liliane Dufour +6 more
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