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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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When Allais meets Ulysses: Dynamic Consistency and the Certainty Effect [PDF]
We report experimental findings about subjects’ behavior in dynamic decision problems involving multistage lotteries with different timings of resolution of uncertainty. Our within subject design allows us to study violations of the independence axiom in
Antoine Nebout, Dimitri Dubois
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Frege on Axioms, Indirect Proof, and Independence Arguments in Geometry: Did Frege Reject Independence Arguments? [PDF]
Jamie Tappenden
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Kant, Constitutivism, and the Shmagency Objection
Abstract Many interpreters have recently defended constitutivist interpretations of Kant's moral theory, but they have largely overlooked the most prominent challenge to constitutivism: the shmagency objection. In this paper, I argue that Kant employs a form of constitutivism in the Groundwork not to vindicate the authority of morality to a sceptic ...
Vinicius Carvalho
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Weak* Axiom of Independence and the Non-Expected Utility Theory
Tapan Biswas
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Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
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Misuse of the Axiom of Independence in the Analytic Hierarchy Process
David N. Hauser, Kirti Peniwati
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Risky choice: probability weighting explains Independence Axiom violations in monkeys [PDF]
Simone Ferrari-Toniolo +2 more
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
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
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