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ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
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Compassion without Cognitivism
Compassion is generally thought to be a morally valuable emotion both because it is concerned with the suffering of others and because it prompts us to take action to their behalf. But skeptics are unconvinced.
Charlie Kurth
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Are Terrorists Model Citizens? An Account of Political Culture Through Ecological Psychology
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to provide a novel as well as radical perspective that helps to elucidate the fundamental function civic values fulfil within society through an embodied model that provides a framework, both theoretical and practical, for the shaping of the subject's political culture and habits.
David Sanchez +2 more
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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The article engages in a critique of Wittgensteinian non-cognitivism about Christian belief statements but argues that Wittgenstein himself can only partially be classified under the non-cognitivist label. The article has three parts.
Alois Pichler
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Robust MPPT Control of PMSG Wind Turbines Using Sliding Mode Control [PDF]
Wind energy is becoming an increasingly promising technology and a more significant player in energy production. However, due to the nonlinear nature of the system and the impact of external conditions, an effective control strategy is crucial.
Gezzaz Driss +2 more
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The argument from moral psychology [PDF]
The argument from moral psychology is one of the strongest arguments that non-cognitivists use against cognitivism-the metaethical position according to which our moral judgements express beliefs.
Milevski Voin
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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar
Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
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Problems of Teaching the Behaviorist Perspective in the Cognitive Revolution
This article offers some personal reflections on the difficulty of teaching the behaviorist perspective in the psychology classroom. The problems focus on the inadequacy of introductory textbooks—which mischaracterize behaviorism, only present ...
Charles I. Abramson
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Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Abstract Benchmarking large language models (LLMs) is a key practice for evaluating their capabilities and risks. This paper considers the development of “BIG Bench,” a crowdsourced benchmark designed to test LLMs “Beyond the Imitation Game.” Drawing on linguistic anthropological and ethnographic analysis of the project's GitHub repository, we examine ...
Noya Kohavi, Anna Weichselbraun
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