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Reciprocity as a Foundation of Financial Economics. [PDF]
This paper argues that the subsistence of the fundamental theorem of contemporary financial mathematics is the ethical concept ‘reciprocity’. The argument is based on identifying an equivalence between the contemporary, and ostensibly ‘value neutral ...
Johnson TC.
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Thermodynamics of Gambling Demons. [PDF]
We introduce and realize demons that follow a customary gambling strategy to stop a nonequilibrium process at stochastic times. We derive second-law-like inequalities for the average work done in the presence of gambling, and universal stopping-time ...
Gonzalo Manzano +5 more
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Blame mitigation: A less tidy take and its philosophical implications
Why do we find agents less blameworthy when they face mitigating circumstances, and what does this show about philosophical theories of moral responsibility?
J. Daigle, Joanna Demaree-Cotton
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Theoretically informed gender analysis for gambling harm reduction: a New Zealand study
Background Gambling harm affects men and women relatively equally, and gender influences the social determinants of gambling harm. Responses to preventing and minimising women’s gambling harm have been shaped and constrained by population research ...
Katie Palmer du Preez +2 more
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Several studies have shown that the analysis of the narrative dimension may represent a useful instrument to shed light on certain critical psychological aspects; to this extent, it might also be fruitful to understand better the addiction disorder.
S. Canali +10 more
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Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective [PDF]
This article introduces and discusses from a philosophical point of view the nascent field of neuroeconomics, which is the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic significance.
Hardy-Vallee, Benoit
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The silence of self-knowledge [PDF]
Gareth Evans famously affirmed an explanatory connection between answering the question whether p and knowing whether one believes that p. This is commonly interpreted in terms of the idea that judging that p constitutes an adequate basis for the belief ...
Austin J. L. +15 more
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]
There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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The reflexive ceiling of philosophical semantics:
It is a consensus to locate the origin of the reflexive foundations of modern semantics in Frege's work. Since Frege's distinction between two components of meaning (sense and reference), however, semantics has been forced to lead a double life.
L. Vollet
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Terrorism and relative justice [PDF]
Terrorist violence and violent justice responses have much in common. While contextually dependant, both forms of violence lay claim to contestred legitimacies.
Findlay, M.
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