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Reciprocity as a Foundation of Financial Economics. [PDF]

J Bus Ethics, 2015
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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Regret and the rationality of choices. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2010
Regrat helps to optimize decision-behaviour. It can be defined as a rational emotion. Several recent neurobiological studies have confirmed the interface between emotion and cognition at which regret is located and documented its role in decision ...
Bourgeois-Gironde S.
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Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective [PDF]

, 2007
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]

, 2013
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., Boghossian P., Bratman M., Dennett D., Evans G., Hobson P., Johannes Roessler, Martin M., Moran R., O'Shaughnessy B., Peacocke C., Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury), Stroud B., Williams B., Williamson Timothy, Williamson Timothy   +15 more
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]

, 2015
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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Terrorism and relative justice [PDF]

, 2007
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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Principles of Stakes Fairness in Sport [PDF]

, 2015
Fairness in sport is not just about assigning the top prizes to the worthiest competitors. It is also about the way the prize structure itself is organised.
Aristotle, Arneson R, Arneson R, Brown A, Clarke B, Clumpner RA, Cohen GA, Cohen GA, Collier D, Cupit G, Dworkin R, Fishkin J, Frank R, Freeden M, Fu Z, Gaffney P, Gallie WB, Goodwin B, Jacobs L, Jacobs L, Jones R, Kyle DG, Loland S, Loland S, Loland S, Mason A, Miller D, Morgan W, Rawls J, Rawls J, Rawls J, Singman JL, Spivey N, Swanton C, Voorhoeve A, Walzer M, Williams B, Wolff J   +37 more
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The iron law of democratic socialism: British and Austrian influences on the young Karl Polanyi [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A central thesis of Karl Polanyi's The great transformation concerns the tensions between capitalism and democracy: the former embodies the principle of inequality, while
Bauer O., Bauer O., Bernstein E., Bottomore T., Braunthal J., Carpenter N., Cole M., Congdon L., Czerwínska-Schupp E., Deutscher I., Duczynska I., Foot P., Gareth Dale, Glass S. T., Gruber H., Gruber H., Hacohen M. H., Hanisch E., Hirst P., Ignotus P., Janos A., Kirkpatrick F., Leighton D., MacIntyre A., Marx K., Múcsi F., Nafissi M., Owen R., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi K., Polanyi-Levitt K., Schumpeter J., Schumpeter J., Thompson E., Williams R.   +42 more
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The Somatic Marker Hypotheses, and what the Iowa Gambling Task does and does not show [PDF]

, 2013
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science following peer review.
Colombetti, Giovanna
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How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding [PDF]

, 2017
We might think that thought experiments are at their most powerful or most interesting when they produce new knowledge. This would be a mistake; thought experiments that seek understanding are just as powerful and interesting, and perhaps even more so. A
Stuart, Michael T.
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