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Taking Risks, With and Without Probabilities

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some hold that expected utility is too restrictive in the way it handles risk. Risk‐weighted expected utility is an alternative that allows decision‐makers to have a range of attitudes toward probabilistic risk. It holds that any attitude within this range is instrumentally rational, since these attitudes represent different, equally good ...
Lara Buchak
wiley   +1 more source

Genre and Conversation

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Mercy Consent and Contained Resistance: Grievance Systems in Chinese Food‐Delivery Platforms

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on a multi‐methods qualitative study, this article investigates how in‐platform grievance systems operate in the Chinese food‐delivery platform work. Drawing on labour process theory, we examine the role of in‐platform grievance systems in shaping the dynamic interplay between control, consent, and resistance. Our findings reveal that in‐
Ziheng Liu, Wei Wei
wiley   +1 more source

Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human. [PDF]

open access: yesiScience
Huber L   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Can the State of Nature Justify?

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural diversity of religion across 117 countries. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Bentzen JS   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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