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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
wiley   +1 more source

Taking Jobs and Doing Harm

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In popular discourse and in the philosophical literature there is almost no reflection on the morality of doing harm in the context of doing one's job. To the contrary, workers are valorised simply for having a job, and typically individual workers are spared from blame, even when they cause significant harm as part of their job.
Theron Pummer, Benjamin Sachs‐Cobbe
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating rock mutation characteristics and damage state warning model based on energy conversion

Energy Science & Engineering
Rock engineering achieves the secondary stress balance through rock mass structure adjustment, where energy conversion is throughout and associated closely with rock deformation and damage.
Hongming Cheng, Xiaobin Yang, Yongqing Lan   +2 more
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Catastrophe Theoretic Semantics An elaboration and application of René Thom's theory

René Thom, the famous French mathematician and founder of catastrophe theory, considered linguistics an exemplary field for the application of his general morphology.
Wildgen, Wolfgang.
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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
wiley   +1 more source

A bivariate catastrophe model for non-orthogonal decentralized digital currencies

International Review of Economics & Finance
The increasing integration of cryptocurrencies into global financial markets has created new channels of systemic fragility, driven not only by extreme volatility but also by increasingly strong cross-asset interdependencies.
Rolando Gonzales Martinez
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 445-461, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
wiley   +1 more source

The Pearcey function and the cusp catastrophe [PDF]

, 2016
The subject of this work is a theoretical analysis of the Pearcey function. In optics, thin lens theory supposes that all rays focus at a unique point where the field converges.
MacBeath, Darryl
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Analysis and practice of optimal construction sequence for multi-arch small-clearance tunnels based on the cusp catastrophe model

Shuiwen dizhi gongcheng dizhi
The mechanical characteristics of porous tunnel construction are complex, and the selection of its construction scheme and stability evaluation are engineering difficulties.
Zhixiong YAO, Binchao JIANG, Gang WANG, Ximao CHEN, Minqiang SHEN, Bo WU, Yue ZHUO, Ying CUI   +7 more
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A cusp catastrophe model of instability of slip-buckling slope

, 2001
A cusp catastrophe model is developed for slip-buckling slope by catastrophe theory, and the formulations of the necessary and sufficient conditions for instability of the slope are presented. It is found that different regions (II, III and IV in Fig. 4)
Qin, S, Jiao, JJ, Wang, S
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