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Taking Risks, With and Without Probabilities

Noûs, 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

What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

Aggregation and the Structure of Value

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
wiley   +1 more source

Adopting Soft Logic to enhance an Adizes tool: A comprehensive approach to represent the evaluation of management styles. [PDF]

PLoS One
Kordova S, Hirschprung RS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pre-Hausdorff objects in topological categories

, 1997
There are two notions in topological category theory, called preT$\sb2$ and preT$\sp\prime\sb2$, which both reduce to the classical pre-Hausdorff separation axiom in the case of topological spaces.
Stine, Jay
core  

A novel method based on high‐resolution imaging spectroscopy to predict fine‐root traits and the economics space of fresh tree roots

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Maps of the estimated root nitrogen concentration in the < 0.5‐mm‐diameter classes of 20 woody species based on the imaging spectroscopy using the shortwave infrared spectral region. Summary Tree fine‐root morphological, anatomical, and chemical traits are important to reflect belowground resource acquisition strategies to support tree growth, but ...
Naoki Makita, Natsuko Tanikawa, Tatsuro Nakaji   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An axiomatic system engineering design method based on NSGA-II algorithm applied to complex systems. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhang X, Zhang Q, Zhao Q, Zhao S, Zhao Y, Guo Y, Zhao Z, Song L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
wiley   +1 more source

Genome-Wide Association Study of Osteoporosis Risk in Korean Pre-Menopausal Women: The Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci
Kim SK, Hong SJ, Kim G, Ban JY, Kang SW.
europepmc   +1 more source