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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

The projective independence axiom

, 1994
A new axiom for preference orderings over lotteries, called the projective independence axiom, is formulated. Given suitable continuity and monotonicity assumptions, the axiom implies that utility is either in the weighted utility class or is quadratic ...
Epstein, Larry G., Chew, Soo Hong, Segal, Uzi   +2 more
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Developing agency through experiences of misalignment: A path to becoming a physician

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction How medical students respond to the dissonance that can result from misalignments between personal values and the norms and values of the profession informs their evolving professional identities. But to what extent do medical students have agency to respond intentionally to these experiences?
Robert Sternszus, Nissim Maxim Frija‐Gruman, Monica Molinaro, Javeed Sukhera, Maimouna Mbengue, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Yvonne Steinert   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Timeless Histories: Quantum Measurement and the Maximum Entropy Principle. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Tkachenko AV.
europepmc   +1 more source

Are there norms of rationality for perception? Evaluating experience‐forming processes under Bayesian norms

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
According to the rationality of perception thesis, perceptual processes and experiences can be rationally appraised. This thesis raises the questions of whether there can be norms of rationality for perception, and what they could be. Here, to answer these questions, we consider Bayesian norms as possible candidates.
Alice Andrea Chinaia, Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

A transparent and generalizable deep-learning framework for genomic ancestry prediction. [PDF]

Am J Hum Genet
Rochefort-Boulanger C, Scicluna M, Poujol R, Grenier JC, Carrier PL, Lemieux S, Hussin JG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source

Proximity structures on hesitant fuzzy sets and Its application. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Pankaj, Singh R, Rao RVNS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Matrix Product Operator Algebras I: Representations of Weak Hopf Algebras and Projected Entangled Pair States. [PDF]

Commun Math Phys
Molnar A, Ruiz-de-Alarcón A, Garre-Rubio J, Schuch N, Cirac JI, Pérez-García D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source