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A Quantum-Conceptual Explanation of Violations of Expected Utility in Economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The expected utility hypothesis is one of the building blocks of classical economic theory and founded on Savage's Sure-Thing Principle. It has been put forward, e.g.
A. Khrennikov   +16 more
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In Answer to the Pauline Principle: Consent, Logical Constraints, and Free Will

open access: yesReligions, 2022
James Sterba uses the Pauline Principle to argue that the occurrence of significant, horrendous evils is logically incompatible with the existence of a good God.
Marilie Coetsee
doaj   +1 more source

Utylitaryzm reguł, znaczenie intencji i ocena terroryzmu (Rule utilitarianism, relevance of intention and moral permissibility of terrorism)

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2018
Rule utilitarianism, relevance of intention and moral permissibility of terrorism In this paper I consider the puzzling question of moral responsibility of some quite specific terrorist acts.
Wacław Janikowski
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Prospects of Relativistic Flying Mirrors for Ultra-High-Field Science

open access: yesPhotonics, 2022
Recent progress of high-peak-power lasers makes researchers envisage ultra-high-field science; however, the current or near future facilities will not be strong enough to reach the vacuum breakdown intensity, i.e., the Schwinger field.
Masaki Kando   +4 more
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Sex By Deception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In this paper I will use sex by deception as a case study for highlighting some of the most tricky concepts around sexuality and moral psychology, including rape, consensual sex, sexual rights, sexual autonomy, sexual individuality, and disrespectful sex.
Brogaard, Berit
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Nonperturbative Effects from the Resummation of Perturbation Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Using the general argument in Borel resummation of perturbation theory that links the divergent perturbation theory to the nonperturbative effect we argue that the nonperturbative effect associated with the perturbation theory should have a branch cut ...
A.H. Mueller   +27 more
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The Principle of Double Effect

open access: yesInternational Philosophical Quarterly, 2013
Objections to the principle of double effect usually concern its first and second conditions (that the act not be evil in itself, and that the good effect and not the evil effect be intended). The difficulties often arise from a rejection of the idea that acts have a moral nature independent of context, and a tendency to interpret intention as purely ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Shot noise in mesoscopic systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This is a review of shot noise, the time-dependent fluctuations in the electrical current due to the discreteness of the electron charge, in small conductors.
A der Ziel van   +160 more
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Zasada podwójnego skutku i zasada moralnej symetrii a kwestia legalizacji eutanazji [Principles of Double Effect and Moral Symmetry and Legalization of Euthanasia] [PDF]

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2013
In this essay I scrutinize importance of Principles of Double Effect and MoralSymmetry in regard to the question of moral acceptance of euthanasia legalization.My conclusion is that although there is no substantially moral difference betweenpassive and ...
Wacław Janikowski
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Deep Inelastic Scattering and Gauge/String Duality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We study deep inelastic scattering in gauge theories which have dual string descriptions. As a function of $gN$ we find a transition. For small $gN$, the dominant operators in the OPE are the usual ones, of approximate twist two, corresponding to ...
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