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The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma
ABSTRACT Some critics worry that the average quality of public discourse in liberal democracies is deplorably low. An example of this is that superficial media content enjoys a much broader audience than highly informative content. States can take various measures to improve the quality of public discourse.
Malte Jauch
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A Smithian Political Economy Approach for the Competition Law of the 21st Century
This study aims to show how a Smithian political economy approach could assist competition law in addressing the challenges of the 21st‐century economy. We revisit Smith's Wealth of Nations to provide a more nuanced understanding of his views, contrasting them with the prevailing libertarian interpretation called here ‘Chicago Smith’.
Stavros Makris
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The ethics of crashes with self‐driving cars: A roadmap, I
Abstract Self‐driving cars hold out the promise of being much safer than regular cars. Yet they cannot be 100% safe. Accordingly, they need to be programmed for how to deal with crash scenarios. Should cars be programmed to always prioritize their owners, to minimize harm, or to respond to crashes on the basis of some other type of principle?
Sven Nyholm
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Abstract This paper explores the idea of a ‘golden age’ in social psychological research. I begin with ‘behavioural social psychology’—research that leverages the behavioural traces that are a product of the digital age. I argue that the ability to analyse digital visual data, natural language data, and smartphone and ambient sensor data, has made ...
Mark Levine
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Abstract The article examines the normative content and justification of intellectual property rights (IPR), focusing on the question of whether the incentive theory provides a sufficient and appropriate basis for the regulation of intangible goods within the framework of the concept of inherently limited rights.
Konrad Gliściński
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Enabling data‐driven collaborative and reproducible environmental synthesis science
Abstract This manuscript shares the lessons learned from providing scientific computing support to over 600 researchers and discipline experts, helping them develop reproducible and scalable analytical workflows to process large amounts of heterogeneous data.
Julien Brun +7 more
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ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS
ABSTRACT Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificial historians can be proposed through the recognition of historiographical logic, which is a hybrid of modal, propositional, and erotetic (question‐
Marnie Hughes‐Warrington
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Background Rapid growth in early childhood device usage has raised critical questions about the potential impact of digital storybooks on children's reading outcomes. The current study examined how two types of multimedia animations in digital storybooks – animations of storyline elements or details in the illustrations – influenced the story ...
Seung‐Hee Claire Son +1 more
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Abstract In this paper Johan Dahlbeck sets out to propose a pedagogy of “as if,” seeking to address the educational paradox of how students can be influenced to approximate a life guided by reason without assuming that they are already sufficiently rational to adhere to dictates of practical reason.
Johan Dahlbeck
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“THE MARCH” BY E. L. DOCTOROW: HISTORY AND FICTION
The article is devoted to the comprehension of the specificity of relationship between history and fiction in E. L. Doctorow’s novel “The March”. Despite the frequent mentioning of historicism as a key feature of the creativity of Doctorow, this is the only novel defined by the prose writer as historical. A detailed description of landscapes, images of
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