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Experimental philosophy and moral responsibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Can experimental philosophy help us answer central questions about the nature of moral responsibility, such as the question of whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism?
Björnsson, Gunnar
core  

Syntax Splitting = Relevance + Independence: New Postulates for Nonmonotonic Reasoning From Conditional Belief Bases

open access: yesInternational Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 2020
Syntax splitting, first introduced by Parikh in 1999, is a natural and desirable property of KR systems. Syntax splitting combines two aspects: it requires that the outcome of a certain epistemic operation should only depend on relevant parts of the ...
G. Kern-Isberner, C. Beierle, G. Brewka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

1. Should Africans Give Up on the Epistemic Decolonisation Project? A Critical Evaluation of Bernard Matolino’s “Whither Epistemic Decolonisation”

open access: yesArụmarụka
In 21st-century Africa, decolonisation has become the heartbeat of African philosophy, and epistemic decolonisation has taken the protagonist role in the theatre of African philosophy.
Brian CHIBVONGODZE
doaj   +1 more source

Request for confirmation sequences in Egyptian Arabic

open access: yesOpen Linguistics
The article presents a description of request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in everyday conversation in Egyptian Arabic. Through a quantitative analysis of 200 sequences excerpted from telephone calls, the analysis is concerned to identify the main ...
Marmorstein Michal
doaj   +1 more source

The Changing Boundaries of Journalistic Objectivity: Hybrid Journalism, Standpoint Theory, and Editorial Ethics in Poland

open access: yesRoczniki Nauk Społecznych
The concept of journalistic objectivity has undergone scrutiny in recent years. Traditionally regarded as a cornerstone of journalistic integrity, it is increasingly critiqued as an outdated standard that fails to reflect the complexities of contemporary
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska, Greta Gober
doaj   +1 more source

Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
It has been argued that photographs are unsuitable or inferior candidates for art because they are not intimately bound to the mind of an artist. I believe that we can address scepticism in the philosophy of art only if we recognise that it is linked to ...
Wilson, Dawn
core  

Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic ecocide and environmental collapse in the suppression of Uzbek language

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
This article examines how Soviet-era linguistic suppression in Uzbekistan contributed to environmental degradation across Central Asia, as exemplified by the Aral Sea disaster.
Makhbubakhon Shokirova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entropic Measure of Epistemic Uncertainties in Multibody System Models by Axiomatic Design

open access: yesEntropy, 2017
In this paper, the use of the MaxInf Principle in real optimization problems is investigated for engineering applications, where the current design solution is actually an engineering approximation.
Francesco Villecco, Arcangelo Pellegrino
doaj   +1 more source

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