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The Epistemic and Ethical Risk of WHO's Suspension of Judgement on Aerosol Transmission Hypothesis during the Pandemic

Yixue yu zhexue
World Health Organization (WHO) has faced significant controversy over its extremely rigorous and slow process of confirming whether aerosol transmission was a route for COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Xinyu CHEN, Hongyi CHEN
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Epistemic Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning

CoRR, 2019
8 pages, 2 ...
Hannes Eriksson, Christos Dimitrakakis
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Risking Sustainability: Political Risk Culture as Inhibiting Ecology-Centered Sustainability

Risks, 2021
This exploratory study aims to understand why, and propose remedies for, the treatment of political risk and sustainability as siloed risk areas in risk analyses.
Susan T. Jackson
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Robustness-based portfolio optimization under epistemic uncertainty

Journal of Industrial Engineering International, 2018
In this paper, we propose formulations and algorithms for robust portfolio optimization under both aleatory uncertainty (i.e., natural variability) and epistemic uncertainty (i.e., imprecise probabilistic information) arising from interval data ...
Md. Asadujjaman, Kais Zaman
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The Ethics of Scepticism: Epistemic Blame and the Social Dynamics of Epistemic Risk-Taking

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
This paper levels a charge of free riding against the figure of the radical sceptic. Due to their persistent resistance to attributing knowledge to themselves and others, the radical sceptic limits their contributions to the social context to “mere ...
Jesús Navarro
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Consensual Decision-Making Among Epistemic Peers [PDF]

, 2009
This paper focuses on the question of how to resolve disagreement, and uses the Lehrer-Wagner model as a formal tool for investigating consensual decision-making.
Martini, Carlo, Sprenger, Jan, Martini, C., Hartmann, Stephan, Hartmann, S., Sprenger, J.M.   +5 more
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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Epistemic theories of democracy, constitutionalism and the procedural legitimacy of fundamental rights [PDF]

, 2013
The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the legitimacy of constitutional laws and bills of rights within the framework of procedural epistemic democracy. The thesis is divided into three sections.
Allard-Tremblay, Yann
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LLM‐Integrated Human–Robot Interaction System for Microrobots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This paper proposes an LLM‐based control framework for guiding microrobots using human natural language. This framework can convert the natural human speech into safe and executable command sets for reliable navigation in complex environments. The experimental results show high accuracy and robustness in task performance, demonstrating the potential of
Bairong Zhu, Amar Salehi, Tingting Yu
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Epistemic appropriation and the ethics of engaging with trans community knowledge in the context of mental healthcare research

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Mental healthcare research increasingly focuses the needs of trans people and, in doing so, acknowledges knowledge and epistemic resources developed in trans communities. In this article, we aim to raise awareness of an ethical issue described by Emmalon
Francis Myerscough, Lydia Schneider-Reuter, Mirjam Faissner   +2 more
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