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Schelling on freedom, evil and imputation: A puzzle
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 563-575, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper is focused on F. W. J. Schelling's view of freedom during the period of the Freiheitsschrift (1809) and related works. It is argued that the standard way this has been understood may be too simplistic. On this standard interpretation of his view, evil is made a matter of free choice by the agent, but where the choice does not ...
Robert Stern
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The paradox of colour constancy: Plotting the lower borders of perception
Noûs, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 787-813, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper resolves a paradox concerning colour constancy. On the one hand, our intuitive, pre‐theoretical concept holds that colour constancy involves invariance in the perceived colours of surfaces under changes in illumination. On the other, there is a robust scientific consensus that colour constancy can persist in cerebral achromatopsia ...
Will Davies
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, 2021 Analytic Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 195-200, June 2021.
Jonathan Dancy
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Permissibility Is the Only Feasible Deontic Primitive
Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 117-133, December 2020., 2020 Abstract Moral obligation and permissibility are usually thought to be interdefinable. Following the pattern of the duality definitions of necessity and possibility, we have that something's being permissible could be defined as its not being obligatory to not do it. And that something's being obligatory could be defined as its not being permissible to
Johan E. Gustafsson
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020 Plenty of studies on exclusive lanes for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) have been conducted recently about traffic efficiency and safety. However, most of the previous research studies neglected comprehensive consideration of the safety impact on different market penetration rates (MPRs) of CAVs, traffic demands, and proportion of trucks in ...
Jian Zhang +6 more
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Detection of Moving Targets Based on Doppler Spectrum Analysis Technique for Passive Coherent Radar
Leida xuebao, 2013 A novel method of moving targets detection taking Doppler spectrum analysis technique for Passive Coherent Radar (PCR) is provided. After dividing the receiving signals into segments as pulse series, it utilizes the technique of pulse compress and ...
Zhao Yao-dong +3 more
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Philosophy and Ataraxia in Sextus Empiricus
Peitho, 2013 This essay addresses two interconnected questions: (a) In what sense is Skepticism a philosophy? (b) How can ataraxia emerge out of epochē? Skepticism is a practice that articulates three moments: equipollence, epochē (suspension of judgment), and ...
Pascal Massie
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On the Motivations of a Skeptic, and Her Practice
Peitho, 2016 The aim of Pyrrhonism is deceptively simple: to achieve a state of ataraxia, of tranquility and relief from perturbation. But what is the extent of the ataraxia envisioned? Must the Skeptic admit a hard distinction between disturbances apparently related
Bryan Maddox
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Environmental accounting for ecosystem conservation: Linking societal and ecosystem metabolisms [PDF]
, 2017 This paper proposes an approach to environmental accounting useful for studying the feasibility of socio-economic systems in relation to the external constraints posed by ecological compatibility.
Giampietro, Mario, Lomas, Pedro L.
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On the Fine-Structure of Regular Algebra [PDF]
, 2014 Regular algebra is the algebra of regular expressions as induced by regular language identity. We use Isabelle/HOL for a detailed systematic study of the regular algebra axioms given by Boffa, Conway, Kozen and Salomaa.
Foster, Simon David, Struth, Georg
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