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Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
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Element geochemical analysis of the contribution of aeolian sand to suspended sediment in desert stream flash floods. [PDF]
ScientificWorldJournal, 2014 Jia X, Wang H.
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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How Seriously Should We Take AI Welfare? Constraints From the Epistemology of Consciousness
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some philosophers argue that near‐term artificial intelligence (AI) systems might soon be welfare subjects. We should take AI welfare seriously, they urge, because AI systems might soon have properties indicated by our best scientific theories of consciousness, and consciousness suffices for welfare subjectivity.
Preston Lennon
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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Disaster management in flash floods in leh (ladakh): a case study. [PDF]
Indian J Community Med, 2012 Gupta P, Khanna A, Majumdar S.
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Comparative Studies Are Needed to Contextualize Stranding in Hydropeaking River Systems
Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
Raegan Davis +2 more
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Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
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Assessment of vulnerability to extreme flash floods in design storms. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2011 Kim ES, Choi HI.
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