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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 1999 Itkonen, Esa
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
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Justification, Excuse, and Dispositions to Follow Norms
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Out of all the candidates for a norm of justified belief, knowledge is not commonly viewed as favorably as others. Recently, however, those sympathetic to the knowledge norm have lodged various indirect defenses thereof by appropriating the concept of excuse, as part of a broader account of justification, to explain away intuitions that ...
Iñaki Xavier Larrauri Pertierra
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba +3 more
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Rethinking Functionalist Social Theory : Through Examining Giddens' Critique of Functionalism
, 2000 This paper aims to rethink functionalist social theory through examining Giddens' critique of functionalism. It is necessary for us to develop social theory further by overcoming functionalism, but directions of over-coming has not been showed properly ...
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More Specialization, More Coordination? Evidence From Local Public Service Delivery in Norway
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments specialize their work by dividing tasks among organizational units. Because specialization creates a demand for coordination among tasks that are interdependent, governments are also expected to provide more coordination when specialization is higher.
Leif. E. Kårtvedt
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Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
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On the Construct of Functional Psychology's Developmental Theory: Basic Experiences of the Self (BEsS). [PDF]
Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ, 2023 Dipasquale F +4 more
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, 1978 1 online resource (PDF, page 261-325)Block, Ned. (1978). Troubles with Functionalism.
Block, Ned
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The Real Reason You Cannot be Transracial
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Adam Hochman
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