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Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1093-1125, December 2025.
Abstract Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision‐making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes. This paper shows, first, that under realistic levels of ‘background uncertainty’ about sources of value independent
Christian Tarsney
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Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 594-621, December 2025.
Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
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Visionaries and Crackpots, Maniacs and Saints: Existential Risk and the Politics of Longtermism

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 268-278, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite advancing strong claims about our collective priorities, longtermism has received little attention in debates in political philosophy. I first provide an account of longtermism that highlights the way it departs from established work on intergenerational justice.
Alex McLaughlin
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History of science in basic physics education: what topics are part of this history?

Revista Internacional de Formação de Professores, 2017
Taking as theme the use of the history and philosophy of science as a strategy for the physics teaching in high school, we aim to investigate which topics of physics have already been the object of proposals and investigations in this sense. For this, we
Andre Coelho da Silva, Ana Amélia Cyrineu   +1 more
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Yi Ik: Korean Practical Philosopher and Moralist of the Late Joseon Period

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения
Introduction. The article analyzes the ideological and theoretical views of the Korean intellectual, scholar Yi Ik (1681–1763), on modern society and his proposed measures for its improvement.
Yuri Smertin
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Book Review: Galactic Encounters

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2016
Georgios eBalasis
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The Impressionability of Multidimensional Character of Allama Qutb al-Din Shirazi, from the Cultural Atmosphere of Shiraz

Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2014
Allama Qutb al-Din Shirazi, is one of the elders and luminaries of Iran and the Islamic world and one of the great characters in the history of science in the world. Despite of the popularity of Allameh Qutb al-Din in medicine, he had reached to a degree
Mostafa Nadim
doaj  

Medical education in the first university of the world, the Jundishapur Academy. [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care, 2022
Daneshfard B, Naseri M, Ghaffari F.
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Reconstructing the intellectual neighbourhood: tracing Ali Qushji's influence in science. [PDF]

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Nurulla-Khoja N.
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Teaching the History and Philosophy of Astronomy

Chris Impey
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