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Risk, Overlap, and Two Forms of Aggregation

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce a new class of cases to the debate on rescue dilemmas and whether to save the greater number. We argue that situations involving both risk and overlap shine a new light on some of the most important issues within this discussion.
Lukas Tank   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia—a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to ...
Susumu Cato, Hun Chung
wiley   +1 more source

Autofiction as relational mediation: A Ghost in the Throat and To Write as if Already Dead

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Because of its exploration of the self and the resemblance to online styles of publishing, autofiction has been accused by certain scholars of reflecting neoliberal tendencies. Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse have developed a more nuanced view on the relation between autofiction and neoliberalism.
Stijn De Cauwer
wiley   +1 more source

Backgrounds and perspectives of San Antonio street sleepers. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon
Paulo C   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
wiley   +1 more source

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