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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

On the independence of premiss axiom and rule

Archive for Mathematical Logic, 2020
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Takako Nemoto, Ishihara Hajime
exaly   +3 more sources

Probabilistic independence axiom

GENEVA Risk and Insurance Review, 2020
One of the most well-known theories of decision making under risk is expected utility theory based on the independence axiom. The independence axiom postulates that decision maker’s preferences between two lotteries are not affected by mixing both lotteries with the same third lottery (in identical proportions).
Pavlo Blavatskyy, Blavatskyy Pavlo
exaly   +2 more sources

The projective independence axiom

Economic Theory, 1994
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Larry Epstein   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Asset Demand Without the Independence Axiom

Econometrica, 1989
An important application of the theory of choice under uncertainty is to asset markets, and an important property in these markets is a preference for portfolio diversification. If an investor is an expected utility maximizer, then (s)he is risk averse if and only if (s)he exhibits a preference for diversification.
Eddie Dekel
exaly   +3 more sources

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