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Learning from COVID-19: Virtue Ethics, Pandemics and Environmental Degradation: A case study reading of The Andromeda Strain (1971) and Contagion (2011) [PDF]
Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2021 This paper uses virtue ethics to discuss the COVID-19 outbreak, Hollywood science-fiction/pandemic films, and the environmental crisis. We outline the ideas of hubris and nemesis and argue that responding to the COVID-19 pandemic requires that we develop
Fiachra O'Brolcháin, Pat Brereton
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Merchants, Master-Manufacturers and Greedy People [PDF]
, 2007 A discussion of McCloskey's argument for a bourgeois virtue ethics. I criticize his opposition of Adam Smith's and Kant's ethics, arguing that they share much more than the author believes.
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Forum on Miranda Fricker's "Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing" [PDF]
, 2007 This paper summarizes key themes from my Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007); and it gives replies to ...
Fricker, Miranda
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Getting Smart: Need to Focus on Creating an Enabling Environment Structured Around the Objective of Realizing the True Potential of Our Next Generations [PDF]
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2016 Grade-assessment-method of monitoring progress against target learning outcomes, in our observed opinion, is essentially a "production-factory" model. Leadership and success are not necessarily a function of academic achievement but are also reliant on ...
Hassan Sattar, Sadaf Nazir
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Using the VIA Classification to Advance a Psychological Science of Virtue
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtue has received substantial attention since its inception as a model of 24 dimensions of positive human functioning, but less so as a potential contributor to a psychological science on the nature of ...
Robert E. McGrath, Mitch Brown
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On the Nature of Intellectual Vice [PDF]
, 2017 Vice epistemology, as Quassim Cassam understands it, is the study of the nature, identity, and significance of the epistemic vices. But what makes an intellectual vice a vice?
Madison, B. J. C.
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The Intellectuals and the Virtues [PDF]
Ethics, 2015 A virtuous person has a distinctive grasp of what is important in the light of which she chooses what to do. In what does this grasp consist? According to the intellectual tradition, moral virtue requires you always to be able to have an explicit, conscious grasp of the reasons why your action is right.
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Transducers convert physical signals into electrical and optical representations, yet each mechanism is bounded by intrinsic trade‐offs across bandwidth, sensitivity, speed, and energy. This review maps transduction mechanisms across physical scale and frequency, showing how heterogeneous integration and multiphysics co‐design transform isolated ...
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Incidental knowledge defended [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The paper analyses epistemic happenstance and argues for the possibility of incidental knowledge. It considers how minimal concepts of knowledge, reflecting various basic intuitions, operate in situations where there is an influence of chance or ...
A. M. Kardash
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