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Luck in Aristotle's Physics and Ethics [PDF]
, 2015 I discuss how Aristotle’s formulation of the problem of moral luck relates to his natural philosophy. I review well-known passages from Nicomachean Ethics I/X and Eudemian Ethics I/VII and Physics II, but in the main focus on EE VII 14 (= VIII 2).
Johnson, Monte
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2014 Nearly all success is due to some mix of ability and luck. But some successes we attribute to the agent's ability, whereas others we attribute to luck. To better understand the criteria distinguishing credit from luck, we conducted a series of four studies on knowledge attributions. Knowledge is an achievement that involves reaching the truth. But many
Turri, John +2 more
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The institutional determinants of CEO compensation: An international empirical evidence [PDF]
International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2011 Corporate governance literature suggests that the relationship between CEO effort and outcomes such as firm performance is highly uncertain due to the influence of numerous organizational and environmental contingencies that are outside CEOs’ control ...
Fakhfakh, H., Singhal, P.
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Aristotle on Constitutive, Developmental, and Resultant Moral Luck [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter offers a definition of luck from Aristotle's Physics, considers how this definition of luck from the Physics relates to Aristotle's treatment of luck in his works on ethics and the good life, as well as how it compares with the modern ...
Athanassoulis, Nafsika
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Fake Barns and Our Epistemological Theorizing
Crítica, 2018 Pure virtue epistemology faces the fake barn challenge. This paper explains how it can be met. Thus, it is argued that the thought experiment contains a hidden ambiguity concerning the visual ability typically ascribed to, or denied, fake barn subjects ...
Ángel García Rodríguez
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Beliefs around luck : confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale [PDF]
, 2008 The current study developed a multi-dimensional measure of beliefs around luck. Two studies introduced the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale where the scale showed a consistent 4 component model (beliefs in luck, rejection of luck, being lucky,
Alex M. Wood +29 more
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Egalitarian justice and expected value [PDF]
, 2013 According to all-luck egalitarianism, the differential distributive effects of both brute luck, which defines the outcome of risks which are not deliberately taken, and option luck, which defines the outcome of deliberate gambles, are unjust. Exactly how
A Cappelen +34 more
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BCI-Mediated Behavior, Moral Luck, and Punishment [PDF]
, 2020 An ongoing debate in the philosophy of action concerns the prevalence of moral luck: instances in which an agent’s moral responsibility is due, at least in part, to factors beyond his control.
Miller, Daniel J.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar +8 more
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An additively manufactured model for preclinical testing of cervical devices
JOR SpinePurpose Composite models have become commonplace for the assessment of fixation and stability of total joint replacements; however, there are no comparable models for the cervical spine to evaluate fixation.
Jenna M. Wahbeh +6 more
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