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Agents' Behavior and Interest Rate Model Optimization in DeFi Lending

open access: yesMathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contrasting sharply with traditional money, bond, and bond futures markets, where interest rates emerge organically from participant interactions, DeFi lending platforms employ rule‐based interest rates that are algorithmically set. Thus, the selection of an effective interest rate model (IRM) is paramount for the success of a lending protocol.
Charles Bertucci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Exemplar Approach to Science and Religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We can judge whether some activities are scientific or religious, depending on how similar they are to exemplar scientific activities or to exemplar religious activities, even if we cannot specify the necessary and sufficient conditions for science and ...
Park, Seungbae
core   +3 more sources

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Science: Servant or master?*

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1982
The so-called omnipotence of modern science and technology rests on fundamental convictions and views regarding their basic nature. The mythical claims as to the demonic or magical role played by science in society are strengthened on the one hand by ...
Elaine M. Botha
doaj   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Partially Resolving the Tension between Omniscience and Free Will: A Mathematical Argument [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
We put forward a probability-based theory of temptation with implications for philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind ...
Fulda, Joseph S.
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The metaphysics of the Time-Machine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The concept of time-travel is a modern idea which combines the imaginary signification of rational domination, the imaginary signification of technological omnipotence, the imaginary concept of eternity and the imaginary desire for immortality.
Schismenos, Alexandros
core   +1 more source

Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Responses to the paradoxes on the omnipotence of God

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2019
It might be said that one of the debates that has generated the most discussion, reflections and productions in this regard, in all the currents of philosophy (classic, continental and analytical), has been on the existence, nature and influence of God ...
Juan Camilo Hernández Rodríguez
doaj   +1 more source

A psychoanalytic concept illustrated: Will, must, may, can — revisiting the survival function of primitive omnipotence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The author explores the linear thread connecting the theory of Freud and Klein, in terms of the central significance of the duality of the life and death instinct and the capacity of the ego to tolerate contact with internal and external reality ...
Abraham K.   +27 more
core   +1 more source

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