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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Do large language models (“LLMs”) think? Daniel Stoljar and Zhihe Vincent Zhang have recently developed an argument from rationality for the claim that LLMs do not think. We contend, however, that the argument from rationality not only falters, but leaves open an intriguing possibility: that LLMs engage only in arational, associative forms of thinking ...
Joseph Gottlieb +2 more
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The Motive of Duty and Kantian Moral Worth
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, it is argued that action from duty has special moral worth on Kant's account because (i) it is an instance of good willing, and (ii) the good will is the only unconditional good. This is used to argue, contrary to various commentators, that Kant's doctrine of moral worth is central, not only to Kantian ethics, but to any ...
Samuel Kahn
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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While scholarship on the digital welfare state has effectively critiqued the rise of ‘digital dystopias’ in consolidated welfare systems, it has paid insufficient attention to how digitalization interacts with the structural fragmentation characteristic of many states in the Global South.
Viviana Ponce de León Solís
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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Proceedings of the ACM on Software EngineeringCode obfuscation is a process that complicates reverse engineering, protects intellectual property, and conceals malware. Existing deobfuscation approaches often lack generality or struggle with complex, mixed, or unknown transformations. To address this issue, this paper proposes LUCID, a Large Language Model (LLM) based Universal Control-flow ...
Xiao Chen +6 more
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Conniving With Continuations: Representing Goals in a Domain‐Specific Language of Thought
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Wanting composes flexibly with knowing: we can want to know, want to know what someone wants, and so on. In this paper, we develop a goal representation that allows for this type of rich integration between goals and other theory‐of‐mind concepts.
Kartik Chandra +3 more
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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