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Do expected utility maximizers have commitment issues?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Critics have argued that expected utility theory fails as a theory of rational choice for diachronic agents who expect their preferences to change in response to temptations. According to this criticism, such agents cannot rationally commit to executing a sequence of actions, even when doing so would produce outcomes they consistently prefer ...
Paul de Font‐Reaulx
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A Phenomenological Understanding of Aging "Well" With Multiple Sclerosis. [PDF]

Gerontologist
Richardson EV, Motl RW.
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Phenomenology as Transcendental Philosophy. The Question of the Immediacy of Experience in Schmitz and Husserl

, 2017
Željko Radinković
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Fear of Missing Out

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the fear of missing out (FOMO)? I construe FOMO as a kind of fear which represents its object as absent and distinguish it from nearby phenomena such as regret and loneliness. This construal raises a tension. Philosophers understand fear as representing objects as dangerous, but it is less than clear how experiences of absence pose a ...
Rebecca Rowson
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Phenomenon of Life and Death by Dōgen and Heidegger––In View of “Embodied Cognition” in Buddhist Philosophy and Phenomenology

, 2015
Hisaki Hashi
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The Generality of Normative Thought

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is it to think a generic normative thought of the form “Human beings should exercise regularly” or “Human beings must keep promises”? I argue that although such thoughts resemble, in different respects, intentions and evaluative beliefs, they are not, first and foremost, either of those types of states.
Jeremy David Fix
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Qualia as query act, the phenomenology of predictive error coding. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Harris HW.
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Purely Instrumental Agents Are Possible

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purely instrumental agents can reason about how to realize their ends, but not about which ends to pursue. They can do one thing in order to do another but cannot choose their final ends for reasons. Some have argued that such agents are impossible, and that the success of moral constitutivism depends on their impossibility.
Bennett Eckert‐Kuang
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Gustav Shpet’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology: On the Way to the Positive Philosophy of History

, 2019
I V Demin
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