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Precaution, proportionality and proper commitments
Animal Sentience, 2017 Birch’s extension of the precautionary principle (PP) is plausible but raises issues about how proportionality ought to be incorporated into law. Following Steel (2013), I suggest that the PP is best considered as a meta-norm, and as such any resulting ...
Colin Klein
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Appraising evidence for valence
Animal Sentience, 2023 I make some remarks about whether evidence of valenced responses constitutes evidence of valenced states, and therefore of sentience, in organisms.
Víctor Carranza-Pinedo
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Hierarchies ontological and ideological [PDF]
, 2012 Gödel claimed that Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is ‘what becomes of the theory of types if certain superfluous restrictions are removed’. The aim of this paper is to develop a clearer understanding of Gödel's remark, and of the surrounding philosophical ...
Rayo, A. +2 more
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Self-maintenance and the evidence for artificial sentience
Animal SentienceBirch aims to remain neutral about whether life is necessary for sentience. We argue that life can be given a role while maintaining neutrality. Markers of sentience have been identified in living systems, where some contribute to the system's self ...
Mads J. Hansen +1 more
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Scepticism about moral superiority
Animal Sentience, 2019 Chapman & Huffman suggest that we might change people’s behavior toward animals by resisting an argument that because humans are intellectually superior to animals, they are also morally superior to animals.
Derek Ball, Benjamin Sachs
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The Explanation of Gradational Dualism in Sadraean Psychology and its Status in Theories of the Philosophy of Mind [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2019 Mulla Sadra proves that the mind is an abstract being. But it is not something distinct from the body that requires substance dualism, i.e. to demonstration of soul or soul’s faculties such as imagination, doesn't make the identity of person dual.
Majid Shamsabadi Hoseini +1 more
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On Arguments for Immateriality of the Soul by Avicenna and Mullā Ṣadrā
حکمت سینوی, 2019 I seek to explicate the ways in which the soul is deemed immaterial in two main strands of Islamic philosophy and then consider with the physicalistic approach some arguments for the immateriality of the soul. To do so, I first overview Avicenna's theory
Mahdi Homazadeh Abyaneh
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Body-as-Subject in the Four-Hand Illusion
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In a recent study (Chen et al., 2018), we conducted a series of experiments that induced the “four-hand illusion”: using a head-mounted display (HMD), the participant adopted the experimenter's first-person perspective (1PP) as if it was his/her own 1PP.
Caleb Liang +4 more
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Data‐Driven Materials Science for Energy‐Sustainable Applications
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Data‐driven approaches powered by artificial intelligence are transforming materials discovery for energy sustainability. This review examines how auto‐generated high‐quality materials databases and domain‐specific language models accelerate research in photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries and magnetic materials. Applications involve extraction of
Jacqueline M. Cole
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Philosophies, 2018 The use of new paradigms of false belief tasks (FBT) allowed to reduce the age of children who pass the test from the previous 4 years in the standard version to only 15 months or even a striking 6 months in the nonverbal modification.
Ricardo Augusto Perera +1 more
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