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Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive biases in military intelligence analysis: amplification mechanisms and intervention strategies in the digital-intelligent era. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Huo Y, Yu L, Ji Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
wiley   +1 more source

A CTC-Based Speech Recognition Network Fusing Local Convolution and Global Attention. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Hu H, Tang C, Tan P, Xu H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Against Proxy Optimization

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I discuss conditions under which maximizing a proxy utility function is harmful and suggest this poses problems for applying decision theory.
Sven Neth
wiley   +1 more source

NovelHTI: An Interpretable Pathway-Enhanced Framework for De Novo Target Prediction of Medicinal Herbs via Cross-Scale Heterogeneous Information Fusion. [PDF]

Pharmaceuticals (Basel)
Cheung Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Power Unleashed: Theorizing a Weak Ecology of Checks and Balances and Its Consequences. A Case From the Global South

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences ...
Oliver Meza, Elizabeth Pérez‐Chiqués, Aldo Martínez‐Hernandez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The logic of medical reasoning: toward an integrated inductive, deductive, and abductive approach to clinical practices. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Pietarinen AV, Stanley DE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bureaucratic Politics and Aid Allocation: Evidence From the US Agency for International Development

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of bureaucratic politics within the US Agency for International Development on the allocation of its development assistance. Existing studies of aid allocation have focused on donor interests, recipient needs, and recipient merit without accounting for the bureaucratic decision‐making process that helps determine these ...
Gus Greenstein, Mirko Heinzel
wiley   +1 more source

An Information-Theoretic Model of Abduction for Detecting Hallucinations in Explanations. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Galitsky B.
europepmc   +1 more source