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On the Necessity of Ritual Sensibility in Public Protest: A Hong Kong Perspective
Religions, 2021 In Hong Kong, the efficacy of ritualized protest has become an issue of hot debate in recent years. Whereas ritualized protest is a long-term political practice in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement that has considerable influence, skepticism about it ...
Bryan K. M. Mok
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Can Modal Skepticism Defeat Humean Skepticism? [PDF]
, 2017 My topic is moderate modal skepticism in the spirit of Peter van Inwagen. Here understood, this is a conservative version of modal empiricism that severely limits the extent to which an ordinary agent can reasonably believe “exotic” possibility claims. I
A. Goldman +25 more
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A Methodological Critique of Classical Financial Economics: Behavioral financial considerations [PDF]
جستارهای اقتصادی, 2022 Standard finance is based on methodological individualism within the framework of Cartesian epistemology. Based on this rationalist structure, the investor enjoys Perfect rationality, Perfect selfishness, and Perfect willpower.
Hamid Hasanpour +3 more
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Hobbes and Spinoza on Sovereign Education
Philosophies, 2022 Most comparisons of Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza focus on the difference in understanding of natural right. We argue that Hobbes also places more weight on a rudimentary and exclusive education of the public by the state.
Boleslaw Z. Kabala, Thomas Cook
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, 2016 One very common style of teaching philosophy involves remaining publicly neutral regarding the views being debated—a technique commonly styled ‘teaching the debate.’ This paper seeks to survey evidence from the literature in social psychology that ...
Besong, Brian
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Ethics, Rights, and White's Antitrust Skepticism [PDF]
, 2016 Mark White has developed a provocative skepticism about antitrust law. I first argue against three claims that are essential to his argument: the state may legitimately constrain or punish only conduct that violates someone’s rights, the market’s purpose
Long, Ryan
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(WP 2012-01) Samuels on Methodological Pluralism in Economics [PDF]
, 2012 Warren Samuels was an influential proponent of methodological pluralism in economics. This short paper discusses his understanding of methodological pluralism, and argues that it is based on three distinct components: (1) his critique of the idea that ...
Davis, John
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported worldwide. However, one epidemiological report has claimed a lower incidence of the disease in people living at high altitude (>2,500 m), proposing the hypothesis that adaptation to ...
Christian Albert Devaux +4 more
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, 2017 The immediate aim of this paper is to articulate the essential features of an alternative compatibilist position, one that is responsive to sources of resistance to the compatibilist program based on considerations of fate and luck.
Russell, Paul
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The Disappearance of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2019 Keith DeRose’s new book The Appearance of Ignorance is a welcome companion volume to his 2009 book The Case for Contextualism. Where latter focused on contextualism as a view in the philosophy of language, the former focuses on how contextualism ...
McKenna, Robin
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