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Promoting the rule of rationality over positive law and legal thinking [PDF]
The paper makes the following claims. First, the most important problem for contemporary legal philosophy is contrasting the morally disgusting state of the world. Second, qua jurisprudents, the problem must be dealt with indirectly.
Chiassoni Pierluigi
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The project of identifying the cognitive mechanisms or information-processing functions that cause people to categorize others by their race is one of the longest-standing and socially-impactful scientific issues in all of the behavioral sciences.
David Pietraszewski
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The Disastrous Implications of the 'English' View of Rationality in a Social World [PDF]
Van Fraassen (2007, 2017) consistently uses the English view of rationality to parry criticisms from scientific realists. I assume for the sake of argument that the English view of rationality is tenable, and then argue that it has disastrous ...
Park, Seungbae
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RATIONAL DISTANCES WITH RATIONAL ANGLES [PDF]
In 1946 Erd\H os asked for the maximum number of unit distances, $u(n)$, among $n$ points in the plane. He showed that $u(n)> n^{1+c/\log\log n}$ and conjectured that this was the true magnitude. The best known upper bound is $u(n)
József Solymosi +2 more
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The Faculty of Ideas. Kant’s Concept of Reason in the Narrower Sense
In the Transcendental Dialectic, Kant searched for a universal concept of reason different from the understanding and offered the short formula “the faculty of principles” (KrV A299/B356). I will argue that this is only one and not the most pertinent and
Lewin Michael
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Belief, Rational and Justified [PDF]
It is clear that beliefs can be assessed both as to their justification and their rationality. What is not as clear, however, is how the rationality and justification of belief relate to one another.
Siscoe, Wes
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Taking the sting out of choice: Diversification of investments
It is often the case that one can choose a mix of alternative options rather than have to select one option only. Such an opportunity to diversify may blunt the risk involved in all-or-none choice. Here we investigate repeated investment decisions in two-
Judith Avrahami +2 more
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Leaving traces behind: Using social media digital trace data to study adolescent wellbeing
Adolescents spend a significant amount of time on social media and there is a great public worry, from parents to policy makers, about the effect of social media on healthy development.
Mubashir Sultan +2 more
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Is that the answer you had in mind? The effect of perspective on unethical behavior
We explored how the perspective through which individuals view their actions influences their ethicality, comparing a narrow perspective that allows for evaluation of each choice in isolation, to a broad perspective that promotes an aggregate view of one’
Amos Schurr +3 more
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Background Long-term prescriptions of strong opioids for chronic noncancer pain—which are not supported by scientific evidence—suggest miscalibrated risk perceptions among those who prescribe, dispense, and take opioids.
Odette Wegwarth +5 more
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