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Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice
ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
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Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
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The effectiveness of religious programs on Channel One Iranian TV on Special Occasions (Ramadan) With the Emphasis on the Views of M.A Students of Communication, Branch of Central Tehran [PDF]
Thirty years have passed since the Islamic Revolution, yet many people of Iranian society as an Islamic society have a little knowledge and understanding of Islam.
Amir Masoud Amir Mazaheri, Leyla Dana
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This paper explores the use of home videos as a vernacular form of audiovisual documentation and focuses on the case of Spyros Koukossis, an electronics shop owner from the village of Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos. By employing a VHS camera, Koukossis recorded local traditions and festivities during the annual ?Tavros?
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Abstract Objectives Visual hallucinations (visions) in people with psychosis are common and often distressing. Cognitive theory emphasises a central role of appraisals in determining distress. We explored how people made sense of their visions to inform the development of targeted cognitive treatments for visions. Design Semi‐structured interviews were
Charlotte Aynsworth +4 more
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ABSTRACT This paper addresses the following questions: When do AIs die? Are AI labs or AI users causing the death of AIs? Is this bad for the AIs? What are our ethical responsibilities in light of the answers to these questions? It is currently unclear whether AIs are welfare subjects, and, if they are, whether their death is bad for them. But we argue
Simon Goldstein, Harvey Lederman
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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In Mainland China more and more children are over concentrated and over protected by their families. The life of only-children has been wrapped in a very limited area. 'Sunchime Bank of Movies' was set in 1996.
J. N. Shi, Z. X. Lei
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