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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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Türkiye’deki İslâmî Fırkalaşma ve Cemaat Olgusunun Felsefî Tahlili
Eskiyeni, 2017 Bu çalışmada, modern dönemde Türkiye’de gelişmiş olan dini ayrılıkların ve cemaat olgusunun felsefi bağlamda tahlili yapılmaktadır. Söz konusu tahlil, “fırka” ve “cemaat” kavramlarının, klasik İslâm tarihi, modern sosyoloji ve çağdaş Türkiye toplumu ...
Muhammet Özdemir
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Effective Altruism and Care Ethics
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Effective altruism (EA) has received some of its most vocal criticisms from supporters of care ethics. In this article I take a comparative approach to determine whether a compelling critique of EA can emerge from care ethics at the ethical level, and more generally how much common ground can be found between the two.
Antonin Broi
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Sect Culture and Social Service
, 2016 This article is based on fieldwork with a branch of the popular Hindu sect, the Swaminarayan, in Gujarat, India. The branch is called the Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS). It has spread throughout the world. I examine its
Samta P. Pandya
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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
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Schistochilopsis (sect. Obtusae) Potemkin
, 2014 Schistochilopsis sect. Obtusae (R.M.Schust.) Potemkin, Novosti Sist. Nizš. Rast. 38: 364, 2005 (see Potemkin 2005). BASIONYM: Lophozia sect. Obtusae R.M.Schust., Hepat. Anthocerotae N. Amer.
Söderström, Lars +2 more
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In popular discourse and in the philosophical literature there is almost no reflection on the morality of doing harm in the context of doing one's job. To the contrary, workers are valorised simply for having a job, and typically individual workers are spared from blame, even when they cause significant harm as part of their job.
Theron Pummer, Benjamin Sachs‐Cobbe
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Studies in Entoloma—7. Entoloma sect. Phlebophora, sect. nov
, 1983 A new section is created in Entoloma subgenus Inocephalus Noordel., viz. sect. Phlebophora, characterised by a rimose pileal surface and a pileipellis reminding that of Pluteus sect. Hispidoderma. One new species is described, viz.
Noordeloos, Machiel E.
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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
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Karizma Dindarlığı: Şiilik Üzerine Araştırmalar
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2020 Prof. Dr. Sıddık Korkmaz’ın Şiilik üzerine yaptığı çalışmalarını içeren Karizma Dindarlığı adlı kitap, dört bölüm halinde on iki yazıdan müteşekkildir.
Mehmet Demir
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