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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Evolvable AI: Threats of a new major transition in evolution. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Müller V, Steels L, Szathmáry E.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
wiley   +1 more source

Do People Get the Friends They Want? A Cross-Cultural Investigation. [PDF]

Int J Psychol
Apostolou M, Sullman M, Ayers JD, Błachnio A, Choubisa R, Gadelrab HF, Hill T, Kamble S, Lisun Y, Manrique-Millones D, Millones-Rivalles R, Ohtsubo Y, Przepiórka A, Tekeş B, Cruz GV, Wang Y, Watanabe Y, Ghorbani A, Shahrour G.   +18 more
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
wiley   +1 more source

Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Self‐conceptions provide a framework through which we can make sense of ourselves, interpret and navigate the world, plan our lives, and relate to others. Relational influences can greatly shape them, for instance, when others react to us or offer advice. What if this ‘other’ is not a human being, but an AI?
Muriel Leuenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Corallorhiza striata is the first example of a pseudocopulatory orchid in North America and an instance of "double deception" in fully mycoheterotrophic plants. [PDF]

Am J Bot
Freudenstein JV, Barrett CF.
europepmc   +1 more source

Giving Up

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophical accounts of long‐term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about ...
Mario I. Juarez‐Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Herbarium Specimens Reveal Long-Term Decline in Pollination Services Since the 1970s. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Song B, Zimmer H, Clements M, Rakosy D, Knight TM, Bennett JM.   +5 more
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Emotional Affairs

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discussions about infidelity in the philosophy of love typically emphasize sexual transgressions, often neglecting emotional infidelity. In this article, I provide a conceptual analysis of emotional affairs. In my view, emotional affairs are defined as extrarelational connections that (a) take on a pattern of intimacy that mirrors the intimacy
Justin Clardy
wiley   +1 more source