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Distributive luck [PDF]

, 2012
This article explores the Rawlsian goal of ensuring that distributions are not influenced by the morally arbitrary. It does so by bringing discussions of distributive justice into contact with the debate over moral luck initiated by Williams and Nagel.
Knight, C.
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Inadvertence and Moral Responsibility [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2009
Against the view of certain philosophers, such as Thomas Nagel, I defend the common sense belief that people are not responsible for what they do or bring about inadvertently.
Harry Frankfurt
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CCi digital futures 2014: the Internet in Australia [PDF]

, 2015
This report presents findings from the third survey of the Australian component of the World Internet Project. The survey was conducted in late 2013. This research is a project of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at ...
Emily van der Nagel, Julian Thomas, Scott Ewing   +2 more
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What Imagination Teaches [PDF]

, 2020
David Lewis has argued that “having an experience is the best way or perhaps the only way, of coming to know what that experience is like”; when an experience is of a sufficiently new sort, mere science lessons are not enough.
Kind, Amy
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Glassy dynamics in thermally-activated list sorting

, 2010
Sorting the integers 1 through $N$ into an ordered list is a simple task that can be done rapidly. However, using an algorithm based on the thermally-activated pairwise exchanges of neighboring list elements, we find sorting can display many features of ...
Nagel, Sidney R., Zou, Ling-Nan
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INADVERTENCIA Y RESPONSABILIDAD MORAL

Ideas y Valores, 2009
En contra de la posición de ciertos filósofos, como Thomas Nagel, defiendo la creencia del sentido común según la cual las personas no son moralmente responsables de aquello que hacen o producen inadvertidamente. Considero qué respuesta podríamos esperar
Harry Frankfurt
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LA COMPASIÓN RIGUROSA DE JOHN RAWLS: UNA BREVE BIOGRAFÍA INTELECTUAL

Praxis Filosófica, 2011
John Rawls puede ser considerado como el filósofo político más importante del siglo veinte. Dedicó su vida a la reflexión, la enseñanza y a escribir sobre el problema de cómo los seres humanos, cuyos intereses y valores los ponen en conflictos ...
Thomas Nagel
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‘What it is Like’ Talk is not Technical Talk [PDF]

, 2016
‘What it is like’ talk (‘WIL-talk’) — the use of phrases such as ‘what it is like’ — is ubiquitous in discussions of phenomenal consciousness. It is used to define, make claims about, and to offer arguments concerning consciousness.
Farrell, Jonathan
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Jean Piaget and Objectivity—Genetic Epistemology’s Place in a View from Nowhere

Proceedings
Science pursues objectivity. According to Thomas Nagel, “we must get outside of ourselves, and view the world from nowhere within it” is the most natural expression of this goal.
Mark A. Winstanley
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New perspectives in the debate about human nature

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2016
In a previous article, entitled Philosophy of Human Nature, I have stated my criticism against the denial of human nature, against their complet naturalization and against its complete artificialization.
Alfredo Marcos
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