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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

On linear systems and tau functions associated with Lame's equation and Painleve's equation VI

, 2009
Painleve's transcendental differential equation P_{VI} may be expressed as the consistency condition for a pair of linear differential equations with 2 by 2 matrix coefficients with rational entries.
Blower, Gordon
core  

Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley   +1 more source

Blow‐Up Time for Nonlinear Heat Equations with Transcendental Nonlinearity [PDF]

, 2012
Hee Chul Pak
openalex   +1 more source

Three results on transcendental meromorphic solutions of certain nonlinear differential equations [PDF]

, 2020
Nan Li, Lianzhong Yang
openalex   +1 more source

Predictive processing's flirt with transcendental idealism

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) Completeness (PP aims for a comprehensive account of mental phenomena)
Tobias Schlicht
wiley   +1 more source

DETERMINATION OF THE VIBRATION INHERENT FREQUENCIES AT BENDING FROM TWO-SHAFTS TRANSMISSION IN THE PARTICULAR CONSTRUCTION CASES [PDF]

Fiabilitate şi Durabilitate, 2018
- The exact determination of the critical speeds and the influence of the different constructive and mechanical factors on them can be done on the dynamic model with distributed mass.The characteristic equation for calculating vibration inherent ...
Ion BULAC
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