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- Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.Michael A. Nielsen &Isaac L. Chuang -2000 - Cambridge University Press.First-ever comprehensive introduction to the major new subject of quantum computing and quantum information.
- Justified Belief in a Digital Age: On the Epistemic Implications of Secret Internet Technologies.Boaz Miller &Isaac Record -2013 -Episteme 10 (2):117 - 134.People increasingly form beliefs based on information gained from automatically filtered Internet sources such as search engines. However, the workings of such sources are often opaque, preventing subjects from knowing whether the information provided is biased or incomplete. Users’ reliance on Internet technologies whose modes of operation are concealed from them raises serious concerns about the justificatory status of the beliefs they end up forming. Yet it is unclear how to address these concerns within standard theories of knowledge and justification. (...) To shed light on the problem, we introduce a novel conceptual framework that clarifies the relations between justified belief, epistemic responsibility, action, and the technological resources available to a subject. We argue that justified belief is subject to certain epistemic responsibilities that accompany the subject’s particular decision-taking circumstances, and that one typical responsibility is to ascertain, so far as one can, whether the information upon which the judgment will rest is biased or incomplete. What this responsibility comprises is partly determined by the inquiry-enabling technologies available to the subject. We argue that a subject’s beliefs that are formed based on Internet-filtered information are less justified than they would be if she either knew how filtering worked or relied on additional sources, and that the subject may have the epistemic responsibility to take measures to enhance the justificatory status of such beliefs.. (shrink)
- Responsible Epistemic Technologies: A Social-Epistemological Analysis of Autocompleted Web Search.Boaz Miller &Isaac Record -2017 -New Media and Society 19 (12):1945-1963.Information providing and gathering increasingly involve technologies like search engines, which actively shape their epistemic surroundings. Yet, a satisfying account of the epistemic responsibilities associated with them does not exist. We analyze automatically generated search suggestions from the perspective of social epistemology to illustrate how epistemic responsibilities associated with a technology can be derived and assigned. Drawing on our previously developed theoretical framework that connects responsible epistemic behavior to practicability, we address two questions: first, given the different technological possibilities available (...) to searchers, the search technology, and search providers, who should bear which responsibilities? Second, given the technology’s epistemically relevant features and potential harms, how should search terms be autocompleted? Our analysis reveals that epistemic responsibility lies mostly with search providers, which should eliminate three categories of autosuggestions: those that result from organized attacks, those that perpetuate damaging stereotypes, and those that associate negative characteristics with specific individuals.. (shrink)
- Does Schopenhauer accept any positive pleasures?JoshuaIsaac Fox -2023 -European Journal of Philosophy 31 (4):902-913.Schopenhauer repeatedly claims that all pleasure is negative, and this view seems to play key roles throughout his work. Nonetheless, many scholars have argued that Schopenhauer actually acknowledges certain positive pleasures. Two major arguments have been offered for this reading, one focused on the link between Schopenhauer's view of pleasure and Plato's, and one focused on Schopenhauer's distinction between two components of aesthetic pleasure. I argue that neither way of motivating the positive pleasure reading succeeds. Both overlook a key aspect (...) of Schopenhauer's account: namely, his suggestion that there are two distinct kinds of negative pleasure, pleasures of satisfaction and pleasures of distraction. When Schopenhauer claims that all pleasure is negative, he means it. (shrink)
- How Plotinus' Soul Animates his Body: The Argument for the Soul-Trace at Ennead 4.4.18.1-9.ChristopherIsaac Noble -2013 -Phronesis 58 (3):249-279.In this paper I offer an analysis of Plotinus’ argument for the existence of a quasi-psychic entity, the so-called ‘trace of soul’, that functions as an immanent cause of life for an organism’s body. I argue that Plotinus posits this entity primarily in order to account for the body’s possession of certain quasi-psychic states that are instrumental in his account of soul-body interaction. Since these quasi-psychic states imply that an organism’s body has vitality of its own , and Platonic souls (...) are no part or aspect of any body, Plotinus draws the conclusion that the soul must be a cause of the body’s life by imparting a quasi-psychic qualification to it. In so doing, Plotinus introduces elements of hylomorphism into Platonist psychology, and addresses a problem for the animation of the body that Platonic soul-body dualism may plausibly be thought to face. (shrink)
- Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellion.David R. Ellison &Jeffrey C.Isaac -1994 -Substance 23 (2):122.
- Identifying Selfhood: Imagination, Narrative, and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur.HenryIsaac Venema -2000 - State University of New York Press.Traces the decentered formulation of self at the heart of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy from his earliest works to his most recent.
- What Should Conceptual Engineering Be All About?Isaac Manuel Gustavo -2021 -Philosophia: A Global Journal of Philosophy 49 (5):2041-2051.Conceptual engineering is commonly characterized as the method for assessing and improving our representational devices. Little has been said, however, on how best to construe these representational devices—in other words, on what conceptual engineering should be all about. This paper tackles this problem with a basic strategy: First, by presenting a taxonomy of the different possible subject matters for conceptual engineering; then, by comparatively assessing them and selecting the most conducive one with a view to making conceptual engineering an actionable (...) method, that is, a method that can be applied effectively and consistently to specific case studies. The outcome is that conceptual engineering should be all about concepts on pain of pragmatic inconsistencies otherwise. (shrink)
- Age and arousal in the rat.Eugene R. Delay &WalterIsaac -1983 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 21 (4):294-296.
- Plotinus' Unaffectable Matter.ChristopherIsaac Noble -2013 -Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 44:233-277.In this paper, I investigate the foundations of Plotinus’ innovative theory that prime matter is unaffectable. I begin by showing that Plotinus’ main arguments for this thesis (in Ennead 3.6) all rely upon the controversial assumption that the properties prime matter underlies are not properties of prime matter itself. It is then argued that prime matter’s privation of sensible qualities has its conceptual basis in an idiosyncratic understanding of form-matter composition generally, and its primary doctrinal basis in Aristotle’s critical reports (...) on the Platonists’ substratum in Physics 1.9. While Plotinus finds Platonic authority for unaffectible matter in the Receptacle passage of the Timaeus, it is Aristotle’s testimony that provides the crucial impetus for reading that text in this way. On this basis, Plotinus develops a Platonist conception of form’s inherence in matter with distinctively non-Aristotelian features. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Everettian Mechanics with Hyperfinitely Many Worlds.Jeffrey Barrett &Isaac Goldbring -2022 -Erkenntnis 89 (4):1-20.The present paper shows how one might model Everettian quantum mechanics using hyperfinitely many worlds. A hyperfinite model allows one to consider idealized measurements of observables with continuous-valued spectra where different outcomes are associated with possibly infinitesimal probabilities. One can also prove hyperfinite formulations of Everett’s limiting relative-frequency and randomness properties, theorems he considered central to his formulation of quantum mechanics. Finally, this model provides an intuitive framework in which to consider no-collapse formulations of quantum mechanics more generally.No categories
- On the origins of morphological disparity and its diverse developmental bases.Isaac Salazar-Ciudad -2006 -Bioessays 28 (11):1112-1122.
- Leaving Nothing to Chance: An Argument for Principle Monism in Plotinus.ChristopherIsaac Noble -2018 -Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 55:185-226.Plotinus maintains that there is a single first principle, the One (or the Good), from which all other things derive. He is usually thought to hold this view on the grounds that any other thing’s existence depends on its participation in a paradigm of unity. This paper argues that Plotinus has a further, independent argument for adopting a single first principle, according to which principle pluralism is committed (unacceptably) to attributing good cosmic states of affairs to chance. This argument exhibits (...) similarities to ancient design arguments, but is used to draw the more radical conclusion that there is only one non-derivative existent. (shrink)
- Topsy-Turvy World: Circular Motion, Contrariety, and Aristotle’s Unwinding Spheres.ChristopherIsaac Noble -2013 -Apeiron 46 (4):1-28.In developing his theory of aether in De Caelo 1, Aristotle argues, in DC 1.4, that one circular motion cannot be contrary to another. In this paper, I discuss how Aristotle can maintain this position and accept the existence of celestial spheres that rotate in contrary directions, as he does in his revision of the Eudoxan theory in Metaphysics 12.8.
- Undercutting and the Ramsey test for conditionals.André Fuhrmann &Isaac Levi -1994 -Synthese 101 (2):157-169.There is an important class of conditionals whose assertibility conditions are not given by the Ramsey test but by an inductive extension of that test. Such inductive Ramsey conditionals fail to satisfy some of the core properties of plain conditionals. Associated principles of nonmonotonic inference should not be assumed to hold generally if interpretations in terms of induction or appeals to total evidence are not to be ruled out.
- La filosofía sintética: ¿Qué es y por qué todo filósofo dedicado a la investigación debería adoptarla?Óscar Teixidó &Isaac Carcacía Campos -2024 -Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 57 (2):271-290.Una respuesta al debate metafilosófico sobre si hay o no unos criterios regulativos en filosofía cómo área de investigación lo ofrece la denominada filosofía sintética. Dentro de esta posición se propone una forma de abordar toda la filosofía y teorizar en base a diferentes criterios propuestos, que suelen ser generalmente: la claridad semántica, la coherencia interna, la coherencia externa con las ciencias y la fecundidad teórica con otros campos de estudio. Estos criterios de corte naturalista a su vez se ofrecen (...) como debatibles y ampliables a otros criterios. Se razonará la necesidad de demarcar la filosofía, y, poniendo el foco en su metodología, se argumentarán los previos criterios con tal de fomentar la filosofía sintética como marco general de trabajo filosófico riguroso. Esto excluye de la disciplina tanto aquello que no sea filosófico como aquello que intente emular la filosofía sin serlo en verdad, la pseudofilosofía. (shrink)
- The Context of Suffering: Empirical Insights into the Problem of Evil.Ian M. Church,Isaac Warchol &Justin Barrett -2022 -TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 6 (1):1-16.While the evidential problem of evil has been enormously influential within the contemporary philosophical literature—William Rowe’s 1979 formulation in “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism” being the most seminal—no academic research has explored what cognitive mechanisms might underwrite the appearance of pointlessness in target examples of suffering. In this exploratory paper, we show that the perception of pointlessness in the target examples of suffering that underwrite Rowe’s seminal formulation of the problem of evil is contingent on the (...) absence of broader context. In other words, we show that when such suffering is presented alongside broader contextual information, the appearance of pointlessness, on average, significantly diminishes. In §1 we briefly elucidate Rowe’s formulation of the problem of evil and the thought experiment that motivates a key premise. In §2 and §3 respectively, we briefly explain our hypothesis regarding Rowe’s case and our methods for testing these hypotheses. In §4, we elucidate our results, and in §5 we explore some of the philosophical implications of our findings and gesture towards some areas for future research. Finally, in §6, we briefly connect our research to some of the established philosophical literature on suffering and narrative before concluding. (shrink)
- Asking the Fox to Guard the Chicken Coop: In Defense of Minimalism in the Ethics of War and Peace.Elisabeth Forster &Isaac Taylor -2022 -Journal of International Political Theory 18 (1):191-109.Dominant normative theories of armed conflict orientate themselves around the ultimate goal of peace. Yet the deployment of these theories in the international sphere appears to have failed in advancing toward this goal. In this paper, we argue that one major reason for this failure is these theories’ use of essentially contested concepts—that is, concepts whose internally complex character results in no principled way of adjudicating between rival interpretations of them. This renders the theories susceptible to manipulation by international actors (...) who are able to pursue bellicose policies under the cover of nominally pacific frameworks, and we show how this happened historically in a case study of the Korean War of 1950–1953. In order to better serve the goals of peace, we suggest, the rules of war should be reframed to simpler, but more restrictive, normative principles. (shrink)
- Retaking the Test.DavidIsaac Backer &Tyson Edward Lewis -2015 -Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc 51 (3):193-208.
- (1 other version)Contraction: On the Decision-Theoretical Origins of Minimal Change and Entrenchment.Horacio Arló-Costa &Isaac Levi -2006 -Synthese 152 (1):129 - 154.We present a decision-theoretically motivated notion of contraction which, we claim, encodes the principles of minimal change and entrenchment. Contraction is seen as an operation whose goal is to minimize loses of informational value. The operation is also compatible with the principle that in contracting A one should preserve the sentences better entrenched than A (when the belief set contains A). Even when the principle of minimal change and the latter motivation for entrenchment figure prominently among the basic intuitions in (...) the works of, among others, Quine and Ullian (1978), Levi (1980, 1991), Harman (1988) and Gärdenfors (1988), formal accounts of belief change (AGM, KM – see Gärdenfors (1988); Katsuno and Mendelzon (1991)) have abandoned both principles (see Rott (2000)). We argue for the principles and we show how to construct a contraction operation, which obeys both. An axiom system is proposed. We also prove that the decision-theoretic notion of contraction can be completely characterized in terms of the given axioms. Proving this type of completeness result is a well-known open problem in the field, whose solution requires employing both decision-theoretical techniques and logical methods recently used in belief change. (shrink)
- Varsity Medical Ethics Debate 2015: should nootropic drugs be available under prescription on the NHS?Emma Thorley,Isaac Kang,Stephanie D’Costa,Myrto Vlazaki,Olaoluwa Ayeko,Edward H. Arbe-Barnes &Casey B. Swerner -2016 -Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 11:6.The 2015 Varsity Medical Ethics debate convened upon the motion: “This house believes nootropic drugs should be available under prescription”. This annual debate between students from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, now in its seventh year, provided the starting point for arguments on the subject. The present article brings together and extends many of the arguments put forward during the debate. We explore the current usage of nootropic drugs, their safety and whether it would be beneficial to individuals and (...) society as a whole for them to be available under prescription. The Varsity Medical Debate was first held in 2008 with the aim of allowing students to engage in discussion about ethics and policy within healthcare. The event is held annually and it is hoped that this will allow future leaders to voice a perspective on the arguments behind topics that will feature heavily in future healthcare and science policy. This year the Oxford University Medical Society at the Oxford Union hosted the debate. (shrink)
- Where the genes meet the road.Jukka Jernvall &Isaac Salazar-Ciudad -2007 -Bioessays 29 (6):607-608.
- Mishpeṭe ha-Rav Ḳuḳ: hagigim, maḥshavot, tovanot = The wisdom of Rabbi Kook.AbrahamIsaac Kook -2016 - ʻOtniʼel: Fasi.Ḳraʼus. Edited by Assaf Fassy.
- Midot ha-Reʼiyah: liḳuṭe berure hadrakhot midot ḥinukhiyot le-khol nefesh uli-vene ʻaliyah.AbrahamIsaac Kook -2015 - Tel Aviv: Sifre ḥemed. Edited by Ḥagai Lundin.Liḳuṭe berure hadrakhot midot ḥinukhiyot le-khol nefesh u-livne ʻaliyah.
- Orot.AbrahamIsaac Kook -2009 - Ḳiryat ha-Yeshivah, Bet El: Hotsaʼat Me-avne ha-maḳom.Zionism was a body that needed a soul breathed into it. Rav Kook, would provide such a soul in the form of Jerusalemism.
- Tehilah la-Reʼiyah: zer amarim.AbrahamIsaac Kook &Re®Uven Mamu -1997 - Reḥovot: ha-Mikhlalah ha-datit le-morim Moreshet Yaʻaḳov ʻa. sh. ha-Rav Yaʻaḳov Berman. Edited by Reʼuven Mamu & Yokheved Mamu.Export citation
Bookmark - The spiritual revolution of Rav Kook: the writings of a Jewish mystic.AbrahamIsaac Kook -2018 - New York: Gefen Publishing House. Edited by Ari Ze'ev Schwartz.1. The individual -- 2. Torah -- 3. God -- 4. The meaning of life -- 5. Teshuva and self-growth -- 6. Middot/character traits -- 7. Listening to the inner child -- 8. Prayer -- 9. The spiritual importance -- 10. One's relationship to others (bein adam Le-chaveiro) -- 11. Zionism -- 12. The holiness of the body -- 13. Universal values -- 14. Rav Kook describing his own inner world.
- Proximity of Substantia Nigra Microstimulation to Putative GABAergic Neurons Predicts Modulation of Human Reinforcement Learning.Ashwin G. Ramayya,Isaac Pedisich,Deborah Levy,Anastasia Lyalenko,Paul Wanda,Daniel Rizzuto,Gordon H. Baltuch &Michael J. Kahana -2017 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11.
- Development of a Measure of Informal Workplace Social Interactions.Carolyn J. Winslow,Isaac E. Sabat,Amanda J. Anderson,Seth A. Kaplan &Sarah J. Miller -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- Philosophical Essays.Edward Ullendorff,Isaac Husik,Milton C. Nahm &Leo Strauss -1953 -Philosophical Quarterly 3 (13):375.No categories
- A passion for the possible: thinking with Paul Ricoeur.Brian Treanor &HenryIsaac Venema (eds.) -2010 - New York: Fordham University Press.The essays in this volume trace the fluid movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre ...
- Philosophy and methodology of military intelligence: Correspondence with Paul Feyerabend.Isaac Ben-Israel -2001 -Philosophia 28 (1-4):71-101.The paper includes a series of letters exchanged between the author and the late Professor Feyerabend, concerning the best "method" for military intelligence, as a test case for the role of conceptual frameworks in philosophy of science. The letters deal with issues like: Is it possible to make an intelligence estimate without a conceptual framework? Does such a framework have any 'positive' role? If so, how should a conceptual framework in intelligence be built? What risks lurk within it? Is it (...) possible to indicate methods for intelligence estimates which are 'better' and more 'successful' than others? (shrink)
- Mechanism Hierarchy Realism and Function Perspectivalism.Joe Dewhurst &Alistair M. C.Isaac -unknownMechanistic explanation involves the attribution of functions to both mechanisms and their component parts, and function attribution plays a central role in the individuation of mechanisms. Our aim in this paper is to investigate the impact of a perspectival view of function attribution for the broader mechanist project, and specifically for realism about mechanistic hierarchies. We argue that, contrary to the claims of function perspectivalists such as Craver, one cannot endorse both function perspectivalism and mechanistic hierarchy realism: if functions are (...) perspectival, then so are the levels of a mechanistic hierarchy. We illustrate this argument with an example from recent neuroscience, where the mechanism responsible for the phenomenon of ephaptic coupling cross-cuts the more familiar mechanism for synaptic firing. Finally, we consider what kind of structure there is left to be realist about for the function perspectivalist. (shrink)
- Foundational Issues in Conceptual Engineering: Introduction and Overview.Isaac Manuel Gustavo &Koch Steffen -2022 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy:1-9.This is the introduction to the Special Issue ‘Foundational Issues in Conceptual Engineering’. The issue contains contributions by James Andow, Delia Belleri, David Chalmers, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Eugen Fischer, Viktoria Knoll, Edouard Machery and Amie Thomasson. We, the editors, provide a brief introduction to the main topics of the issue and then summarize its contributions.
- Psychological Reactance to Leader Moral Hypocrisy.McKenzie R. Rees,Isaac H. Smith &Andrew T. Soderberg -2024 -Business Ethics Quarterly 34 (4):634-661.Drawing on early work on ethical leadership, we argue that when leaders engage in leader moral hypocrisy (i.e., ethical promotion without ethical demonstration), followers can experience psychological reactance—a negative response to a perceived restriction of freedom—which can have negative downstream consequences. In a survey of employee–manager dyads (study 1), we demonstrate that leader moral hypocrisy is positively associated with follower psychological reactance, which increases follower deviance. In two subsequent laboratory experiments, we find similar patterns of results (study 2) and explore (...) potential alternative mechanisms (study 3). We demonstrate in a final experiment with working adults that the relationship between leader moral hypocrisy and psychological reactance is partly explained by increased perceptions of a leader’s use of power (study 4). We discuss the implications of our findings and advocate for further understanding of the risks associated with psychological reactance in response to leaders and other workplace situations. (shrink)
- Scoping review of the ethical regulations for Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementia research in Africa.Aminu Yakubu,Isaac Adedeji,Ayodele Jegede,Diana Mendoza-Cervantes &Clement Adebamowo -forthcoming -Developing World Bioethics.We conducted a scoping review to ascertain the landscape of ethics regulations for AD/ADRD research in Africa using Arksey and O'Malley's framework. We sourced regulations from the International Compilation of Human Research Standards. We included regulations from 14 countries published between 1997 and 2020. Provisions in the regulations applicable to research in AD/ADRD were part of broader sub-provisions for research such as with persons under legal disability. Regulations mostly required the appointment of Legally Authorised Representatives, as a major protection for (...) persons with AD/ADRD. Provisions supporting capacity assessment and advance directives were only provided in regulations from five and two countries respectively. No regulation cited the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a foundational instrument for its provisions. In conclusion, regulations specifically applicable to research among AD/ADRD or other cognitively impaired persons in Africa are scarce and provisions in existing regulations mostly lack specificity for practical implementation. (shrink)
- Distributed Finite-Time State Estimation of Interconnected Complex Metabolic Networks.Alfonso Sepulveda-Galvez,Jesus A. Badillo-Corona &Isaac Chairez -2018 -Complexity 2018:1-20.No categories
- A Nonstandard Formulation of Bohmian Mechanics.Jeffrey Barrett &Isaac Goldbring -forthcoming -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Evo‐devo beyond development: Generalizing evo‐devo to all levels of the phenotypic evolution.Isaac Salazar-Ciudad &Hugo Cano-Fernández -2023 -Bioessays 45 (3):2200205.A foundational idea of evo‐devo is that morphological variation is not isotropic, that is, it does not occur in all directions. Instead, some directions of morphological variation are more likely than others from DNA‐level variation and these largely depend on development. We argue that this evo‐devo perspective should apply not only to morphology but to evolution at all phenotypic levels. At other phenotypic levels there is no development, but there are processes that can be seen, in analogy to development, as (...) constructing the phenotype (e.g., protein folding, learning for behavior, etc.). We argue that to explain the direction of evolution two types of arguments need to be combined: generative arguments about which phenotypic variation arises in each generation and selective arguments about which of it passes to the next generation. We explain how a full consideration of the two types of arguments improves the explanatory power of evolutionary theory. Also see the video abstract here: https://youtu.be/Egbvma_uaKc. (shrink)
- Sistema Tierra y derecho: el razonamiento jurídico y su argumentación en la segunda revolución copernicana.GabrielIsaac López Porras &Luis Javier Pineda González -forthcoming -Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho:e18617.Científicos del sistema Tierra han demostrado que el planeta es un sistema adaptativo-complejo y que algunos procesos naturales ya no operan en condiciones seguras para preservar la vida. Destaca que poco se ha hecho por explorar las implicaciones en la arena jurídica para responder ante los retos que estas condiciones presuponen para la vida humana y para nuestra supervivencia como especie. Aquí se sostiene que, para mantener el buen funcionamiento planetario, se requiere de una articulación efectiva entre el razonamiento jurídico, (...) su argumentación y la ciencia del sistema Tierra. Al hacer una exploración de la literatura jurídica y del sistema Tierra, este artículo tiene como objetivo exponer el primer esfuerzo sobre cómo debería adaptarse el razonamiento jurídico y su argumentación a un enfoque del sistema Tierra, utilizando para ello diferentes casos de estudio, resoluciones y tesis jurisprudenciales. Al hacerlo, se exhibe la necesidad de erradicar concepciones erróneas subyacentes al antropocentrismo jurídico, para ajustar la interpretación y aplicación del derecho a realidades ecológicas científicamente más precisas. (shrink)No categories
- A cognitively based simulation of simple organizations.Ron Sun &Isaac Naveh -unknownThis paper explores cognitively realistic social simulations by deploying the CLARION cognitive architecture in a simple organizational simulation, which involves the interaction of multiple cognitive agents. It argues for an integration of the two separate strands of research: cognitive modeling and social simulation. Such an integration could, on the one hand, enhance the accuracy of social simulation models by taking into full account the effects of individual cognitive factors, and on the other hand, it could lead to greater explanatory, predictive, (...) and prescriptive power from these models. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- How voluntary is voluntary euthanasia?Isaac Van der Sluis -forthcoming -Journal of Palliative Care.
- The Source of Ricoeur’s Double Allegiance.HenryIsaac Venema -2010 - In Brian Treanor & Henry Isaac Venema,A passion for the possible: thinking with Paul Ricoeur. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 62-76.
- Sefer Nefesh ha-ḥayim: ʻim beʼur Yirʼat ḥayim ; Ruaḥ ḥayim: ʻal Masekhet Avot.Ḥayyim benIsaac Volozhiner -2008 - [Bene Beraḳ: ha-Ṿaʻad le-hotsaʼat divre rabenu ha-gaʼon, sheliṭa. Edited by Isaac ben Ḥayyim Volozhiner, Yiśraʼel Eliyahu Ṿainṭroib & Ḥayyim ben Isaac Volozhiner.Export citation Bookmark
- Sefer Nefesh ha-ḥayim: shaʻar ha-Torah [shaʻar 4]: ʻim beʼur Nefesh shoḳeḳah.Ḥayyim benIsaac Volozhiner -2020 - Bene Beraḳ: [Efrayim Natan ben Binyamin Roṭshild]. Edited by Efrayim Natan ben Binyamin Roṭshild.Export citation Bookmark
- Philosophical Essays: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern.Luitpold Wallach,Isaac Husik,Milton C. Nahm &Leo Strauss -1955 -Philosophical Review 64 (1):139.No categories
- Culturally Grounded Scapegoating in Response to Illness and the COVID-19 Pandemic.Qian Yang,Isaac F. Young,Jialin Wan &Daniel Sullivan -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12:632641.For years, violence against doctors and healthcare workers has been a growing social issue in China. In a recent series of studies, we provided evidence for a motivated scapegoating account of this violence. Specifically, individuals who feel that the course of their (or their family member's) illness is a threat to their sense of control are more likely to express motivation to aggress against healthcare providers. Drawing on existential theory, we propose that blaming and aggressing against a single individual represents (...) a culturally afforded scapegoating mechanism in China. However, in an era of healthcare crisis (i.e., the global COVID-19 pandemic), it is essential to understand cultural variation in scapegoating in the context of healthcare. We therefore undertook two cross-cultural studies examining how people in the United States and China use different scapegoating responses to re-assert a sense of control during medical uncertainty. One study was conducted prior to the pandemic and allowed us to make an initial validating and exploratory investigation of the constructs of interest. The second study, conducted during the pandemic, was confirmatory and investigated mediation path models. Across the two studies, consistent evidence emerged that, both in response to COVID-related and non-COVID-related illness scenarios, Chinese (relative to U.S.) individuals are more likely to respond by aggressing against an individual doctor, while U.S. (relative to Chinese) individuals are more likely to respond by scapegoating the medical industry/system. Further, Study 2 suggests these culture effects are mediated by differential patterns of primary and secondary control-seeking. (shrink)
- Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars.Elisabeth Forster &Isaac Taylor -2023 -Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2 (2):121-137.In this paper, we draw attention to an unintended but severe side effect of just war thinking: the fact that it can impose barriers to making peace. Investigating historical material concerning a series of conflicts in China during the early twentieth century, we suggest that operating in a just war framework might change actors' identities and interests in a way that makes peacemaking an unavailable action. But since just war theory places significant normative constraints on how long wars can be (...) continued, it might thus be self-defeating, in the sense that those who adopt it may undermine the very goals which it is supposed to serve. Whether this finding calls for a revision of existing ethical frameworks governing warfare will depend on whether there are possible alternatives to just war theory that perform better at reining in unjust violence. (shrink)
- The Ups and Downs of Mechanism Realism: Functions, Levels, and Crosscutting Hierarchies.Joe Dewhurst &Alistair M. C.Isaac -2021 -Erkenntnis 88 (3):1035-1057.Mechanism realists assert the existence of mechanisms as objective structures in the world, but their exact metaphysical commitments are unclear. We introduce Local Hierarchy Realism (LHR) as a substantive and plausible form of mechanism realism. The limits of LHR reveal a deep tension between two aspects of mechanists’ explanatory strategy. Functional decomposition identifies locally relevant entities and activities, while these same entities and activities are also embedded in a nested hierarchy of levels. In principle, a functional decomposition may identify entities (...) engaging in causal interactions that crosscut the hierarchical structure of composition relations, violating the mechanist’s injunction against interlevel causation. We argue that this possibility is realized in the example of ephaptic coupling, a subsidiary process of neural computation that crosscuts the hierarchy derived from synaptic transmission. These considerations undermine the plausibility of LHR as a general view, yet LHR has the advantages that (i) its metaphysical implications are precisely stateable; (ii) the structure it identifies is not reducible to mere aggregate causation; and (iii) it clearly satisfies intuitive and informal definitions of mechanism. We conclude by assessing the prospects for a form of mechanism realism weaker than LHR that nevertheless satisfies all three of these requirements. (shrink)
- Problemas filosóficos para una teoría de la representación científica.JairoIsaac Racines Correa -2022 -Discusiones Filosóficas 23 (41):59-80.En oposición al escepticismo declarado por Callender y Cohen respecto de la existencia de algún problema en torno a la representación científica, el objetivo de este artículo es mostrar un conjunto de características peculiares de la representación científica, aunque no exclusivas, que una teoría satisfactoria debe explicar. Estas son: la predicación, la posibilidad de ser una representación incorrecta, el razonamiento subrogatorio y la independencia entre el contenido y la denotación. Además, se argumenta que una teoría satisfactoria de la representación debe (...) ofrecer una definición de sus medios representacionales, es decir, de lo que es un modelo científico. Finalmente, se propone que para dar cuenta de estas características basta responder la pregunta: ¿Cómo nos permiten los modelos científicos ganar información sobre el objeto representado? (shrink)No categories
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