Adoption of AI-Enabled Tools in Social Development Organizations in India: An Extension of UTAUT Model.RuchikaJain,Naval Garg &Shikha N. Khera -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.detailsSocial development organizations increasingly employ artificial intelligence -enabled tools to help team members collaborate effectively and efficiently. These tools are used in various team management tasks and activities. Based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, this study explores various factors influencing employees’ use of AI-enabled tools. The study extends the model in two ways: a) by evaluating the impact of these tools on the employees’ collaboration and b) by exploring the moderating role of AI aversion. Data (...) were collected through an online survey of employees working with AI-enabled tools. The analysis of the research model was conducted using partial least squares, with a two-step model – measurement and structural models of assessment. The results revealed that the antecedent variables, such as effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions, are positively associated with using AI-enabled tools, which have a positive relationship with collaboration. It also concluded a significant effect of AI aversion in the relationship between performance expectancy and use of technology. These findings imply that organizations should focus on building an environment to adopt AI-enabled tools while also addressing employees’ concerns about AI. (shrink)
Dispositions, Virtues, and Indian Ethics.Andrea Raimondi &RuchikaJain -2024 -Journal of Religious Ethics (2):262-297.detailsAccording to Arti Dhand, it can be argued that all Indian ethics have been primarily virtue ethics. Many have indeed jumped on the virtue bandwagon, providing prima facie interpretations of Hindu,Jain, and Buddhist canons in virtue terms. Others have expressed firm skepticism, claiming that virtues are not proven to be grounded in the nature of things and that, ultimately, the appeal to virtue might just well be a mere façon de parler. In this paper, we aim to advance (...) the discussion of Indian virtue ethics. Our intent is not to provide a catch-all interpretation of the different Indian schools. Our goal is, more modestly, to offer a theory of virtues in Indian philosophies, as a framework for theorists and interpreters who see these diverse traditions as amenable to systematic virtue analysis. Our theory grounds virtues in the reality of genuine moral dispositions and in a system of beliefs where morality is understood as transformative in nature. (shrink)
Acharya Kundakunda andJain Philosophy.Jayanti LalJain &N. Vasupal -1997 - Chennai: Research Foundation for Jainology. Edited by N. Vasupal.detailsOn the life and philosophy of Kundakunda, 2nd century exponent of Jainism.
Climate Engineering From Hindu‐Jain Perspectives.PankajJain -2019 -Zygon 54 (4):826-836.detailsAlthough Indic perspectives toward nature are now well documented, climate engineering discussions seem to still lack the views from Indic or other non‐Western sources. In this article, I will apply some of the Hindu andJain concepts such as karma, nonviolence (Ahiṃsā ), humility (Vinaya ), and renunciation (Saṃnyāsa ) to analyze the two primary climate geoengineering strategies of solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR). I suggest that Indic philosophical and religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, (...) and Jainism offer ethical concepts to call for humility in all acts of climate engineering leading to a favoring of CDR over SRM and a favoring of lifestyle changes (particularly vegetarianism) over both. I demonstrate these concepts by introducing the five great elements from the Hindu philosophy, two Hindu legends from Hindu mythology, the Indic ethical ideas of karma, renunciation, and humility, and the moral authority of Gandhi. (shrink)
Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora.PankajJain -2019 - Routledge.detailsAmerica now is home to approximately three million Hindus and Jains. Their contribution to the economic and intellectual growth of the country is unquestionable. Dharma in America aims to explore the role of Hindu andJain Americans in diverse fields such as: education and civic engagements medicine and healthcare music. Providing a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries, Dharma in America also gives some insights into the ongoing issues and challenges these (...) important ethnic and religious groups face in the America today. (shrink)
Quietism and Karma non-action as non-ethics inJain asceticism.Andrea R.Jain &Jeffrey J. Kripal -2009 -Common Knowledge 15 (2):197-207.detailsThis essay is conceived as a contribution to the academic debate on the ethical status of mystical traditions with regard toJain asceticism in particular and—through comparison ofJain with Advaita Vedanta asceticism—to ideologies of radical quietism more generally. For bothJain and Advaita Vedantic ascetic traditions, the material world, and particularly the body, are the primary obstacles to spiritual development. We deal with the social, physical, and environmental implications of such a worldview, rather than with the (...) practice or the phenomenology or the doctrine of mysticism, which we grant to be an accurate reflection of a particular kind of cosmic experience. We address ethical issues, not metaphysical ones. In our discussion ofJain asceticism, we demonstrate that the basic problem (and promise) of quietism, in almost any cultural form, is the shocking realization it can occasion that the Real has absolutely nothing to do with the social or with any sort of ethical action. We argue thatJain asceticism cannot function as an adequate resource for contemporary ethics. Our normative concerns lie exclusively with the adequacy ofJain quietism in supporting a stable global community and a sustainable natural environment. One can be mystical without being ethical, and ethical without being a mystic. We conclude that the truths of quietism are both very profound and profoundly nonethical. (shrink)
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The Making of a Clinical Ethicist: A Personal Tribute to Al Jonsen.Ruchika Mishra -2020 -Journal of Clinical Ethics 31 (4):381-382.detailsIn this account, the author shares her long-standing personal and professional relationship with her mentor, Albert R. Jonsen, PhD, a prominent figure in the history of bioethics.
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Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability.PankajJain -2016 - Routledge.detailsAnnotation Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above question with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities.
Modern Jainism: A Historical Approach.PankajJain -2023 - Springer.detailsModern Jainism: A Historical Approach (Springer, 2023) presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism. It examines the life and thought of some of the most influential 19th- and 20th-centuryJain ascetic leaders that remain little known in the Western world. The book's first part provides a detailed philosophical overview ofJain thought based on the translation of a seminal Hindi text,Jain Darshan. The second part introduces eightJain saints from the (...) majorJain sects, including their biographies, philosophical perspectives, and related contemporary movements flourishing in various places across India and beyond. (shrink)
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Prākr̥ta aura Jainadharma samīkshā.Prem SumanJain (ed.) -2002 - Mujappharanagara, U. Pra.: Prācya Śramaṇa Bhāratī.detailsContributed papers on Jainism doctrines, philosophy and Prakrit language.
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The universe as audience: metaphor and community among the Jains of North India.Ravindra K.Jain -1999 - Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.detailsThis Is A Concise Narrative Of The Beginnings, History, Schisms, Social Organization And Cosmology Of The LivingJain Tradition. The Study Is Covered In 7 Chapters - Atheistic Jainism? - Textual Sources And Ethnographic Literature - The Grand Transition In Jainism: Digambar And Shvetambar As Continuity And Change - The Shvetambar `Church` - The Digambar Case Reconsidered: Contemporary Period - The Digambar Jains Of North India: Society And Religion In Baraut, Uttar Pradesh - The Kanji Swami Panth: Contestation, Cosmology (...) And Confrontation. Condition Good. (shrink)
Leadership and professionalism for new age libraries.Praveen KumarJain (ed.) -2012 - New Delhi: Bookwell.detailsContributed articles presented at a seminar.
Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India Moving the Mountains.PankajJain -2016 - Routledge.detailsScholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western and Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds. Non-Western traditions and communities, such as of India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the Western dualistic thinking of separating science and religion. The Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization was founded by Dr. Anil Joshi in the 1970s as a new movement looking at the economic and development needs of rural villages in the Indian Himalayas, and encouraging them (...) to use local resources in order to open up new avenues to self-reliance. This book argues that the concept of dharma, the law that supports the regulatory order of the universe in Indian culture, can be applied as an overarching term for HESCO s socio-economic work. This book presents the social-environmental work in contemporary India by Dr. Anil Joshi in the Himalayas and by Baba Seechewal in Punjab, combining the ideas of traditional and scientific ecological knowledge systems. Based on these two examples, the book presents the holistic model transcending the dichotomies of nature vs. culture and science vs. religion, especially as practiced and utilized in the non-Western society such as India. Using the example of HESCO, the book highlights that the very categories of religion and science are problematic when applied to non-Western traditions but that Western technologies can be radically transformed through integration with regional legacies to enable the flourishing of a multiplicity of knowledge-traditions and the societies that depend upon them. It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religion, Environmental Studies, Himalayan Studies, and Development Studies. ". (shrink)
Key to reality in Jainism: Tattvārthasūtra by Āc Uma Swami.Sugan ChandJain -2010 - Meerut: Digambar Jain Trilok Shodh Sansthan. Edited by S. C. Jain & Umāsvāti.details"This book... is the English translation of the Hindi book Tattvārthasūtra with Upādhyāya (now Ailācārya) Srutasāgarji, as the principal commentator and edited by Dr SudeepJain in Hindi"--P. 3.
Implementing California's Law on Assisted Dying.Ruchika Mishra -2017 -Hastings Center Report 47 (2):7-8.detailsOn October 5, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown approved bill ABX2 15, the End of Life Option Act, making California the fifth state in the country to allow physician-assisted dying. The law was modeled after Oregon's 1997 Death with Dignity Act. When the legislative special session ended on March 10, 2016, California health care providers had only ninety days to respond to the state mandate before the law would take effect, on June 9, 2016. Experience with the law so far suggests (...) several challenges with implementation. (shrink)
Clinical Ethics Consultations: What do Requestors Say?Ruchika Mishra -2024 -Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 14 (1):45-49.detailsThis symposium collection of twelve narratives from individuals who experienced clinical ethics consultations provides perspectives from a group that has not been adequately explored in the bioethics literature. The authors represent a variety of stakeholders who received ethics consultations: healthcare providers and family members. This commentary will focus on three themes addressed in the different narrative accounts: the reasons for requesting an ethics consultation; the expectations of the narrators from the consultation; and the conclusions the authors drew from their experience (...) of the ethics consultation. (shrink)
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Indian and Western philosophical concepts in religion.PankajJain &Jeffery D. Long (eds.) -2023 - Bloomsbury.detailsThis volume is based on innovative ideas coming from different Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods in religious studies.
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Ethical Challenges in the Treatment of Infants of Drug-Abusing Mothers.RenuJain,David C. Thomasma &Rasa Ragas -1999 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8 (2):179-188.detailsNationwide, almost 11% of women abuse drugs during their pregnancy. In some communities, these numbers are as high as 25–30%. Drug abuse is not limited to the poor or to African Americans, but is seen among affluent and white Americans as well. It is widespread, irrespective of race or social class. Annually, nearly 375,000 infants are exposed to drugs in America. Because of the terrible suffering caused by these births, and the conflicts caregivers experience in the treatment of these infants, (...) Trollope's quote is very apropos. Although caregivers have good motives in trying to rescue these babies and helping place them in a nurturing environment, despair about this objective is always close to the surface. (shrink)
Response to “Ethics and Drug Infants” by Michelle Oberman (CQ Vol. 6, No. 2) Points of Variance.RenuJain,David C. Thomasma &Rasa Ragas -1998 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (1):94-96.detailsWe appreciated the important commentary provided by Michelle Oberman on our paper, “Discontinuing Life Support in an Infant of a Drug-Addicted Mother: Whose Decision Is It?” . For the most part we agree with Oberman's analysis of the issues, but there are seven points of variance, either of conception, emphasis, or accuracy. We wish to clarify these and welcome the chance her commentary provided to offer aspects of the social situation surrounding the case we presented.
Decoupling Corporate Social Orientations: A Cross-National Analysis.TanusreeJain -2017 -Business and Society 56 (7):1033-1067.detailsThis study examines the variations in corporate social orientations across developed and developing countries in the context of a legitimacy threat. Conceptualizing CSO as signals, the author develops and validates a seven-code index of CSO that identifies executive orientations toward multiple stakeholders. Using this index on CEO shareholder letters from the United States, Germany, and India, the author finds that firms signal a multi-stakeholder image toward employees, communities, and environment during good times to enhance their social license to operate, and (...) yet such signals are not carried through during the threat period. This disconnect in signaling in the wake of a legitimacy threat is indicative of decoupling in corporate orientations and exposes the multi-dimensionality of the CSO concept. By adding a cross-national and temporal dimension, this research contributes toward better understanding the complexity behind CSOs and opens new areas for future research. (shrink)
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