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    A novel sequence representation for unsupervised analysis of human activities.Raffay Hamid, Siddhartha Maddi, Amos Johnson, Aaron Bobick, Irfan Essa & Charles Isbell - 2009 - Artificial Intelligence 173 (14):1221-1244.
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  2. Understanding Polarization: Meaning, Measures, and Model Evaluation.Aaron Bramson, Patrick Grim, Daniel J. Singer, William J. Berger, Graham Sack, Steven Fisher, Carissa Flocken & Bennett Holman - 2017 - Philosophy of Science 84 (1):115-159.
    Polarization is a topic of intense interest among social scientists, but there is significant disagreement regarding the character of the phenomenon and little understanding of underlying mechanics. A first problem, we argue, is that polarization appears in the literature as not one concept but many. In the first part of the article, we distinguish nine phenomena that may be considered polarization, with suggestions of appropriate measures for each. In the second part of the article, we apply this analysis to evaluate (...)
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    ‘Species’ without species.Aaron Novick & W. Ford Doolittle - 2021 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 87 (C):72-80.
    Biological science uses multiple species concepts. Order can be brought to this diversity if we recognize two key features. First, any given species concept is likely to have a patchwork structure, generated by repeated application of the concept to new domains. We illustrate this by showing how two species concepts (biological and ecological) have been modified from their initial eukaryotic applications to apply to prokaryotes. Second, both within and between patches, distinct species concepts may interact and hybridize. We thus defend (...)
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    Prioritizing Frontline Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nancy S. Jecker, Aaron G. Wightman & Douglas S. Diekema - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7):128-132.
    Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 128-132.
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  5. Du Châtelet on Sufficient Reason and Empirical Explanation.Aaron Wells - 2021 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4):629-655.
    For Émilie Du Châtelet, I argue, a central role of the principle of sufficient reason is to discriminate between better and worse explanations. Her principle of sufficient reason does not play this role for just any conceivable intellect: it specifically enables understanding for minds like ours. She develops this idea in terms of two criteria for the success of our explanations: “understanding how” and “understanding why.” These criteria can respectively be connected to the determinateness and contrastivity of explanations. The crucial (...)
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  6. Howard Hawks and John Ford Resurgent.Raymond Aaron Younis - 1995 - Cinema Papers (1995).
    On the aesthetics and poetics of Hawks and Ford; their resurgence in film studies.
     
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  7. Disambiguation of Social Polarization Concepts and Measures.Aaron Bramson, Patrick Grim, Daniel J. Singer, Steven Fisher, William Berger, Graham Sack & Carissa Flocken - 2016 - Journal of Mathematical Sociology 40:80-111.
    ABSTRACT This article distinguishes nine senses of polarization and provides formal measures for each one to refine the methodology used to describe polarization in distributions of attitudes. Each distinct concept is explained through a definition, formal measures, examples, and references. We then apply these measures to GSS data regarding political views, opinions on abortion, and religiosity—topics described as revealing social polarization. Previous breakdowns of polarization include domain-specific assumptions and focus on a subset of the distribution’s features. This has conflated multiple, (...)
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  8. Du Châtelet, Induction, and Newton’s Rules for Reasoning.Aaron Wells - 2024 - European Journal of Philosophy 32 (4):1033-1048.
    I examine Du Châtelet’s methodology for physics and metaphysics through the lens of her engagement with Newton’s Rules for Reasoning in Natural Philosophy. I first show that her early manuscript writings discuss and endorse these Rules. Then, I argue that her famous published account of hypotheses continues to invoke close analogues of Rules 3 and 4, despite various developments in her position. Once relevant experimental evidence and some basic constraints are met, it is legitimate to inductively generalize from observations; general (...)
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  9. Lambert on Moral Certainty and the Justification of Induction.Aaron Wells - 2024 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 2024.
    I reconstruct J. H. Lambert’s views on how practical grounds relate to epistemic features, such as certainty. I argue, first, that Lambert’s account of moral certainty does not involve any distinctively practical influence on theoretical belief. However, it does present an interesting form of fallibilism about justification as well as a denial of a tight link between knowledge and action. Second, I argue that for Lambert, the persistence principle that underwrites induction is supported by practical reasons to believe; this indicates (...)
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    Ändern Sie nichts an den Einstellungen.Aaron Lahl - 2024 - Psyche 78 (4):320-334.
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  11. Kant, Infinite Space, and Decomposing Synthesis.Aaron Wells - manuscript
    Draft for presentation at the 14th International Kant-Congress, September 2024. -/- Abstract: Kant claims we intuit infinite space. There’s a problem: Kant thinks full awareness of infinite space requires synthesis—the act of putting representations together and comprehending them as one. But our ability to synthesize is finite. Tobias Rosefeldt has argued in a recent paper that Kant’s notion of decomposing synthesis offers a solution. This talk criticizes Rosefeldt’s approach. First, Rosefeldt is committed to nonconceptual yet determinate awareness of (potentially) infinite (...)
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    Lewis’s Predicament Regarding the Given.Aaron Ben-Zeev - 1986 - New Scholasticism 60 (3):366-374.
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    Neural Correlates of Long-Term Memory Enhancement Following Retrieval Practice.Eugenia Marin-Garcia, Aaron T. Mattfeld & John D. E. Gabrieli - 2021 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15.
    Retrieval practice, relative to further study, leads to long-term memory enhancement known as the “testing effect.” The neurobiological correlates of the testing effect at retrieval, when the learning benefits of testing are expressed, have not been fully characterized. Participants learned Swahili-English word-pairs and were assigned randomly to either the Study-Group or the Test-Group. After a week delay, all participants completed a cued-recall test while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. The Test-Group had superior memory for the word-pairs compared to the Study-Group. (...)
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    (1 other version)Predictive Policies.R. S. Mcgowan & Aaron Sloman - 1967 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 41 (1):57-94.
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    The Supreme Court's Latest Ruling on Drug Liability and its Implications for Future Failure-to-Warn Litigation.Christopher J. Morten, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Joseph S. Ross - 2019 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 47 (4):783-787.
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    Comentario al artículo “Los dilemas políticos de las transformaciones de México: una aproximación filosófica”, de Virginia Aspe.Luis Aarón Jesús Patiño Palafox - 2022 - Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 63 (63):475-489.
    The following article is a response to Virginia Aspe’s “The Political Dilemmas of the Transformations of Mexico: A Philosophical Approach”. My aim is to discuss some ideas developed by Aspe Armella, pointing out, from the perspective of the history of Mexican philosophy, both the successes of her approach, as well as some aspects that deserve more debate.
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    Being For the Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living, and Psychoanalysis. By Paul Marcos.J. Aaron Simmons - 2010 - Heythrop Journal 51 (3):504-506.
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    Science: The Very IdeaSteve Woolgar.Michael Aaron Dennis - 1990 - Isis 81 (2):397-398.
  19. Introduction.Aaron Garrett & James A. Harris - 2015 - In Aaron Garrett & James Anthony Harris, Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century: Volume I: Moral and Political Thought. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    This introductory chapter provides an overview of the main themes covered in the present volume. It highlights the interdisciplinary approach taken in the choice of contributors to the volume which it is hoped will result in new perspectives on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. The chapter notes that the contributors approach Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, and Reid from new points of view, and other important figures and philosophical themes are discussed in terms of their contributions to a distinctively Scottish philosophical (...)
     
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    Christian Humility and the Goods of Perinatal Hospice.Aaron D. Cobb - 2021 - Christian Bioethics 27 (1):69-83.
    Perinatal palliative and hospice care (hereafter, perinatal hospice) is a novel approach to addressing a family’s varied needs following an adverse in utero diagnosis. Christian defenses of perinatal hospice tend to focus on its role as an ethical alternative to abortion. Although these analyses are important, they do not provide adequate grounds to characterize the wide range of goods realized through this compassionate form of care. This essay draws on an analysis of the Christian virtue of humility to highlight the (...)
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  21. The History and Afterlife of Marx’s ‘Primitive Accumulation’.Aaron D. Jaffe - forthcoming - Historical Materialism:1-28.
    This paper develops ‘primitive accumulation’ prior to and then in Karl Marx’s œuvre. By exploring the concept in Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart the paper highlights early influences on Marx’s evolving constructions. Marx’s construction in the Grundrisse begins with a logical determination much like Smith’s and moves, by drawing on Steuart, towards a socio-historical determination of a transitional violence. In Capital, ‘primitive accumulation’ still retains its transitional structure and delimited history, but it also points to the oppressive afterlife of (...)
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    Defining “True and Non-Misleading” for Pharmaceutical Promotion.Spencer Phillips Hey & Aaron S. Kesselheim - 2018 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 46 (2):552-554.
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    Emotional and moral evaluations.Aaron Ben-ze'ev - 1992 - Metaphilosophy 23 (3):214-29.
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  24. Virtues, Ethics and the ‘Moral Tragedy’ of Climate Change.Raymond Aaron Younis - 2017 - ATINER Selected Papers (E-Archive).
     
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  25. The Causal Impotency Objection to Vegetarianism.Aaron Champene & Don Merrell - 2008 - Southwest Philosophy Review 24 (1):53-60.
    Alastair Norcross has argued that there is no morally relevant difference between a person who eats meat and a person who tortures puppies in order to enjoy a certain gustatory sensation. We offer an objection to his argument.
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    “I hold every properly qualified navigator to be a philosopher”: The Making of the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Global Laboratory.Aaron Sidney Wright - 2009 - Spontaneous Generations 3 (1):82-94.
    This paper presents the data gathering of Matthew Fontine Maury at the U.S. Naval Observatory as pushing an epistemic boundary outside traditional laboratory walls. Maury's use and control of civilian navigators explicates the development of an astronomic epistemology deeply embedded in nineteenth century American society. In conclusion, following the movement of epistemic boundaries is offered as a guide to crucial moments in the development of a multifaceted modernity.
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    In memoriam of Mary Douglas (1921–2007).Aaron V. Cicourel - 2010 - Mind and Society 9 (1):1-4.
    This is an excerpt from the contentIn the fall of 1970, as a visiting professor at London University, I was introduced to Mary Douglas by mutual friends at University College and the Institute of Education. In addition to having lunch periodically, we would join Basil Bernstein for a drink at a pub on Gower Street. Our meetings were casual and intellectually quite enjoyable. Mary was always quick to introduce research topics of mutual interest. When I joined Basil and she at (...)
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    Erratum.Aaron E. Hinkley - 2009 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34 (1):91-91.
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    What’s a Religion and Who’s a Sect?Aaron James - 2004 - Teaching Ethics 4 (2):103-106.
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    Autonomy and Responsibility in the Practice of Journalism.Aaron Quinn - 2008 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (1):117-132.
    Autonomy and responsibility are interrelated concepts crucial to the moral analysis of professional persons, organizations and institutions, and for the purpose of this paper, I focus on the persons, organizations, and institution of journalism. My paper’s thesis hinges on the notion that the confluence of the concepts of autonomy and responsibility creates a natural conceptual foundation for understanding moral praise and blame. Though in moral philosophy this notion has long been accepted, it has not yet been carefully applied to the (...)
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    The Adventure of Youth. By Olive A. Wheeler (University of London Press, 1945. x + 212. Price 6s.).R. I. Aaron - 1947 - Philosophy 22 (81):79-.
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    An Analysis of Knowing. By J. Hartland-Swann. (George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1958. Pp. 141. Price 15s.).Richard I. Aaron - 1959 - Philosophy 34 (131):368-.
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    F.H. Bradley.Aaron Ridley - 1995 - Bradley Studies 1 (2):107-115.
    The speed with which Bradley became an historical backwater has probably made it easier to think of him as a second-rate philosopher, who was either incompetent or careless, or at any rate uninteresting, and to suppose that his arguments have been refuted as well as rejected. But as far as his metaphysics are concerned this is not the case. His project and his premises are not those of contemporary analytic philosophy, but his arguments are none the less rigorous for that; (...)
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  34. Colorblindness and Black Friends in Stephen Colbert’s America.Aaron Allen Schiller - 2009 - In Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy (and So Can You!). Open Court.
    Is there a contradiction in Stephen Colbert’s attitudes towards race? How can he consistently claim to be colorblind and yet hold a national search for a new "black friend"? I argue that Stephen is trying to claim rights and shirk responsibilities on matters of race relations in America, and that his famous notion of "truthiness" is an extension of this attitude to other areas of social and political discourse.
     
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    Reflections on the University of Birmingham Rebranding Exercise.Aaron Sloman - manuscript
    Some thoughts arising out of the fact that the University of Birmingham has recently gone through a re-branding exercise led by its administrators responsible for marketing, who failed miserably in marketing the exercise to staff and students within the University, as a result of which there is an online 'Save the Crest' petition that has attracted so many supporters that it made the national news. (2005).
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    Four Concepts of Freewill: Two of them incoherent.Aaron Sloman - unknown
    The discussion below could be extended by pointing out that there is a fifth notion of freedom which refers to what you are free to do within a context of a game, a system of laws, a moral regime etc. This notion of freedom is close to the notion of permission. It is worth noting that the law may forbid something without enforcing that proscription. So many people constantly do what they are not free to do in this sense.
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    Joined-up higher education (a letter to my mp Lynne jones).Aaron Sloman - unknown
    Maybe they have been made, but I missed them because I don’t read and listen enough, as most of my energies are focused elsewhere. Apologies if this is all old hat. Don’t feel you have to read on. In case others are interested, I shall put this on my web site at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/˜axs/gov/ My main point is that it is just silly to talk so much about universities and top-up fees without putting universities in the context of a complete policy (...)
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    Notes On Pride, Emotions, Architectures.Aaron Sloman - unknown
    This is a partial record of correspondence with an intelligent journalist who was given the task, some time in 1998, of preparing an article on pride, as part of a series of articles on so-called 'seven deadly sins' for a scientific magazine. The journalist first asked me to explain how pride could be accommodated withing the framework of ideas being developed in the Cognition and Affect Project at the University of Birmingham.
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    The iSoft affair: Open Letter to my MP about government IT procurements.Aaron Sloman - unknown
    Updates Open Letter to my MP: Lynne Jones Why large IT development projects are problematic The mathematics of searching for a design Richard Feynman wrote: Getting requirements right from the start is impossible Are problems unique to IT projects? Physical constraints Implications for Government policy What can be done? Some suggested prerequisites: requirements for openness A precedent for this proposal: The internet How the internet grew Implications for government policy Are some projects exceptions? Concluding Comment NOTE: Related comment.
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    The Not So Super Virgin Media (Netgear) Superhub.Aaron Sloman - unknown
    THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM OR THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE. NEITHER THE UNIVERSITY NOR THE SCHOOL HAS ENDORSED THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE.
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    Maxim and Principle Contractualism.Aaron Salomon - 2024 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 26 (3).
    I argue that, in order to address the ideal world problem while remaining faithful to our concept of morality, Contractualists should no longer determine which actions I must perform by seeing whether they accord with certain principles for the general regulation of behavior. Instead, I argue, Contractualists should determine whether it is right or wrong for me to perform an action by evaluating any maxim that might be reflected by my action. I call the resulting view “Maxim Contractualism.” It states (...)
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  42. The Priority of Natural Laws in Kant’s Early Philosophy.Aaron Wells - 2021 - Res Philosophica 98 (3):469-497.
    It is widely held that, in his pre-Critical works, Kant endorsed a necessitation account of laws of nature, where laws are grounded in essences or causal powers. Against this, I argue that the early Kant endorsed the priority of laws in explaining and unifying the natural world, as well as their irreducible role in in grounding natural necessity. Laws are a key constituent of Kant’s explanatory naturalism, rather than undermining it. By laying out neglected distinctions Kant draws among types of (...)
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  43. Apropos the Last 'Post-'.Raymond Aaron Younis - 1996 - Literature and Theology 10 (3):280-291.
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    A Less Bad Theory of the Procreation Asymmetry and the Non-Identity Problem.Jonas H. Aaron - 2024 - Utilitas 36 (1):35-49.
    This paper offers a unified explanation for the procreation asymmetry and the non-identity thesis – two of the most intractable puzzles in population ethics. According to the procreation asymmetry, there are moral reasons not to create lives that are not worth living but no moral reasons to create lives that are worth living. I explain the procreation asymmetry by arguing that there are moral reasons to prevent the bad, but no moral reasons to promote the good. Various explanations for the (...)
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  45. How to make the problem of divine hiddenness worse.Aaron Rizzieri - 2021 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 90 (1):3-17.
    I present three versions of the argument from divine hiddenness that are grounded in moral considerations regarding how a just deity would act and auxiliary commitments that theists often have. First, I argue that the problem of hiddenness is made worse if one also holds that many will suffer in the afterlife due to not achieving a proper orientation towards God and the demands of morality in this life. Second, I argue that if any version of the moral argument for (...)
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  46. The role of creativity and humor in human mate selection.Scott Barry Kaufman, Aaron Kozbelt, Melanie L. Bromley & Geoffrey R. Miller - 2008 - In [no title]. pp. 227-262.
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    Symposium: The Causal Argument for Physical Objects.A. C. Ewing, R. I. Aaron & D. Macnabb - 1945 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 19 (1):32 - 100.
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    Social Critique and Transformation in Stout and Butler.Nicholas Aaron Friesner - 2016 - Journal of Religious Ethics 44 (3):425-444.
    If social critique is to play a role in broad social transformation, then it must be able to engage with the terms that people use to understand their lives. This essay argues that we can find an important model for performing social critique in the quite different work of Jeffrey Stout and Judith Butler. For both, social critique must be immanent and it must make explicit the character of the norms by which people currently live. This model is especially important (...)
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    Moving Beyond Standard Informed Consent for Interventional Organ Transplant Research.Jason Lesandrini, Jessica Ginsberg & Brooklyn Aaron - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics 21 (4):108-110.
    Achieving valid informed consent from a human research participant involves an ongoing process designed to protect the participant and ensure their rights, safety, and well-being are not compromise...
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    Addressing the Ethical Challenges of Community-Based Research.Kate York, Aaron D. Profitt, Fawzeyah Al-Awadhi, Maureen Andreadis, Mary Brydon-Miller & Courtney Hamilton - 2012 - Teaching Ethics 12 (2):157-162.
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