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    Relativité, groupes et topologie.Cécile DeWitt-Morette & Bryce S. DeWitt (eds.) - 1964 - New York,: Gordon & Breach.
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    Does the topology of space fluctuate?Arlen Anderson & Bryce DeWitt - 1986 - Foundations of Physics 16 (2):91-105.
    Evidence is presented that the singularities induced in causal Lorentzian spacetimes by changes in 3-space topology give rise to infinite particle and energy production under reasonable laws of quantum field propagation. In the case of the gravitational field, if 3-space is compact the total energy must vanish. A topological transition therefore induces a violent collapse that effectively aborts the transition, since the collapse mode is the only mode carrying the negative energy needed to compensate the associated infinite energy production. The (...)
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    The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity: Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt from 1946 to 2004, by Cécile DeWitt-Morette. Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-14269-7/14270-3. [REVIEW]Gerard ’T. Hooft - 2012 - Foundations of Physics 42 (5):685-687.
  4. Everett’s pure wave mechanics and the notion of worlds.Jeffrey A. Barrett - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (2):277-302.
    Everett (1957a, b, 1973) relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics has often been taken to involve a metaphysical commitment to the existence of many splitting worlds each containing physical copies of observers and the objects they observe. While there was earlier talk of splitting worlds in connection with Everett, this is largely due to DeWitt’s (Phys Today 23:30–35, 1970) popular presentation of the theory. While the thought of splitting worlds or parallel universes has captured the popular imagination, Everett himself favored (...)
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    What Makes a Quantum Physics Belief Believable? Many‐Worlds Among Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast.Shaun C. Henson - 2023 - Zygon 58 (1):203-224.
    An extraordinary, if circumscribed, positive shift has occurred since the mid-twentieth century in the perceived status of Hugh Everett III's 1956 theory of the universal wave function of quantum mechanics, now widely called the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI). Everett's starkly new interpretation denied the existence of a separate classical realm, contending that the experimental data can be seen as presenting a state vector for the whole universe. Since there is no state vector collapse, reality as a whole is strictly deterministic. Explained (...)
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    The Tyranny in Science: The Case of Hugh Everett’s Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum Mechanics.Sheldon Richmond - 2018 - In Raphael Sassower & Nathaniel Laor, The Impact of Critical Rationalism: Expanding the Popperian Legacy Through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie. Springer Verlag. pp. 225-239.
    Hugh Everett’s “Universal Wave Theory Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”, though endorsed and promoted by his mentor John Wheeler, was dismissed by the mainstream in quantum mechanics. Why was it sidelined by those who endorsed the Copenhagen interpretation and John von Neumann’s approach to the famous measurement problem? Everett’s theory was taken up later by Bryce DeWitt under an interpretation, the many worlds universe theory, that is not actually how Everett interpreted his own formulation. I argue that by looking (...)
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  7. Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and Collective Intentionality.Bryce Huebner - 2013 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press USA.
    This book develops a novel approach to distributed cognition and collective intentionality. It is argued that collective mentality should be only be posited where specialized subroutines are integrated in a way that yields skillful, goal-directed behavior that is sensitive to concerns that are relevant to a group as such.
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  8. Child abuse royal commission - a personal perspective.Bryce Ian - 2017 - Australian Humanist, The 126:20.
    Bryce, Ian The following are my personal observations based on several visits to public hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. I've also included media reports, and what I've learnt from contacts with interest groups. I recommend others sit in a public hearing for a day, to see the system in action.
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    Privacy in the Family.Bryce Clayton Newell, Cheryl A. Metoyer & Adam Moore - 2015 - In Beate Roessler & Dorota Mokrosinska, The Social Dimensions of Privacy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 104-121.
    While the balance between individual privacy and government monitoring or corporate surveillance has been a frequent topic across numerous disciplines, the issue of privacy within the family has been largely ignored in recent privacy debates. Yet privacy intrusions between parents and children or between adult partners or spouses can be just as profound as those found in the more “public spheres” of life. Popular access to increasingly sophisticated forms of electronic surveillance technologies has altered the dynamics of family relationships. Monitoring, (...)
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  10. Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations.Bryce Gessell, Benjamin Geib & Felipe De Brigard - 2021 - Synthese 199 (5-6):12869-12889.
    Multivariate pattern analysis, or MVPA, has become one of the most popular analytic methods in cognitive neuroscience. Since its inception, MVPA has been heralded as offering much more than regular univariate analyses, for—we are told—it not only can tell us which brain regions are engaged while processing particular stimuli, but also which patterns of neural activity represent the categories the stimuli are selected from. We disagree, and in the current paper we offer four conceptual challenges to the use of MVPA (...)
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    Ethics and Language.DeWitt H. Parker - 1946 - Philosophical Review 55 (6):704.
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  12. Do Emotions Play a Constitutive Role in Moral Cognition?Bryce Huebner - 2015 - Topoi 34 (2):427-440.
    Recent behavioral experiments, along with imaging experiments and neuropsychological studies appear to support the hypothesis that emotions play a causal or constitutive role in moral judgment. Those who resist this hypothesis tend to suggest that affective mechanisms are better suited to play a modulatory role in moral cognition. But I argue that claims about the role of emotion in moral cognition frame the debate in ways that divert attention away from other plausible hypotheses. I suggest that the available data may (...)
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    (1 other version)Does Suffering Lack Meaning? A Contemporary Christian Response.Raymond‐Marie Bryce - 2016 - New Blackfriars 97 (1072).
    Anthropology's approach to answering the question of the role of suffering in our lives is limited to empirical data and at best describes an individual's capability to endure it and make sense of it. Levinas was at odds to find meaning in suffering once it had exceeded certain proportions. Various cultures demonstrate greater and lesser capacities for integrating corporate suffering when it has crossed a significant threshold. What is the role of ritual and productive suffering in revealing meaning in suffering? (...)
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    The Apple in the Vortex: Newton, Blake, and Descartes.Bryce J. Christensen - 1982 - Philosophy and Literature 6 (1-2):147-161.
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    The Family in Utopia.Bryce J. Christensen - 1991 - Renascence 44 (1):31-44.
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    Rejecting interventions: Alexander Reutlinger: A theory of causation in the social and biological sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 276 pp, $105.00 HB.Bryce Gessell - 2015 - Metascience 25 (1):139-141.
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    Science and Philosophy and Other Essays.Dewitt H. Parker - 1931 - Philosophical Review 40 (2):210.
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    Building a More Effective Global Climate Regime Through a Bottom-Up Approach.Bryce Rudyk, Michael Oppenheimer & Richard B. Stewart - 2013 - Theoretical Inquiries in Law 14 (1):273-306.
    This Article presents an innovative institutional strategy for global climate protection, quite distinct from, but ultimately complementary to and supportive of the currently stalled UNFCCC climate treaty negotiations. The bottom-up strategy relies on a variety of smallerscale transnational cooperative arrangements, involving not only states but sub-national jurisdictions, firms, and CSOs, to undertake activities whose primary goal is not climate mitigation but which will achieve greenhouse gas reductions as an inherent byproduct. This strategy avoids the inherent problems in securing an enforceable (...)
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  19. King John signing Magna Carta.Ian Bryce - 2015 - Australian Humanist, The 119:14.
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  20. Science, enlightenment and humanism.Ian Bryce - 2015 - Australian Humanist, The 117:4.
    Bryce, Ian At a World Humanism Day seminar held at Parliament House, Sydney, the theme was the role of the Enlightenment in the development of humanist thought. My new role as President of HSNSW has led me to reflect further on the journeys many made from the physical sciences to the social sciences.
     
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    Internal constraints for phenomenal externalists: a structure matching theory.Bryce Dalbey & Bradford Saad - 2022 - Synthese 200 (5):1-29.
    We motivate five constraints on theorizing about sensory experience. We then propose a novel form of naturalistic intentionalism that succeeds where other theories fail by satisfying all of these constraints. On the proposed theory, which we call structure matching tracking intentionalism, brains states track determinables. Internal structural features of those states select determinates of those determinables for presentation in experience. We argue that this theory is distinctively well-positioned to both explain internal-phenomenal structural correlations and accord external features a role in (...)
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  22. Moral judgments about altruistic self-sacrifice: When philosophical and folk intuitions clash.Bryce Huebner & Marc D. Hauser - 2011 - Philosophical Psychology 24 (1):73-94.
    Altruistic self-sacrifice is rare, supererogatory, and not to be expected of any rational agent; but, the possibility of giving up one's life for the common good has played an important role in moral theorizing. For example, Judith Jarvis Thomson (2008) has argued in a recent paper that intuitions about altruistic self-sacrifice suggest that something has gone wrong in philosophical debates over the trolley problem. We begin by showing that her arguments face a series of significant philosophical objections; however, our project (...)
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  23. Supporting ethics in all time slots.Ian Bryce - 2014 - Australian Humanist, The 115:13.
    Bryce, Ian There has been vigorous discussion between State Humanist societies, about whether ethics should be taught by volunteers, and in the Religious Instruction timeslot, if that is the only option.
     
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  24. Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science.Richard DeWitt - 2004 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Machine generated contents note: List of figures. -- Acknowledgments. -- Introduction. -- Part One: Fundamental Issues. -- Part Two: The Transition from the Aristotelian Worldview to the Newtonian Worldview. -- Part Three: Recent Developments in Science and Worldviews. -- Chapter Notes and Suggested Reading. -- References. -- Index.
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    Indeterminism in the brain.Bryce Gessell - 2017 - Biology and Philosophy 32 (6):1205-1223.
    Does the brain behave indeterministically? I argue that accounting for ion channels, key functional units in the brain, requires indeterministic models. These models are probabilistic, so the brain does behave indeterministically in a weak sense. I explore the implications of this point for a stronger sense of indeterminism. Ultimately I argue that it is not possible, either empirically or through philosophical argument, to show that the brain is indeterministic in that stronger sense.
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  26. India at the Threshold.L. Winifred Bryce - unknown
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    Internally Reporting Risk in Financial Services: An Empirical Analysis.Cormac Bryce, Thorsten Chmura, Rob Webb, Joel Stiebale & Carly Cheevers - 2019 - Journal of Business Ethics 156 (2):493-512.
    The enduring failure of financial institutions to identify and deal with risk events continues to have serious repercussions, whether in the form of small but significant losses or major and potentially far-reaching scandals. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines an innovative version of the classic dictator game to inform prosocial tendencies with the survey-based Theory of Planned Behaviour, we examine the risk-escalation behaviour of individuals within a large financial institution. We discover evidence of purely selfish behaviour that explains the lack (...)
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    The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith: Iv: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.J. C. Bryce (ed.) - 1983 - Oxford University Press.
    A scholarly edition of a work by Adam Smith. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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  29. Introduction: Philosophies of the sciences / Fritz Allhoff. Philosophy of science.Richard DeWitt - 2010 - In Fritz Allhoff, Philosophies of the Sciences. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell.
     
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    Vagueness, semantics, and the language of thought.Richard DeWitt - 1994 - PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 1.
    In recent years, a number of well-known intentional realists have focused their energy on attempts to provide a naturalized theory of mental representation. What tends to be overlooked, however, is that a naturalized theory of mental representation will not, by itself, salvage intentional realism. Since most naturalistic properties play no interesting causal role, intentional realists must also solve the problem of showing how intentional properties , even if naturalized, could be causally efficacious. Because of certain commitments, this problem is especially (...)
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    Unleash the Beast.Bryce T. J. Dyer - 2010-09-24 - In Fritz Allhoff, Jesús Ilundáin‐Agurruza & Michael W. Austin, Cycling ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 39–50.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Getting Out of the Gate Banking the Turn in Pursuit of Fairness Counting Down the Laps in Pursuit of Happiness The Bell Lap Notes.
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  32. Anita the agitator.Philip Elmer-Dewitt - 1993 - In Jonathan Westphal & Carl Avren Levenson, Time. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co.. pp. 141--52.
     
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  33. (2 other versions)Human Values.Dewitt H. Parker - 1932 - Philosophy 7 (25):105-107.
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    (1 other version)Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. New Series. Vol. XXXIX, 1938-1939.DeWitt H. Parker - 1941 - Philosophical Review 50 (2):230.
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    The Basis of Criticism in the Arts.DeWitt H. Parker - 1947 - Philosophical Review 56 (1):90.
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    The Philosophy of Value.Dewitt H. Parker - 1957 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 16 (1):133-134.
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    Value as Any Object of Any Interest.Dewitt Parker - 1930 - International Journal of Ethics 40 (4):465-473.
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    Perspective: Reminiscences of the recombinant DNA story: The guidelines.DeWitt Stetten, William Gartland & Bernard Talbot - 1984 - Bioessays 1 (3):135-136.
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    Perspective: The road to Asilomar: Reminiscences of the recombinant DNA story.DeWitt Stetten, William Gartland & Bernard Talbot - 1984 - Bioessays 1 (1):41-42.
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    American Literature and the New Puritan Studies.Bryce Traister (ed.) - 2017 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational to the study of American literature. It invites readers of American literature and culture to reconsider the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the (...)
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    La texture des choses: contre l'indifférenciation.Jacques Dewitte - 2024 - Paris: Salvator. Edited by Fabrice Hadjadj.
    Depuis une époque immémoriale, nous sommes entourés d'êtres et de choses qui ont une forme reconnaissable, un certain 'visage', et c'est une donnée première de notre expérience. Cela contribue à tisser une 'texture des choses' que diverses théories contemporaines, de concert avec certaines forces sociales, s'emploient à défaire ou nier. Ainsi s'effectuent peu à peu une disparition des formes et un retour à une réalité supposée être originairement un flux indifférencié. Pour s'opposer à cette tendance, Jacques Dewitte met en évidence (...)
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  42. The Moral-Conventional Distinction in Mature Moral Competence.Bryce Huebner, James Lee & Marc Hauser - 2010 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 10 (1-2):1-26.
    Developmental psychologists have long argued that the capacity to distinguish moral and conventional transgressions develops across cultures and emerges early in life. Children reliably treat moral transgressions as more wrong, more punishable, independent of structures of authority, and universally applicable. However, previous studies have not yet examined the role of these features in mature moral cognition. Using a battery of adult-appropriate cases (including vehicular and sexual assault, reckless behavior, and violations of etiquette and social contracts) we demonstrate that these features (...)
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  43. (1 other version)Collective responsibility and fraud in scientific communities.Bryce Huebner & Liam Kofi Bright - 2020 - In Saba Bazargan-Forward & Deborah Tollefsen, The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility. Routledge.
    Given the importance of scientific research in shaping our perception of the world, and our senses of what policies will and won’t succeed in altering that world, it is of great practical, political, and moral importance that we carry out scientific research with integrity. The phenomenon of scientific fraud stands in the way of that, as scientists may knowingly enter claims they take to be false into the scientific literature, often knowingly doing so in defiance of norms they profess allegiance (...)
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  44. Ethics education panel.Ian Bryce - 2013 - The Australian Humanist 112:5.
    Bryce, Ian As part of the CAHS Convention in May this year, I organised a Panel discussion entitled 'Ethics Education Initiatives in Australia'. It was to take advantage of the presence in Sydney of Humanist Society delegates from interstate, and acquaint them with the success story of the NSW Primary Ethics program.
     
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  45. Legal avenues for challenging religion: A presentation by Geoffrey Robertson at the global atheist convention - May 2012.Ian Bryce - 2013 - The Australian Humanist 109 (109):5.
    Bryce, Ian Robertson's talk was an analysis of the legal positions around many of the crimes of organised religion, and consequent legal actions already in progress or possible in the future.
     
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    (1 other version)Consciousness, mind, and self: The implications of the split-brain studies.Larry W. Dewitt - 1975 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (1):41-47.
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    The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett.Bryce Huebner (ed.) - 2018 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett explores the intellectual significance of Daniel C. Dennett's 45 years of philosophical research, while providing a critical and constructive overview of Dennett's stance-based methodology and his claims about metal representation, consciousness, cultural evolution, and religion.
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  48. Knowledge by acquaintance.Dewitt H. Parker - 1945 - Philosophical Review 54 (1):1-18.
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    How the Source, Inevitability and Means of Bringing About Harm Interact in Folk-Moral Judgments.Bryce Huebner, Marc D. Hauser & Phillip Pettit - 2011 - Mind and Language 26 (2):210-233.
    Means-based harms are frequently seen as forbidden, even when they lead to a greater good. But, are there mitigating factors? Results from five experiments show that judgments about means-based harms are modulated by: 1) Pareto considerations (was the harmed person made worse off?), 2) the directness of physical contact, and 3) the source of the threat (e.g. mechanical, human, or natural). Pareto harms are more permissible than non-Pareto harms, Pareto harms requiring direct physical contact are less permissible than those that (...)
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    Minimal minds.Bryce Huebner - 2011 - In L. Beauchamp Tom & R. G. Frey, The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press USA.
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