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  1. A Deeper Look at Hyperbolic Discounting.Barry Sopher & Arnav Sheth - 2006 - Theory and Decision 60 (2-3):219-255.
    We conduct an experiment to investigate the degree to which deviations from exponential discounting can be accounted for by the hypothesis of hyperbolic discounting. Subjects are asked to choose between an earlier or later payoff in a series of 40 choice questions. Each question consists of a pair of monetary amounts determined by compounding a given base amount at a constant rate per period. Two bases (8 and 20 dollars), three compounding rates (low, medium and high) and three delays (2, (...)
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    Intransitive cycles: Rational choice or random error? An answer based on estimation of error rates with experimental data.Barry Sopher & Gary Gigliotti - 1993 - Theory and Decision 35 (3):311-336.
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    A test of generalized expected utility theory.Barry Sopher & Gary Gigliotti - 1993 - Theory and Decision 35 (1):75-106.
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    Analysis of Intertemporal Choice: A New Framework and Experimental Results.Gary Gigliotti & Barry Sopher - 2003 - Theory and Decision 55 (3):209-233.
    This paper reports the results of a series of experiments examining intertemporal choice. The paper makes three contributions: First, it presents a new analytic device, the intertemporal choice triangle, which is analogous to the Marschak--Machina choice triangle used in the analysis of choice under risk. Second, we have developed a new experimental design based on the intertemporal choice triangle which allows subjects greater flexibility in making choices, and which allows the researcher to make more subtle inferences, than are possible with (...)
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    Violations of Present-Value Maximization in Income Choice.Gary Gigliotti & Barry Sopher - 1997 - Theory and Decision 43 (1):45-69.
    We report results of an experiment testing for present-value maximization in intertemporal income choice. Two-thirds of subjects did not maximize present value. Through a series of experimental manipulations that impose costs on non-present value maximizers, we are able to reduce the level of violations substantially. We find, however, that a sizeable proportion of subjects continue to systematically violate present-value principles. Our interpretation is that these subjects either cannot or choose not to distinguish between t income and t expenditure in making (...)
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    A unified science of cultural evolution should incorporate choice.Sopher Barry - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (4):363.
    Analogies between biological and cultural evolution may be illuminating and suggest methods to pursue in the quest for a unified science of cultural evolution. Significant progress, however, is unlikely to be made by trying to fit cultural evolution neatly into a biological evolution schema. A key element defining and differentiating cultural evolution may be the role of conscious human choices. (Published Online November 9 2006).
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    Introduction: Richard Rorty, Pragmatic Provocateur.Barry Allen, Richard Rorty, Nicholas Gaskill, Chris Voparil & Barbara Herrnstein Smith - 2022 - Common Knowledge 28 (3):359-365.
    This essay introduces a running symposium on the work of Richard Rorty and its legacy fifteen years after his passing. The arc of Rorty's thought defines a trajectory through American pragmatism, tracing a variation unimagined until he expressed it. His work raised Anglophone philosophers’ interest in American pragmatism as never before and also focused the interest of the whole world on American pragmatism as never before, even though the result was to define a pragmatism saturated with nominalism and suppressing the (...)
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    Plurals and Events.Barry Schein - 1993 - MIT Press.
    Barry Schein proposes combining a second-order treatment of plurals with DonaldDavidson's suggestion that there are positions for reference to events in ordinary predicates inorder to account for several of the more puzzling features of ...
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  9. Understanding human knowledge: philosophical essays.Barry Stroud - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Since the 1970s Barry Stroud has been one of the most original contributors to the philosophical study of human knowledge. This volume presents the best of Stroud's essays in this area. Throughout, he seeks to clearly identify the question that philosophical theories of knowledge are meant to answer, and the role scepticism plays in making sense of that question. In these seminal essays, he suggests that people pursuing epistemology need to concern themselves with whether philosophical scepticism is true or (...)
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  10. Offsetting and Risk Imposition.Christian Barry & Garrett Cullity - 2022 - Ethics 132 (2):352-381.
    Suppose you perform two actions. The first imposes a risk of harm that, on its own, would be excessive; but the second reduces the risk of harm by a corresponding amount. By pairing the two actions together to form a set of actions that is risk-neutral, can you thereby make your overall course of conduct permissible? This question is theoretically interesting, because the answer is apparently: sometimes Yes, sometimes No. It is also practically important, because it bears on the moral (...)
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  11. Samuel Butler's Contributions to Biological Philosophy.Barry Allen - 2023 - Common Knowledge 29 (2):251-279.
    Samuel Butler is usually remembered for Erewhon, widely considered among the best English satires. He also contributed to philosophical biology in works that collectively compose the nineteenth century's finest statement of the evolutionary argument associated with the name of Lamarck. In writing on evolution, Butler was not presenting science for a popular audience but deliberately intervening in the scientific argument about Darwinism. Surprised by the success of his first venture in philosophical biology, Life and Habit, Butler committed himself to the (...)
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  12. Meaning, understanding, and practice: philosophical essays.Barry Stroud - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of leading contemporary philosopher Barry Stroud on a set of topics central to analytic philosophy. In this collection, Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. Throughout he asks how much can be expected from a philosophical account of one's understanding of the meaning of something, and questions whether such an account can succeed without implying that the person understands many other things (...)
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  13. The birth of ontology.Barry Smith - 2022 - Journal of Knowledge Structures and Systems 3 (1):57-66.
    This review focuses on the Ogdoas scholastica by Jacob Lorhard, published in 1606. The importance of this document turns on the fact that it contains what is almost certainly the first published occurrence of the term “ontology.” The body of the work consists in a series of diagrams called “diagraphs.” Relevant features of this compendium of diagraphs are: 1. that it does not in fact contain the word “ontology,” and 2. that Lorhard himself was not responsible for its content.
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    The triangle model of responsibility.Barry R. Schlenker, Thomas W. Britt, John Pennington & Rodolfo Murphy - 1994 - Psychological Review 101 (4):632-652.
  15. Skepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge.Barry Stroud - 1984 - Journal of Philosophy 81 (10):545.
  16. Michel Foucault: critical assessments.Barry Smart (ed.) - 1988 - New York: Routledge.
    Without doubt Michel Foucault was one of the 20th century's towering intellectuals. His work on organization of knowledge, sexuality, power, discipline, medicine, madness, identity, and politics has left an idelible mark on contemporary thinking in these fields. Edited by one of the world's most distinguished Foucault scholars, Barry Smart, this collection sets Foucault's work in the the appropriate historical and intellectual context by orgaizing the material thematically with introductions that quide the reader through the complexities of the essays. These (...)
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  17. Supererogation and Optimisation.Christian Barry & Seth Lazar - 2024 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (1):21-36.
    This paper examines three approaches to the relationship between our moral reasons to bear costs for others’ sake before and beyond the call of duty. Symmetry holds that you are required to optimise your beneficial sacrifices even when they are genuinely supererogatory. If you are required to bear a cost C for the sake of a benefit B, when they are the only costs and benefits at stake, you are also conditionally required to bear an additional cost C, for the (...)
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    Time for Truth: Tarski Between Heidegger and Rorty.Barry Allen - 2023 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (3):1163-1174.
    The idea that truth is eternal is an old one in philosophy, and I do not propose to survey its history here. Yet a sketch of the historical context is useful for my main purpose, which is to discuss the theme of truth and temporality in Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty. Although both philosophers repudiate eternal truth, their reasons for doing so are different, and this difference reveals a probably irreconcilable opposition between Heidegger and the Pragmatist.
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  19. Do We Impose Undue Risk When We Emit and Offset? A Reply to Stefansson.Christian Barry & Garrett Cullity - 2022 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (3):242-248.
    ABSTRACT We have previously argued that there are forms of greenhouse gas offsetting for which, when one emits and offsets, one imposes no risk. Orri Stefansson objects that our argument fails to distinguish properly between the people who stand to be harmed by one’s emissions and the people who stand to be benefited by one’s offsetting. We reply by emphasizing the difference between acting with a probability of making a difference to the distribution of harm and acting in a way (...)
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    What it means to change lanes: Actions, emotions and wayfinding in the family car.Barry Brown & Eric Laurier - 2012 - Semiotica 2012 (191):117-135.
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  21. The bridge between philosophy and information-driven science.Barry Smith - 2021 - Journal of Knowledge Structures and Systems 2 (2):47-55.
    This essay is a response to Luis M. Augusto’s intriguing paper on the rift between mainstream and formal ontology. I will show that there are in fact two questions at issue here: 1. concerning the links between mainstream and formal approaches within philosophy, and 2. concerning the application of philosophy (and especially philosophical ontology) in support of information-driven research for example in the life sciences.
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  22. Carnap's contexts : Comte, Heidegger, Nietzsche.Barry Allen - 2003 - In C. G. Prado, A house divided: comparing analytic and continental philosophy. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.
    Carnap apparently never mentions August Comte’s name in his writings. Not that that is unusual. He seldom discusses individuals, or historical references of any sort. But you cannot evade context, and nothing comes from nothing. Merely allowing the name of “logical positivist” makes Comte a context for Carnap, which is hardly inappropriate, since Comte practically invented the idea of a “philosophy of science.” We can learn about the positivist mentality (for instance, how it is still with us) by searching out (...)
     
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    Vanishing into Things.Barry Allen, Bernard Faure, Jacob Raz, Glenn Alexander Magee, N. Verbin, Dalia Ofer, Elaine Pryce & Amy M. King - 2010 - Common Knowledge 16 (3):417-423.
    Introducing the sixth and final installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism,” Allen looks at the symposium retrospectively and concludes that it has mainly concerned “sage knowledge,” defined as foresight into the development of situations. The sagacious knower sees the disposition of things in an early, incipient form and knows how to intervene with nearly effortless and undetectable (quiet) effectiveness. Whatever the circumstance, the sage handles it with finesse, never doing too much but also never leaving anything undone (...)
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    The cloud of knowing blurring the difference with china.Barry Allen - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (3):450-532.
    In this monograph-length article, which inaugurates a multipart symposium titled “Fuzzy Studies,” the significance and virtues of blur are investigated through the whole history of Chinese intellectual tradition. In the Western tradition, the blur of becoming seems to disqualify an object for knowledge; nothing can be an object of knowledge until the blur is resolved and clarity attained. Chinese tradition offers suggestive examples of the thought that blur, so far from being incompatible with knowledge, might be its condition of possibility (...)
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    Evil and enmity.Barry Allen - 2004 - Common Knowledge 10 (2):185-197.
    In order to make sense of the relationship between evil and enmity, I make an excursion into moral theory, and discuss ideas on the origin of evil in two very different moral philosophers: Kant and Darwin. Thinking about evil the way Kant does leads to a theoretical impasse Darwin’s evolutionary natural history of morality readily overcomes. Today enmity is more consequential, and potentially more dangerous, than at any time in our 100,000 years on the earth. An enemy may force us (...)
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    Facing modernity: ambivalence, reflexivity, and morality.Barry Smart - 1999 - Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
    `In the grand tradition of classical social theory, Barry Smart challenges us to face up to the ambivalences of the contemporary moment and to take responsibility for our individual and social existence' - Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles ` a brilliant excursus through modern social theory, Smart’s book should be read and re-read for its careful analysis of the dilemmas of morality in postmodernism' - Bryan S. Turner, Deakin University Through a critical discussion of the 'ambivalent fruits' (...)
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    Perceptual Knowledge and the Primacy of Judgment.Barry Stroud - 2015 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (3):385--395.
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    What Is an Environmental Problem?Andrew Barry - 2021 - Theory, Culture and Society 38 (2):93-117.
    This paper advances two arguments about environmental problems. First, it interrogates the strength and limitations of empiricist accounts of problems and issues offered by actor-network theory. Drawing on the work of C.S. Peirce, it considers how emerging environmental problems often lead to abductive inferences about the existence of hidden causes that may or may not have caused the problem to emerge. The analysis of environmental problems should be empiricist in so far as it is sceptical of the claims of those (...)
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  29. A Treatise on Social Justice, Volume I: Theories of Justice.Brian Barry - 1990 - Philosophy 65 (253):375-377.
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    Cosmopolis: The hidden agenda of modernity.Brian Barry - 1996 - History of European Ideas 22 (1):57-58.
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    Effects of strength of drive on learning and on extinction.Herbert Barry Iii - 1958 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 55 (5):473.
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  32. Green political thought.John Barry - 1998 - In Adam Lent, New political thought: an introduction. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
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    Leadership today: can it learn from an ancient rule?David Barry - 1999 - The Australasian Catholic Record 76 (2):176.
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    “Psanterin” According to Daniel III. 5.Phillips Barry - 1910 - The Monist 20 (3):402-413.
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    Refining Green Political Economy: From Ecological Modernisation to Economic Security and Sufficiency.John Barry & Peter Doran - 2006 - Analyse & Kritik 28 (2):250-275.
    Perhaps the most problematic dimension of the ‘triple bottom line’ understanding of sustainable development has been the ‘economic’ dimension. Much of the thinking about the appropriate ‘political economy’ to underpin or frame sustainable development has been either utopian (as in some ‘green’ political views) or an attempt to make peace with ‘business as usual’ approaches. This article suggests that ‘ecological modernisation’ is the dominant conceptualisation of ‘sustainable development’ within the UK, and illustrates this by looking at some key ‘sustainable development’ (...)
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    Rothbard: Liberty, economy, and state.Norman Barry - 1995 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 6 (1):105-120.
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    The formation of helium gas bubbles in neutron-irradiated copper-boron alloys.D. E. Barry - 1971 - Philosophical Magazine 23 (182):495-502.
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    The Roman Catholic position on abortion.R. Barry - 1997 - Advances in Bioethics 2:151.
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    Varieties of Interpretation. Joseph Anthony Mazzeo.Barry Barnes - 1979 - Isis 70 (3):441-442.
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    Rational Man and Irrational Society?Brian Barry & Russell Hardin (eds.) - 1982 - Beverly Hills: Sage.
    The Prisoner's Dilemma and Kenneth Arrow's General Possibility Theorem, are two of the most simple, yet far-reaching concepts in social science. The first captures in an easily understood paradox how individually rational acts that benefit individual people can combine to produce a result that is of less benefit to everyone. The Arrow Theorem shows that there is no formula for ranking the preferences of many people into a rational aggregate. This book is a collection of the best work done on (...)
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    Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality, by Cécile Fabre.Christian Barry - 2024 - Mind 133 (529):286-294.
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    Experience, Experiments, and the History of Empiricism.Barry Allen - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (3):805-812.
    This paper discusses arguments from my recent book, Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene (2021). I discuss the origin of empiricism in ancient Greek medicine, and its merger with experimental research in the modern period. I also discuss the arguments of recent critics of empiricism, including W. V. Quine, Donald Davidson, and Richard Rorty. I introduce a distinction between theorematic and problematic empiricism and show how this difference divides the various empiricisms of history. My conclusions are: 1. (...)
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    Technological Zones.Andrew Barry - 2006 - European Journal of Social Theory 9 (2):239-253.
    This article provides an overview of the analysis of technological zones. A technological zone can be understood as a space within which differences between technical practices, procedures and forms have been reduced, or common standards have been established. Such technological zones take broadly one of three forms: (1) metrological zones associated with the development of common forms of measurement; (2) infrastructural zones associated with the creation of common connection standards; and (3) zones of qualification which come into being when objects (...)
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    Epidemic and Insurance: Two Forms of Solidarity.Laurence Barry - 2022 - Theory, Culture and Society 39 (7-8):217-235.
    Despite their common core in statistics, insurance and epidemiology propel two different forms of solidarity. In insurance, the collective is a source of protection, thanks to the pooling of risks; in epidemics by contrast, the group remains the source of danger for the individual. The aim of this paper is to highlight the conceptions of community and solidarity at play in epidemics in contradistinction to insurance, with a focus on the shift introduced by big data and algorithms. Paradoxically, while the (...)
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    (1 other version)Indigenous Epistemologies of North America.Barry Allen - 2021 - Episteme (doi:10.1017/epi.2021.37):1-13.
    Indigenous cultures of North America confronted a problem of knowledge different from that of canonical European philosophy. The European problem is to identify and overcome obstacles to the perfection of knowledge as science, while the Indigenous problem is to conserve a legacy of practice fused with a territory. Complicating the difference is that one of these traditions violently colonized the other, and with colonization the Indigenous problem changes. The old problem of inter-generational stability cannot be separated from the post-colonial problem (...)
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  46. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. Michael J. Sandel.Brian Barry - 1984 - Ethics 94 (3):523-525.
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    Recovering Hegel From the Critique of Leo Strauss: The Virtues of Modernity.Sara Jane MacDonald & Barry Craig - 2013 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    In Recovering Hegel from the Critique of Leo Strauss, Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig provide a study unique in its focus on Leo Strauss’s reading of Hegel. While MacDonald and Craig find value in Strauss’s thought, they argue that his pessimism concerning modernity lies in a misunderstanding of both modernity’s greatest philosophical advocate, G.W.F. Hegel, and modernity’s virtues.
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    Identifying Objective EEG Based Markers of Linear Vection in Depth.Stephen Palmisano, Robert J. Barry, Frances M. De Blasio & Jack S. Fogarty - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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    Human Embryo Research: Yes or No? by Ciba Foundation.Fr Robert Barry - 1988 - The Thomist 52 (3):551-556.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:BOOK REVIEWS 551 Human Embryo Research: Yes or No?. By CIBA FOUNDATION. London: Tavistock: 1987. Pp. xv + 232. $39.95 (cloth). In 1984 a governmental commission formed under the directorship of Dame Mary Warnock studied proposed legislation for experimentation on human embryos for research purposes. It concluded that such experimentation should not be permitted ·after the fourteenth day of gestation. This book records a symposium conducted under the sponsorship (...)
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  50. The Dslr Filmmaker's Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques.Barry Andersson & Janie L. Geyen - 2011 - Sybex.
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