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    Polarized message-passing in graph neural networks.Tiantian He, Yang Liu, Yew-Soon Ong, Xiaohu Wu & Xin Luo - 2024 - Artificial Intelligence 331 (C):104129.
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    (1 other version)Could artificial intelligence have consciousness? Some perspectives from neurology and parapsychology.Yew-Kwang Ng - 2021 - AI and Society:1-12.
    The possibility of AI consciousness depends much on the correct answer to the mind–body problem: how our materialistic brain generates subjective consciousness? If a materialistic answer is valid, machine consciousness must be possible, at least in principle, though the actual instantiation of consciousness may still take a very long time. If a non-materialistic one (either mentalist or dualist) is valid, machine consciousness is much less likely, perhaps impossible, as some mental element may also be required. Some recent advances in neurology (...)
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  3. Welfarism and Utilitarianism: A Rehabilitation*: Yew-Kwang Ng.Yew-Kwang Ng - 1990 - Utilitas 2 (2):171-193.
    Utilitarianism seems to be going out of fashion, amidst increasing concerns for issues of freedom, equality, and justice. At least, anti-utilitarian and non-utilitarian moral philosophers have been very active. This paper is a very modest attempt to defend utilitarianism in particular and welfarism in general. Section I provides an axiomatic defence of welfarism and utilitarianism. Section II discusses the divergences between individual preferences and individual welfares and argues in favour of welfare utilitarianism. Section III criticizes some non-utilitarian principles, including knowledge (...)
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  4. What Should We Do About Future Generations?Yew-Kwang Ng - 1989 - Economics and Philosophy 5 (2):235.
    Parfit's requirements for an ideal Theory X cannot be fully met since the Mere Addition Principle and Non-Antiegalitarianism imply the Repugnant Conclusion: Theory X does not exist. However, since the Repugnant Conclusion is really compelling, the Impersonal Total Principle should be adopted for impartial comparisons concerning future generations. Nevertheless, where our own interests are affected, we may yet choose to be partial, trading off our concern for future goodness with our self-interests. Theory X' meets all Parfit's requirements except the Mere (...)
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    Ramus, method, and the decay of dialogue.Walter J. Ong - 1974 - New York,: Octagon Books.
    Considered the most important work of Walter Ong's career, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue is an elegant review of the history of Ramist scholarship ...
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    The presence of the word: some prolegomena for cultural and religious history.Walter J. Ong - 1967 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    Terry Lectures. A religious philosopher's exploration of the nature and history of the word argues that the word is initially and always sound, that it cannot be reduced to any other category, and that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence. His analysis of the development of verbal expression, from oral sources through the transfer to the visual world and to contemporary means of electronic communication, shows that the predicament of the human word is the predicament of (...)
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    State investment in eighteenth-century Berne.Stefan Altorfer-Ong - 2007 - History of European Ideas 33 (4):440-462.
    This article provides information about Berne's financial situation at the time the Economic Society was founded. The canton was in an exceptionally fortunate position, having accumulated a sizeable cash reserve that was in part used for loans and investments on the London capital market. Throughout the century, the Bernese government followed a very cautious investment strategy. The main reason for purchasing overseas securities was that they helped the patricians to become independent from tax-paying subjects. Economic imperatives ruled out increases of (...)
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  8. Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering. [REVIEW]Yew-Kwang Ng - 1995 - Biology and Philosophy 10 (3):255-285.
    Welfare biology is the study of living things and their environment with respect to their welfare. Despite difficulties of ascertaining and measuring welfare and relevancy to normative issues, welfare biology is a positive science. Evolutionary economics and population dynamics are used to help answer basic questions in welfare biology : Which species are affective sentients capable of welfare? Do they enjoy positive or negative welfare? Can their welfare be dramatically increased? Under plausible axioms, all conscious species are plastic and all (...)
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    The case for and difficulties in using “demand areas” to measure changes in well-being.Yew-Kwang Ng - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (1):30-31.
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    Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalizing Prostitution.Yew-Kwang Ng - 2019 - Cambridge University Press.
    Considering efficiency, equality, and morality, this book argues for qualified market expansion, particularly in legalizing kidney sales and prostitution. Legalizing prostitution will benefit both men and women, as argued in a chapter jointly written with Yan Wang. Blood donation without monetary compensation can still result in adequate blood supply if schools educate children that blood donation can actually benefit a donor's health. As a society becomes more advanced, with higher incomes and a better educated populace, more activities can be subject (...)
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    Interpersonal Level Comparability Implies Comparability of Utility Differences.Yew-Kwang Ng - 1984 - Theory and Decision 17 (2):141.
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    An Argument for Utilitarianism.Yew-Kwang Ng & Peter Singer - 1981 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (2):229 - 239.
    Many utilitarians accept Bentham's view that to argue for the principle of utility is as ‘impossible as it is needless'. They take utilitarianism as a first principle which one either accepts or does not. They do, of course, defend utilitarianism against objections, and make objections to other ethical positions; but the principle of utility itself, they hold, must stand on its own merits. In this article we use a different approach. We introduce a principle, which we call ‘Weak Majority Preference', (...)
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  13. A view of life: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the novel.Yi-Ping Ong - 2009 - Philosophy and Literature 33 (1):pp. 167-183.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A View of Life:Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the NovelYi-Ping OngI"My general task," Nietzsche scrawled, in the margins of his own copy of Cervantes's Don Quixote: "to show how life philosophy and art can have a deeper and affinitive relationship with each other."1 This enigmatic inscription commands a second reading not only because it seems to articulate the thread that links many of Nietzsche's philosophical projects together, but also because of (...)
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    Interpersonal level comparability implies comparability of utility differences: A reply.Yew-Kwang Ng - 1989 - Theory and Decision 26 (1):91-93.
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  15. The Relevance and Value of Confucianism in Contemporary Business Ethics.Gary Kok Yew Chan - 2007 - Journal of Business Ethics 77 (3):347-360.
    This article examines the relevance and value of Confucian Ethics to contemporary Business Ethics by comparing their respective perspectives and approaches towards business activities within the modern capitalist framework, the principle of reciprocity and the concept of human virtues. Confucian Ethics provides interesting parallels with contemporary Western-oriented Business Ethics. At the same, it diverges from contemporary Business Ethics in some significant ways. Upon an examination of philosophical texts as well as empirical studies, it is argued that Confucian Ethics is able (...)
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  16. What Should We Do About Future Generations? Impossibility of Parfit’s Theory X.Yew-Kwang Ng - 1989 - Economics and Philosophy 5 (2):235--253.
     
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  17. T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity.Eugene Yew Siang Chua - 2023 - Philosophy of Science 90 (5):1307-1319.
    Taking the formal analogies between black holes and classical thermodynamics seriously seems to first require that classical thermodynamics applies in relativistic regimes. Yet, by scrutinizing how classical temperature is extended into special relativity, I argue that the concept falls apart. I examine four consilient procedures for establishing the classical temperature: the Carnot process, the thermometer, kinetic theory, and black-body radiation. I argue that their relativistic counterparts demonstrate no such consilience in defining the relativistic temperature. As such, classical temperature doesn’t appear (...)
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  18. From allegory to diagram in the renaissance mind: A study in the significance of the allegorical tableau.Walter J. Ong - 1959 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 17 (4):423-440.
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    Indifférence et irrationalité chez Descartes.Kim Sang Ong-van-Cung - 2003 - Dialogue 42 (4):725-748.
    Dans l’histoire de la philosophie, Descartes est considéré comme un intellectualiste, c’est-à-dire comme un théoricien qui considère que la raison est souveraine dans l’action. Il soutient donc qu’il suffit de bien juger pour bien faire, et il reprend à son compte la thèse socratique selon laquelle nul ne commet le mal volontairement.
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    (26 other versions)19th workshop on logic, language, information and computation (wollic 2012).Luke Ong, Carlos Areces, Santiago Figueira & Ruy de Queiroz - forthcoming - Association for Symbolic Logic: The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.
    Luke Ong, Carlos Areces, Santiago Figueira and Ruy de Queiroz The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 425-426, September 2013.
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    If God does not explain parsimony, what does ?Jonathan St-Onge - 2018 - Ithaque 23:75-96.
    Although many scholars take parsimony for granted today, Elliott Sober shows in his latest book, Ockham’s Razors, that they might not be rationally justified to do so. In particular, he claims that the famous Ockham’s Razor, the heuristic that says one should not postulate more entities than necessary, rests on some implicit assumptions that go back to Newton and his rules of reasoning. The problem is that Newton justified those basic rules on theological grounds, that is, the world is parsimonious (...)
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  22. Plagiarism: For the accusers and the accused.K. R. St Onge - 1994 - Journal of Information Ethics 3 (2):8-24.
     
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    Descartes et la question du sujet.Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung (ed.) - 1999 - Paris: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF.
    A lire attentivement Descartes, on se surprend à constater que l'inventeur de la philosophie du sujet pensant emploie rarement le mot de " sujet ", si ce n'est au sens traditionnel et scolastique de sujet des accidents ou des qualités, ou encore de substance. Le but de ce volume est donc d'aborder à nouveaux frais la question à partir de l'inventaire du vocabulaire cartésien de la " subjectivité ". Devons-nous dire ainsi que l'ego du cogito est sujet? Ou bien la (...)
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    In the Human Grain.Walter J. Ong - 1968 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 26 (4):557-558.
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    Matrix Algorithms in MATLAB.Ong U. Routh - 2016 - London: Academic Press.
    Introduction -- Direct algorithms of decompositions of matrices by non-orthogonal transformations -- Direct algorithms of decompositions of matrices by orthogonal transformations -- Direct algorithms of solution of linear equations -- Iterative algorithms of solution of linear equations -- Direct algorithms of solution of eigenvalue problem -- Iterative algorithms of solution of eigenvalue problem -- Algorithms of solution of singular value decomposition.
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    Infinite utility and Van liedekerke's impossibility: A solution.Yew-Kwang Ng - 1995 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (3):408 – 412.
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    Critique et subjectivation. Foucault et Butler sur le sujet.Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung - 2011 - Actuel Marx 49 (1):148-161.
    Critique and subjectivation. Foucault and Butler on the subject In her paper “What is Critique ? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue”, Judith Butler reads Foucault’s “What is Critique ?” According to Foucault, critique is a practice of desubjugation of the subject, which would provide for it a certain form of autonomy. But what kind of autonomy is really possible for the subject, when Foucault rejects the notion of the sovereign subject ? Butler’s reading wants to solve that difficulty in Foucault’s (...)
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  28. Lectures on ethics: Wittgenstein and Kafka.Yi-Ping Ong - 2017 - In Zumhagen-Yekplé Karen & LeMahieu Michael, Wittgenstein and Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
     
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    Subject in politics and justice.Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung - 2011 - Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 13:10-25.
    Normal 0 21 false false false ES-CO X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In this paper we study the Kantian conception of punishment in the Metaphysics of Morals. We look at Foucault’s reformulation of the right to punish which is mostly a critique of the kantian conception. Then we introduce the conception of restorative justice grounded on the social ideal of recognition, which corrects certain aspects of the Kantian conception, but gives to justice its status of an institution rather than being a critique (...)
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  30. The Meaning of the.Walter J. Ong - 1943 - Modern Schoolman 20 (4):192-209.
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  31. Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain.Chun Siong Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze & John-Dylan Haynes - 2008 - Nature Neuroscience 11 (5):543--545.
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    The art of being: poetics of the novel and existentialist philosophy.Yi-Ping Ong - 2018 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
    The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existential Philosophy offers an account of the poetics of the realist novel, based on how the novel reorients philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Beauvoir not only read novels and use novelistic techniques of representation in their work, but also discover a radically new way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and world. Drawing (...)
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  33. Does suffering dominate enjoyment in the animal kingdom? An update to welfare biology.Zach Groff & Yew-Kwang Ng - 2019 - Biology and Philosophy 34 (4):40.
    Ng :255–285, 1995. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00852469) models the evolutionary dynamics underlying the existence of suffering and enjoyment and concludes that there is likely to be more suffering than enjoyment in nature. In this paper, we find an error in Ng’s model that, when fixed, negates the original conclusion. Instead, the model offers only ambiguity as to whether suffering or enjoyment predominates in nature. We illustrate the dynamics around suffering and enjoyment with the most plausible parameters. In our illustration, we find surprising results: (...)
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    An argument for utilitarianism: A defence.Yew-Kwang Ng & Peter Singer - 1990 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (4):448 – 454.
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  35. Ng and Singer on Utilitarianism: A Reply.Yew-Kwang Ng & Peter Singer - 1983 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (2):241 - 242.
    Ng and singer derive the principle of utility from the fact of finite sensibility and another principle, weak majority preference: "for a community of n individuals choosing between two possibilities, x and y, if no individual prefers y to x, and at least n/2 individuals prefer x to y, then x increases social welfare and is preferable." this derivation is regarded as incorrect in a comment. this reply explains why the derivation is valid and shows that the comment is based (...)
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  36. Social structural explanation.Valerie Soon - 2021 - Philosophy Compass 16 (10):e12782.
    Social problems such as racism, sexism, and inequality are often cited as structural rather than individual in nature. What does it mean to invoke a social structural explanation, and how do such explanations relate to individualistic ones? This article explores recent philosophical debates concerning the nature and usages of social structural explanation. I distinguish between two central kinds of social structural explanation: those that are autonomous from psychology, and those that are not. This distinction will help clarify the explanatory power (...)
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    The Labor Process and Capital Mobility: The Limits of the New International Division of Labor.Soon Kyoung Cho - 1985 - Politics and Society 14 (2):185-222.
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  38. Clash of civilizations or Asian liberalism? An anthropology of the state and citizenship.Aihwa Ong - 1999 - In Henrietta L. Moore, Anthropological theory today. Malden, MA: Polity Press. pp. 48--72.
     
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    Certitude and Disquiet of the Subject. Foucault and Heidegger as Descartes’ Readers.Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung - 2018 - Methodos 18.
    L’examen de certains manuscrits inédits du Fonds Foucault déposé par Daniel Defert à la BnF, en 2013, montre que le Descartes de Foucault est une variante simplifiée de celui de Heidegger. Foucault reprend en effet à la lecture heideggérienne de Descartes la liaison que le philosophe allemand met en place entre la mathesis universalis et le cogito, qui ne se trouve assurément pas chez Descartes. C’est de cette manière que ces deux auteurs critiquent ce qu’ils mettent eux-mêmes au jour chez (...)
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  40. L'objet des sens dans la preuve de l'existence des corps. Descartes et la relation d'objet.Kim-Sang Ong-Van-Cung - 2000 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 55 (3):397-415.
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    (1 other version)The Role and Responsibility of the Moral Philosopher.Walter J. Ong - 1982 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56:109-124.
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    When life is ending booklet release.Caroline Ong - 2017 - Chisholm Health Ethics Bulletin 22 (3):5.
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    From separability to unweighted sum: A case for utilitarianism. [REVIEW]Yew-Kwang Ng - 2000 - Theory and Decision 49 (4):299-312.
    After reviewing the compelling case for separability (`social welfare is a separable function of individual utilities'), an argument is advanced for utilitarianism (defined as `social welfare is the unweighted sum of individual utilities'). Basically, a compelling individualism-type axiom leads us to (social welfare as an) unweighted sum (of individual utilities), given separability.
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    American Catholicism and America.Walter J. Ong - 1952 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 27 (4):521-541.
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    Finitude and Frustration.Walter J. Ong - 1948 - Modern Schoolman 25 (3):173-182.
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    L'« argument de l'illusion » et la philosophie cartésienne des idées.Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung - 2004 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 2 (2):217-233.
    Dans Le Langage de la perception, Austin critique la conception habituelle de la perception qui pose que nous ne percevons pas directement les objets, mais des sense data, nos idées, ou des impressions sensibles. Il souligne, contre Descartes, que nos sens sont muets et il montre que le but de l’argument de l’illusion est de rendre réelles les entités intermédiaires. Dans cet article, j’examine les analyses du bâton qui paraît cassé dans l’eau dans les Sixièmes Réponses pour montrer en quoi (...)
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    Le moi et l’intériorité chez Augustin et Descartes.Kim Sang Ong‑Van‑Cung - 2011 - Chôra 9:321-338.
    It is somehow usual to grant that Augustine has given a former presentation of the famous argument of Descartes named the Cogito, and we ordinary think that the difference between the two authors is that the first one thinks of the inhabitation of Truth or Verbum, which transcends the ego. The paper is an attempt to think in a different way the sources of interiority in Augustine and Descartes. Based on Confessions and on De Trinitate, I trace the Greek sources (...)
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    2. On the measurement and mismeasurement of happiness: contemporary theories and methodological directions.Anthony D. Ong - 2009 - In Amitava Krishna Dutt & Benjamin Radcliff, Happiness, Economics and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Edward Elgar. pp. 33.
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    Age differences in the learning of a conditioned visual avoidance task in male hooded rats.Soon-Juan Chee - 1992 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 30 (2):129-130.
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    Perceptual Threshold Level for the Tactile Stimulation and Response Features of ERD/ERS-Based Specific Indices Upon Changes in High-Frequency Vibrations.Soon-Cheol Chung, Mi-Hyun Choi, Boseong Kim, Hyung-Sik Kim, Seon-Young Gim & Woo-Ram Kim - 2017 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11.
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