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Incomparable Values

Author : John Nolt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000515265
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Incomparable Values written by John Nolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable. Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, John Nolt examines the great variety of partially ordered value structures, exposing fallacies that arise from overlooking them. He reveals various ways in which incomparability is obscured: using linear indices to summarize partially ordered data, relying on an inadequately defined concept of parity, or conflating incomparability with vagueness. Incomparability can enrich and clarify a range of topics including the paradoxes of Derek Parfit, rational decision theory, and the infinite values of theology. Finally, Nolt shows how to generalize many of the concepts introduced earlier, explores the intricate depths of certain noteworthy partially ordered value structures, and argues for the finitude of value. Incomparable Values will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, value theory, rational decision theory, and logic.

Making Comparisons Count

Author : Ruth Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135714703
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Making Comparisons Count written by Ruth Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer and more varied than commonly supposed.

Environmental Ethics for the Long Term

Author : John Nolt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317615883
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics for the Long Term written by John Nolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity’s responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary science, logical analysis, and ethical theory into the story of the expansion of ethics beyond the human species and into the far future. Informed by contemporary environmental science, the book deduces concrete policy recommendations from carefully justified ethical principles and ends with speculations concerning the deepest problems of environmental ethics. Pedagogical features include chapter outlines, annotated suggestions for further readings, the explanations of key terms when first mentioned, and an extensive glossary.

Computers and Games

Author : Jonathan Schaeffer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540400311
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Computers and Games written by Jonathan Schaeffer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Computers and Games (CG) series began in 1998 with the objective of showcasing new developments in arti?cial intelligence (AI) research that used games as the experimental test-bed. The ?rst two CG conferences were held at Hamamatsu,Japan(1998,2000).ComputersandGames2002(CG2002)wasthe third event in this biennial series. The conference was held at the University of Alberta(Edmonton,Alberta,Canada),July25–27,2002.Theprogramconsisted of the main conference featuring refereed papers and keynote speakers, as well as several side events including the Games Informatics Workshop, the Agents in Computer Games Workshop, the Trading Agents Competition, and the North American Computer Go Championship. CG 2002 attracted 110 participants from over a dozen countries. Part of the successoftheconferencewasthatitwasco-locatedwiththeNationalConference of the American Association for Arti?cial Intelligence (AAAI), which began in Edmonton just as CG 2002 ended. The CG 2002 program had 27 refereed paper presentations. The papers ranged over a wide variety of AI-related topics including search, knowledge, learning, planning, and combinatorial game theory. Research test-beds included one-player games (blackjack, sliding-tile puzzles, Sokoban), two-player games (Amazons, awari, chess, Chinese chess, clobber, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, O- ello, shogi), multi-player games (Chinese checkers, cribbage, Diplomacy, hearts, spades), commercial games (role-playing games, real-time strategy games), and novel applications (Post’s Correspondence Problem).

Ordered Algebraic Structures

Author : Jorge Martínez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475736274
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Ordered Algebraic Structures written by Jorge Martínez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 28th of February through the 3rd of March, 2001, the Department of Math ematics of the University of Florida hosted a conference on the many aspects of the field of Ordered Algebraic Structures. Officially, the title was "Conference on Lattice Ordered Groups and I-Rings", but its subject matter evolved beyond the limitations one might associate with such a label. This volume is officially the proceedings of that conference, although, likewise, it is more accurate to view it as a complement to that event. The conference was the fourth in wh at has turned into aseries of similar conferences, on Ordered Algebraic Structures, held in consecutive years. The first, held at the University of Florida in Spring, 1998, was a modest and informal affair. The fifth is in the final planning stages at this writing, for March 7-9, 2002, at Vanderbilt University. And although these events remain modest and reasonably informal, their scope has broadened, as they have succeeded in attracting mathematicians from other, related fields, as weIl as from more distant lands.

Moral Strata

Author : John R. Welch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331908013X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Moral Strata written by John R. Welch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for approximating this ideal. The ideal of reflective equilibrium is restructured using the concept of discursive strata, which are formed by sentences and differentiated by function. Sentences that perform the same kind of linguistic function constitute a stratum. The book shows how moral discourse can be analyzed into phenomenal, instrumental, and teleological strata, and the ideal of reflective equilibrium reworked in these terms. In addition, the work strengthens the method of reflective equilibrium by harnessing the resources of decision theory and inductive logic. It launches a comparative version of decision theory and employs this framework as a guide to moral theory choice. It also recruits quantitative inductive logic to inform a standard of inductive cogency. When used in tandem with comparative decision theory, this standard can aid in the effort to turn the undesirable condition of reflective disequilibrium into reflective equilibrium.

Partially Ordered Groups

Author : Andrew Martin William Glass
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810234935
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Partially Ordered Groups written by Andrew Martin William Glass and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's style of writing is very lucid, and the material presented is self-contained. It is an excellent reference text for a graduate course in this area, as well as a source of material for individual reading".Bulletin of London Mathematical Society

Principles of Security and Trust

Author : Riccardo Focardi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 366246666X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Security and Trust written by Riccardo Focardi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2015, held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015, in London, UK, in April 2015. The 17 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. In addition, one invited talk is included. The papers have been organized in topical sections on information flow and security types, risk assessment and security policies, protocols, hardware and physical security and privacy and voting.

Ethics at 3:AM

Author : Richard Marshall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019063572X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Ethics at 3:AM written by Richard Marshall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3AM magazine follows up their 2014 publication Philosophy at 3AM: Questions and Answers with a new collection interviews, this time focused on ethics. Interviewer Richard Marhsall presents 26 interviews, balanced both in terms of specialty, gender, and seniority, so that the result is a balanced and engaging portrait of the state of the art in ethics today

Knowledge, Science, and Values

Author : Tadeusz Czezowski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457682
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Science, and Values written by Tadeusz Czezowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Some ancient problems in modern form. - On the humanities. - On the method of analytic description. - On the problem of induction. - On discussion and discussing. - On happiness. - How to understand the meaning of life'. - How to construct the logic of goods? - The meaning and the value of life. - Conflicts in ethics. - What are values? - Three attitudes towards the world. - On two views of the world. - A few remarks on rationalism and empiricism. - Identity and the individual in its persistence. - Sensory cognition and reality. - Philosophy at the crossroads."

Self to Self

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521854290
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Self to Self written by J. David Velleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by philosopher J. David Velleman on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions is united by an overarching thesis that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as themes from Kantian ethics and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action.

Practical Conflicts

Author : Peter Baumann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521012102
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Practical Conflicts written by Peter Baumann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection a distinguished roster of philosophers analyse the diverse forms of practical conflict.

C++20 Recipes

Author : J. Burton Browning
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484257138
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book C++20 Recipes written by J. Burton Browning and published by Apress. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the newest major features of C++20, including modules, concepts, spaceship operators, and smart pointers. This book is a handy code cookbook reference guide that covers the C++ core language standard as well as some of the code templates available in standard template library (STL). In C++20 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, you'll find numbers, strings, dates, times, classes, exceptions, streams, flows, pointers, and more. Also, you'll see various code samples, templates for C++ algorithms, parallel processing, multithreading, and numerical processes. It also includes 3D graphics programming code. A wealth of STL templates on function objects, adapters, allocators, and extensions are also available. This is a must-have, contemporary reference for your technical library to help with just about any project that involves the C++ programming language. What You Will Learn See what's new in C++20 Write modules Work with text, numbers, and classes Use the containers and algorithms available in the standard library Work with templates, memory, concurrency, networking, scripting, and more Code for 3D graphics Who This Book Is For Programmers with at least some prior experience with C++.

Genetic Democracy

Author : Veikko Launis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402062125
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Genetic Democracy written by Veikko Launis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern genetic research and gene technology. The aim of the book is to introduce systematic research on the social and ethical impacts of the use and development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as well as the acquisition, use and storage of human genetic information (HGI). The book has been written from the viewpoint of social and political philosophy.

Piaget Today (Psychology Revivals)

Author : Barbel Inhelder
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 113459481X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Piaget Today (Psychology Revivals) written by Barbel Inhelder and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, the contributors bring their different orientations to the study of child development and genetic epistemology to show the continuing value of Piaget's theory and its fruitfulness in providing insights which permit the advancement of science. This volume contains the proceedings of the VIIth Advanced Course of the "Fondation Archives Jean Piaget", held at the University of Geneva in 1985. The lectures and discussions included in this volume will help the reader to understand Piaget in the context of twentieth-century science and philosophy and to consider the present and future of the theory, as it was seen at the time of original publication.

Handbook of Risk Theory

Author : Rafaela Hillerbrand
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400714335
Total Pages : 1209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Risk Theory written by Rafaela Hillerbrand and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. But the topic of risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of risk? What does the human perception of risk mean for society? How should we judge whether a risk is morally acceptable or not? Over the last couple of decades questions like these have attracted interest from philosophers and other scholars into risk theory. This handbook provides for an overview into key topics in a major new field of research. It addresses a wide range of topics, ranging from decision theory, risk perception to ethics and social implications of risk, and it also addresses specific case studies. It aims to promote communication and information among all those who are interested in theoetical issues concerning risk and uncertainty. This handbook brings together internationally leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who work on risk theory. The contributions are accessibly written and highly relevant to issues that are studied by risk scholars. We hope that the Handbook of Risk Theory will be a helpful starting point for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives.

Unity of Knowledge (in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainability) - Volume II

Author : Gertrude Hirsch Hardon
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1905839839
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Unity of Knowledge (in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainability) - Volume II written by Gertrude Hirsch Hardon and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unity of Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty Encyclopedias. Today, there is a social need for a comprehensive unity of knowledge that would provide orientation and ensure action in the context of the complex problems of modern civilization. Based on an intellectual need for unity of knowledge, different concepts of unity of knowledge have emerged in the course of the history of ideas. The intellectual need for unity can be directed at the world, science, action or the individual. It can involve the quest for the unity of the world based on a principle that is immanent in it, the unity of science as a theoretical, methodical or epistemological unity, the unity of action as a correlation of scientific, pragmatic and moral knowledge or, finally, unity as the educational task of the individual. The concepts associated with unity of knowledge can go in two directions. The first assumes that there is a unity existing in the world that can be perceived by man. It is thought of as an order of being, i.e. an ontological unity of the plurality of phenomena, that consist in their common nature. The other direction is based on the assumption that unity is a construction of a subject, based on its cognitive principles and structures. Thus it is not something that can be discovered as an existing objective order, and is instead subjective. These two volumes present some aspects of Unity of Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development in three parts. The purpose of the first part is to trace back the core ideas in transdisciplinary thinking in the history of western philosophy and science, to locate socially the concerns of transdisciplinary research and to give an account of the development of transdisciplinary research. The second group of chapters deals with methodological and management problems related to transdisciplinary research with regard to problem identification and structuring of research questions, with knowledge integration in problem investigation as well as with evaluation. An outline of the institutional measures and transformations to enable and support transdisciplinary research is given in the third part. Institutional strategies build on organizational arrangements and links across academic institutions in education and research, on networks between science and society for joint knowledge production in temporally limited settings of research programs or projects, but they also set up new institutions, such as centers for advanced studies, national offices, agencies and networks. These two volumes are aimed at a wide spectrum of audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Research Personnel and all those concerned with sustainable development.