• Theoretical foundations for human rights 

  Bufacchi, Vittorio (Sage Publications, 2017-09-27)

  This article explores an alternative to the established dichotomy between philosophical (natural law) accounts of human rights, characterized by a foundationalist tendency, and political (practice-based) accounts of human ...
• Logic of identity and identity of contradiction 

  Capra, Rudi (Department of Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila 1015, Philippines, 2017)

  Western philosophy has mainly developed in accordance with the three laws of identity, noncontradiction and excluded middle, also known as “laws of thought”. Since Zen Buddhism often violates these apparently indisputable ...
• Varieties of paternalism and the heterogeneity of utility structures 

  Harrison, Glenn W.; Ross, Don (Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-10-05)

  A principal source of interest in behavioral economics has been its advertised contributions to policies aimed at 'nudging' people away from allegedly natural but self-defeating behavior toward patterns of response thought ...
• Small stakes risk aversion in the laboratory: A reconsideration 

  Harrison, Glenn W.; Lau, Morten I.; Ross, Don; Swarthout, J. Todd (Elsevier B.V., 2017-08-19)

  Evidence of risk aversion in laboratory settings over small stakes leads to a priori implausible levels of risk aversion over large stakes under certain assumptions. One core assumption in statements of this calibration ...
• The psychology of human risk preferences and vulnerability to scare-mongers: experimental economic tools for hypothesis formulation and testing 

  Harrison, Glenn W.; Ross, Don (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-10)

  The Internet and social media have opened niches for political exploitation of human dispositions to hyper-alarmed states that amplify perceived threats relative to their objective probabilities of occurrence. Researchers ...

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