Advice on AIDS

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Advice on Abductive Logic

It’s not usual for citations or footnotes to be included in abstracts. One of our purposes here is to expose something of the elementary logical structure of abductive reasoning, and to do so in a way that helps orient theorists to the various tasks that a logic of abduction should concern itself with. We are mindful of criticisms that have been levelled against the very idea of a logic of abdu...

Leaning on advice

to save its rainforests from destruction. This idea was triggered by a very specific moral dilemma. The country’s largest oil find is located underneath the Yasuni National Park, home to a unique biodiversity and several Native American tribes living as huntergatherers in isolation. Oil companies are lobbying the government in Quito for licences to start drilling, which would of course mean dev...

Weighing Advice 1 Running head: WEIGHING ADVICE Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice

Although prior studies have found that people generally underweight advice from others, such discounting of advice is not universal. Two studies examined the impact of task difficulty on the use of advice. In both studies, the strategy participants used to weigh advice varied with task difficulty even when it should have not. In particular, the results show that people overweight advice on diff...

Pushing ahead on climate advice

It is 25 years ago this month that a hole in the ozone layer was detected high in the atmosphere over Antarctica that researchers thought may spread to other areas of the Earth, allowing increasing, potentially cancer-causing, ultraviolet solar radiation to reach the planet’s surface. But in one of the most remarkable and effective international environmental scientific collaborations, just two...