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The book Kant and Applied Ethics: The Uses and Limits of Kant’s Practical Philosophy of Matthew C. Altman is a true refreshment in the world of Kantian scholarship. It is a deep exegetical achievement in reading of Kant’s thought and its actualisation for modern (bio)ethical problems at the same time. As it is noted in the title, the author tries to present and explain the modalities of connect...

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Vingt ans après son premier Manifeste pour la philosophie, où il dénonçait le discours sur la « fin » de la discipline, Alain Badiou se rebelle, cette fois-ci, contre la prolifération et « l’existence artificielle excessive » des nouveaux « philosophes » sur la scène médiatique et leur morale conservatrice, tout en poursuivant sa réflexion sur ce qu’est la philosophie, le philosophe, l’Idée. Qu...

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Tyche: Risk-Based Permissions for Smart Home Platforms

Emerging smart home platforms, which interface with a variety of physical devices and support third-party application development, currently use permission models inspired by smartphone operating systems—they group functionally similar device operations into separate units, and require users to grant apps access to devices at that granularity. Unfortunately, this leads to two issues: (1) apps t...