Our target article proposed a dual-system framework for understanding context and task effects in choice. In this summary, we address the major points made by each set of commentators and, building on their suggestions, define a more precise dual-system theory of preference construction. We also propose some avenues for future research on a broader dual-system approach to understanding choice. ...

avicenna, being influenced by farabi’s specific terms about the dual concepts of existence and quiddity, believed in external occurrence of existence upon quiddity in the contingents and the accidental synthesis of things from them. but bahmanyar, the self-proclaimed commentator on avicenna, expressly states in al-tahsil that the existence of a thing is the objectivity of its external quiddity ...

Most of the alternative revenue streams proposed by commentators (including touring, adverting and merchandizing) had been feasible and actually in existence long before the advent of the digital age. But they used to play more of a secondary role in music businesses until uncontrolled online piracy recently started to undermine music sales. This fact suggests a straightforward yet undervalued ...

In this essay I examine Kant’s claim that a relation of symbolization links judgements of beauty and judgements of ‘ systematicity ’ in nature (that is, judgements concerning the ordering of natural forms under hierarchies of laws). My aim is to show that the symbolic relation between the two is, for Kant, much closer than many commentators think: it is not only the form but also the objects of...

The commentators have brought a wealth of new perspectives to the question of how culture evolves. Each of their diverse disciplines--ranging from psychology to biology to anthropology to economics to engineering--has a valuable contribution to make to our understanding of this complex, multifaceted topic. Though the vast majority of their comments were supportive of my approach, it is natural ...

in the last chapter of his posterior analytics, aristotle raises two questions about the archai of knowledge (epistêmê) that are to be answered by nous, the key concept which must be illustrated itself before getting the answers. while in both of these answers, as in some other passages, nous is introduced as the hexis of the soul, it is the second answer where nous is considered as one of the ...

I propose here the psychological attraction theory of financial regulation—that regulation is result biases on part political participants—voters, politicians, bureaucrats, and media commentators; regulatory ideologies that exploit these biases. Some key elements approach are: salience vividness, omission bias, scapegoating xenophobia, fairness reciprocity norms, overconfidence, mood effects. T...

A pressing issue for the genetic research enterprise—and an issue that has important implications for biobanks—is whether researchers should share, or “return,” the genetic research results with the individuals whose DNA they studied.1 With some exceptions, researchers typically have not returned genetic research results to the biospecimen donors.2 One reason for a no-return policy is that rese...

© L p i I’d like to thank my commentators for their insightful and challenging replies. My aim in the paper was to stimulate creative thinking about solidarity in diverse societies, and these seven comments represent exactly the sort of constructive analyses I was hoping to prompt. I can’t address all of the issues raised by the commentators, but let me begin by emphasizing that my concern is w...