The (moral) permissibility of an act is determined by the relative weights reasons, or so I assume. But how many does a reason have? Weight Monism idea that reasons have single weight value. There just reasons. Pluralism holds at least two values and these aren't always equivalent. simplest versions hold each either equal to, weightier than, less weighty than every other reason. We'll see this ...

Research in behavioral economics should have consequences of three types. First, policy analyses should take account of the weaknesses and strengths of human inferential and decision processes. Second, general education should strive toward improving these same processes. For example, good courses in probabilistic reasoning should perhaps be central in high-school and college education. Third, ...

Certain graph theoretic properties and alternative de nitions of the Gray graph the smallest known cubic edge but not vertex transitive graph are discussed in detail Introduction history The smallest known cubic edge but not vertex transitive graph has vertices and is known as the Gray graph denoted hereafter by G The rst published account on the Gray graph is due to Bouwer who mentioned that t...

In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so-called passive and middle aorist forms in Greek reflected Genesis Septuagint. The Septuagint, Biblical more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties Ancient regarding relative frequency vis-à-vis forms. Here, explore feature Septuagint some detail, showing that there is or less consistent, binary system at stage,...

Three new properties are devised to test a family of lexicographic semiorder models of risky decision making. Lexicographic semiorder models imply priority dominance, the principle that when an attribute with priority determines a choice, no variation of other attributes can overcome that preference. Attribute integration tests whether two changes in attributes that are too small, individually,...

Determining the value of an environmental public good, such as litigation over oil-spill damage to a beach is an abstract and difficult task. Integration of economics and psychology enabled the study of how social responsibility and persuasive priming influenced the valuations of environmental public goods. Research subjects were 460 university students randomly assigned to one of six combinati...

The problems of human behavior in decision processes are central in this chapter. The gaps between the requirements of decision methods and the possibilities of human information processing systems are analyzed. The qualitative model describing the decision maker’s behavior is proposed. The model defines the guidelines for the construction of decision methods justified from behavior point of vi...

Despite recent efforts to improve on counterfactual theories of causation, failures to explain how effects depend on their causes are still manifest in a variety of cases. In particular, theories that do a decent job explaining cases of causal preemption have problems accounting for cases of causal intransitivity. Moreover, the increasing complexity of the counterfactual accounts makes it diffi...

Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument purports to show that principle KK is incompatible with a plausible Margin-for-Error requirement for inexact knowledge. In this paper I advocate an alternative conception of the requirement which blocks the antiluminosity argument and argue that the revised principle provides a better account of inexact and higher-order knowledge. Williamson (2000) has argu...

This article presents the views and assumptions of logical positivism approach and realistic approach in conducting social science research in general and business research in particular. Logical positivism has influenced research methodologies in social science, in particular “model building”. The main assumptions of logical positivism are concerned with observation and “verification principle...