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A note on Oscar Chisini mean value definition
mean value integral geometry Erlanger Programm
2016/5/30
Mainly on the basis of some notable physical problems reported in a 1929 Oscar Chisini paper, this brief note expose further possible historic-critical remarks on the definition of statistical mean va...
From Desire to Subjective Value:On the Neural Mechanisms of Moral Motivation
Neuroeconomics Neuroscience of Decision Folk Psychology Moral Motivation
2016/5/30
Increasingly, empirically minded moral philosophers are using data from cognitive science and neuroscience to resolve some longstanding philosophical questions about moral motivation, such as whether ...
The Value of Cognitive Values
Values in science cognitive values epistemic values scientific inference
2016/5/30
Traditionally, the cognitive values have been thought to be a collective pool of considerations in science that frequently trade against each other. I argue here that a finer grained account of the va...
This paper addresses two recent debates in aesthetics: the ‘moralist debate’, concerning the relationship between the ethical and aesthetic evaluations of artworks, and the ‘cognitivist debate’, conce...
The value of information and the ethics of personal-genomic screening
Economics Ethics Evidence-Based Medicine Genetic Screening Genome, Human Health Services Accessibility Mass Screening Practice Guidelines as Topic
2014/11/17
Personal genomic screening, especially when marketed direct-to-consumers, threatens to worsen the inefficient use of healthcare resources that Burger and Kass discuss in the case of unproven screening...
A claim to objectivity about value is sometimes cast as a claim about the value something has in itself, independent of its relations to other things. Goodness is supposed to be“separate from”relation...
The question is asked whether one can consistently both be a minimalist about truth, and hold that some meaningful assertoric sentences fail to be either true or false. It is shown that one can, but t...
Dirty Hands, Cosmopolitan Value And State Evil: Reflections On Torture
Dirty Hands Cosmopolitan Value State Evil
2009/12/7
The debate about state use of torture has surged in the last 5 years. Oren Gross,
Alan Dershowitz, Michael Gross, and Fritz Alhoff are a sample of those arguing either
for the legitimation of, or ex...
It is commonly believed that when a finite value is received in a game that has an infinite expected value, it is in one’s interest to redo the game (note that switching to an unknown but already dete...
Epistemic Values and the Value of Learning
Theory Choice Epistemic Utility Cognitive Value Value of Evidence
2009/9/17
In addition to purely practical values, cognitive values also figure into scientific deliberations. One way of introducing cognitive values is to consider the cognitive value that accrues to the act o...
Living Art, Defining Value: Artworks and Mere Real Things
artwork commodity contextualism empiricism intersubjective value
2008/11/6
In this essay I examine the conceptual difficulties generated by drawing a distinction between artworks and mere real things. I argue that the distinction is an unfortunate one, requiring for its op...
MATHEMATICS AND THE MORAL SCIENCES:The Value of Value-Free Mathematics
Value Value-Free Mathematics
2008/10/28
Most modern practitioners of the art of mathematics, as well as those who only admire it from afar (some with not a little trepidation), share an image of mathematics as a realm of abstract thought, w...
In this paper I defend the idea that there is a sense in which it is meaningful and useful to talk about objective understanding, and that to characterize that notion it is necessary to formulate an a...
The Methodological Value of Coincidences: Further Remarks on Dark Matter and the Astrophysical Warrant for General Relativity
Dark Matter General Relativity Evidence Methodology Theory Choice
2008/4/21
This paper compares four techniques for measuring the masses of galaxies and larger astrophysical systems from their dynamics. The apparent agreement of these techniques is sometimes invoked as reason...
Call a bit of scientific discourse a "description of a missing system" when (i) it has the surface appearance of an accurate description of an actual, concrete system (or kind of system) from the doma...