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Jadavpur University
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About: Jadavpur University is a education organization based out in Kolkata, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Fuzzy logic. The organization has 10856 authors who have published 27678 publications receiving 422069 citations. The organization is also known as: JU & Jadabpur University.
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TL;DR: This paper conducted a cross-cultural study of intuitions about free will and moral responsibility in subjects from the United States, Hong Kong, India and Colombia, finding that the majority of participants agreed that our universe is indeterministic and that moral responsibility is not compatible with determinism.
Abstract: Recent experimental research has revealed surprising patterns in people's intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. One limitation of this research, however, is that it has been conducted exclusively on people from Western cultures. The present paper extends previous research by presenting a cross-cultural study examining intuitions about free will and moral responsibility in subjects from the United States, Hong Kong, India and Colombia. The results revealed a striking degree of cross- cultural convergence. In all four cultural groups, the majority of participants said that (a) our universe is indeterministic and (b) moral responsibility is not compatible with determinism. The question of free will is one of the oldest and most intractable in the history of Western philosophy; philosophers are still arguing about how best to answer it. But recent experimental research on the topic has arrived at a surprising result. Although philosophers remain divided about how to address the question of free will, it seems that a substantial majority of ordinary people have somehow converged on a single basic view. What's more, they seem to embrace a thesis—usually called incompatibilism—that most philosophers are prone to reject. Even while this research is suggestive, it suffers from an important limitation—all of the studies have been conducted on subjects in the United States. This opens up the possibility that the existing results merely reflect some idiosyncratic property of contemporary Western culture. To address this worry, we conducted a cross- cultural study of intuitions about free will. Our aim was to determine whether previous results merely pointed to some aspect of one particular culture or whether these results really were pointing to some more fundamental truth about the way people think about human freedom.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used ID-NTIMS data to provide a clear Late Archean-Early Paleoproterozoic age for the Malanjkhand deposit and by implication for its calc-alkaline granitoid host.
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TL;DR: In this article, the results of non-isothermal combustion studies in general depict that blends containing less than 50% biomass char are better performing as compared those with higher biomass char content.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the X-ray diffraction patterns of the thin films were investigated before and after the films had been annealed in a nitrogen atmosphere, and the results indicated that the films are p type.
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TL;DR: The investigation showed that despite having safe water for drinking and cooking, the study group could not avoid an intake of arsenic, time and again, through edible herbs grown in contaminated water, food materials contaminated through washing, and the occasional drinking of contaminated water.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Subir Sarkar | 149 | 1542 | 144614 |
Amartya Sen | 149 | 689 | 141907 |
Susumu Kitagawa | 125 | 809 | 69594 |
Praveen Kumar | 88 | 1339 | 35718 |
Rodolphe Clérac | 78 | 506 | 22604 |
Rajesh Gupta | 78 | 936 | 24158 |
Santanu Bhattacharya | 67 | 400 | 14039 |
Swagatam Das | 64 | 370 | 19153 |
Anupam Bishayee | 62 | 237 | 11589 |
Michael G. B. Drew | 61 | 1315 | 24747 |
Soujanya Poria | 57 | 175 | 13352 |
Madeleine Helliwell | 54 | 370 | 9898 |
Tapas Kumar Maji | 54 | 253 | 9804 |
Pulok K. Mukherjee | 54 | 296 | 10873 |
Dipankar Chakraborti | 54 | 115 | 12078 |