•Journal•ISSN: 2373-146X
The Winnower
Wiley
About: The Winnower is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Cancer. It has an ISSN identifier of 2373-146X. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 447 publications have been published receiving 2154 citations.
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TL;DR: The author examines the relationship between well-being and time, as well as the role of belief and reason, in the development of democracy and human rights.
Abstract: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. EPISTEMIC FREEDOM 3. WELL-BEING AND TIME 4. IS MOTIVATION INTERNAL TO VALUE? 5. THE GUISE OF THE GOOD 6. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE ACTS? 7. THE STORY OF RATIONAL ACTION 8. THE POSSIBILITY OF PRACTICAL REASON 9. HOW TO SHARE AN INTENTION 10. DECIDING HOW TO DECIDE 11. ON THE AIM OF BELIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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TL;DR: The standard story of human action as discussed by the authors is widely accepted as a satisfactory account of human actions, or at least, as an account that will be satisfactory once it is completed by a definition of what's normal in the relevant causal processes.
Abstract: What happens when someone acts? A familiar answer goes like this. There is something that the agent wants, and there is an action that he believes conducive to its attainment. His desire for the end, and his belief in the action as a means, justify taking the action, and they jointly cause an intention to take it, which in turn causes the corresponding movements of the agent's body. Provided that these causal processes take their normal course, the agent's movements consummate an action, and his motivating desire and belief constitute his reasons for acting. This story is widely accepted as a satisfactory account of human action-or at least, as an account that will be satisfactory once it is completed by a definition of what's normal in the relevant causal processes. The story is widely credited to Donald Davidson's Essays on Actions and Events (1980), but I do not wish to become embroiled in questions of exegesis.2 I shall therefore refer to it simply as the standard story of human action. I think that the standard story is flawed in several respects. The flaw that will concern me in this paper is that the story fails to include an agent-or, more precisely, fails to cast the agent in his proper role.3 In this story, reasons cause an intention, and an intention causes bodily movements, but nobody-that is, no person-does anything. Psychological and physiological events take place inside a person, but the person serves merely as the arena for these events: he takes no active part.4
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TL;DR: In this article, a brief review of reliability theory and interrater reliability is provided, followed by a set of practical guidelines for the calculation of ICC in SPSS in order to get it right.
Abstract: Intraclass correlation (ICC) is one of the most commonly misused indicators of interrater reliability, but a simple step-by-step process will get it right In this article, I provide a brief review of reliability theory and interrater reliability, followed by a set of practical guidelines for the calculation of ICC in SPSS 1
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the existing accounts of shared intention do not show that intentions can be shared in any literal sense, and they then offer an account in which the problem of sharing intention is resolved, because intention can indeed be literally shared.
Abstract: Existing accounts of shared intention (by Bratman, Searle, and others) do not claim that a single token of intention can be jointly framed and executed by multiple agents; rather, they claim that multiple agents can frame distinct, individual intentions in such a way as to qualify as jointly intending something. In this respect, the existing accounts do not show that intentions can be shared in any literal sense. This article argues that, in failing to show how intentions can be literally shared, these accounts fail to resolve what seems problematic in the notion of shared intention. It then offers an account in which the problem of shared intention is resolved, because intention can indeed be literally shared. This account is derived from Margaret Gilbert's notion of a "pool of wills," to which it applies Searle's definition of intention.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors remember hearing a fellow philosopher expound, with a wave of his cigarette, on his right to choose whether to live and die smoking, or to quit and merely survive.
Abstract: Getting cancer changed my feelings about people who smoke. I remember hearing a fellow philosopher expound, with a wave of his cigarette, on his right to choose whether to live and die smoking, or to quit and merely survive. I was just beginning a year of chemotherapy, and mere survival sounded pretty good to me. But I was the visiting speaker, and my hosts were unaware of my diagnosis. Several of them lit up after dinner as we listened to their colleague’s disquisition—they with amused familiarity, I with an outrage that surprised even me and would have baffled them, if I had dared to express it. That I didn’t dare is a cause for regret even now, ten years after the fact.
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