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    What Makes a Good Decision? Robust Satisficing as a Normative Standard of Rational Decision Making.Barry Schwartz, Yakov Ben-Haim & Cliff Dacso - 2011 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 41 (2):209-227.
    Most decisions in life involve ambiguity, where probabilities can not be meaningfully specified, as much as they involve probabilistic uncertainty. In such conditions, the aspiration to utility maximization may be self-deceptive. We propose “robust satisficing” as an alternative to utility maximizing as the normative standard for rational decision making in such circumstances. Instead of seeking to maximize the expected value, or utility, of a decision outcome, robust satisficing aims to maximize the robustness to uncertainty of a satisfactory outcome. That is, (...)
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    From Being to Becoming Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences.Cliff Hooker - 1980
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    From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. Ilya Prigogine.Cliff Hooker - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (2):355-357.
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    Cliff-edged fitness functions and the persistence of schizophrenia.Randolph M. Nesse - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (6):862-863.
    Strong recent selection for social cognition may well explain the persistence of genes that predispose to schizophrenia. The specific mechanism responsible may be a skewed fitness function in which selection pushes the mean for advantageous mental traits perilously close to a “fitness cliff” where the system fails catastrophically in some individuals.
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    Steep Cliff Arguments.David B. Suits - 1999 - Argumentation 13 (2):127-138.
    In recent philosophical debates a number of arguments have been used which have so much in common that it is useful to study them as having a similar structure. Many arguments -- Searle's Chinese Room, for example -- make use of thought experiments in which we are told a story or given a narrative context such that we feel we are in comfortable surroundings. A new notion is then introduced which clashes with our ordinary habits and associations. As a result, (...)
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    When to Terminate a Charitable Trust?Cliff Landesman - 1995 - Analysis 55 (1):12 - 13.
    Altruistic maximizers face a frustrating dilemma when there is an infinite series of ever-better options, but no best choice.
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    Three Early Formal Approaches to the Verification of Concurrent Programs.Cliff B. Jones - forthcoming - Minds and Machines:1-20.
    This paper traces a relatively linear sequence of early research approaches to the formal verification of concurrent programs. It does so forwards and then backwards in time. After briefly outlining the context, the key insights from three distinct approaches from the 1970s are identified (Ashcroft/Manna, Ashcroft (solo) and Owicki). The main technical material in the paper focuses on a specific program taken from the last published of the three pieces of research (Susan Owicki’s): her own verification of her _Findpos_ example (...)
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    Words and meanings: lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures.Cliff Goddard - 2014 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Anna Wierzbicka.
    In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay."--Publishers website.
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    Semiotic and Physical Requirements on Emergent Autogenic System.Cliff Joslyn - 2021 - Biosemiotics 14 (3):665-667.
    In “How Molecules Became Signs”, Prof. Deacon outlines a plausible mechanism whereby biochemical systems could be understood to fulfill the conditions of being “alive” in the context of the two broad families of requirements, namely the energetics of metabolism and the informatics of coding. In so doing, he addresses head-on how to account for the origin and the action of coding in physical systems, and thereby the necessary and sufficient conditions for life. I review some of the relevant issues around (...)
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    Review of Radner and Winokur (ed.) Analyses of Theories and Methods of Physics and Psychology; Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. IV. [REVIEW]Cliff Hooker - 1972 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (4):489-509.
  11. The Pipe of Peace.Cliff Phillips - 1983 - Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 3 (1):21.
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    Excitability properties of motor axons in adults with cerebral palsy.Cliff S. Klein, Ping Zhou & Christina Marciniak - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
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    Semantic control systems.Cliff Joslyn - 1995 - World Futures 45 (1):87-123.
  14. Marxism, Ideology and Literature.Cliff Slaughter - 1982 - Studies in Soviet Thought 24 (2):167-170.
     
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    On the Import of Constraints in Complex Dynamical Systems.Cliff Hooker - 2013 - Foundations of Science 18 (4):757-780.
    Complexity arises from interaction dynamics, but its forms are co-determined by the operative constraints within which the dynamics are expressed. The basic interaction dynamics underlying complex systems is mostly well understood. The formation and operation of constraints is often not, and oftener under appreciated. The attempt to reduce constraints to basic interaction fails in key cases. The overall aim of this paper is to highlight the key role played by constraints in shaping the field of complex systems. Following an introduction (...)
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  16. Semantic analysis: a practical introduction.Cliff Goddard - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Semantic Analysis is a lively and clearly written introduction to the study of meaning in language and to the language-culture connection. Goddard covers traditional and contemporary issues and approaches with the relationship between semantics, conceptualization, and culture as a key theme. He also details a number of case studies that draw on a wide range of material from non-Indo-European languages, particularly Australian Aboriginal languages and Malay, on which the author is an authority.
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  17. New Cloth For Old Tunics.Cliff Schimmels - 1974 - Journal of Thought 9 (3):191-94.
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    Ten lectures on natural semantic metalanguage: exploring language, thought and culture using simple, translatable words.Cliff Goddard - 2018 - Boston: Brill.
    From Leibniz to Wierzbicka: The history and philosophy of nsm -- Semantic primes and their grammar -- Explicating emotion concepts across languages and cultures -- Wonderful, terrific, fabulous: English evaluational adjectives -- Semantic molecules and semantic complexity -- Words as carriers of cultural meaning -- English verb semantics: verbs of doing and saying -- English verb alternations and constructions -- Applications of NSM: minimal English, cultural scripts and language -- Teaching retrospect: nsm compared with other approaches to semantic analysis.
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  19. Ethical issues in the release of animals from captivity.Cliff Stagoll & Kelly A. Waples - 1997 - BioScience 47 (2):115-119.
    For the general public, there is an intuitive appeal to an animal's living in the wild rather than in captivity. Rarely is it an appeal informed by careful scientific or ethical analysis, however. This paper discusses how animal release projects ought to be conducted, guided by the question, "what are the duties of humans toward animals that are to be released?" It studies the ethical responsibilities of caretakers, practical elements of a responsible release, and proper selection of candidate animals for (...)
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    Making sense of Elster.Cliff Slaughter - 1986 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 29 (1-4):45 – 56.
    Elster contends that much of Marx's most important work was characterized by methodological individualism. I argue that this is untrue, and that to assert it results, at least in part, from a misunderstanding of Marx's writings on the individual's relation to his society. Central to Marx's writings is the rejection of an abstract ?society?. Instead we find analysis of a particular social formation, with a historically specific relation between individual and society, and between ends and means. This is demonstrated from (...)
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    Marx and Marxism.Cliff Slaughter - 1985 - Addison-Wesley Longman.
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    Cases and commentaries.Cliff Brown, Duane McCallister, Susan A. Siltanen, Arthur J. Kaul & Samuel L. Becker - 1986 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 1 (2):88 – 96.
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  23. Man's Will: The Intervening Variable in Moral Education.Cliff Schimmels & Gary Andres - 1977 - Journal of Thought 12 (1):9-13.
     
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Cliff Getty Mcmahon - 1996 - British Journal of Aesthetics 36 (1):415-417.
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    Interjections and Emotion (with Special Reference to "Surprise" and "Disgust").Cliff Goddard - 2014 - Emotion Review 6 (1):53-63.
    “All languages have ‘emotive interjections’ ” —and yet emotion researchers have invested only a tiny research effort into interjections, as compared with the huge body of research into facial expressions and words for emotion categories. This article provides an overview of the functions, meanings, and cross-linguistic variability of interjections, concentrating on non-word-based ones such as Wow!, Yuck!, and Ugh! The aims are to introduce an area that will be unfamiliar to most readers, to illustrate how one leading linguistic approach deals (...)
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    Adverbs as multipliers.Norman Cliff - 1959 - Psychological Review 66 (1):27-44.
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    Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto.D. Cliff - 1990 - In Jean-Arcady Meyer & Stewart W. Wilson (eds.), From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems). Cambridge University Press.
  28. The sign system in chinese landscape paintings.Cliff G. McMahon - 2003 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 37 (1):64-76.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Cliff Getty Mcmahon - 1994 - British Journal of Aesthetics 34 (3):415-417.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Cliff G. Mcmahon - 1998 - British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (1):415-417.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Cliff Stagoll - 1997 - British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (3):290-291.
    A book review of Gilles Deleuze's "Negotiations.".
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  32. The concept of the ecstasies.Cliff Engle Wirt - 1983 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (1):79-90.
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    The Janus Aesthetic of Duchamp.Cliff G. McMahon - 1992 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 26 (2):41.
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    Killing Time.Cliff Stagoll - 1998 - Philosophy Now 20:28-30.
    This article (reprinted in Philosophy Now's 'The Ultimate Guide to Metaphysics' in 2018) introduces J.M.E. McTaggart's famous arguments for the 'unreality' of time, and their implications.
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    The semiotics of retail space: An application of the repertory grid methodology.Cliff Scott - 1993 - Semiotica 94 (3-4):295-304.
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  36. Introduction to philosophy of complex systems: A: part A: towards a framework for complex systems.Cliff Hooker - unknown
    Every essay in this book is original, often highly original, and they will be of interest to practising scientists as much as they will be to philosophers of science — not least because many of the essays are by leading scientists who are currently creating the emerging new complex systems paradigm. This is no accident. The impact of complex systems on science is a recent, ongoing and profound revolution. But with a few honourable exceptions, it has largely been ignored by (...)
     
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  37. Common Nonsense: 25 Fallacies About Life (and Their Solutions).Cliff Ermatinger - 2005 - Circle Press.
    Introduction -- Fallacy # 1, you can never be sure -- Fallacy # 2, "there is no truth" -- Fallacy # 3, there are no absolutes -- Fallacy # 4, there is only physical-experiential reality -- Fallacy # 5, philosophy is boring : I should know, I tried it once -- Fallacy # 6, God does not exist -- Fallacy # 7, isn't it a contradiction to say "God is good" when we see so much evil in the world, I (...)
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  38. The Production of the (Post)Military/Industrial Subject (Self).Cliff Falk - 2002 - Philosophy of Education 58:175-183.
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    Contemporary Research in the Foundations and Philosophy of Quantum Theory: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.Cliff Hooker (ed.) - 1973 - Boston: D. Reidel.
    To mathematicians, mathematics is a happy game, to scientists a mere tool and to philosophers a Platonic mystery - or so the caricature runs. The caricature reflects the alleged 'cultural gap' between the disciplines a gap for which there too often has been, sadly, sound historical evidence. In many minds the lack of communication between philosophy and the exact disciplines is especially prominent. Yet in the past there was no separation - exact knowledge, covering both scientists and mathemati cians, was (...)
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    Rationality as Effective Organisation of Interaction and Its Naturalist Framework.Cliff Hooker - 2011 - Axiomathes 21 (1):99-172.
    The point of this paper is to provide a principled framework for a naturalistic, interactivist-constructivist model of rational capacity and a sketch of the model itself, indicating its merits. Being naturalistic, it takes its orientation from scientific understanding. In particular, it adopts the developing interactivist-constructivist understanding of the functional capacities of biological organisms as a useful naturalistic platform for constructing such higher order capacities as reason and cognition. Further, both the framework and model are marked by the finitude and fallibility (...)
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    New Pressures/New Partnerships: Public Health and Law Enforcement.Cliff Karchmer, Pam Tully, Leah Devlin, Frank Whitney & Michael Sage - 2003 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (s4):52-53.
    The, Police Executive Research Forum is completing a major initiative that encourages police chiefs to formalize working relationships with emergency medical personnel. The effort is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance as a demonstration with the goal of preventing recurring violence that eventually leads to homicide. The initiative originally involved a consortium of emergency room clinicians, emergency medical service personnel, as well as police executives. The collaboration initially focused on arguably preventable dimensions of domestic violence (...)
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    New Pressures/New Partnerships: Public Health and Law Enforcement.Cliff Karchmer, Pam Tully, Leah Devlin, Frank Whitney & Michael Sage - 2003 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (S4):52-53.
    The, Police Executive Research Forum is completing a major initiative that encourages police chiefs to formalize working relationships with emergency medical personnel. The effort is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance as a demonstration with the goal of preventing recurring violence that eventually leads to homicide. The initiative originally involved a consortium of emergency room clinicians, emergency medical service personnel, as well as police executives. The collaboration initially focused on arguably preventable dimensions of domestic violence (...)
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    Philosophy of Complex Systems (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, vol. 10).Cliff Hooker (ed.) - 2011 - North Holland.
    The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical underpinnings has been developing exponentially for a century, the last 35 years seeing an outpouring of new ideas and applications and a concomitant confluence with ideas of complex systems and their applications from irreversible thermodynamics. A few examples are in meteorology, ecological dynamics, and social and economic dynamics. These new ideas have profound implications for our understanding and practice in domains involving complexity, predictability and determinism, equilibrium, control, planning, individuality, responsibility and (...)
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    The Sign System in Chinese Landscape Paintings.Cliff G. McMahon - 2003 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 37 (1):64.
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    Language, Logic and Mathematics.Cliff W. Kilmister - 1967 - New York: Barnes & Noble.
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    Cuban Democracy. [REVIEW]Cliff Durand - 2001 - Radical Philosophy Review 4 (1-2):272-276.
  47. The Reconstitution of Private Property in the People's Republic of China.Cliff DuRand - 1986 - Social Theory and Practice 12 (3):337-350.
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    Making your article freely available: Some clarifications about OnlineOpen and Creative Commons.Cliff Morgan - 2010 - Bioessays 32 (8):648-649.
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    The “Social Emotions” of Malay (Bahasa Melayu).Cliff Goddard - 1996 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 24 (3):426-464.
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    Everything under Heaven. The Life and Words of a Nature Mystic, Issa of Japan.Cliff Edwards - 1982 - Philosophy East and West 32 (2):216-216.
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