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Ang Bamboo Organ Ng Las Piñas: Pakikipanayam Sa Apat Na Susing Indibidwal Ukol Sa Kultural Na Yaman Ng Lungsod Ng Las Piñas.Jezryl Xavier T. Genecera & Jay Israel B. De Leon - 2019 - Mabini Review 8:123-147.details
This paper introduces the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ as a cultural treasure. By interviewing four key individuals related to the bamboo organ, the paper discusses the history, present condition, and activities related to the preservation and sustenance of the bamboo organ. Interview, a method of oral history, was chosen to let the people involved share their own memories and experiences that are not usually featured in written documents about the bamboo organ. The following themes emerged from the interviews: (1) the (...) introduction of Father Diego Cera as an organ builder, (2) the motivations in using bamboo as the main material of the bamboo organ, (3) the quality of the sound produced by the bamboo organ, (4) the restoration of the bamboo organ, (5) the beginnings, objectives, and activities of the Bamboo Organ Foundation, Inc., (6) the beginnings and objectives of the International Bamboo Organ Festival and the activities related to it, (7) the problems that the bamboo organ faces, and (8) the importance of training organists. The researchers also identified the implications of the conservation of the bamboo organ in the economic, social, ecological, and cultural aspects of the city's social life based on its potentials for development. This paper can be a useful primary source for future researchers of the bamboo organ and the local history of Las Piñas. (shrink)
Le problème du rapport nécessaire de l'entendement à la sensibilité dans la Critique de la raison pure : L'intuition sensible pré-catégoriale constitue-t-elle un contenu de conscience ?Xavier Rohel - 2016 - Dissertation, Reimsdetails
Response to Tomasz Zuradzki's Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Rational Choice Under Risk or Uncertainty.Xavier Symons - 2014 - Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (11):779-779.details
Why Can'T the Impassible God Suffer? Analytic Reflections on Divine Blessedness.R. T. Mullins - 2018 - TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 2 (1):3-22.details
According to classical theism, impassibility is said to be systematically connected to divine attributes like timelessness, immutability, simplicity, aseity, and self-sufficiency. In some interesting way, these attributes are meant to explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. I shall argue that these attributes do not explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. In order to understand why the impassible God cannot suffer, one must examine the emotional life of the impassible God. I shall argue that the necessarily happy emotional life (...) of the classical God explains why the impassible God cannot suffer. (shrink)
Against Simplicity and Cognitive Individualism: Nathaniel T. Wilcox.Nathaniel T. Wilcox - 2008 - Economics and Philosophy 24 (3):523-532.details
Neuroeconomics illustrates our deepening descent into the details of individual cognition. This descent is guided by the implicit assumption that "individual human" is the important "agent" of neoclassical economics. I argue here that this assumption is neither obviously correct, nor of primary importance to human economies. In particular I suggest that the main genius of the human species lies with its ability to distribute cognition across individuals, and to incrementally accumulate physical and social cognitive artifacts that largely obviate the innate (...) biological limitations of individuals. If this is largely why our economies grow, then we should be much more interested in distributed cognition in human groups, and correspondingly less interested in individual cognition. We should also be much more interested in the cultural accumulation of cognitive artefacts: computational devices and media, social structures and economic institutions. (shrink)
What Is the Well-Foundedness of Grounding?T. Scott Dixon - 2016 - Mind 125 (498):439-468.details
A number of philosophers think that grounding is, in some sense, well-founded. This thesis, however, is not always articulated precisely, nor is there a consensus in the literature as to how it should be characterized. In what follows, I consider several principles that one might have in mind when asserting that grounding is well-founded, and I argue that one of these principles, which I call 'full foundations', best captures the relevant claim. My argument is by the process of elimination. For (...) each of the inadequate principles, I illustrate its inadequacy by showing either that it excludes cases that should not be ruled out by a well-foundedness axiom for grounding, or that it admits cases that should be ruled out. (shrink)
Retinae Don't See.John T. Sanders - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (6):890-891.details
Sensation should be understood globally: some infant behaviors do not make sense on the model of separate senses; neonates of all species lack time to learn about the world by triangulating among different senses. Considerations of natural selection favor a global understanding; and the global interpretation is not as opposed to traditional work on sensation as might seem.
On the Physical Problem of Spatial Dimensions: An Alternative Procedure to Stability Arguments.Francisco Caruso & Roberto Moreira Xavier - 1987 - Fundamenta Scientiae 8 (1):73-91.details
Why is space 3-dimensional? The fi rst answer to this question, entirely based on Physics, was given by Ehrenfest, in 1917, who showed that the stability requirement for n-dimensional two-body planetary system very strongly constrains space dimensionality, favouring 3-d. This kind of approach will be generically called "stability postulate" throughout this paper and was shown by Tangherlini, in 1963, to be still valid in the framework of general relativity as well as for quantum mechanical hydrogen atom, giving the same constraint (...) for space{dimensionality. In the present work, before criticizing this methodology, a brief discussion has been introduced, aimed at stressing and clarifying some general physical aspects of the problem of how to determine the number of space dimensions. Then, the epistemological consequences of Ehrenfest's methodology are critically reviewed. An alternative procedure to get at the proper number of dimensions, in which the stability postulate - and the implicit singularities in three-dimensional physics - are not an essential part of the argument, is proposed. In this way, the main epistemological problems contained in Ehrenfest's original idea are avoided. The alternative methodology proposed in this paper is realized by obtaining and discussing the n-dimensional quantum theory as expressed in Planck's law, de Broglie relation and the Heisenberg uncertainty relation. As a consequence, it is possible to propose an experiment, based on thermal neutron di raction by crystals, to directly measure space dimensionality. Finally the distinguished role of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory in the determination of space dimensionality is stressed. (shrink)
Synthetic Biology and the Ethics of Knowledge.T. Douglas & J. Savulescu - 2010 - Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (11):687-693.details
Synthetic biologists aim to generate biological organisms according to rational design principles. Their work may have many beneficial applications, but it also raises potentially serious ethical concerns. In this article, we consider what attention the discipline demands from bioethicists. We argue that the most important issue for ethicists to examine is the risk that knowledge from synthetic biology will be misused, for example, in biological terrorism or warfare. To adequately address this concern, bioethics will need to broaden its scope, contemplating (...) not just the means by which scientific knowledge is produced, but also what kinds of knowledge should be sought and disseminated. (shrink)
On Kant's First Insight Into the Problem of Space Dimensionality and its Physical Foundations.F. Caruso & R. Moreira Xavier - 2015 - Kant-Studien 106 (4):547–560.details
In this article it is shown that a careful analysis of Kant 's Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte und Beurtheilung der Beweise leads to a conclusion that does not match the usually accepted interpretation of Kant 's reasoning in 1747, according to which the young Kant supposedly establishes a relationship between the tridimensionality of space and Newton's law of gravitation. Indeed, it is argued that this text does not yield a satisfactory explanation of space dimensionality, and actually (...) restricts itself to justifying the tridimensionality of extension. (shrink)
La dimension numérique dans le concept de minorité : efficience et justice ethnoculturelle.Xavier Landes - 2011 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 6 (2):49-78.details
L'article introduit au rôle de l'efficience dans la génération d'avantages ou de désavantages enregistrés par les minorités. L'objectif est de démontrer que l'efficience devrait jouer un rôle plus important dans le domaine de la justice ethnoculturelle. Pour ce faire, une brève présentation de la place du nombre dans la littérature sur le sujet est offerte, ce qui permet de saisir le fond de l'argument consistant à faire des déséquilibres numériques une source certaine des injustices subies par les minorités, notamment dans (...) une perspective inspirée par l'égalitarisme de la chance. De ce point de vue, l'asymétrie numérique peut toutefois constituer une source d'avantages pour ces groupes. Dès lors, une telle asymétrie, qui est l'un des constituants de la définition de la minorité, prend une autre dimension. Plus que cette asymétrie, il apparaît que c'est l'efficience (la manière dont les groupes gèrent cette asymétrie) qui détermine les conditions et succès matériels des membres d'un groupe donné. Après une discussion des minorités efficientes et dominantes, l'article se conclut par la mise en lumière de quelques pistes de recherche rendues visibles par l'efficience et qui sont pertinentes pour la théorie de la justice en contexte multiculturel. (shrink)
How to Be a Bayesian Dogmatist.Brian T. Miller - 2016 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (4):766-780.details
ABSTRACTRational agents have consistent beliefs. Bayesianism is a theory of consistency for partial belief states. Rational agents also respond appropriately to experience. Dogmatism is a theory of how to respond appropriately to experience. Hence, Dogmatism and Bayesianism are theories of two very different aspects of rationality. It's surprising, then, that in recent years it has become common to claim that Dogmatism and Bayesianism are jointly inconsistent: how can two independently consistent theories with distinct subject matter be jointly inconsistent? In this (...) essay I argue that Bayesianism and Dogmatism are inconsistent only with the addition of a specific hypothesis about how the appropriate responses to perceptual experience are to be incorporated into the formal models of the Bayesian. That hypothesis isn't essential either to Bayesianism or to Dogmatism, and so Bayesianism and Dogmatism are jointly consistent. That leaves the matter of how experiences and credences are related, a... (shrink)
Causa Efficiens versus Causa Formalis: origens da discussão moderna sobre a dimensionalidade do espaço.Francisco Caruso & Roberto Moreira Xavier - 1994 - Cadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciência (UNICAMP) 4 (2):43-64.details
Metascientific criteria used for explaining or constraining physical space dimensionality and their historical relationship to prevailing causal systems are discussed. The important contributions by Aristotle, Kant and Ehrenfest to the dimensionality of space problem are considered and shown to be grounded on different causal explanations: causa materialis for Aristotle, causa efficiens for young Kant and an ingenious combination of causa efficiens and causa formalis for Ehrenfest. The prominent and growing rôle played by causa formalis in modern physical approaches to this (...) problem is emphasized. (shrink)
Won'T Somebody Please Think of the Mammoths? De-Extinction and Animal Welfare.Heather Browning - 2018 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31 (6):785-803.details
De-extinction is the process through which extinct species can be brought back into existence. Although these projects have the potential to cause great harm to animal welfare, discussion on issues surrounding de-extinction have focussed primarily on other issues. In this paper, I examine the potential types of welfare harm that can arise through de-extinction programs, including problems with cloning, captive rearing and re-introduction. I argue that welfare harm should be an important consideration when making decisions on de-extinction projects. Though most (...) of the proposed benefits of these projects are insufficient to outweigh the current potential welfare harm, these problems may be overcome with further development of the technology and careful selection of appropriate species as de-extinction candidates. (shrink)
Don'T Count on Taurek: Vindicating the Case for the Numbers Counting.Yishai Cohen - 2014 - Res Publica 20 (3):245-261.details
Suppose you can save only one of two groups of people from harm, with one person in one group, and five persons in the other group. Are you obligated to save the greater number? While common sense seems to say 'yes', the numbers skeptic says 'no'. Numbers Skepticism has been partly motivated by the anti-consequentialist thought that the goods, harms and well-being of individual people do not aggregate in any morally significant way. However, even many non-consequentialists think that Numbers Skepticism (...) goes too far in rejecting the claim that you ought to save the greater number. Besides the prima facie implausibility of Numbers Skepticism, Michael Otsuka has developed an intriguing argument against this position. Otsuka argues that Numbers Skepticism, in conjunction with an independently plausible moral principle, leads to inconsistent choices regarding what ought to be done in certain circumstances. This inconsistency in turn provides us with a good reason to reject Numbers Skepticism. Kirsten Meyer offers a notable challenge to Otsuka's argument. I argue that Meyer's challenge can be met, and then offer my own reasons for rejecting Otsuka's argument. In light of these criticisms, I then develop an improved, yet structurally similar argument to Otsuka's argument. I argue for the slightly different conclusion that the view proposed by John Taurek that 'the numbers don't count' leads to inconsistent choices, which in turn provides us with a good reason to reject Taurek's position. (shrink)
Repairing Broken Relations by Repairing Broken Treaties: Theorizing Post-Colonial States in Settler Colonies.Xavier Scott - 2018 - Studies in Social Justice 12 (2):388-405.details
This article examines the British colonial theft of Indigenous sovereignty and the particular obstacles that it presents to establishing just social relations between the colonizer and the colonized in settler states. In the first half, I argue that the particular nature of the crime of sovereign theft makes apologies and reparations unsuitable policy tools for reconciliation because Settler societies owe their very existence to the abrogation of Indigenous sovereignties. Instead, Settler states ought to return sovereignty to the land's Indigenous peoples. (...) In the second half of this paper, I take up some of the practical questions of how this might be done and anticipate a number of objections. Giving up sovereignty would not mean dispossessing the millions of colonists who currently reside in these countries of their homes and property – but it does mean rethinking the constitutional makeup of a country and how that serves to benefit the different peoples who make their homes there. (shrink)
Why Should HCWs Receive Priority Access to Vaccines in a Pandemic?Xavier Symons, Steve Matthews & Bernadette Tobin - 2021 - BMC Medical Ethics 22 (1):1-9.details
BackgroundViral pandemics present a range of ethical challenges for policy makers, not the least among which are difficult decisions about how to allocate scarce healthcare resources. One important question is whether healthcare workers should receive priority access to a vaccine in the event that an effective vaccine becomes available. This question is especially relevant in the coronavirus pandemic with governments and health authorities currently facing questions of distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.Main textIn this article, we critically evaluate the most common ethical (...) arguments for granting healthcare workers priority access to a vaccine. We review the existing literature on this topic, and analyse both deontological and utilitarian arguments in favour of HCW prioritisation. For illustrative purposes, we focus in particular on the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine. We also explore some practical complexities attendant on arguments in favour of HCW prioritisation.ConclusionsWe argue that there are deontological and utilitarian cases for prioritising HCWs. Indeed, the widely held view that we should prioritise HCWs represents an example of ethical convergence. Complexities arise, however, when considering who should be included in the category of HCW, and who else should receive priority in addition to HCWs. (shrink)
T-Equivalences for Positive Sentences.Cezary Cieśliński - 2011 - Review of Symbolic Logic 4 (2):319-325.details
Answering a question formulated by Halbach (2009), I show that a disquotational truth theory, which takes as axioms all positive substitutions of the sentential T-schema, together with all instances of induction in the language with the truth predicate, is conservative over its syntactical base.
P, but You Don'T Know That P.Christopher Willard-Kyle - 2021 - Synthese 199 (5-6):14667-14690.details
Unlike first-person Moorean sentences, it's not always awkward to assert, "p, but you don't know that p." This can seem puzzling: after all, one can never get one's audience to know the asserted content by speaking thus. Nevertheless, such assertions can be conversationally useful, for instance, by helping speaker and addressee agree on where to disagree. I will argue that such assertions also make trouble for the growing family of views about the norm of assertion that what licenses proper assertion (...) is not the initiating epistemic position of the speaker but the resulting epistemic position of the audience. (shrink)
Can'T Buy Me Love.Jacob Sparks - 2017 - Journal of Philosophical Research 42:341-352.details
Critics of commodification often claim that the buying and selling of some good communicates disrespect or some other inappropriate attitude. Such semiotic critiques have been leveled against markets in sex, pornography, kidneys, surrogacy, blood, and many other things. Brennan and Jaworski (2015a) have recently argued that all such objections fail. They claim that the meaning of a market transaction is a highly contingent, socially constructed fact. If allowing a market for one of these goods can improve the supply, access or (...) quality of the good, then instead of banning the market on semiotic grounds, they urge that we should revise our semiotics. In this reply, I isolate a part of the meaning of a market transaction that is not socially constructed: our market exchanges always express preferences. I then show how cogent semiotic critiques of some markets can be constructed on the basis of this fact. (shrink)
A Radical Solution to the Species Problem.Michael T. Ghiselin - 1974 - Systematic Zoology 23:536-44.details
Traditionally, species have been treated as classes. In fact they may be considered individuals. The logical term "individual" has been confused with a biological synonym for "organism." If species are individuals, then: 1) their names are proper, 2) there cannot be instances of them, 3) they do not have defining properties, 4) their constituent organisms are parts, not members. " Species " may be defined as the most extensive units in the natural economy such that reproductive competition occurs among their (...) parts. Species are to evolutionary theory as firms are to economic theory: this analogy resolves many issues, such as the problems of "reality" and the ontological status of nomenclatorial types. (shrink)
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On Determining How Important It Is Whether or Not There Is a God.T. J. Mawson - 2012 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (4):95--105.details
Can the issue of how important it is whether or not there is a God be decided prior to deciding whether or not there is a God? In this paper, I explore some difficulties that stand in the way of answering this question in the affirmative and some of the implications of these difficulties for that part of the Philosophy of Religion which concerns itself with assessing arguments for and against the existence of God, the implications for how its importance (...) may best be defended within secular academe. (shrink)
If You Can't Change What You Believe, You Don't Believe It.Grace Helton - 2020 - Noûs 54 (3):501-526.details
I develop and defend the view that subjects are necessarily psychologically able to revise their beliefs in response to relevant counter-evidence. Specifically, subjects can revise their beliefs in response to relevant counter-evidence, given their current psychological mechanisms and skills. If a subject lacks this ability, then the mental state in question is not a belief, though it may be some other kind of cognitive attitude, such as a supposi-tion, an entertained thought, or a pretense. The result is a moderately revisionary (...) view of belief: while most mental states we thought were beliefs are beliefs, some mental states which we thought were beliefs are not beliefs. The argument for this view draws on two key claims: First, subjects are rationally obligated to revise their beliefs in response to relevant counter-evidence. Second, if some subject is rationally obligated to revise one of her mental states, then that subject can revise that mental state, given her current psychological mechanisms and skills. Along the way to defending these claims, I argue that rational obligations can govern activities which reflect on one's rational character, whether or not those activities are under one's voluntary control. I also show how the relevant version of epistemic 'ought' implies 'can' survives an objection which plagues other variants of the principle. (shrink)
Why Can'T I Change Bruckner's Eighth Symphony?David Friedell - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (3):805-824.details
Musical works change. Bruckner revised his Eighth Symphony. Ella Fitzgerald and many other artists have made it acceptable to sing the jazz standard "All the Things You Are" without its original verse. If we accept that musical works genuinely change in these ways, a puzzle arises: why can't I change Bruckner's Eighth Symphony? More generally, why are some individuals in a privileged position when it comes to changing musical works and other artifacts, such as novels, films, and games? I give (...) a view of musical works that helps to answer these questions. Musical works, on this view, are created abstract objects with no parts. The paradigmatic changes that musical works undergo are socially determined normative changes in how they should be performed. Due to contingent social practices, Bruckner, but not I, can change how his symphony should be performed. Were social practices radically different, I would be able to change his symphony. This view extends to abstract artifacts beyond music, including novels, films, words, games, and corporations. (shrink)
Speaks's Reduction of Propositions to Properties: A Benacerraf Problem.T. Scott Dixon & Cody Gilmore - 2016 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 5 (3):275-284.details
Speaks defends the view that propositions are properties: for example, the proposition that grass is green is the property being such that grass is green. We argue that there is no reason to prefer Speaks's theory to analogous but competing theories that identify propositions with, say, 2-adic relations. This style of argument has recently been deployed by many, including Moore and King, against the view that propositions are n-tuples, and by Caplan and Tillman against King's view that propositions are facts (...) of a special sort. We offer our argument as an objection to the view that propositions are unsaturated relations. (shrink)
Unification.T. Jones - 2008 - In Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science. Routledge.details
Summary: Throughout the history of science, indeed throughout the history of knowledge, unification has been touted as a central aim of intellectual inquiry. We've always wanted to discover not only numerous bare facts about the universe, but to show how such facts are linked and interrelated. Large amounts of time and effort have been spent trying to show diverse arrays of things can be seen as different manifestations of some common underlying entities or properties. Thales is said to have originated (...) philosophy and science with his declaration that everything was, at base, a form of water. Plato's theory of the forms was thought to be a magnificent accomplishment because it gave a unified solution to the separate problems of the relation between knowledge and belief, the grounding of objective values, and how continuity is possible amid change. Pasteur made numerous medical advancements possible by demonstrating the interconnection between microorganisms and human disease symptoms. Many technological advances were aided by Maxwell's showing that light is a kind of electromagnetic radiation. The attempt to unify the various known forces is often referred to as "The Holy Grail" of physics. Some philosophers have even suggested that providing explanations is itself just a sort of unifying of our knowledge. But while unification (like simplicity) has often been hailed as a tremendous virtue in science, the meaning of the term is not altogether clear. Scientists often don't specify what, precisely, they mean by unification. And in cases where what they mean is clear, different thinkers plainly mean different things by the term. What are the various senses of unification, and why has unification been such an important aim in the history of inquiry? (shrink)
Don't Believe the Hype: Why Should Philosophical Theories Yield to Intuitions?Moti Mizrahi - 2015 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 34 (3):141-158.details
In this paper, I argue that, contrary to common opinion, a counterexample against a philosophical theory does not amount to conclusive evidence against that theory. Instead, the method of counterexamples allows for the derivation of a disjunction, i.e., 'either the theory is false or an auxiliary assumption is false', not a negation of the target theory. This is so because, whenever the method of counterexamples is used in an attempt to refute a philosophical theory, there is a crucial auxiliary assumption (...) that needs to be taken into account. The auxiliary assumption is that making intuitive judgments in response to hypothetical cases about the subject matter in question (e.g., knowledge or proper names) is a good method for finding out truths about that subject matter. Without good reasons to think that this assumption is warranted, the negation of a philosophical theory whose content is alleged to be in conflict with the content of an intuition cannot be justifiably derived using an argument that employs the method of counterexamples. (shrink)
How Should Vegans Live?Xavier Cohen - 2015 - Journal of Practical Ethics 3 (2).details
In this essay, I look at the significant portion of vegans who are vegan because they care about harm to animals. I investigate what lifestyle is in fact consistent with caring about harm to animals, which I begin by calling consistent veganism. I argue that the lifestyle that consistently follows from this underlying conviction behind many people's veganism is in fact distinct from a vegan lifestyle.
Xavier Verley, Sur le Symbolisme. Cassirer, Whitehead Et Ruyer. [On Symbolism: Cassirer, Whitehead, and Ruyer.].Philippe Gagnon - 2013 - Process Studies 42 (2):283-288.details
Diversity and the Liberal State: Introduction.Xavier Landes & Nils Holtug - 2011 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 6 (2):79-84.details
De l'incitation à la mutualisation : pourquoi taxer?Xavier Landes - 2010 - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 5 (1):140-155.details
Cet article évalue, du point de vue moral, les justifications possibles pour le recours à la taxation en vue de promouvoir des comportements « sains ». L'objectif est de démontrer qu'un tel instrument recevrait une meilleure justification, c'est-à-dire plus en accord avec des principes égalitariens respectueux de la liberté individuelle, s'ils s'inscrivaient dans une logique de mutualisation. Pour ce faire, les arguments du bien-être individuel et de l'efficience sociale sont discutés afin d'en pointer les fécondités et limites. Au travers de (...) leurs limites, ces arguments introduisent naturellement à une troisième manière d'appréhender le problème, sous l'angle de la mutualisation. Ce principe représente moins une remise en cause radicale des arguments précédents qu'une reformulation du recours à l'efficience sociale et une limitation du champ d'application des appels au bien-être individuel. Il repose sur deux idées. La première est que la référence à une notion de responsabilité, même affadie, est nécessaire. De plus, celle-ci doit être conçue comme partagée entre producteurs et consommateurs ainsi que limitée au domaine financier. La seconde est que la mutualisation ne peut être déconnectée d'intuitions égalitariennes formulées de manière générale. (shrink)
Credit Default Swaps, Contract Theory, Public Debt, and Fiat Money Regimes: Comment on Polleit and Mariano.Xavier Mera - 2013 - Libertarian Papers 5:217-239.details
In this paper, I show that Polleit and Mariano (2011) are right in concluding that Credit Default Swaps (CDS) are per se unobjectionable from Rothbard's libertarian perspective on property rights and contract theory, but that they fail to derive this conclusion properly. I therefore outline the proper explanation. In addition, though Polleit and Mariano are correct in pointing out that speculation with CDS can conceivably hurt the borrowers' interests, they fail to grasp that this can be the case only in (...) some peculiar circumstances that I identify. In other words, they miss the bigger picture, the one outside special circumstances, in which CDS trading has the opposite effect. That is, CDS facilitate debt accumulation, including government debt accumulation. Finally, I point out how this can precipitate the collapse of fiat money regimes. An incidental goal of the analysis is to provide a better account than Polleit and Mariano of recent government interventions in and around CDS markets. (shrink)
Plural Slot Theory.T. Scott Dixon - 2018 - In Karen Bennett & Dean Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 11. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 193-223.details
Kit Fine (2000) breaks with tradition, arguing that, pace Russell (e.g., 1903: 228), relations have neither directions nor converses. He considers two ways to conceive of these new "neutral" relations, positionalism and anti-positionalism, and argues that the latter should be preferred to the former. Cody Gilmore (2013) argues for a generalization of positionalism, slot theory, the view that a property or relation is n-adic if and only if there are exactly n slots in it, and (very roughly) that each slot (...) may be occupied by at most one entity. Slot theory (and with it, positionalism) bears the full brunt of Fine's (2000) symmetric completions and conflicting adicities problems. I fully develop an alternative, plural slot theory (or pocket theory), which avoids these problems, key elements of which are first considered by Yi (1999: 168 ff.). Like the slot theorist, the pocket theorist posits entities (pockets) in properties and relations that can be occupied. But unlike the slot theorist, the pocket theorist denies that at most one entity can occupy any one of them. As a result, she must also deny that the adicity of a property or relation is equal to the number of occupiable entities in it. By abandoning these theses, however, the pocket theorist is able to avoid Fine's problems, resulting in a stronger theory about the internal structure of properties and relations. Pocket theory also avoids a serious drawback of anti-positionalism. (shrink)
Don't Mind the Gap: Intuitions, Emotions, and Reasons in the Enhancement Debate.Alberto Giubilini - 2015 - Hastings Center Report 45 (5):39-47.details
Reliance on intuitive and emotive responses is widespread across many areas of bioethics, and the current debate on biotechnological human enhancement is particularly interesting in this respect. A strand of "bioconservatives" that has explicitly drawn connections to the modern conservative tradition, dating back to Edmund Burke, appeals explicitly to the alleged wisdom of our intuitions and emotions to ground opposition to some biotechnologies or their uses. So-called bioliberals, those who in principle do not oppose human bioenhancement, tend to rely on (...) rational arguments and to see intuitions and emotions mostly as sources of biases. This approach often translates into shifting the burden of proof onto bioconservatives and challenging them to provide arguments against the proposed enhancement to back what bioliberals perceive as merely intuitive, emotive, and irrational reactions. -/- In this article, I am going to show that the methodological divide between bioliberals and bioconservatives is less significant than at first glance it appears to be and less significant than it is often taken to be. I will do so by defending two theses. The first is that reliance on intuitions and emotions is not a prerogative of bioconservatives: bioliberals have their typical intuitions and emotive responses and are for this reason exposed to potential biases in the same way as bioconservatives are. The second thesis is that reliance on intuitions and emotions is not necessarily antithetic to reason and rationality. This latter thesis has been philosophically defended with particular reference to the debate on biotechnologies, while the former is perhaps more controversial and more difficult to accept—at least for bioliberals. In both cases, I will support the claims by drawing on resources from the field of moral psychology and the sciences of the mind and, particularly, by applying to some positions in the enhancement debate recent findings about the role of intuitions and emotions in human moral assessment. This new empirically informed perspective holds promises for solving the methodological controversy between bioconservatives and bioliberals, thus enabling proper dialogue and debate between the two sides. (shrink)
Responding to N.T. Wright's Rejection of the Soul.Brandon L. Rickabaugh - 2018 - Heythrop Journal 59 (2):201-220.details
At a 2011 meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, N. T. Wright offered four reasons for rejecting the existence of soul. This was surprising, as many Christian philosophers had previously taken Wright's defense of a disembodied intermediate state as a defense of a substance dualist view of the soul. In this paper, I offer responses to each of Wright's objections, demonstrating that Wright's arguments fail to undermine substance dualism. In so doing, I expose how popular arguments against dualism fail, (...) such as dualism is merely an unwarranted influence of Greek culture on Christianity, and substance dualism is merely a soul-of-the-gaps hypothesis. Moreover, I demonstrate that Wright himself has offered a powerful reason for adopting substance dualism in his previous works. In conclusion I offer a view that explains why the human soul needs a resurrected body. (shrink)
Wouldn't It Be Nice? Moral Rules and Distant Worlds.Abelard Podgorski - 2018 - Noûs 52 (2):279-294.details
Traditional rule consequentialism faces a problem sometimes called the ideal world objection—the worry that by looking only at the consequences in worlds where rules are universally adhered to, the theory fails to account for problems that arise because adherence to rules in the real world is inevitably imperfect. In response, recent theorists have defended sophisticated versions of rule consequentialism which are sensitive to the consequences in worlds with less utopian levels of adherence. In this paper, I argue that these attempts (...) underestimate the problem they are designed to avoid—the worry about ideal worlds is only one manifestation of a deeper and more general problem, the distant world objection, which threatens not only the sophisticated revisions of rule consequentialism, but any view which determines what we ought to do by evaluating worlds that differ from ours in more than what is up to us. (shrink)
Persistent Disagreement and Polarization in a Bayesian Setting.Michael Nielsen & Rush T. Stewart - 2021 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72 (1):51-78.details
For two ideally rational agents, does learning a finite amount of shared evidence necessitate agreement? No. But does it at least guard against belief polarization, the case in which their opinions get further apart? No. OK, but are rational agents guaranteed to avoid polarization if they have access to an infinite, increasing stream of shared evidence? No.
Don'T Know, Don'T Believe: Reply to Kroedel.Clayton Littlejohn - 2013 - Logos and Episteme 4 (2):231-38.details
In recent work, Thomas Kroedel has proposed a novel solution to the lottery paradox. As he sees it, we are permitted/justified in believing some lottery propositions, but we are not permitted/justified in believing them all. I criticize this proposal on two fronts. First, I think that if we had the right to add some lottery beliefs to our belief set, we would not have any decisive reason to stop adding more. Suggestions to the contrary run into the wrong kind of (...) reason problem. Reflection on the preface paradox suggests as much. Second, while I agree with Kroedel that permissions do not agglomerate, I do not think that this fact can help us solve the lottery paradox. First, I do not think we have any good reason to think that we're permitted to believe any lottery propositions. Second, I do not see any good reason to think that epistemic permissions do not agglomerate. (shrink)
Apparent Mental Causation: Sources of the Experience of Will.Daniel M. Wegner & T. Wheatley - 1999 - American Psychologist 54:480-492.details
Reading and Company: Embodiment and Social Space in Silent Reading Practices.Anezka Kuzmicova, Patricia Dias, Ana Vogrincic Cepic, Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund, Andre Casado, Marina Kotrla Topic, Xavier Minguez Lopez, Skans Kersti Nilsson & Ines Teixeira-Botelho - 2018 - Literacy 52 (2):70–77.details
Reading, even when silent and individual, is a social phenomenon and has often been studied as such. Complementary to this view, research has begun to explore how reading is embodied beyond simply being 'wired' in the brain. This article brings the social and embodied perspectives together in a very literal sense. Reporting a qualitative study of reading practices across student focus groups from six European countries, it identifies an underexplored factor in reading behaviour and experience. This factor is the sheer (...) physical presence, and concurrent activity, of other people in the environment where one engages in individual silent reading. The primary goal of the study was to explore the role and possible associations of a number of variables (text type, purpose, device) in selecting generic (e.g. indoors vs outdoors) as well as specific (e.g. home vs library) reading environments. Across all six samples included in the study, participants spontaneously attested to varied, and partly surprising, forms of sensitivity to company and social space in their daily efforts to align body with mind for reading. The article reports these emergent trends and discusses their potential implications for research and practice. (shrink)
Don'T Worry, This Will Only Hurt a Bit: The Role of Expectation and Attention in Pain Intensity.Nada Gligorov - 2017 - The Monist 100 (4):501-513.details
To cause pain, it is not enough to deliver a dose of noxious stimulation. Pain requires the interaction of sensory processing, emotion, and cognition. In this paper, I focus on the role of cognition in the felt intensity of pain. I provide evidence for the cognitive modulation of pain. In particular, I show that attention and expectation can influence the experience of pain intensity. I also consider the mechanisms that underlie the cognitive effects on pain. I show that all the (...) proposed mechanisms of pain modulation affirm the view that cognition impacts the sensory and discriminative aspects of pain. I conclude that pain perception is a cognitively penetrated phenomenon. (shrink)
The Awe-Some Argument for Pantheism.T. Ryan Byerly - 2019 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (2):1-21.details
Many pantheists have claimed that their view of the divine is motivated by a kind of spiritual experience. In this paper, I articulate a novel argument, inspired by recent work on moral exemplarism, that gives voice to this kind of motivation for pantheism. The argument is based on two claims about the emotion of awe, each of which is defended primarily via critical engagement with empirical research on the emotion. I also illustrate how this pathway to pantheism offers pantheists distinctive (...) resources for responding to persistent objections to their view, and how it might lead to more exotic views incorporating pantheistic elements. (shrink)
Para uma leitura alternativa de Platão.Dennys Garcia Xavier - 2005 - Educação E Filosofia 19 (38):145-157.details
A República de Platão e as operações henológicas da idéia do Bem.Dennys Garcia Xavier - 2007 - Síntese 34 (109):247-260.details
Can't Kant Cognize His Empirical Self? Or, a Problem for (Almost) Every Interpretation of the Refutation of Idealism.Andrew Chignell - 2017 - In Anil Gomes & Andrew Stephenson (eds.), Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 138-158.details
Kant seems to think of our own mental states or representations as the primary objects of inner sense. But does he think that these states also inhere in something? And, if so, is that something an empirical substance that is also cognized in inner sense? This chapter provides textual and philosophical grounds for thinking that, although Kant may agree with Hume that the self is not 'given' in inner sense exactly, he does think of the self as cognized through inner (...) sense. It is also argued that he both does and ought to regard this self as an empirical substance in which our changing representations inhere. In the second part of the chapter it is suggested that this poses a significant problem for most of the leading interpretations of Kant's anti-sceptical argument in the Refutation of Idealism. (shrink)
Don'T Go Chasing Waterfalls: Motion Aftereffects and the Dynamic Snapshot Theory of Temporal Experience.Camden Alexander McKenna - 2021 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 12 (4):825-845.details
The philosophical investigation of perceptual illusions can generate fruitful insights in the study of subjective time consciousness. However, the way illusions are interpreted is often controversial. Recently, proponents of the so-called dynamic snapshot theory have appealed to the Waterfall Illusion, a kind of motion aftereffect, to support a particular view of temporal consciousness according to which experience is structured as a series of instantaneous snapshots with dynamic qualities. This dynamism is meant to account for familiar features of the phenomenology of (...) time, such as succession, continuity, and change. Previous theories have typically appealed to a subjective present occupying an interval of time; that is, a "specious present." I argue, through analysis of motion aftereffect illusions and the rare condition of akinetopsia, i.e. motion-blindness, that the Waterfall Illusion fails to support the dynamic snapshot theory as intended. Furthermore, I suggest that future theories of subjective time should see temporal phenomenology as the result of non-localised processes closely tied to the mechanism underlying consciousness generally. (shrink)
Don'T Mess with My Smokes: Cigarettes and Freedom.Luc Bovens - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics 16 (7):15-17.details
Considerations of objective-value freedom and status freedom do impose constraints on policies that restrict access to cigarettes. As to the objective-value freedom, something of value is lost when anti-alcohol policies lead to pub closures interfering with valued life styles, and a similar, though weaker, argument can be made for cigarettes. As to status freedom, non-arbitrariness requires consultation with vulnerable populations to learn what might aid them with smoking cessation.
Can'T Complain.Kathryn J. Norlock - 2018 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 15 (2):117-135.details
Philosophers generally prescribe against complaining, or endorse only complaints directed to rectification of the circumstances. Notably, Aristotle and Kant aver that the importuning of others with one's pains is effeminate and should never be done. In this paper, I reject the prohibition of complaint. The gendered aspects of Aristotle's and Kant's criticisms of complaint include their deploring a self-indulgent "softness" with respect to pain, yielding to feelings at the expense of remembering one's duties to others and one's own self-respect. I (...) argue that complaining may also take the form of mindful attention to shared suffering. A complainer may observe affective duties, such as commiseration and invitations to disclose pains. Against more contemporary views that justify only constructive complaints directed to change, I suggest that quotidian, unconstructive complaining sometimes fulfills important social functions, including the amelioration of loneliness and affective solidarity, for the sake of others as well as oneself. (shrink)
Why Philosophers Shouldn'T Do Semantics.Herman Cappelen - 2017 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 8 (4):743-762.details
The linguistic turn provided philosophers with a range of reasons for engaging in careful investigation into the nature and structure of language. However, the linguistic turn is dead. The arguments for it have been abandoned. This raises the question: why should philosophers take an interest in the minutiae of natural language semantics? I'll argue that there isn't much of a reason - philosophy of language has lost its way. Then I provide a suggestion for how it can find its way (...) again. (shrink)
Self-Locating Uncertainty and the Origin of Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics.Charles T. Sebens & Sean M. Carroll - 2016 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1):axw004.details
A longstanding issue in attempts to understand the Everett (Many-Worlds) approach to quantum mechanics is the origin of the Born rule: why is the probability given by the square of the amplitude? Following Vaidman, we note that observers are in a position of self-locating uncertainty during the period between the branches of the wave function splitting via decoherence and the observer registering the outcome of the measurement. In this period it is tempting to regard each branch as equiprobable, but we (...) argue that the temptation should be resisted. Applying lessons from this analysis, we demonstrate (using methods similar to those of Zurek's envariance-based derivation) that the Born rule is the uniquely rational way of apportioning credence in Everettian quantum mechanics. In doing so, we rely on a single key principle: changes purely to the environment do not affect the probabilities one ought to assign to measurement outcomes in a local subsystem. We arrive at a method for assigning probabilities in cases that involve both classical and quantum self-locating uncertainty. This method provides unique answers to quantum Sleeping Beauty problems, as well as a well-defined procedure for calculating probabilities in quantum cosmological multiverses with multiple similar observers. (shrink)
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This great set includes a high quality pair of Iowa Hawkeyes wrap sunglasses and hard carrying case.
This great set includes a high quality pair of Iowa Hawkeyes wrap sunglasses and soft sport carrying case.
Our Iowa Hawkeyes stainless steel 3 pc BBQ tool set includes a large spatula with built in bottle opener, heavy duty tongs, and large fork. All the tools feature a team logo on the handle. The set comes with a durable canvas bag that has a chrome accented team logo.
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Aviator sunglasses are truly an iconic retro fashion statement that never goes out-of-style. Our Iowa Hawkeyes aviator sunglasses pair this classic look with your love of the game. The iridium coated lenses reduce glare while driving, boating, golfing and their 100% UVA/UVB rating provides you with the maximum UV protection for all your outdoor activities. A millennial favorite, these affordable designer frames are the perfect eyewear accessory for a sports fan that is looking for high-quality at an affordable price. The durable, flex hinged frames are tough enough for hiking and camping or if you prefer sun bathing by the pool or on the beach these shades will really stand the test of time. The sunglasses come with a hard shell zippered case which has a large team logo on the lid that will make even the most die-hard fan proud!
Simply beautiful Iowa Hawkeyes bar necklace on a 20 inch link chain with 2 inch adjustable extender. This light-weight bar necklace has a stylish silver colored finish with the team name expertly etched on the 1.5 inch bar. Every female fan will enjoy this contempory fashion accessory.
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Our classic single charm bracelet is a great way to show off your team pride! The 7.5 inch large link chain features a high polish Iowa Hawkeyes charm and features a toggle clasp which makes it super easy to take on and off.
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Dog tag necklaces are a fashion statement that is here to stay. The sporty version of the classic tag features a black printed over a high polish tag to create a bold and sporty look. The tag comes on a 26 inch ball chain with a ball and joint clasp. Any Iowa Hawkeyes would be proud to wear this attractive fashion accessory.
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This delicate bead bracelet has eye-catching team colored beads that are strung on 2 stretch cords that provide a comfortable and easy fit. The crystals are separated by beautiful helix beads in high polish chrome for a truly designer inspired look. The 2 strands of beads intertwine for a fun and stylish bracelet. This chic accessory is finished off with a Iowa Hawkeyes team charm that has expertly carved detail and an enameled color finish. A contemporary look to thrill any female sports fan. Whether this a gift for yourself or someone special you cannot miss with this trend-setting fashion bracelet.
This classic jewelry set contains are most popular Iowa Hawkeyes dangle earrings and 22 inch chain necklace. The trendy, dangle earrings are lightweight and feature a fully cast metal team charm with enameled team colors. The matching necklace completes this fashion forward combo and is a spirited set that is perfect for game day but nice enough for everyday.
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This stylish leather wallet is made of high quality leather with a supple feel and classic look. The front of the tri-fold style wallet has a deeply embossed Iowa Hawkeyes logo. The billfold is packed with features that will allow to keep organized, lots of credit card slots, windowed ID slot, large pockets for bills and a removable sleeve with extra slots for even more storage. This is a must-have men's fashion accessory that would make any fan very proud to own.
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We have combined the wildly popular Euro style beads with your favorite team to create our Iowa Hawkeyes bead bracelet. The 7.5 inch snake chain with 2 inch extender features 4 Euro beads with enameled team colors and rhinestone accents with a high polish, nickel free charm and rhinestone charm. Perfect way to show off your team pride.
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This cool new style wallet features an inner, metal bill clip that lips up for easy access. The super slim wallet holds tons of stuff with ample pockets, credit card slots & windowed ID slot. The wallet is made of genuine fine grain leather and it finished with a metal Iowa Hawkeyes emblem. The wallet is shipped in gift box packaging.
We have taken the classic floating charm locket and combined with licensed sports charms to create a must have fan necklace. The necklace comes with 3 charms; 1 Iowa Hawkeyes charm, one football charm and one helmet charm. The charms float in a beautiful locket that has a strong magnetic closure with a rhinestone border. The locket comes on an 18 inch snake chain with 2 inch extender.
Get the party started with this Mardi Gras inspired bead necklace. The flashy beads have a shiny finish and come in bright team colors strung together on a 36 inch string so you can make a big statement on game day! The beads come with an extra large flexible team logo that is a full 3 inches at its widest point. This trendy and bold necklace screams out your Iowa Hawkeyes pride and is a must have at game time!
Be the hero at the tailgate, camping, or on a Friday night with your Iowa Hawkeyes Multi-Tool Keychain which comes complete with bottle opener, scissors, knife, nail file and screw driver. Be it opening a package or a beverage Siskiyou's Multi-Tool Keychain goes wherever your keys do. The keychain hangs at 4 inches long when closed.
Our 18 ounce game day cups are what every tailgating or backyard events needs! The cups feature a big Iowa Hawkeyes logo so you can show off your team pride. The popular 18 ounce size is perfect for drinks or ping pong balls! 2 sleeves of 18 cups, 36 cups in total.
Our Iowa Hawkeyes rocks glass glass features a metal school emblem with vibrant enameled finish.
Trick out your golf gear with our Iowa Hawkeyes schedule coin that acts as a golf ball marker when on the links or a cool collector's item. The light weight coin features the teams football schedule in vivid team colors.
Our glass shot glasses are perfect for collectors or any game day event. The 2 ounce glasses feature bright, vidid digital Iowa Hawkeyes graphics.
Our glass shot glasses are perfect for collectors or any game day event. The 2 ounce glasses feature bright, vidid digital Iowa Hawkeyes graphics. Comes in a set of 2.
Who says glasses have to be glass, check out this ultra cool stainless steel 2 ounce collector's glass. The brushed metal glass has a painted, metal Iowa Hawkeyes emblem.
No tailgate party is complete without your Iowa Hawkeyes salt & pepper shakers featuring bright team graphics. The glass shakers are 3.75 inches tall and the screw top lids have holes that spell out P and S. These team shakers are a great grill accessory whether you are barbecuing on the patio, picnicing or having a game day party.
Spice it up with our Iowa Hawkeyes tailgater season shakers! This compact shaker is 2 inch tall with a twist top that closes off the holes at the top making it perfect for travel preventing those messy spills. The shaker has wide holes perfect for keeping your pepper seeds or cheese toppings. The bright team graphics will make you the envy of the other fans while you are grilling up your tailgating goodies.
Dog tag necklaces are a fashion statement that is here to stay. The sporty version of the classic tag features a gradient print in team colors featuring a full color team logo over a high polish tag to create a bold and sporty look. The tag comes on a 26 inch ball chain with a ball and joint clasp. Any Iowa Hawkeyes would be proud to wear this attractive fashion accessory.
This beautiful Iowa Hawkeyes wine stopper has a classy monochromatic logo on the top disc. The tapered rubber rings allow you to create a tight seal on multiple sizes of wine bottles so that you are able to preserve the wine for later enjoyment. This a perfect addition to a game day celebration.


Secure Digital, abbreviated as SD, is a non-volatile memory card format used in portable storage devices. This format was then developed by SD Association into an industry standard to ensure its specifications and compatibility at the same time. It is widely used in portable devices because of its small size, fast data transmission and hot plug features and so on.
Since some users do not protect the chip in an appropriate way, it is often covered with dust or oil, which causes the card reading to be abnormal.
Method: observe whether the metal area of the card is dim or whether there are spots.
Treatment: gently rub it with cotton cloth and some alcohol or water, and then re-insert it after drying.
Since high quality card reading has a very strict requirement to the power supply, sometimes buying non-original battery is also easy to make card reading go wrong.
Method: in case of non-original battery, the standby condition is not ideal, and then the reason of battery should be suspected.
Treatment: change to the original battery and try again.
For some ultra-thin devices, the slot is cleverly designed. If you use some informal batteries, the thickness exceeds the requirement and the slot is squeezed, resulting in a bad card reading condition.
Treatment: use the original battery. And use something to hold the slot up.
Because some phones support hot plug, frequent plug-and-unplug may cause the metal wires that read the card data in the slot to be curved or rusty.
Method: put the card slot towards the direction of the sun; observe whether the wire contact is at the same height. If not, then it may be the problem.
Treatment: try using a needle to adjust the wire.
For some smart phones, SD may get infected through computers, which can also result in an inability to read the card properly.
Method: read the SD on computer and scan it.
Treatment: format the card on a computer or other low-end storage (such as camera, etc.), and for format on a computer, use a FAT format instead of a FAT32 format.
Hope the above cautions and suggestions can help you correctly deal with some common problems concerning with reading SD cards.


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Well, it was awfully decadent to slip off so close to January 31, for the entire weekend.
But we did have a BLAST!
I was second guessing the wisdom of taking 2 nights away as we pulled up to our hotel in San Francisco at 9:30 pm, Friday. Since I had to work all day, was about the earliest we could swing. (Particularly since we dropped the kids off in another city). I was thinking I should have saved the timeshare points for a three-day weekend. But in the end it worked out - glad we did it.
We stayed at the same place we stayed a few years ago. I didn't realize and didn't really have great memories, but we ended up with a nice suite.
The weather was kind of blah.
We went to Ghiradelli for ice cream - it was right across the street. I actually had the idea beforehand because we used to take the 45-minute drive to SF in college, dh & I once in a blue moon very late at night, and pig out on their giant sundaes. So it we decided to relive our youth a bit.
It was a little dissapointing. For one, the place was filled with college kids so we did feel rather old. (The tourists cut out early I guess, and the college kids take over). PLUS they reduced the size of their sundaes by at least half. What the heck????? Good for the waistline I guess, but I had looked forward to an ice cream gourging. What I could barely finish in my 20s was now topped off in 5 minutes. LOL.
Saturday we lounged around and watched DVDs since it drizzled most of the morning. We were meeting good friends for lunch (who I am terrible at keeping in touch with) and they chose a nice restaurant in an old neighbohorhood where another friend had lived in college. We were already in the car when they said they may be an hour late, so we decided to visit the old neighborhood. Not sure if I took dh there much but there's these beautiful cliif side trails just about a half mile down from where we were meeting, so we went on an impromptu hike over there.
The area is called the "Cliff House" and there used to be an old arcade museum there with a lot of old fortune telling machines, player pianos and such. I couldn't find it though I Was sure it had been down by the beach. Dh thought I Was mistaken.
We eventually found out it had been moved to a big warehouse just blocks from our hotel. So we found it in the end.
So it was definitely great fun going back to that area, and we made it to the museum too, later. Then we met my friend for lunch and drinks. We made all sorts of plans to visit the City more. I was appalled she hadn't seen my youngest since he was an infant. I had just told him I would take him on the Bay Area "subway" sometime soon, so I think we have somewhere to take it to. (He is obsessed with trains, so that will be fun to do someday).
We actually were making plans to go to a sketch comedy show in the evening and to gorge ourselves on Indian food, but the comedy club was sold out and we decided at the last minute to get some Deli Sandwhiches and to go back to the hotel. We walked to the Fisherman's Wharf and all that, but it was crowded and not much exciting there. We decided to be cheap and boring instead.
Sunday we went for a walk around some of our old hangouts (the sun came out and it was just gorgeous that day). But we were kicked out of the hotel at 10am.
We decided to meet my parents for lunch and had some nice, quiet, no-kid time with them. My mom and I just ate sandwhiches while dh and my dad went out to some Asian buffet. So we just had a nice time.
We headed over to a cousin's birthday party at 2:00 to pick up the kids. MIL kept telling us not to come until 4:00, but we knew when the party was and we wanted our kids, so we crashed it I guess. LOL.
WE didn't quite get out until 4:30 and we're hoping to get home in time for dinner.
We got on the road and it was magnificent. One of my most fond memories is our 1st Wedding ANniversary when we took the day off work and went for a drive on the coast, paid for a really fancy lunch on the beach and watched this magnificent lightning storm (quite rare). IT was just one of those incredible days.
So as we headed east towards the hills yesterday, they were just emrald green but there were these massive storm clouds in the distance and rainbows just everywhere. We saw some lightning in the distance and thought we might get quite a show. It didn't really amount to much, but we apparently missed a massive hail storm by about minutes. WE passed a number of accidents that had just happened, and there were piles of white ice around each accident. We marveled how we were lucky we got out a little slower than we intended. We hardly saw any rain the whole drive, so it was actually quite nice. The storm seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. I don't know if I have ever seen such magnificent rainbows though.
Anyway, yeah, I feel completely rejuvenated. Nothing like a weekend of astounding beauty to just rejuvenate your soul. I forgot how beautiful San Francisco can be. & the drive home was incredible.
We ended up spending about $170 for the weekend. Not bad, if you ask me.
$45 parking (2 nights), $20 gas for the car (drove about 350 miles; took the gas sipper), about $25 eating in (breakfast, snacks, deli), and about $80 on eating out, drinks, ice cream. About $60 of that was lunch and ice cream. We ate some fast food with the kids on the drive down. My dad treated for the lunch buffet. I treated my mom to sandwhiches though.
My frugal move was to bring my own soda.
Well, it's back to reality for me. I got some pics I will share later.
sounds like you had a really lovely weekend it is nice to do that sometimes. can't wait to see some pics!
So glad you had a good time. SF is a beautiful city. Your post brought back memories of when I was a kid and used to ice skate every weekend (and more often in the summer) at Sutro's, just down the street from the Cliff House. It burned down years ago, but I sure have a lot of memories from my ice-skating days.
Glad to hear you had a great time. $170 for a fun weekend in the City on the Wharf is a steal. Good job!
It sounds as though you had a really nice weekend - and all that for just $170 is awesome!
Hey, MM, thanks for the tip on the Scholastic warehouse. I worked there for a few hours today. I got my 24 free books and I'm pretty pleased. If there were more hours on Saturday, I'd volunteer for a few more! And Anny put me on the list for the next sale. A bit tedious, but tax-free books!
Glad you had a fun time! The low price tag is pretty cool too!!


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Just south of Adelaide, is the Fleurieu Peninsula, we had spent the day hopping between the small seaside villages that lie along the coast roads and decided upon Sellicks Beach for sunset. A local came out of his ocean view home to point us in the direction of some stairs where we could get down to the beach if we wanted. We watched the last golden light kiss the land before slipping below the ocean, then hung around until the light changed blue then wandered back to our car in the twilight.
For a long time we've been wanting to gather our favourite images from the landscape that inspires us the most, home. There really is nowhere else like Australia, "its beauty rich and rare". These images have been collected over the last few years from various travels and road trips and we plan to add to the collection as we continue to explore this great wide land. Our hope is that these images and stories will take you to our favourite places in Australia and stir the emotions we felt there.


The team, Ana Tiwary, Bachir Khoury, Susanne Gervay, Anuraj Ghambir and Barbara Harvey presented the project to over 250 AR/VR fans/experts.
"The Flying Elephant" is based on the award winning book, "Elephants Have Wings" by Susanne Gervay. Gervay spoke about the book and her motivation for writing: "I write for peace" she shared with the audience.
The project is one of the first applications of augmented reality via story telling. And the audience were interviewed afterwards regarding their reaction to the project, and it was unanimous. "The Flying Elephant" is going places.


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What is a PERC Solar Cell?
This article was written by guest blogger, Dr KT Tan, Technical Director at Viridian Solar
What is the fuss about PERC?
Anyone who follows the latest developments in the Solar Photovoltaic market will have come across the technical term PERC at least once in the past year or so. All respectable suppliers compete to launch the best PERC as a means to secure the premium part of the market share.
PERC stands for Passivated Emitter Rear Cell; the concept was first proposed by the University of New South Wales in a grant report in 1984 (1). As a matter of fact, the modern PERC generally refers to two specific configurations called PERT (Passivated Emitter, Rear Totally-diffused), and PERL (Passivated Emitter, Rear Locally-doped), which have proven to be the most viable solutions amongst other PERC configurations (2).
The PERC concept has taken some time to meet with commercial success, with the first high efficiency solar cells being fabricated in a lab with up to 20% efficiency from the 1990s onwards (3). Obviously at the time, there were other competing technologies, e.g. back contact and HIT. Hence, the PERC concept was only one of many promising ideas to increase solar cell efficiency. It took nearly 30 years for the industry to catch up with the concept and produce efficiencies achieved at the research level.
How does a PERC Solar Cell work?
In a nutshell, a PERC solar cell can be created by adding a rear surface passivation film to a conventional crystalline cell. In practice, it involves two additional steps: first, a rear passivation film is applied. Then, either lasers or chemicals are used to open up tiny pockets in the film through which the rear conducting layer can contact the silicon below the passivation layer. Figure 1 compares the configurations of conventional and PERC solar cells.
Figure 1: Comparison of cell configurations
The above technique enables the efficiency of the solar cell to be improved in three ways:
1. By minimising surface recombination
The atoms at the surface of a silicon wafer have 'dangling bonds' which can capture charge carrying electrons and pull them back into the silicon crystal structure (a process called surface recombination). As a result, when an electron reaches the back surface of a conventional solar cell, it is likely to be captured and does not contribute to the current. However in a PERC solar cell, a passivated film is grown on the back surface of the solar cell and reduces this effect by tying up the 'dangling bonds'. A charge carrying electron that strays too close to the back surface is allowed to continue on its way and the chance it will reach the emitter and contribute to the electric current produced by the solar cell is increased. (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - How a PERC cell increases efficiency by decreasing surface recombination.
Longer wavelengths (red light) generate electrons near the back surface, compared to shorter wavelengths (blue light) (4). Since the PERC solar cell helps prevent surface recombination, it will still be able to capture these wavelengths (5). This capability increases the solar cell performance during mornings and evenings when longer wavelengths are present, which leads to the claims of better weak light performance by many manufacturers.
2. By Increasing Internal Reflectivity to Capture More Light
The rear film reflects the light that passes through the solar cell without being absorbed. This provides the light with more opportunity for a second absorption attempt (see Figure 3). In other words, the efficiency of energy conversion is just becoming higher.
Figure 3 PERC cell increases efficiency by reflecting light back through the solar cell
3. By Reflecting Counter-productive Wavelengths
Generally, silicon solar cells stop absorbing wavelengths above 1180 nm, instead they are absorbed by the backside metallisation layer and tuned into heat (4). The rear passivated film reflects these counter-productive wavelengths out of the solar cell and hence maintains cooler temperatures. As a result, PERC solar cells are considered to have better heat resistance.
All of the above, if manufactured correctly, will undoubtedly increase the solar cell efficiency. The current commercially available PERC solar cells are in excess of 20% with a record efficiency of nearly 23%. As this technology is piggybacked on conventional silicon solar cells, you can bet the efficiency will not stop here and will keep on improving!
Why has it become the most exciting feature amongst the new PV technologies?
It has been a holy grail in the PV industry to find a product with the highest possible efficiency, while maintaining the low manufacturing cost. To some extent, PERC solar cells provide the answer. Hence, it is not surprising that this technology has a rosy outlook.
From standstill, the PERC commercial production capacity is expected to occupy nearly half of the total solar PV cell capacity by 2020 (see Figure 4) (6).
Figure 4: Global production capacity for PV cells from 2016 to 2020 (Source: Energy Trend)
The main attraction is that the PERC production requires minimum modifications to existing solar cell manufacturing lines. The existing lines can easily be upgraded to produce PERC solar cells without having to invest in large capital expenditures or completely overhaul the entire lines.
In other words, one could increase the solar cell efficiency without having to take huge financial risks. Meanwhile, by recycling most of the existing equipment, one simply makes the money work harder for the original investment. It appears to be a no brainer.
Too good to be true?
Despite the PERC being a thirty year old concept, they have not been tested commercially until quite recently. It was first reported by Ramspeck (7) that PERC cells can exhibit stronger power degradations during the early days through a process called light-induced degradation (LID).
Fraunhofer Centre for Silicon Photovoltaics in Germany subsequently conducted extensive research to find out the degradation mechanism due to illumination (8). They were mainly attributed to chemical and physical root causes, namely Boron-oxygen complex activation and Iron-boron pair dissociation for the former, and elevated temperature for the latter.
To be fair, LID is not a new phenomenon, affecting conventional solar cells too. This type of degradation has simply entered the spotlight with the introduction of mass-produced PERC solar cells.
In response, some cell manufacturers have addressed the issue by adopting small changes to the solar cell process, such as modified process temperatures and different wafer materials (9).
PERC is going to take centre stage in the foreseeable future. This technology will progressively take a bigger market share – the benefits to developers, designers and installers are obvious.
Sooner or later, most of the PV modules will feature this technology. One just has to carefully choose trusted, quality suppliers with proven test records.
This fuss is, after all, worth paying attention to.
1. M.A. Green, A.W. Blakers, J. Kurianski, S. Narayanan, J. Shi, T. Szpitalak, M. Taouk, S.R. Wenham and M.R. Willison, Ultimate Performance Silicon Solar Cells, Final Report, NERDDP Project 81/1264, Jan. 82-Dec. 83 (dated Feb., 1984).
2. M.A. Green, The Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC): From conception to mass production, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 143 (2015) 190-197.
3. C.J. Chiangand, E.H. Richards, A 20% efficient photovoltaic concentrator module, conferencerecord,21st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Kissimmee, May 1990, pp.861–863.
4. D. de Rooij, PPERC solar cell technology: why will PERC dominate silicon cell technology? 2015 (http://sinovoltaics.com/solar-cells/perc-solar-cell-technology-will-perc-dominate-silicon-cell-technology/).
5. PERC cells: production costs down, efficiency up. May 2016. (https://www.pv-magazine.com/press-releases/perc-cells-production-costs-down-efficiency-up_100024647/)
6. TrendForce Reports PERC Cell's Global Production Capacity to Reach 25GW in 2017, Resulting in Doubling of Total Annual Output. 19/1/2017 (http://press.trendforce.com/press/20170119-2737.html)
7. Ramspeck, K. et al. 2012, "Light induced degradation of rear passivated mc-Si cells", Proc. 27th EU PVSEC, Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 861–865.
8. Tabea Luka, Christian Hagendorf & Marko Turek, Multicrystalline PERC solar cells: Is light-induced degradation challenging the efficiency gain of rear passivation? Photovoltaics International, 2016
9. Haase, J. Mono as well as multi PERC cells will get a significant market share, PV Magazine 10/2015, pp.74 -77.
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By BUSINESS DAILY
The SGR line has terminated in the remote village in Suswa after Kenya ran out of funds to extend the line to Kisumu then to Malaba to connect with Uganda.
The Chinese government developed cold feet mid-way and refused to finance the project beyond Naivasha asking for feasibility study and assurance by Uganda to extend the line to Kampala.
Protect key infrastructure from runaway vandalism
The vandalised SGR in Murtoto, Suswa. The costly infrastructure has been lying idle since the project stalled. PHOTO ROBERT GICHIRA | NMG
The shocking revelations that vandals are tearing down Kenya's Sh477 billion Standard Gauge Railway should be followed up by quick action from the government.
A Business Daily report revealed vandals are chipping away the abandoned line one bridge at a time, selling off the railway as scrap metal in neighbouring towns as Kenya Railways police deployed to man the line sleep on the job.
At least three bridges have bene vandalized in Murtoto, Suswa, about six kilometres deep into the wilderness from the Mai Mahiu-Narok highway.
Vandalism menace has been on the rise especially of huge infrastructure projects including the Makupa Causeway in Mombasa County where criminals made away with two out of four beams supporting the bridge from below compromising its structural integrity.
How vandals are chipping away railway in the bush - VIDEO
Widen vandalism fight
The government is aware of the destruction and President Uhuru Kenyatta publicly warned the vandals when he launched the Madaraka Express passenger train service in May 2017 that he would not hesitate to sign off capital punishment if they did not keep their hands off the project.
Section 343 of the Penal Code states that a person who damages the railway works, with an intent to endanger life or with the knowledge that it is likely to endanger life, is liable to imprisonment for life.
Despite the threat of punishment and requisite law in place the government has failed to protect the line against vandals as the government relies on local guards to police the hundreds of kilometers of railway.
The government may need to invest in better monitoring systems including surveillance and intelligence to protect the hundreds of billion investment spent on the line.
This is also wakeup call for the government to review scrap metal trade in Kenya to enforce the law on licensing dealers and tracking the source of their scrap metal.


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Scottsbluff – Midwest Theater
Sometimes all it take s is a rumor or two, or casual talk at the downtown café to stir people to action. Many good movie plots have been based on little more. Consider the classic "On the Waterfront," or the more up-to-date "Norma Rae."
In 1997, Scottsbluff (pop. 14,732), had its own making for an award-winning script when talk began circulating about tearing down the historic Midwest Theater. Motivated by fear of losing their significant city landmark, volunteers and citizens formed "Friends of the Midwest Theater in fall 1998 to save the facility that has been described as 'a crown jewel of the Panhandle theatres,' among other things.
Built in 1946 after a fire destroyed the Egyptian Theater, the Midwest is an example of Modernistic-style architecture associated with the 1940s era. The theater's most prominent feature, according to the May 1, 1946 Scottsbluff Star Herald, was "the marquee with a stainless steel and aluminum tower extending 60' above the entrance." The tower's literally shining center features 132 aluminum stars that when backlit at night, can be seen from as far away as 20 miles. On opening day, May 3, 1946, Midwest's owner W.H. Ostenberg Jr., president of Midwest Amusement and Realty Company, proclaimed the facility with its exceptionally high-quality architectural and artistic interior and exterior features as 'one of the finest in the United States.' The theater eventually made the National Register of Historic Places.
Time took its toll, however. In 1961, the t heater was sold to Commonwealth Theaters, Inc. Multiplex theater complexes came into vogue in the '90s. On September 12, 1996, the theater closed its doors and the building was donated to the Oregon Trail Community Foundation.
Yearning to restore the theater's grand-opening splendor, Friends of the Midwest Theater worked with the Foundation. The nonprofit organization hosted a number of fundraisers to cover the costs of renovations. To date their aggressive fundraising campaign efforts have netted $600,000 in local donations, a $325,000 Peter Kiewit Foundation Challenge Grant, and $45,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), funding awarded by Governor Mike Johanns in September 2001. One interesting fundraiser involved award-winning director/screenwriter Alexander Payne, a Nebraska native, whose volunteer efforts in 2002, helped net $20,000 in donations during the first Midwest Film Festival, held at the theater. Payne traveled from Los Angeles to Scottsbluff to screen his films for eager movie patrons and donors.
While Friends of the Midwest Theater has yet to raise its full goal, major renovations have been made, including work on the exterior marquee, interior neon lighting, and a stage extension, all funded through the CDBG.
The Midwest Theater is, once again, back in the limelight where it belongs; a primary gathering place for events ranging from classic and second-run movies, to concerts, live theater, speakers, church services, televised Husker games, dance performances, class reunions, and wedding receptions. The local library, Boy and Girl Scout troops, service organizations, artists, teachers, and historians are some of the groups that regularly use the facility.
" Through the efforts of the Friends of the Midwest Theater, they have not only restored a wonderful building, but have restored a lot of memories," said Ken Meyer, who has lived most of his life in the Scottsbluff area.
The Midwest Theater has moved in to the 21st century, but its' $2.50 movie tickets, low- cost concessions and reasonable rental fees are delightful reminders of its grand past. The restoration also has resulted in a pleasant surprise that dovetails with the goals of Scottsbluff city officials and business leaders—a downtown renaissance. The theater's rebirth is leading to more people spending more time downtown in shops, restaurants and even a recently opened comedy club. A local bank hosts a monthly movie for it's '55 and over customers,' typically drawing 120-150 people per screening on a Thursday morning—a testament to how the Midwest Theater continues to impact people from all walks of life in Scottsbluff and the surrounding area.
"I have many fond memories of the Midwest Theater and love reflecting on the good times we had at the theater," said Donna Hessler, who worked as a theater usherette during her high school years. "The Midwest Theater is definitely a showcase for our community and I am thrilled that the Friends of the Midwest have taken the initiative to save this landmark for future generations."


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Page links to video of someone being energetic in Lycra …actually, no change there, then The UCI's Facebook page (link is external) was hacked today – and it took several hours for world cycling's governing body to be able to get back to business as usual on the social network ahead of one of its biggest weekends of the year.
Instead of learning the latest about the build-up to the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships at Zolder in the Netherlands, from lunchtime onwards visitors were greeted to delights such as a twerking freestyle video and footage of the Dribble Sisters running through their dance moves. Both those videos were linked from the website 9Gag.tv via Laughwithvoice.com and it's safe to say neither is 100 per cent safe for work (although the twerking video does feature someone being rather energetic while dressed in Lycra, so does at least have in common with more usual UCI fare).