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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Settore PHIL-02/A - Logica e filosofia della scienza"”.
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The Other Option
… by the odds-threshold method. This allows for a logical characterization of the belief revision properties induced on binary beliefs by Jeffrey conditioning (JC) on a piece of evidence. Specifically, we show that if JC is assumed to be successful – namely, the evidence is implied by the …
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INVESTIGATING CAUSAL SELECTION: CAUSAL JUDGMENTS BETWEEN NORMS AND EXPECTATIONS
… considerable attention in recent years, both in philosophy and in cognitive science: causal selection. Experimental studies have shown that various factors—such as norms, agent knowledge, and the causal structure of the situation —affect people's attribution of different degrees of causality to …
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CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN MORAL DECISION-MAKING
… forward by Joshua Greene, proposes that deontological judgments are produced by affective intuitions while consequentialist judgements usually are the product of cognitive deliberation. Greene and colleagues (2001, 2004) have backed up this claim with empirical evidence coming from fMRI …
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SOCIAL AND REPUTATIONAL DRIVERS OF SUNK-COST SENSITIVITY IN INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
Why do people stick with failing plans after investing resources? This dissertation argues that sunk-cost behavior is shaped more by social pressures than by cognitive bias. Across three preregistered, “waste-free” studies, I show that people persist to protect reputation and …