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The Sensible Reason
… innovative perspective, suggesting that sensible reasoning in argumentation is a process that imparts meaning and coherence to what is expressed, explaining both the argumentative levels and the process of persuasion within argumentation. The relevance of this contribution lies in its unique …
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Deprived of reason
Deprived of Reason is a work of creative nonfiction that illuminates the beginning stages of a personal experience with chronic mental illness and depicts examples of events chronicled for years in personal diaries and medical records, including bipolar disorder, PTSD, and dissociative disorders. …
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Reason and Insight in Learning
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One and the same reason
… relationship between theoretical and practical reason. I argue that these two kinds of reason are unified in important respects. In Chapter One I argue that there is a single, fundamental kind of reasoning (roughly, unrestrained self-reflection) and that theoretical and practical reason ought to …
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Inevitable magic – reason, magic and manipulation
… rational ones, are assumed in events that defy reasonable probability. To investigate magical thinking, 64 adults were tested in a novel experiment where they were told they were playing an online game with opposing players. However, neither the “Game” nor the opposing players were real. It was …
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Reason Versus Reinforcement in Behavior Modification
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A modern synthesis of faith and reason
… ideas have been declared as meaningless by the 'reasoning' of the natural sciences; This thesis will develop a modern paradigm that will synthesize subjective values coming from the 'faith' side of rational beings with the objective values obtained from their objective (abstract reasoning) side …
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Teaching AIs to Reason and Code, Confidentially
… an end-to-end framework that teaches AI to reason about code and executes it on a decentralized, privacy-preserving infrastructure. At the modeling layer, I orchestrate a quorum of specialized LLM agents. A Director LLM coordinates a concept agent rooted in programming-language theory, …
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Making moral decisions : reason, emotion and luck
Christine Korsgaard is concerned with what justifies the claims morality makes on us; that is, the normative question. She puts forth a thesis in Sources of Normativity in which she tries to address and solve the normative problem. Her thesis relies on the reflective capacity of our minds which …
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Kant and the Universal Claims of Reason
… of freedom, as well as the Kantian claim that reason can function as a motive cause of behaviour. In defense of this claim, I discuss the development of British moral philosophy from Hobbes through Hume. Focusing primarily on the Empiricists, I argue that a commitment to Newtonian mechanism led …
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Loomings: the sleep of reason produces monsters
To Architect is to always work with others. Working with others, though, can be hell, as friction abounds in the process of multiple voices and stances coalescing into one. I design as a form of co-authorship, a processional lineage of the works of others. I build off of foundations previously …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
This paper explores the depiction and function of madness on the Renaissance stage, specifically its development as trope of the English revenge tragedy from its Elizabethan conception to its Jacobean advent through a representative engagement of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William …
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
… Jürgen Habermas’s philosophy of communicative reason successfully defends the Enlightenment notion of Reason as the vehicle of truth and progress, while integrating Postmodern insights into the illusory nature of metaphysical foundations. Habermas discards the Enlightenment philosophy of the …
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The ban on reason: Gays in the military
This thesis seeks to explain how and why President Bill Clinton's 1993 attempt to drop the ban on homosexuals serving in the military was vehemently opposed by key stakeholders, even though empirical evidence strongly indicates that the ban is unwarranted and conflicts with America's democratic …
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Korsgaard on Reason and the Normativity of Rationality
… role in the deliberative activity of reason. After surveying the treatment of this question in the relevant literature, I explain Korsgaard's theory using pure constructivism as a framing device. I then argue that not only is her account of deliberative reason as an activity …
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How moral knowledge motivates: a practical reason account
… and act morally we recognise and respond to reasons that are there whether we recognise them or not. This is the claim defended in this thesis. It has two aspects. The first is that acts of moral judgement aspire, sometimes successfully, to moral knowledge. This is moral cognitivism. The …
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There Must Be a Reason People Come Here
<p>The poems in this collection are meant to be read as a preparation of ground and ask to be connected to a larger thought beyond the discrete experience of the poem itself. That thought is that no artistic expression exists outside of the historical conditions in which it was made, and those …
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