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Special Collections Worksheet
A set of categories and questions intended to guide students' examination of and engagement with an item during a class session in a Special Collections library.
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Model-Building in Philosophy
One notable form of progress in the natural and social sciences over the past century has been the development of better and better models of the phenomena they study. The models are typically presented in mathematical terms: for instance, by differential equations for the rise and fall in population of a predator species and a prey species, interacting only with each other, or by a set of ordered pairs for the networking relations in a society.
When a system resists direct study, because it is so complex or hard to observe, model-building constitutes a key fall-back strategy. Studying a...
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"Allies" of Depression: Epistemic Injustice, Stigmatizing Attitudes, and the Need for Empathy
Preliminary Essay for PhD Program. Received two high passes on November 20th, 2015
[currently under review for publication]
When a person openly discusses suffering from depressed moods or a depressive disorder, how do we ensure not to violate their trust? This paper evaluates the forms of depression stigma that are perpetrated by “allies”, or those who claim to support and care for depression sufferers. While “allies” may have good intentions, their actions and attitudes towards mental illness may be all the more stigmatizing towards individuals suffering from depression. I will use the...
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A Defense of Scalar Utilitarianism
Scalar Utilitarianism eschews foundational notions of rightness and wrongness in favor of evaluative comparisons of outcomes. I defend Scalar Utilitarianism from two compelling critiques, the first against an argument for the thesis that Utilitarianism’s commitments are fundamentally evaluative (or Scalar) and the second that Scalar Utilitarianism does not issue demands or sufficiently guide action. These defenses suggest a variety of more plausible Scalar Utilitarian interpretations, and I argue for a version that best represents a moral theory founded on evaluative notions and offers...
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Supporting peer help and collaboration in distributed workplace environments
Abstract. Increasingly, organizations are geographically distributed with activities coordinated and integrated through the use of information technology. Such organizations face constant change and the corresponding need for continual learning and renewal of their workers. In this paper we describe a prototype system called PHelpS (Peer Help System) that facilitates workers in carrying out such “life long learning”. PHelpS supports workers as they perform their tasks, offers assistance in finding peer helpers when ...
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