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  1. Reward is enough.David Silver, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup & Richard S. Sutton - 2021 - Artificial Intelligence 299 (C):103535.
  2. Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm.David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan & Demis Hassabis - 2017 - .
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    A Strawsonian Defense of Corporate Moral Responsibility.David Silver - 2005 - American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (4):279 - 293.
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    Business Ethics After Citizens United: A Contractualist Analysis.David Silver - 2015 - Journal of Business Ethics 127 (2):385-397.
    In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , the US Supreme Court sharply curtailed the ability of the state to limit political speech by for-profit corporations. This new legal situation elevates the question of corporate political involvement: in what manner and to what extent is it ethical for for-profit corporations to participate in the political process in a liberal democratic society? Using Scanlon’s version of contractualism, I argue for a number of substantive and procedural constraints on the political activities of (...)
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    Competition, Value Creation and the Self-Understanding of Business.David Silver - 2016 - Business Ethics Journal Review 4 (10):59-65.
    In defense of his Market Failures Approach to business ethics Joseph Heath relies on an understanding of business as essentially oriented towards competition and profit maximization. In these remarks I defend an alternative understanding of business that is centered on the creation of valuable goods and services. It is preferable because it: (a) creates less pressure to take advantage of vulnerable stakeholders, (b) can readily recognize “beyond compliance” norms that do not relate to efficiency, (c) provides a more meaningful framework (...)
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  6. Religious experience and the facts of religious pluralism.David Silver - 2001 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49 (1):1-17.
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    Citizens as Contractualist Stakeholders.David Silver - 2012 - Journal of Business Ethics 109 (1):3-13.
    This article examines the way that for-profit businesses should take into account the interests of the citizens in the liberal democratic societies in which they operate. I will show how a contractualist version of stakeholder theory identifies the relevant moral interests of both shareholders and citizen stakeholders, and provides a method for giving their interests appropriate consideration. These include (1) the interests that individuals have with respect to private property, (2) the interests citizens have in receiving equitable consideration in the (...)
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    Collective Responsibility and the Ownership of Actions.David Silver - forthcoming - Public Affairs Quarterly.
  9. Collective responsibility, corporate responsibility and moral taint.David Silver - 2006 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 30 (1):269–278.
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    Democratic Governance and the Ethics of Market Compliance.David Silver - 2020 - Journal of Business Ethics 173 (3):525-537.
    The “question of reasonable compliance” concerns how business firms should comply with morally reasonable laws that have been democratically enacted. This article argues that, out of respect for the governing authority of democratic citizens, firms should comply with the law in accordance with legislators’ normative expectations of compliance. It defends this view against arguments from the legal, economic and business ethics literatures that focus on the contentious nature of democracy and the competitive nature of the market. In response this article (...)
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    The Moral Accountability of the Financial Industry for the Global Financial Crisis.David Silver - 2018 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 42 (1):95-116.
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    Monte-Carlo tree search and rapid action value estimation in computer Go.Sylvain Gelly & David Silver - 2011 - Artificial Intelligence 175 (11):1856-1875.
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    Lethal injection, autonomy and the proper ends of medicine.David Silver - 2003 - Bioethics 17 (2):205–211.
    Gerald Dworkin has argued that it is inconsistent with the proper ends of medicine for a physician to participate in an execution by lethal injection. He does this by proposing a principle by which we are to judge whether an action is consistent with the proper ends of medicine. I argue: (a) that this principle, if valid, does not show that it is inconsistent with the proper ends of medicine for a physician to participate in an execution by lethal injection; (...)
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    Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Value of Autonomy.David Silver - 2005 - Journal of Business Ethics 59 (1-2):3-8.
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    Meaningful Work and the Purpose of the Firm.David Silver - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics 185 (4):825-834.
    This paper argues in favor of the _end user thesis_, which holds that the fundamental goal of the firm is to create products and services that provide a benefit to _the people who ultimately use them._ The argument turns on the interest that employees have in work that is meaningful, in the sense that it is an activity worth spending time doing. I argue that a person’s life is diminished to the extent that work constitutes a central feature, but is (...)
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  16. Personal identity and psychological continuity.Michael C. Rea & David Silver - 2000 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (1):185-194.
    In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks’s argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is good reason to doubt that Merricks’s argument is valid.
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    Defending the independence constraint: A reply to Snider.David Silver - 2008 - Religious Studies 44 (2):203-207.
    In an earlier paper I argued that Alvin Plantinga's defence of pure experiential theism (a theism epistemically based on religious experience) against the evidential problem of evil is inappropriately circular. Eric Snider rejects my argument claiming first that I do not get Plantinga's thought right. Second, he rejects a key principle my argument relies on, viz. the 'independence constraint on neutralizers'. Finally, he offers an alternative to the independence constraint which allows the pure experiential theist to deal successfully with the (...)
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    Evolutionary Naturalism and the Reliability of Our Cognitive Faculties.David Silver - 2003 - Faith and Philosophy 20 (1):50-62.
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    Pandemic Preparation, Democracy, and the Morality of the Market.David Silver - 2021 - Business Ethics Journal Review 9 (5):27-32.
    This Commentary investigates ethical issues surrounding the US government’s attempt to partner with a private company to produce a new low-cost ventilator as part of its pandemic preparation plans. I argue that firms have distinct duties with respect to such public-private partnerships. In contrast to approaches that analyze these duties in terms of an “implicit morality” of the market, I analyze them in terms of democratically authorized plans regarding how to structure the market.
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  20. Religious experience and the evidential argument from evil.David Silver - 2002 - Religious Studies 38 (3):339-353.
    This paper examines Alvin Plantinga's defence of theistic belief in the light of Paul Draper's formulation of the problem of evil. Draper argues (a) that the facts concerning the distribution of pain and pleasure in the world are better explained by a hypothesis which does not include the existence of God than by a hypothesis which does; and (b) that this provides an epistemic challenge to theists. Plantinga counters that a theist could accept (a) yet still rationally maintain a belief (...)
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    Business Ethics in the 21st Century, by Norman E. Bowie. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-9400762220. [REVIEW]David Silver - 2015 - Business Ethics Quarterly 25 (2):279-282.
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