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    The Role of Short-Termism and Uncertainty Avoidance in Organizational Inaction on Climate Change: A Multi-Level Framework.Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Timo Busch, Jonatan Pinkse & Natalie Slawinski - 2017 - Business and Society 56 (2):253-282.
    Despite increasing pressure to deal with climate change, firms have been slow to respond with effective action. This article presents a multi-level framework for a better understanding of why many firms are failing to reduce their absolute greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change. The concepts of short-termism and uncertainty avoidance from research in psychology, sociology, and organization theory can explain the phenomenon of organizational inaction on climate change. Antecedents related to short-termism and uncertainty avoidance reinforce one (...)
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    Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty: Problems of Epistemic Inference.Mark Taper, Gordon Brittan & Prasanta Bandyopadhyay - 2016 - Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. Edited by Gordon Brittan Jr & Mark L. Taper.
    It can be demonstrated in a very straightforward way that confirmation and evidence as spelled out by us can vary from one case to the next, that is, a hypothesis may be weakly confirmed and yet the evidence for it can be strong, and conversely, the evidence may be weak and the confirmation strong. At first glance, this seems puzzling; the puzzlement disappears once it is understood that confirmation is of single hypotheses, in which there is an initial degree of (...)
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  3. Testimony and the epistemic uncertainty of interpretation.Andrew Peet - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (2):395-416.
    In the epistemology of testimony it is often assumed that audiences are able to reliably recover asserted contents. In the philosophy of language this claim is contentious. This paper outlines one problem concerning the recovery of asserted contents, and argues that it prevents audiences from gaining testimonial knowledge in a range of cases. The recovery problem, in essence, is simply that due to the collective epistemic limitations of the speaker and audience speakers will, in certain cases, be insensitive to the (...)
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    Ambiguity and uncertainty in probabilistic inference.Hillel J. Einhorn & Robin M. Hogarth - 1985 - Psychological Review 92 (4):433-461.
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  5. Smokers, Psychos, and Decision-Theoretic Uncertainty.William MacAskill - 2016 - Journal of Philosophy 113 (9):425-445.
    In this paper I propose an approach to decision theory that I call metanormativism, where the key idea is that decision theory should take into account decision-theoretic uncertainty. I don’t attempt to argue in favor of this view, though I briefly offer some motivation for it. Instead, I argue that if the view is correct, it has important implications for the causal versus evidential decision-theory debate. First, it allows us to make rational sense of our seemingly divergent intuitions across (...)
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    Graininess of judgment under uncertainty: An accuracy-informativeness trade-off.Ilan Yaniv & Dean P. Foster - 1995 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 124 (4):424.
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    Managing Our Uncertainty in the Crisis.Richard Bradley & Liam Kofi Bright - 2020 - The Philosophers' Magazine 90:32-35.
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    Implications of moral uncertainty: implausible or just unpalatable?Mike King - 2019 - Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (7):451-452.
    Setting aside some complexities, Koplin and Wilkinson1 argue: 1. Moral status is uncertain if there is a non-zero chance that an entity has, or would develop, full moral status. 2. If its moral status is uncertain, then moral caution is warranted towards that entity. 3. The moral status of both non-chimeric pigs and human-pig chimaeras is uncertain. Therefore, consistency demands that moral caution is warranted towards both non-chimeric pigs and human-pig chimaeras. 4. The commonly held view is that moral caution (...)
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    Watching the crown: Tangible uncertainty. A photographic essay of Melbourne in the time of the novel coronavirus.Sian Supski - 2023 - Thesis Eleven 177 (1):28-63.
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    The Stem Cell Uncertainty Principle.Melinda Bonnie Fagan - 2013 - Philosophy of Science 80 (5):945-957.
    Stem cells are defined as having capacities for both self-renewal and differentiation. Many different entities satisfy this working definition. I show that this general stem cell concept is relative to a cell lineage, temporal duration, and characters of interest. Experiments specify values for these variables. So claims about stem cells must be understood in terms of experimental methods used to identify them. Furthermore, the stem cell concept imposes evidential constraints on interpretation of experimental results. From these constraints, it follows that (...)
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  11. Rationality and uncertainty.Amartya Sen - 1985 - Theory and Decision 18 (2):109-127.
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    Intention and Uncertainty.Herbert Paul Grice - 1971 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
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    Clinical Equipoise and Not the Uncertainty Principle Is the Moral Underpinning of the Randomised Controlled Trial.Charles Weijer, Stanley H. Shapiro & Kathleen Cranley Glass - unknown
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    Democracy under uncertainty: The wisdom of crowds and the free-rider problem in group decision making.Tatsuya Kameda, Takafumi Tsukasaki, Reid Hastie & Nathan Berg - 2011 - Psychological Review 118 (1):76-96.
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    Effects of Uncertainty on ERPs to Emotional Pictures Depend on Emotional Valence.Huiyan Lin, Hua Jin, Jiafeng Liang, Ruru Yin, Ting Liu & Yiwen Wang - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  16. Epistemic modality and coordination under uncertainty.Giorgio Sbardolini - 2021 - Proceedings of TARK 355:295--306.
    Communication facilitates coordination, but coordination might fail if there's too much uncertainty. I discuss a scenario in which vagueness-driven uncertainty undermines the possibility of publicly sharing a belief. I then show that asserting an epistemic modal sentence, 'Might p', can reveal the speaker's uncertainty, and that this may improve the chances of coordination despite the lack of a common epistemic ground. This provides a game-theoretic rationale for epistemic modality. The account draws on a standard relational semantics for (...)
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    Science and Uncertainty.Kostas Kampourakis - 2018 - Science & Education 27 (9-10):829-830.
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    Legitimating reason or self-created uncertainty? Public opinion as an observer of modern politics.Giancarlo Corsi - 2017 - Thesis Eleven 143 (1):44-55.
    Theoretical approaches to public opinion are hard to find in the sociological literature, with the exception of the seminal work of Jürgen Habermas. One important alternative, although almost unknown in the English-speaking world, is offered in a few contributions by the systems theoretician Niklas Luhmann. Both critical theory and systems theory start from a historical analysis of the conditions that led to the rise of a public sphere and understand its function as the limitation and control of the arbitrariness of (...)
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    Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization.Robyn Bourgeois - 2018 - Studies in Social Justice 12 (2):413-415.
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    Corrigendum: Target Uncertainty During Motor Decision-Making: The Time Course of Movement Variability Reveals the Effect of Different Sources of Uncertainty on the Control of Reaching Movements.Melanie Krüger & Joachim Hermsdörfer - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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  21. A methodology for developing real-time diagnostic expert systems under uncertainty.X. P. Yang, D. Okrent & O. I. Smith - 1991 - Ai 1991 Frontiers in Innovative Computing for the Nuclear Industry Topical Meeting, Jackson Lake, Wy, Sept. 15-18, 1991 1.
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    The ordinal utility under uncertainty and the measure of risk aversion in terms of preferences.Aldo Montesano - 1985 - Theory and Decision 18 (1):73-85.
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    The cult of uncertainty.Isaac Leon Kandel - 1943 - New York,: Arno Press.
  24. Two puzzles concerning measures of uncertainty and the positive Boolean connectives.Gregory Wheeler - 2007 - In Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007). Springer.
     
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  25. Moral knowledge and moral uncertainty.Oswald Hanfling - 2008 - Philosophical Investigations 31 (2):105–123.
    Applying a broadly Wittgensteinian view of knowledge and its relation to the conditions in which the word “know” is ordinarily used, the paper defends the claim that there can be knowledge in moral matters and rejects the idea that a cross‐culturally homogeneous moral language is a necessary condition for this. However, the fact that moral knowledge is available sometimes does not imply that it is available always. Taking issue in particular with Ronald Dworkin, the paper also argues that where moral (...)
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    Theology and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: II.Christopher F. Mooney - 1993 - Heythrop Journal 34 (4):373–386.
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    Some Social Benefits of Uncertainty.Gregory S. Kavka - 1990 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 15 (1):311-326.
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    (1 other version)Discussion: The uncertainty principle as a problem in philosophy.P. T. Landsberg - 1947 - Mind 56 (223):250-256.
  29. Optimism in the face of uncertainty should be refutable.Ronald Ortner - 2008 - Minds and Machines 18 (4):521-526.
    We give an example from the theory of Markov decision processes which shows that the “optimism in the face of uncertainty” heuristics may fail to make any progress. This is due to the impossibility to falsify a belief that a (transition) probability is larger than 0. Our example shows the utility of Popper’s demand of falsifiability of hypotheses in the area of artificial intelligence.
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    The Problem(s) with Representing Decision Processes under Uncertainty.Gilbert Skillman & Roberto Veneziani - 2023 - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 46 (3):420-439.
    Underscoring the economic significance of the Knightian distinction between risk and uncertainty, Don Katzner forcefully challenges the continued dominance of the expected utility model based on subjective probability in macroeconomic analysis and offers in its place a simple yet elegant model of decision making inspired by the pioneering work of G.L.S. Shackle. In doing so, Katzner lends support to a research program to identify a more coherent and empirically grounded theory of decision making under uncertainty. Our paper makes (...)
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    Death, taxes and uncertainty: Economic motivations in end-of-life decision making.George Slade Mellgard & Jacob M. Appel - 2022 - Clinical Ethics 17 (1):90-94.
    Economic motivations are key drivers of human behavior. Unfortunately, they are largely overlooked in literature related to medical decisionmaking, particularly with regard to end-of-life care. It is widely understood that the directions of a proxy acting in bad faith can be overridden. But what of cases in which the proxy or surrogate appears to be acting in good faith to effectuate the patient’s values, yet doing so directly serves the decision-maker’s financial interests? Such situations are not uncommon. Many patients care (...)
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    God's not dead: evidence for God in an age of uncertainty.Rice Broocks - 2013 - Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
    Explores "the questions surrounding faith, skepticism, and the meaning of life... as well as... evidence for the existence of God and the truths of Christianity"--Dust jacket flap.
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  33. The action of consciousness and the uncertainty principle.Jean E. Burns - 2012 - Journal of Nonlocality 1 (1).
    The term action of consciousness is used to refer to an influence, such as psychokinesis or free will, that produces an effect on matter that is correlated to mental intention, but not completely determined by physical conditions. Such an action could not conserve energy. But in that case, one wonders why, when highly accurate measurements are done, occasions of non-conserved energy (generated perhaps by unconscious PK) are not detected. A possible explanation is that actions of consciousness take place within the (...)
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    Surrogates and Uncertainty.Ralph Baergen - 1995 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 6 (4):372-377.
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  35. Balancing security, risk, and uncertainty in a world of contested and fragmented sovereignty.John R. Emery - 2018 - In Daniel R. Brunstetter & Jean-Vincent Holeindre (eds.), The ethics of war and peace revisited: moral challenges in an era of contested and fragmented sovereignty. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
     
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    Schooling as uncertainty: an ethnographic memoir in comparative education.Irving Epstein - 2021 - British Journal of Educational Studies 69 (3):385-386.
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    Qualitative decision under uncertainty: back to expected utility.Hélène Fargier & Régis Sabbadin - 2005 - Artificial Intelligence 164 (1-2):245-280.
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    The Aesthetics of Uncertainty by wolff, janet.Casey Haskins - 2009 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (4):427-429.
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    Chapter Six–Time: The Uncertainty of Frame or Content.John S. Kafka - 2004 - In Paul Harris & Michael Crawford (eds.), Time and uncertainty. Boston: Brill. pp. 11--79.
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    Cellular Therapies: Regulating Uncertainty in Asia’s Biomedical Hubs.Tamra Lysaght - 2014 - Asian Bioethics Review 6 (3):234-245.
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  41. Roger Cooke, Experts in Uncertainty: Opinion and Subjective Probability in Science Reviewed by.Kristin Shrader-Frechette - 1992 - Philosophy in Review 12 (6):390-392.
  42. Being methodologically cosmopolitan : on uncertainty, capacities and the stories that are still to be told.Simone Toji - 2023 - In Nigel Rapport & Huon Wardle (eds.), Cosmopolitan moment, cosmopolitan method. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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    Chapter Two–Time and Uncertainty: A Metaphorical Equation.Maria L. Assad - 2004 - In Paul Harris & Michael Crawford (eds.), Time and uncertainty. Boston: Brill. pp. 11--19.
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    The Problem of Uncertainty, Elusiveness, and Absence of Meaning in Art History.Sjölin Jan-Gunnar, Hall Thomas & Rossholm Lagerlöf Margaretha - 2003 - Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 8:45-58.
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    Motion planning with uncertainty: a landmark approach.Anthony Lazanas & Jean-Claude Latombe - 1995 - Artificial Intelligence 76 (1-2):287-317.
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    Cultivating Virtuous Imagination Among Asian American Dreamers in the Face of Violent Uncertainty.Eunil David Cho & Wonchul Shin - 2023 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 43 (2):399-415.
    By examining the stories of Asian American Dreamers, or Asian American young adults with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, this essay investigates how these undocumented young adults cultivate virtuous imagination to transcend the violence of uncertainty and radically imagine new paths toward flourishing. The aversive state of structural uncertainty leads them to experience narrative foreclosure and the violent disruption of the pursuit of the good life. This essay subsequently proposes two kinds of stories as moral resources (...)
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    A glance at non-standard models and logics of uncertainty and vagueness.Didier Dubois & Henri Prade - 1955 - In Anthony Eagle (ed.), Philosophy of Probability. Routledge. pp. 169--222.
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    Mediating Role of Resourcefulness in the Relationship Between Illness Uncertainty and Poststroke Depression.Jing Liu, Hongxia Wang, Beibei Lin, Liuqiao Ning, Danman Liu & Jufang Li - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    ObjectivesTo examine the association between illness uncertainty, resourcefulness, and poststroke depression and identifies whether stroke patients’ resourcefulness plays a mediating role in the relationship between illness uncertainty and PSD.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2020 to April 2021. A convenience sample of 355 stroke patients was recruited. A general characteristic questionnaire, the Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale, the Resourcefulness Scale, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 were used to obtain data. Descriptive analysis, Student’s t-test, Mann–Whitney U-test, chi-squared (...)
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    Organizational Structure Change and Hybridity: Enhancing Uncertainty as a Response to Competing and Changing Institutional Logics.Liming Liu & Chao Zhang - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Confronting the uncertain environment, this article adopts a case research approach to resonate with the studies of hybridity. It aims to explain how the perception of uncertainty in the institutional environment affects the adaptation of organizational structure in pursuing legitimacy for hybrid organizations. Based on the empirical data collected from a two-staged fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the case analysis concentrates on the correlation between the evolution of institutional logics and organizational structure change from a diachronic perspective. The findings indicate (...)
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    The Idea of the World as Tolerating Uncertainty.H. Shalashenko - 2023 - Philosophical Horizons 47:101-112.
    In the modern world of total technologization, scientific knowledge devoid of worldview correction (humanitarian expertise) carries a threatening tendency of self-denial: without a constant, philosophically correct transformation of objective knowledge about certain fragments (branches) of the surrounding reality into human knowledge (questions) about itself, the practical effectiveness of such knowledge inevitably accumulates in itself the threat of practical helplessness. Aim and the tasks of the research. Based on an in-depth analysis of the category of existence, as well as on modern (...)
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