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Intentional action and the frame-of-mind argument: new experimental challenges to Hindriks
Based on a puzzling pattern in our judgements about intentional action, Knobe [. “Intentional Action and Side-Effects in Ordinary Language.” Analysis 63: 190–194] has claimed that these judgements are shaped by our moral judgements and evaluations. However, this claim goes directly against a key conceptual intuition about intentional action – the “frame-of-mind condition”, according to which judgements about intentional action are about the agent’s frame-of-mind and not about the moral value of his action. To preserve this intuition Hindriks [. “Intentional Action and the Praise-Blame Asymmetry.” The Philosophical Quarterly 58: 630–641;. “Normativity in Action: How to Explain the Knobe Effect and its Relatives.” Mind & Language 29: 51–72] has proposed an alternate account of the Knobe Effect. According to his “Normative Reason account of Intentional Action”, a side-effect counts as intentional only when the agent thought it constituted a normative reason not to act but did not care. In..
A novel active quenching circuit for single photon detection with Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes
In this paper we present a novel construction of an active quenching circuit
intended for single photon detection. For purpose of evaluation, we have
combined this circuit with a standard avalanche photodiode C30902S to form a
single photon detector. A series of measurements, presented here, show that
this single photon detector has a dead time of less than 40ns, maximum random
counting frequency of over 14MHz, low after pulsing, detection efficiency of
over 20% and a good noise performance. This simple and robust active quenching
circuit can be built from of-the-shelf electronic components and needs no
complicated adjustments.Comment: 9 pages, 13 figures, 15 reference
Complex functions as lumps of energy
We present an application of the basic mathematical concept of complex
functions as topological solitons, a most interesting area of research in
physics. Such application of complex theory is virtually unknown outside the
community of soliton researches.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure. To appear in "Revista Mexicana de Fisica
Working Consumers: The Next Step in Marketing Theory?
In marketing and consumer research, consumers have been increasingly theorised as producers. However, these theorisations do not take all facets of consumers’ productive role into account. This paper mobilises both post-Marxist economics and post-Maussian socio-economics to develop the concept of working consumer. This concept depicts consumers who, through their immaterial labour, add cultural and affective value to market offerings. In so doing consumers increase the value of market offerings, although they usually work at the primary level of sociality (interpersonal relationships) and are therefore beyond producers’ control. However, given certain conditions, companies capture such a value when it enters the second level of sociality (the market). The concept of the working consumer summarises and enriches extant approaches to consumer (co)production, while challenging right-minded developments, such as the service-dominant (S-D) logic in marketing, which try to create/construct an ethereal marketscape in which consumers and producers live in harmony.Double Exploitation, Gift giving, Immaterial Labour, Primary Sociality, Secondary Sociality, Co- production, Co-creation
Cultural Experience Copycatting: An Ethnographic Approach of Compostela Copycats
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