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The Hooded Capuchin Monkey (Sapajus cay) is Vulnerable in Paraguay and at Least Near Threatened Globally According to Red List Criteria

results demonstrate that the conservation situation faced by a primate species can differ greatly depending on local, national, and range wide political and social situations. Therefore, we recommend that ... species crosses political boundaries, it is unlikely that the threats it faces in one area will be the same across the range due to differences in history, cultures, laws, and social issues in different

Rationality, preference satisfaction and anomalous intentions: why rational choice theory is not self-defeating

preferences than they would be if they abided by some normative theory of choice other than RCT. In this paper, I combine insights from philosophy of action, philosophy of mind and the normative foundations of

Is Yuan in China’s Three Gorges a Gibbon or a Langur?

period, with the other beginning at the end of the nineteenth century and ending in the 1950s. An interaction between the conceptualization of animals and power (e.g., political opportunity; cultural ... , time periods, academic, and/or political background of the author) on the ancient sources in Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) Table S1. There is to date no coherent, satisfactory theory in

Bare and Constructional Compositionality

rationale for drawing such inferences is provided by observed typological correlations between linguistic and socio-political complexity (Gil, 2021:3) : "[i]n domains where linguistic complexity correlates ... positively with cultural or socio-political complexity, simpler linguistic structures may be inferred to be evolutionarily prior to their more complex counterparts". The justification for this principle lies

Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation

of Philosophy, University of Duesseldorf , Universitaetsstr. 1, 40225 Duesseldorf , Germany There is a plurality of formal constraints for aggregating probabilities of a group of individuals ... philosophy of science recent research focusses a lot on the relation of scientific groups having gathered a different set of evidence, holding different theories, and providing alternative explanations (cf

Bounded rationality for relaxing best response and mutual consistency: the quantal hierarchy model of decision making

( 4 ), 1297 - 1333 . Alaoui , L. , & Penta , A. ( 2022 ). Cost-benefit analysis in reasoning . Journal of Political Economy , 130 ( 4 ), 881 - 925 . Anufriev , M. , Duffy , J. , & Panchenko , V. ( 2022 ... & Philosophy , 3 ( 2 ), 179 - 214 . Binmore , K. ( 1988 ). Modeling rational players: Part II . Economics & Philosophy , 4 ( 1 ), 9 - 55 . Binmore , K. , McCarthy , J. , Ponti , G. , Samuelson , L. , & Shaked

Belief inducibility and informativeness

divide et impera and, thus, wants to create political unrest in a foreign country by implementing a very heterogeneous belief profile.2 Suppose that there are only two states, say X and Y. Then it is ... ). Feasible joint posterior beliefs . Journal of Political Economy , 129 , 2546 - 2594 . Aumann , R.J. , Maschler , M.B. , & Stearns , R.E . (Eds.), ( 1995 ). Repeated games with incomplete information . MIT

Who accepts Savage’s axiom now?

the measurability of utility . Journal of Political Economy , 1 , 463 - 474 . Gilboa , I. ( 2010 ). Questions in decision theory . Annual Review of Economics , 2 , 1 - 19 . https://doi.org/10. 1146 ... it became, what it really was, what it now suggests to us . Economics and Philosophy , 35 , 423 - 459 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267118000469 Moskovitz , H. ( 1974 ). Effects of problem

Principal Drivers and Conservation Solutions to the Impending Primate Extinction Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue

change on ecosystems health and biodiversity, and play a greater role in conservation and environmental policy by educating global citizens and political leaders. In addition, the international community ... , primate scientists must take a more activist role in educating the public and political leaders, and driving public policy (Garber, 2021, this issue) . Goals of the Special Issue In this special issue

Cultivating Care: Behaviourally Informed Conservation Strategies to Safeguard the Future of the Sulawesi Crested Black Macaque (Macaca nigra)

now a well-known, popular icon and representative of local conservation efforts (evidenced by features in local radio and TV shows, at religious and political events, and represented in local, district ... . , Sherren , K. , St. John , F. A. V. , van Kerkhoff , L. , & Wyborn , C. ( 2019 ). Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology, and methods

Accountability as a Warrant for Trust: An Experiment on Sanctions and Justifications in a Trust Game

quality of deliberation . The Journal of Political Philosophy , 12 ( 4 ), 389 - 410 . Charness , G. , Cobo-Reyes , R. , & Jime´nez, N. ( 2008 ). An investment game with third party intervention . Journal of ... accountability. In political economy and rational choice theory, accountability is primarily understood as a mechanism based on material sanctions or rewards (Fearon, 1999: 55) . Besley (2006: 37) defines

Original position arguments and social choice under ignorance

Journal of Philosophy , 115 ( 11 ), 588 - 604 . Harsanyi , J. C. ( 1953 ). Cardinal utility in welfare economics and in the theory of risk-taking . Journal of Political Economy , 61 ( 5 ), 434 - 435 ... Science, Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium 1 Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands John Rawls famously argued that the Difference

Acting on belief functions

The degrees of belief of rational agents should be guided by the evidence available to them. This paper takes as a starting point the view—argued elsewhere—that the formal model best able to capture this idea is one that represents degrees of belief using Dempster–Shafer belief functions. However, degrees of belief should not only respect evidence; they also guide decision and...

A Tribute to Rasanayagam (Rudy) Rudran: Friend, Colleague, Devoted Conservationist, 14 July 1941 – 10 April 2023

relief and amusement, that some local officials had welcomed them as “black Americans.” Rudy quickly adapted to the socio-political conditions of the day, but there were some narrow escapes. Not long after

Just society

scrutinized in a number of fields including political philosophy and economics. His maximin rule for the distribution of income and wealth is perhaps most criticized. Rawls is well aware that the maximin rule ... person and the right to hold property; political liberty (the right to vote and equal eligibility for public office); and equal access for positions in private and public sectors). Thus, the three

Cost-(in)effective public good provision: an experimental exploration

impure altruism: Applications to charity and Ricardian equivalence . Journal of Political Economy , 97 ( 6 ), 1447 - 1458 . Andreoni , J. ( 1990 ). Impure altruism and donations to public goods: A theory ... . , & Wilhelm , M. O. ( 2002 ). Altruistic and joy-of-giving motivations in charitable behavior . Journal of Political Economy , 110 ( 2 ), 425 - 457 . Richefort , L. ( 2018 ). Warm-glow giving in networks with

Activity Budget and Sociality of the Northern Lesser Galago, Galago senegalensis

animals . In S. G. Post, L. G. Underwood , J. P. Schloss , & W. B. Hurlbut (Eds.), Altruistic love: Science, philosophy, and religion in dialogue (pp. 284 - 308 ). Oxford University Press. Pruetz , J. D

Compassion and envy in distributional comparisons

- 9 . Cole , H. L. , Mailth , G. J. , & Poslewaite , A. ( 1992 ). Social norms, savings behaviour, and growth . Journal of Political Economy , 100 ( 6 ), 1092 - 1125 . Corazzini , L. , Esposito , L ... ). Inequality. Philosophy & Public Affairs , 15 , 99 - 121 . Temkin , L. S. ( 1993 ). Inequality. Oxford University Press. Treibich , R. ( 2019 ). Welfare egalitarianism with other-regarding preferences . Social

Using Utilitarian Plants for Lemur Conservation

political crises or when human population growth outruns any development effort. People need economic and other benefits, and conservation measures have to account for these needs. We compiled native and ... the Global Bonn Challenge concerning the protection and maintenance of forests across Africa. This political support is needed urgently to foster restoration in the world’s biodiversity hotspots that

Compositionality in Different Modalities: A View from Usage-Based Linguistics

complex linguistic units, providing a template for accounting for the multimodal nature of human language. Usage-based linguistics; Philosophy of language; Sign languages; Cultural evolution; Animal ... about compositionality without taking the origins of the concept in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century philosophy of language into account. For this reason, we first provide an overview of