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17 results for "capabilities approach"
P_2_09 — Cosmopolitanism and Global Ethics
Cosmopolitanism — from the Greek kosmopolitēs ("citizen of the world") — is the philosophical tradition asserting that all human beings belong to a single moral community regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or culture.
ZE_5_11 — Moral Relativism vs. Universalism: Cross-Cultural Moral Disagreement
The debate between moral relativism and moral universalism is among the most fundamental in ethics. Relativism holds that moral judgments are valid only relative to a cultural, historical, or individual framework — there
K_3_09 — Minimal Consciousness and the Threshold of Sentience
Where does consciousness begin? This question — the problem of the threshold of sentience — is one of the most challenging in consciousness studies because it requires identifying what KIND of physical system is minimall
ZC_5_08 — Development Studies: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-Development
Development studies is an interdisciplinary field examining the economic, social, political, and cultural processes by which societies become "developed" — and critically interrogating what "development" means, who defin
G_2_04 — Complexity Economics and Ancient Trade Systems
Complexity economics — the application of complex systems theory, non-linear dynamics, and agent-based modeling to economic phenomena — provides a powerful modern framework for understanding ancient and premodern trade s
ZD_2_12 — Generative AI: Large Language Models, Diffusion, and the Transformer Revolution
Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of creating new content — text, images, audio, video, code, 3D models — that is novel, coherent, and often indistinguishable from human-created work. The fi
ZE_5_15 — Ethics of Disability: Social Models, Access, and Inclusion
The ethics of disability has been transformed over the past five decades by the shift from the medical model — which defines disability as individual pathology to be cured or managed — to the social model — which defines
S_1_01 — Artificial General Intelligence and Existential Risk
Artificial General Intelligence — a system with human-level or greater cognitive capabilities across ALL domains — may be the most consequential invention in human history. Current foundational AI systems (GPT-4, Claude,
S_2_03 — Bioethics of Human Enhancement
Should humans enhance themselves beyond the boundaries of nature? This is the central question of enhancement bioethics — a field at the intersection of philosophy, medicine, law, genetics, neuroscience, and disability s
K_4_21 — Quantum Approaches to Consciousness: A Rigorous Assessment
The hypothesis that consciousness depends on quantum-mechanical processes — most prominently in the Penrose-Hameroff Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) model — is one of the most polarizing claims in cognitive sc
ZG_5_05 — Corpus Linguistics and Big Data Approaches to Language
Corpus linguistics is the study of language through the systematic analysis of large, principled collections of naturally occurring text (and increasingly, speech) — called corpora (singular: corpus). Rather than relying
ZG_5_09 — Machine Translation: Rule-Based, Statistical, and Neural Approaches
Machine Translation (MT) — the use of computers to translate text or speech from one natural language to another — has been a central problem of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence since the earliest da
G_4_16 — Comparative Mythology as Science — Phylogenetic and Statistical Approaches
Comparative mythology — the systematic study of myths and folktales across cultures to identify shared elements, trace historical relationships, and understand the cognitive and social processes that generate mythologica
ZD_2_09 — Recommender Systems: Collaborative Filtering, Content-Based, and Hybrid Approaches
Recommender systems (RecSys) are algorithms and architectures that predict user preferences and suggest relevant items — products, movies, music, news articles, social media posts, job listings, potential partners — from
S_1_16 — Large Language Models: Architecture, Capabilities, and Societal Impact
Large Language Models (LLMs) are neural networks with billions to trillions of parameters, trained on massive text corpora to predict the next token in a sequence. Built on the transformer architecture introduced by Vasw
ZA_2_13 — Quantum Gravity Approaches
Quantum gravity is the unfinished quest to unify general relativity (GR) — which describes gravity as spacetime curvature at macroscopic scales — with quantum mechanics (QM), which governs microscopic physics. The challe
I_2_13 — UK MOD Files: The British Approach
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) maintained an official UAP investigation program for over five decades (1950-2009), making Britain one of the longest-running institutional UAP investigators in the Western wo
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