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The Premack principle was derived from a study of Cebus monkeys by David Premack.It was found that parameters can be understood in which the monkey operates. [3] However, it has explanatory and predictive power when applied to humans, and it has been used by therapists practicing applied behavior analysis.
The normative status of an action depends on its consequences according to consequentialism. The consequences of the actions of an agent may include other actions by this agent. Actualism and possibilism disagree on how later possible actions impact the normative status of the current action by the same agent.
In philosophy, the consequence argument is an argument against compatibilism popularised by American philosopher Peter van Inwagen. The argument claims that if agents have no control over the facts of the past, then the agent has no control of the consequences of those facts.
Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]
By Raphael Satter. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official who is among those working to evict alleged Chinese hackers from American telecom companies has a word of advice for his fellow ...
Rule utilitarianism is a form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness or wrongness of a particular action is a function of the correctness of the rule of which it is an instance". [1]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump transition team is considering a former Uber executive and three current or former Republican congressmen - one of whom is now a Fox News host - to lead the U.S ...
More than 1 million Americans live with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, with tens of thousands of new diagnoses each year. But with earlier diagnoses and advances in treatment, HIV, the ...