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Md Pavel

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    The Real Value of Fake Teams: An Ethical Defense of Fantasy Sports
    Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 14 (2): 226-240. 2019.
    In the only two articles on the topic of which I am aware, Chad Carlson and Scott Aikin have leveled three objections against fantasy sports—namely, that participation in fantasy sports elicits...
    Philosophy of Sport
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    On the alleged intrinsic immorality of mixed martial arts
    Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 44 (2): 258-275. 2017.
    In two recent articles, Nicholas Dixon has argued that the intent to hurt and injure opponents which is essential to mixed martial arts makes the sport intrinsically immoral. Although bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism also involves the intentional infliction of pain and injury, Dixon argues that it is morally permissible in many cases. In this paper, I examine the principle underlying Dixon's differentiation of MMA and BDSM. I argue that, when properly elaborated, that principle does no…Read more
    In two recent articles, Nicholas Dixon has argued that the intent to hurt and injure opponents which is essential to mixed martial arts makes the sport intrinsically immoral. Although bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism also involves the intentional infliction of pain and injury, Dixon argues that it is morally permissible in many cases. In this paper, I examine the principle underlying Dixon's differentiation of MMA and BDSM. I argue that, when properly elaborated, that principle does not in fact condemn MMA as intrinsically immoral, but rather implies that the attitudes and actions of most autonomously consenting amateur MMA fighters and some autonomously consenting professionals are prima facie morally permissible.
    Philosophy of Sport
  • Global versus local constraints in motion perception
    with M. Shiffrar
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 26 (6): 525-525. 1988.
  • Multi-layer adaptive network models and human generalization
    with Ma Gluck and V. Henkle
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 27 (6): 495-496. 1989.
  • Using mental models in a visual-motor adaptation task
    with H. A. Cunningham and A. J. Hanson
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 26 (6): 501-501. 1988.
    Aspects of Consciousness
  • A statistical-model of preattentive visual-search
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 28 (6): 505-505. 1990.
    Mental States and ProcessesAspects of Consciousness
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    Learning from learned networks
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (3): 503-504. 1990.
    Philosophy of Cognitive SciencePhilosophy of Artificial IntelligenceRepresentation in Connectionism
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