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    Utilizing Transparency Illusion to Enhance Employee Sincerity
    International Journal of Organizational Diversity 22 (2): 37-49. 2022.
    The purpose of this article is to demonstrate a theoretical correlation between the transparency illusion, a cognitive bias that makes people believe that their internal states are more apparent to their communication partners than they really are and the Pygmalion effect. and the Pygmalion effect. The research on Pygmalion (i.e., self-fulfilling prophecy) offers insight into the process by which management can influence employee sincerity. Analyzing empirical research on transparency illusion a…Read more
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    Manipulation Argument and the Trap-Intuition
    Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy 18 (2): 172-181. 2017.
    I will challenge the manipulation argument, aiming to argue for the incompatibility of moral responsibility and determinism. By examining the intuition behind the first premise, stating that manipulated agents are not responsible, it will turn out that this statement can be traced to the manipulators themselves, who intentionally set up a plan against their subjects. The second premise, which states that there is no difference between determinism and manipulation concerning responsibility, will …Read more
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    Two Dimensional Modal Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
    European Journal of Science and Theology 13 (1): 161-171. 2017.
    The aim of this paper is to reconstruct a modal version of the ontological argument (MOA) in a two dimensionally extended way. This modification of MOA, I argue, might respond to Tooley’s (1981) and Findlay’s (1948) prominent objections against the argument. The MOA has two distinct key premises that are criticized by Tooley and Findley. According to Tooley, the structure of the argument allows to define further properties that exclude the existence of God-like beings. Findlay, however, argues a…Read more
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    Newcomb dilemma in development management
    Információs Társadalom 20 (4): 8-18. 2020.
    Newcomb Dilemmas show a discrepancy between our rational reasoning—evidential and causal decision theory. In this paper, I provide three versions of the dilemma from the original highly technical and abstract one to two more mundane cases of it. I also account for the general schema of the dilemma possibly appearing in macroeconomic situations. Ahmed (2014) aims to provide a solution for macroeconomic cases that opens a room for forming a development management Newcomb Dilemma — an imaginary cas…Read more
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    A theological Newcomb's dilemma
    European Journal of Science and Theology 18 (4): 121-131. 2022.
    In this paper, I will argue that the agnostic decision-maker may find himself in a Newcomb-type situation concerning the doctrine of Roman Catholicism. Consequently, if the agnostic wishes to decide according to the causal decision theory, he should refrain from living the Christian life, but if he follows the evidential decision theory, he should follow the Catholic life guidance. In the argument, I have cast the role of Newcomb’s predictive machine as Divine omniscience.
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    This paper argues that Michael Polányi’s account of how science, as an institution, establishes knowledge can provide a structure for a future institution capable of countering misinformation, or fake news, and deepfakes. I argue that only an institutional approach can adequately take up the challenge against the corresponding institution of fake news. The fact of filtering news and information may be bothering. It is the threat of censorship and free speech limitation. Instead, I propose that w…Read more
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    This paper introduces a new theory of moral responsibility that does not rely on any concept of human control. Since an understanding of determinism shapes the possible set of views one can take regarding control, and there is no account of control that could be held simultaneously by both compatibilists and libertarians, the “relational theory of responsibility” is meant to create a common ground between compatibilism and libertarianism which are held to be mutually exclusive. Since the relatio…Read more