Robustness and Up-to-us-ness

Kittle, Simon

doi:10.2478/disp-2017-0026

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“…Sodium nitrite, Potassium carbonate, 2,2'-Azobis (AIBN) and all organic solvents were purchased from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Solvents were purified by the usual procedure [55]. Other agents were used as purchased.…”

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Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Azobenzene Containing Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer

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Zhang

Luo

et al. 2015

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In order to study the infrared spectral characteristics of side-chain liquid crystal polymer, an infrared monomer containing a permanent dipole azobenzene group spaced from the methacryloyl moiety by a polymethylene segment was synthesized in three steps starting from 4-cyanoaniline. The monomer was polymerized with a push-pull azobenzene monomer, (-)-menthy1 methacrylate in the presence of azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as the radical initiator. Structurally similar amphiphilic polymers were obtained by polymerization of analogous methacrylates in which the polymethylene spacers was replaced by oligo (oxyethy1ene) segments. The obtained polymer was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), ultraviolet-visible spectro photometry (UV-vis), Hot Stage Polarized Microscopy (HS-POM), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA). Its infrared emissivity at different temperatures was tested by Bruker-V70 infrared analyzer. The results showed that the azobenzene poly (methyl methacrylate) (azo-PMMA) has high glass transition temperature(about 40°C), good thermal stability(divied in 294°C) and low infrared emission under 70%.

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Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Azobenzene Containing Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer

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“…There is much more to be said about the similarities among and differences between the multiple kinds of ability which comprise the n-way power required for free will, and the connection between those abilities and the 'up to us' locution (see Shabo 2014 andKittle 2017 for some initial explorations on the latter topic). I hope in this essay to have made a small contribution towards clarifying the project and so clearing the way for that future discussion.…”

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How (not) to think about the sense of ‘able’ relevant to free will

Kittle

2021

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This essay is an investigation into the sense of 'able' relevant to free will, where free will is understood as requiring the ability to do otherwise. I argue that van Inwagen's recent functional specification of the relevant sense of 'able' is flawed, and that explicating the powers involved in free will shall likely require paying detailed attention to the semantics and pragmatics of 'can' and 'able'. Further, I argue that van Inwagen's promise-level ability requirement on free will is too strong. I also argue that Mele's conjecture that the strength of the ability to perform the 'alternative' action (i.e. to refrain, to decide otherwise) be no higher than the strength of the ability exercised in performing an action is mistaken. I suggest there is an asymmetry in the strengths of the abilities which make up the n-way power that comprises free will, and that this looks to have some interesting consequences for the connection between the abilities required for free will and, e.g., the 'up to us' locution.

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The Conditional Analysis of the Agentive Modals: a Reply to Mandelkern et al.

Kittle

2023

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A proper understanding of agentive modals promises to clarify issues to do with free will, know how, and other philosophically interesting topics. In this paper I identify one constraint on, and one structural feature of, trying-based versions of the conditional analysis of the agentive modals. I suggest that the constraint and structural feature together provide a novel account of why the famous Lehrer-Chisholm objection to conditional analyses of ability modals is so powerful. I argue that Mandelkern et al.’s ‘Agentive Modals’ (Philosophical Review,126/3, 301–343, 2017) conditional analysis of the agentive modals fails to avoid this problem. I also identify two further problems for their account. I close by summarising a number of criteria which any successful semantic analysis of the agentive modals should satisfy.

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Robustness and Up-to-us-ness

Cited by 3 publications

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Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Azobenzene Containing Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer

Infrared Spectral Characteristics of Azobenzene Containing Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer

How (not) to think about the sense of ‘able’ relevant to free will

The Conditional Analysis of the Agentive Modals: a Reply to Mandelkern et al.

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