Risk-defusing Behavior

Evaluation-Dependent Representation in Risk Defusing

Editorial: Defusing the two-wheeled menace.

The Price of Defusing Mines Radiological Imaging after Microsurgery for Intracranial Aneurysms

A new maneuver against the epistemic relativist

Epistemic relativists often appeal to an epistemic incommensurability thesis. One notable example is the position advanced by Wittgenstein in On Certainty (1969). However, Ian Hacking’s radical denial of the possibility of objective epistemic reasons for belief poses, we suggest, an even more forceful challenge to mainstream meta-epistemology. Our central objective will be to develop a novel st...

How BMW is defusing the demographic time bomb.

PH OT O G RA PH Y: B M W I n June 2007, Nikolaus Bauer, the head of BMW’s 2,500-employee power train plant in Dingolfing, Lower Bavaria, was worrying about what looked like an inevitable decline in the productivity of an aging workforce in the years ahead. With two of his production managers, Peter Jürschick and Helmut Mauermann (a coauthor, with Bauer), he developed an innovative, bottomup app...