COVER Young whooping cranes (Grus americana) follow an ultralight aircraft. Each year, endangered whooping cranes are reared in captivity and artifi cially trained by ultralight aircraft on their fi rst lifetime migration from Wisconsin to Florida. Analyses of data from subsequent unaided migration events show that migratory performance improves over many years and that social learning from old...

We present axiomatizations of the deontic fragment of Anderson’s relevant deontic logic (the logic of obligation and related concepts) and the eubouliatic fragment of Anderson’s eubouliatic logic (the logic of prudence, safety, risk, and related concepts).

Donaldson and Dunfee (1999) suggest in a brief discussion that a manager may in some cases rely on his or her own values in making organizational decisions. Our paper examines the role of diversity in values in an organizational context. Our central contention is that value diversity among managers, employees, and other stakeholders on dimensions such as prudence-boldness, clarity-flexibility, ...

How does metabolism influence social behavior? This fundamental question at the interface of molecular biology and social evolution is hard to address with experiments in animals, and therefore, we turned to a simple microbial system: swarming in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Using genetic engineering, we excised a locus encoding a key metabolic regulator and disrupted P. aeruginosa's m...

Abstract This article deals with the Gifts of Holy Spirit, infused prudence, and natural law. Prudence has an intimate connection both law Gift Counsel, is thus pivotal to argument made. In brief, it argued that Counsel perfects reason’s grasp demands Gift, which proportions believer instinctus guides him in all pertains attainment ultimate beatitude. It does so, moreover, by actually enhancing...

Anthropology should have a prudential or pragmatic orientation, according to Kant, a thought emphasized in the title of his 1798 “textbook,” Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. According to the Parow notes (1772-73) of an early lecture course on anthropology, Kant described prudence as “the capacity to choose the best means to our happiness,”[25:413] a description that fits well with h...

Risk attitudes include risk aversion as well as higher-order risk preferences such as prudence and temperance. This article analyzes the effects of such preferences on medical test and treatment decisions, represented either by test and treatment thresholds or-when the test result is not given-by optimal cutoff values for diagnostic tests. For a risk-averse decision maker, effective treatment i...

In this paper we investigate the relationships between prudence, risk aversion, and cautiousness. These three measures explain investors’ investment decisions in the money market, stock market, and option market respectively. Thus to understand how investors’ investment decisions in the three markets are related it is important to know the relationships between the three measures. We show that ...