Greek ancient and early modern geometry necessarily uses diagrams. Among other things, these enter geometrical analysis. The paper distinguishes two sorts of geometrical analysis and shows that in one of them, dubbed “intra-confgurational” analysis, some diagrams necessarily enter as outcomes of a purely material gesture, namely not as result of a codifed constructive procedure, but as result of a free-hand drawing.

We motivate and introduce a new method of abduction, Matrix Abduction, and apply it to modelling the use of non-deductive inferences in the Talmud such as Analogy and the rule of Argumentum A Fortiori. Given a matrix $${\mathbb {A}}$$ with entries in {0, 1}, we allow for one or more blank squares in the matrix, say a i,j =?. The method allows us to decide whether to declare a i,j = 0 or a i,j = 1 or a i,j =? (...) undecided. This algorithmic method is then applied to modelling several legal and practical reasoning situations including the Talmudic rule of Kal-Vachomer. We add an Appendix showing that this new rule of Matrix Abduction, arising from the Talmud, can also be applied to the analysis of paradoxes in voting and judgement aggregation. In fact we have here a general method for executing non-deductive inferences. (shrink)

For the last 15 years, companies have extensively increased their environmental disclosure relative to their environmental strategy in response to institutional pressures. Based on a computerized content analysis of the annual reports of the 55 largest French industrial companies, we describe environmental disclosure with respect to the different strategies implemented by companies over a period of 6 years. The results show that environmental disclosure becomes more and more technical and precise for all the companies. Environmental innovations are presented as a (...) means of increasing energy efficiency and of obtaining a competitive advantage in green market products. The environmental management system implemented by proactive companies allows them to improve their environmental performance. However, the results show that the economic situation significantly influences the way environmental issues are addressed. (shrink)

In this paper, we deal with an alternative analytical analysis of fractional-order partial differential equations with proportional delay, achieved by applying Yang decomposition method, where the fractional derivative is taken in Caputo sense. The suggested series results are discovered to quickly converge to an exact solution. The computation of three test problems of fractional-order with proportional delay partial differential equations was presented to confirm the validity and efficiency of suggested method. The system appears to be a very dependable, effective, and (...) powerful method for solving a variety of physical problems that arise in engineering and science. (shrink)

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and other forms of discourse analysis are regularly used to study identity, but rarely do researchers systematically compare and contrast them with other theories to identify exactly what a discursive approach contributes. In this paper, we take the example of a particular identity – the older worker – and systematically compare the contribution of CDA with other approaches, including economics, labour market research, gerontology and cultural studies. In so doing, we show the kinds of research questions (...) that CDA can address, which other theories grappling with identity cannot. In this way, we hope to delineate more clearly what CDA is, to identify specifically how it contributes to the study of identity, and to show what it can do, compared to other theories. (shrink)

En 1679 Leibniz envía a Huygens un proyecto de nueva geometría, denominada analysis situs, mediante la cual pretende superar la geometría euclídea. Huygens, sin embargo, en carta a Leibniz afirma que no comprende la utilidad de este nuevo método, ante lo cual Leibniz deja de desarrollarlo. Habitualmente la literatura científica ha incidido en la incomprensión de Huygens por ser una figura centrada en resultados claros y no dado a especulaciones. Sin embargo, si atendemos a estas cartas y al contexto que (...) las rodea, podemos comprobar que la forma en la que Leibniz presentó esta nueva geometría a Huygens pudo impedir que éste la comprendiese adecuadamente. (shrink)

ABSTRACT In this study, the learning experiences of four elementary school teachers who were basketball coaches were explored. Specifically, the learning experiences gained through observing professional basketball coaches’ sessions were examined by employing van Manen’s hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, which focuses on the thematic analysis of lived experiences. Previous coaching studies that have focused on the professional development of coaches have revealed that observing elite coaching sessions could be a major source of practical coaching knowledge because coaches could learn from experienced coaches. (...) Quantitative studies of this learning effect have revealed that observers learn new coaching methods from a general perspective. However, this study revealed that teachers give specific meaning and value to observed phenomena from the perspective of personal interest based on their coaching or teaching beliefs. This learning was interpreted from a multifaceted perspective, which was evident from their coaching interests and questions. This study disclosed that teachers reflect on their coaching philosophy, methods and attitude. Furthermore, even if teachers generally tend to highlight their coaching methods, this has a qualitatively complex nature because the meaning and value given to coaching methods varied in each teacher’s reflection. The perspective of problem-solving highlighted how to answer their personal questions based on practical coaching problems by observing a coaching session. Discovering the methodological differences between the observation session and the daily coaching session were highlighted. (shrink)

에피쿠로스는 에서 그의 가르침을 종합적이고 체계적으로 진술했다. 그는 행복하기 위해서는 철학을 해야 한다고 말한다. 그리고 행복하기 위한 방법으로 제1원리를 제시하고 있다. 우리가 철학을 해야 하는 긴급성과 유용성에 대해서, 그리고 쾌락을 추구하는 삶에 대해서 진술하고 있다. 우리가 불행한 것은 몸과 마음의 고통과 두려움이라는 부정적 정념들 때문이다. 이들 부정적 정념들의 원인은 욕망과 무지이다. 따라서 그의 가르침은 무지의 원인과 욕망에 대해 분석과 행복해지는 실천적 방법들로 구성되어 있다. 그의 가르침이 적극적으로 쾌락을 추구하는 키레네학파와 다른 점은 일시적인 감각적 쾌락을 끊임없이 추구하기 보다는 쾌락이 근거하는 욕망에 (...) 대한 분석을 통해 인간의 내면에서 행복의 실마리를 찾았다는 점이다. 그리고 신과 죽음이라는 문제가 두려움과 공포의 정념을 일으키는 실존적 상황에 대한 분석이 그의 윤리학의 중요한 주제이다. 따라서 본 논문은 우리가 일회적 삶에서 추구해야 하는 행복에 대한 그의 사상을 을 중심으로 재구성해 보고자 한다. (shrink)

이 글은 2017년까지 간행된 초․중등학생을 대상으로 한 명상교육 논문들 중등재후보지 이상의 학술지에 게재된 논문을 선별하여 연구경향을 분석한 것이다. 총 63편의 논문이 분석대상으로 선정되었는데, 그 발표 추이를 보면 2004년부터1-2편씩 꾸준히 발표되다가 2008년부터 급증하였고, 2015년부터 2017년까지의 3년간에는 전체 63편의 절반(44.4%)에 해당하는 28편이 발표되었다. 연구주제는 정서안정이라는 심리학적인 주제가 가장 많은 비중을 차지하고 있지만, 2010년 이후로는 도덕성 및 인성 함양, 학습능력 향상, 신체기능 향상 등으로 주제가 확대되는것을 볼 수 있다. 적용된 명상을 유형별로 보면, 마음챙김 명상 및 이를 활용한 인지치료와 마음챙김의 원류인 불교명상이 가장 많은 (...) 비중을 차지하였고, 그 밖에요가, 유학, 국선도, 뇌호흡에 이르기까지 다양한 유형의 명상이 다루어지고 있었다. 특히 윤리교육계에서 간행된 논문들은 불교 명상과 마음챙김 명상 위주의 연구에 유학에서의 명상이라는 새로운 요소를 도입하였다는 점에서 의미를 부여할수 있을 것이다. 논문들이 게재된 학술지의 성격을 살펴보면, 심리, 교육 분야의학회지가 거의 절반을 차지하고 있고, 그 밖에 종교학, 체육학, 윤리교육학 분야의학회지들을 볼 수 있다. 이러한 연구결과들을 바탕으로 미루어볼 때 향후 명상교육은 심리학이나 상담학 분야가 중심이 되던 것에서 나아가 윤리교육계, 체육교육계 등 인접 학문 분야의 참여가 보다 확대될 것이며, 이를 통해 연구주제, 명상유형, 효과 면에서도 다양한 모습을 보일 것으로 예상된다. (shrink)

불교와 자이나교 양쪽에서 전하고 있는 파에시 논쟁 문헌에 등장하는 수많은 비유 중에서 특히 도박 관련 비유에 나타난 고대 인도 문화의 놀이 문화와 번역 용어 문제를 중점적으로 분석하였다. 파에시 논쟁 문헌에 등장하는 갖가지 비유들은 실제로 그 논쟁이 이루어졌던 당시에 논쟁의 상호 당사자들은 너무도 잘 알고 있던 내용일 것이라는 점은 미루어 짐작할 수 있다. 이 논문에서 필자는 파에시 논쟁 문헌에서 나오는 “악카 놀이”는 고대부터 인도에서 행해진 놀이 방법의 하나로 추정되며, 악카는 나무 열매라고 밝힌다. 따라서 이를 단순히 주사위 또는 주사위 놀이라고 통칭하여 번역하는 (...) 것은 적절하지 못하다고 주장한다. 필자는 고대 인도의 유흥 문화의 일종으로서 도박의 수단이 되기도 하였던 악카 놀이는 그대로 음역하여 사용하는 것이 합당하다고 보았다. 이것은 일찍이 한역 원칙 중 음역해야 한다고 보았던 5불번(不翻) 가운데 차방무고(此方無故) 또는 차토무고(此土無故)에 해당한다. 인도에는 있지만 이 지역에 없는 나무 열매를 지칭하는 고유명사이기 때문이다. 논쟁에서 비유를 사용하는 목적은 보다 더 용이하게 자신의 주장을 입증하는 데 있다. 그러나 만약에 논쟁의 상대방이 그 뜻을 알아채지 못하거나 이해할 수도 없는 비유를 사용한다면 헛된 일이 될 것이며, 논쟁에서도 패배하고 말 것이다. 고대 인도에서 보편적으로 행해졌던 유흥 문화에 속하는 악카 놀이에 대한 이해가 없이 악카라는 단어를 현대적으로 풀어서 번역하는 것은 신중을 기해야 할 것이다. 왜냐하면 그 용어 하나에 대한 번역에 그치지 않고 그와 관련된 앞뒤 내용의 의미 전달에도 실패하고 마는 결과를 초래하기 때문이다. (shrink)

『이솝우화』는 그리스의 노예 신분이었던 아이소포스가 만든 우화작품으로 고대 이후 인간들의 행동적 특성을 설명하거나 도덕적 판단이 필요한 상황에서 개인의 심리 상태 등을 예화적으로 보여줄 목적으로 만든 작품이다. 단순히 동화적인 요소뿐만 아니라 도덕적인 딜레마 상황을 묘사하고 있어서 아동들을 대상으로 바람직한 인성 형성에 보조적 수단으로 현대에도 많이 사용하고 있다. 그리고 우화에는 거의 모든 편에서 우화의 마지막 부분에 교훈을 붙여서 이해를 돕고 이기도 하다. 『이솝우화』에서는 인간의 심리 상태나 행동특성을 설명하기 위한 장치로서 Anthropomorphism이 등장한다. Anthropomorphism은 인간중심주의의 입장에서 신과 인간은 같은 형상과 같은 특성을 가지고 있다는 (...) 의미(신인 동형 동성설)와 아울러 동물과 여타의 생명체를 인간으로 유비하여 의인화의 의미를 가진다는 점에서 중의적인 표현이다. 이 논문이 의도하는 것은 『이솝우화』에서 Anthropomorphism의 사용례를 분석하고, 그러한 분석을 바탕으로 『이솝우화』 안에서 Anthropomorphism의 특징을 살피는 것이다. 연구자는 Anthropomorphism의 용례를 분석하여 『이솝우화』의 Anthropomorphism은 신인 동형동성설의 특징보다는 의인화의 특징을 가진다는 사실을 확인하였다. 용례에서 신인 동형동성설보다는 주로 의인화의 특징을 가지면서 동시에 표유류를 의인화하는 경우가 월등하게 많은 점을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 현상은 인간의 형상과 더 유사한 대상에의 근친성을 통해서 인간을 잘 표현하리라는 희망에서 출발한 것으로 보이고 있다. (shrink)

본 논문은 환경 윤리의 세 가지 기초 쟁점, 즉 국가와 국가 사이의 문제, 세대와 세대 사이의 문제, 종과 종 사이의 문제를 통해 환경 윤리에 대한 논의의 일반적 조명과 함께, 환경 윤리 전반에 대한 종합적 이해를 도모하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 환경 윤리에 대한 일반적 논의와 그에 대한 종합적 이해는 거의 모두 이 세 가지 쟁점을 통해 마련될 수 있다 해도 과언이 아니기 때문이다. 만일 자연 환경 문제를 두고 국가와 국가의 이익이 상충할 경우, 그런 이익 상충을 어떻게 조절할 것이며, 만일 특정 (...) 국가가 다른 어떤 국가에 대해 환경 파괴에 따른 책임을 져야 한다면, 그런 책임 도출의 근거를 어떻게 마련할 것인가? 그리고 우리는 우리의 후손들인 미래 세대에 대해 어떤 부담을 가져야 하며, 어떤 도덕적 의무를 확립해야 하는가? 그리고 우리는 도덕 행위자인 우리가 우리 인간 이외의 다른 종들에 대해 무언가 할 수 있다면, 무엇을 어떻게 해야 하는가? 본 논문은 이런 세 가지 종류의 물음을 통해 환경 윤리가 구체적으로 어떤 문제에 집중해야 하며, 향후 논의의 방향이 어떻게 전개되어야 하는가에 대해 조망할 것이다. 이에 따라 본 논문은 환경 윤리의 세 가지 쟁점 모두를 관통하는 기초 개념이 ‘상호연관성’이라 보고, 이 개념에 의거해서 세 가지 문제에 각각 해당하는 도덕적 의무와 그에 대한 기초를 제공할 것이다. 먼저, 국가와 국가 사이에 형성되는 환경 윤리의 첫 번째 쟁점에 대해서는 국가는 다른 국가에 대해 국제 윤리 차원의 도덕적 책무를 져야 하며, 환경 재앙과 직결된 이익의 문제가 있다면, 정의의 원리에 기초하여 그 이익에 따른 부담 역시 공정하게 져야 한다는 점을 강조할 것이다. 그리고 세대와 세대 사이에 형성되는 환경 윤리의 두 번째 쟁점과 관련하여, 안전하고 깨끗한 환경에서 살 권리는 미래 세대에게도 마찬가지라는 점을 강조하면서, 세대간의 연계성에 기초한 지속가능성에 관한 윤리적 지침을 마련하는 일에 집중할 것이다. 그리고 마지막으로, 종과 종 사이에 형성되는 세 번째 환경 윤리 쟁점에 대해서는 근본적인 차원에서 인간뿐만 아니라 인간 이외의 다른 종들 역시 도덕적 지위를 부여받을 수 있다고 보고, 그에 대한 도덕적 근거를 확립하는 일에 초점을 맞출 것이다. (shrink)

The present study is concerned the viability of the primary method in contemporary philosophy, i.e., conceptual analysis. Starting out by tracing the roots of this methodology to Platonic philosophy, the study questions whether such a methodology makes sense when divorced from Platonic philosophy, and develops a framework for a kind of analysis that is more in keeping with recent psychological research on categorization. Finally, it is shown that this kind of analysis can be applied to the concept of justification in (...) a manner that furthers the epistemological goal of providing intellectual guidance. (shrink)

Whether the food movement is most likely to transform the food system through ‘alternative’ or ‘oppositional’ initiatives has been the focus of considerable scholarly debate. Alternative initiatives are widespread but risk reinforcing the conventional food system by supporting neoliberal discourse and governance mechanisms, including localism, consumer choice, entrepreneurialism and self-help. While oppositional initiatives such as political advocacy have the potential for system-wide change, the current neoliberal political and ideological context dominant in Canada poses difficulties for initiatives that explicitly oppose the (...) conventional food system. As such, some argue that the food movement requires convergence between alternative and oppositional initiatives. In this paper, we investigate convergence using survey results from 143 food movement organizations in four Canadian provinces. Results based on cluster analysis and descriptive statistics on organizational discourse, activities and visions of sustainable food systems demonstrate convergence around neoliberal discourse and governance mechanisms. Localism and consumer education characteristics are particularly prominent, with a majority of respondents describing their organizations as ‘local’, engaging in consumer education activities, and stating the importance of consumer education activities, indicating convergence around alternative, rather than oppositional, initiatives. While convergence around these discourse and strategies may limit the transformative potential of the food system when interpreted as neoliberalisation of the movement, such a reading does not demonstrate their full potential, as survey results also indicate trends of transformative visions of change and political engagement, particularly at the municipal level. This research demonstrates that the movement can work simultaneously within, and opposed to, the conventional food system, and provides understanding of both neoliberal leanings and the politics of the possible of the food movement. (shrink)

In this paper, we examine the issue of the language of the Christian prayer from philosophical and theological point of view. We come to the conclusion that for the closer enquiry of the Christian prayer philosophy can be inspired by theology. For if we want to determine exactly between whom the relation of prayer lies, we might need to draw on the inspiration from the theological sources concerning the Holy Trinity as well as the involvement of all the saints, especially (...) of Virgin Mary, and angels in the prayers. Within the framework of the philosophical analysis of the prayer we determine it as a participatory dialogical relation between the praying human being, the three divine persons, Virgin Mary, other saints, the angels, and the group of meaningful assertions that form the content of a prayer. Beside this on the basis of our faith we accept that every prayer is preceded by God, and the structure of this approaching of man by God we adopted from Bocheński. (shrink)

The existing metadiscourse studies have focused on relatively specific registers. Metadiscourse in written and/or spoken registers in general has received little attention. To explain more fully the nature of metadiscourse, this article undertakes a comprehensive linguistic analysis of metadiscourse markers in written registers based on a reflexive model of metadiscourse. Specifically, this article conducts a multidimensional analysis of register variation of metadiscourse markers across the press, general prose, academic prose and fiction in the Freiburg update of the Lancaster-Oslo/bergen Corpus of (...) British English. Three Metadiscourse Dimensions are extracted and interpreted: writer presence, text presentation and reader guidance. Mean dimension scores are computed as a basis for functional interpretation of register variation. Results show that the appropriate use of metadiscourse markers crucially depends on the register. Metadiscourse markers are more pervasive in more informational and abstract registers, especially for the function of text presentation. On the contrary, metadiscourse markers are rare in narrative and concrete registers, and are mostly used for the purpose of reader guidance. (shrink)

What does the way we clarify and revise concepts reveal about the nature of concepts? This paper investigates the ontological commitments of conceptual analysis and explication regarding their supposed subject matter – concepts. It demonstrates the benefits of a cognitivist account of concepts, according to which they are not items on which the subject operates cognitively, but rather ways in which the subject operates. The proposed view helps to handle alternating references to ‘concepts’ and ‘terms’ in instructions on analysis and (...) explication. Furthermore, its virtue lies not in the capacity to render concepts ‘shareable’ but in its ontological parsimony. (shrink)

Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology draws research from psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology to explore the variety of explanatory approaches for understanding the nature of psychiatric disorders both in practice and research. The fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology incorporates many useful explanatory approaches and this book integrates this range of perspectives and makes suggestions about how to advance etiologic theories, classification, and treatment. The editors have brought together leading thinkers who have been widely published and are well-respected in their area (...) of expertise, including several developers of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and authors of the US National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria Project (RDoC). Each main chapter has a commentary provided by one of the other authors and an introduction written by one of the editors to create an accessible, interdisciplinary dialog. (shrink)

The article deals with the issues of comparing the teachings of Tolstoy and Lao-zi according to the criterion of palingenesis, which is the basis for the construction of the entire ideological corpus of the most important treatise of Taoism “Tao de jing”. Lao-zi formulated the lapidary formula of palingenesis in the fortieth zhang of this treatise, recreating a picture of the harmonization of the Middle Kingdom, arguing that return is the movement of the Tao, and weakening is the action of (...) the Tao. The principle of palingenesis is one of the fundamental principles for which Tolstoy uses Christological vocabulary, and Lao-zi uses embryological vocabulary. The choice of the palingenesis criterion for comparative analysis of the teachings is due to the fact that the latter works as an immutable law when setting the task of recreating harmony in social chaos. Based on the assessments of the content of the zhangs of the “Tao de jing” canon, a representative line of palingenesis elements is built: the category of knowledge/truth; the category of ignorance; the category of simplicity; the category of naturalness; the category of “baby”; the category of non-action; the category of nonviolence. The principles of Taoism are not expressed by Tolstoy with a research sequence in logical definitions, but appear as categories and trends, working in the worldview of the Yasnaya Polyana sage. In the works “What is my faith?”, “Sayings of the Chinese sage Lao-Tse”, “Non-doing”, Tolstoy's teaching is presented in its entirety and is therefore convenient for comparison with the Taoist classics. It is noted that Tolstoy's conceptual idea is based on the desire to convert people to the good - unity with all people. This orientation towards the good is nothing else than the return to man of his original nature, on the way to which the principle of palingenesis associated with the boycott of the civilization of violence is realized. The conducted research has shown that in the teachings of Lao-zi and Tolstoy, which record the experience of theoretical exploration of the world, the categories of palingenesis are common to the Russian and Chinese spirit. (shrink)

Blockchain is one of the technologies that can support digital transformation in industries in many aspects. This sophisticated technology can provide a decentralized, transparent, and secure environment for organizations and businesses. This review article discusses the adoption of blockchain in the ports and shipping industry to support digital transformation. It also explores the integration of this technology into the current ports and shipping ecosystem. Besides, the study highlighted the situation of the supply chains management in ports and shipping domain as (...) a case study in this field. The investigated studies show that blockchain can be integrated into processes such as financial and document workflow. This review contributes to research by focusing on the adoption of blockchain in the ports and shipping industry to support digital transformation. It also aims to understand the existing port practice and map it with current tendencies based on blockchain. This study gives insight analysis to incorporate blockchain technology into ports and shipping processes globally. (shrink)

The Maharatnakuta is a collection of Buddhist texts, the bulk of which belong to the early Mahayana tradition. Its extant versions are included in the Chinese Tripitaka as well as the Tibetan and Mongolian Kanjurs. The collection has been studied to a certain extent with the use of the Chinese and Tibetan sources but almost nothing is known of its Mongolian-language versions. The article aims to provide a preliminary study of the Ratnakuta in the Mongolian manuscript Kanjur compiled in 1628–1629. (...) It examines the structural traits of the collection, the data of the colophons and some textual elements preserved from the Tibetan original/s. The analysis reveals that, possibly, the major part of the Ratnakuta or the whole collection was translated into Mongolian en bloc in 1628–1629. The collection lacks eight sutras and places the final forty-ninth work between texts thirty-five and thirty-six. A number of textual elements preserved from the Tibetan source/s point to the proximity and possible relation of the Mongolian Ratnakuta to the Them spangs ma and Western Tibetan Kanjurs. (shrink)

The Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is an intuitive device used by witnesses of an incident without medical training in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. Its operation consists in delivering an electrical pulse to the cardiac conduction system, as a result of which normal heart rate is restored. The lack of awareness in society concerning the usefulness of the device and the inadequate deployment of AEDs result in their too infrequent application by witnesses of incidents. The aim of this paper is (...) to verify whether cluster analysis is the appropriate statistical method to determine the appropriate deployment of AED devices on the basis of cases of sudden cardiac arrest in out-of-hospital conditions. The initial cluster analysis showed the validity of using the method in question for planning the appropriate locations of AEDs. (shrink)

The article shows that all modern theories of analysis and synthesis, on one basis, are divided into classical and non-classical, and on the other, into realistic and anti-realistic. A realistic version of the classical theory, according to which analysis is a real or mental decomposition of the phenomena of the objective and subjective world into components, and synthesis is a real or mental combination of these components into a whole, is considered. The naive understanding of analysis, which includes in its (...) task the cognition of the components of the object under study, and those relations that form it from these components, has been criticized. It is shown that the cognition of such relations is a task of synthesis. The history of the study of the problem of mental synthesis from Plato to modern nominalism is considered. Mental analysis and synthesis are compared with practical ones. Two stages of the history of practical analysis and synthesis are investigated — pre-scientific and scientific. The theories of analysis and synthesis, formed at these stages, are compared. (shrink)

Gene expression network is also a type of complex network. It is challenging to analyze the gene expression network through relevant knowledge and algorithms of a complex network. In this paper, the existing characteristics of genes are analyzed from various indexes of the gene expression network to analyze key genes and TOP genes. Firstly, gene chip data are screened, gene data with obvious characteristics are selected, and relevant clustering characteristics are analyzed. Then, the complex gene network structure is established, and (...) gene networks with different threshold shapes and different sizes are selected. Finally, the relevant indexes and PR values after the PageRank algorithm are analyzed for complex networks under different thresholds, thus establishing the TOP gene and PR sequence. (shrink)

In recent years students of medieval literature and its history have begun increasingly to appreciate the value of their primary source materials — the manuscripts. Editors of Middle English texts are less apt nowadays, having found their “best text,” to jettison as worthless all other surviving copies and renderings of it. It is recognized that a “corrupt” text may reflect the activity of a contemporary editor, critic, or adapter rather than that of a merely careless copyist. Medieval scribes, whether professional (...) or amateur, clerical or lay, were producing works of literature for their original consumers; close examination of scribal behavior, whether it be script, spelling, or choice and ordering of material, provides insight into the way literary texts were received, understood, and disseminated. The studies of paleographer, dialectologist, textual critic, and literary historian can and should be complementary. (shrink)

"Who can tell us more about a man's character than his wife? Shakespeare allows Lady Macbeth to explain her husband's character as she understands it, and although she cannot see the "whole" truth, she tells us a great deal about Macbeth...." http://philpapers.org/profile/112741.

This study investigates the sampled-data admissibility problem for a singular system. The objective of this paper is to design a sampled-data controller to ensure the admissibility of a singular system and to construct an appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional to get less conservative results for the sampled-data singular system. To accomplish these objectives, the system is converted into a time-delay system by the input delay approach firstly, and both lower and upper bounds of the delay are considered. Secondly, by introducing a suitable (...) LKF, the admissibility criteria are obtained. Then, when estimating the derivative of the LKF, a relaxation variable is introduced by the method of reciprocally convex inequality, and it is proved that the conservatism is reduced. Finally, two numerical examples are given to prove that the designed sampled-data controller can ensure the states of the systems under the influence of external interference. (shrink)

This paper examines the Vitakkasanthana Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya from a psychological perspective. This discourse deals with unwanted, intrusive cognitions that interfere with one’s meditative efforts. Five strategies for dealing with these are given, presented in an hierarchical order. The paper elucidates and comments on these, with special reference to the techniques used, in present day clinical psychology and psychiatry, to counter intrusions/obsessions.

In Lignes de fuite. Pour un autre monde de possibles, Guattari refers to an ‘analytico-militant programme’ that would position analysis across multiple social fields. What would this correspond to? Through an examination of Guattari’s theorisation of the question of the group in the framework of institutional psychotherapy, this article seeks to open ways to think the general meaning of analysis for social and political purposes and its practical form. The paper will explore what is at stake in the collectivisaton of (...) analysis beyond the group as a social-environmental process and according to a collective machinic perspective of enunciative processes. Analysis will be defined here as an everyday permanent process of creating conditions of autonomy, where self-management is key and alliances are unlocked through a work of analytical metabolism. (shrink)

Although two documents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith have given instruction on the moral problems of artificial reproductive technologies and the importance of respecting the lives of cryopreserved embryos, no definitive judgment has been made regarding the possibility of rescuing those embryos by means of embryo transfer into the uterus of a willing woman. This essay offers an analysis of the morality of embryo transfer in light of the ethical principles of St. Thomas Aquinas and argues (...) that the proper use of our generative potential is only safeguarded by being restricted to marital intercourse. The arguments of those who favor the adoption model are considered and rejected in light of a Thomistic analysis of the categories of paternity, maternity, and filiation. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 14.4 : 673–695. (shrink)

Knowledge elicitation is one of the more problematic phases of knowledge based systems development. Two specific problems that have received inadequate attention in the literature are the process of expert selection and the use of a broader, socially and politically informed, frame of reference for knowledge elicitation. This paper builds on the few attempts to consider these problems. It contributes to a novel interpretation of the broader knowledge acquisition context using the powerful notion of stakeholders. More specifically, it proposes the (...) application of an interpretive stakeholder analysis approach previously developed in information systems research. It is argued that the identification of knowledge based systems’ and knowledge elicitation stakeholders and the investigation of their viewpoints not only enriches the knowledge elicitation process, it also contributes to a broader understanding of knowledge based systems development. (shrink)

주자 인심도심설은 몇 차례의 변천과정을 거쳐 성립되었다. 이에 대한 선행연구들은 대부분 ‘인심을 무엇으로 규정할 것인가’라는 문제에 초점을 맞추어 논의하고 있다. 그러나 ‘이론체계의 정합성’이라는 관점에서 보았을 때 보다 중요한 문제는 ‘인심과 도심의 분기’이다. 왜냐하면, 주자는 하나의 마음이 인심과 도심이라는 두 마음으로 분기되는 요인에 대하여 어느 곳에서는 ‘지각의 근원[形氣/性命]’이라고 주장하고, 다른 곳에서는 ‘지각의 대상[欲/義理]’이라고 주장하고 있으며, 이 요인들 사이의 관계에 대하여는 언급하고 있지 않기 때문이다. 본 논문은 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여, 인심을 ‘개인이 생존경쟁에서 승리하여 개체의 자연 생명을 보존하고 재생산하기 위한 사적인 심리적 (...) 기능’, 도심을 ‘타인을 배려하고 타인과 협동하여 공동체를 유지하고 발전시키기 위한 공적인 심리적 기능’으로 정의한 다음에 인심과 도심의 분기에 대한 주자의 학설을 다음과 같이 재구성하였다.BR ‘마음의 지각은 하나이지만 인심과 도심 두 가지로 분기된다. 인심은 형기에서 발생하여 욕구를 지각하고 있기 때문에 불선한 것은 아니지만 위태로워 불안하고, 도심은 성명에 근원하여 의리를 지각하고 있기 때문에 선하지만 은미하여 발현되기 어렵다.’BR 이와 같이 ‘인심과 도심은 발생하는 근원이 다르기 때문에 지각하는 대상도 다르게 된다’라고 주장한다면, 인심과 도심이 분기되는 형이상학적 요인은 ‘형기’와 ‘성명’이 되고 인식론적 요인은 ‘욕구’와 ‘의리’가 된다. 전자가 주요인이라면 후자는 부차적 요인이라고 할 수 있다. 이 두 가지 요인은 그 유형(class)이 다르기 때문에 서로 모순되지 않는다. 그러므로 위에서 재구성한 학설은 논리적 정합성을 갖추게 되는 것이다. (shrink)

This paper lays out and rebuts methodological objections to philosophers’ reliance on intuitions in pursuit of metaphysical analysis.