Background: The relationship between moral resilience, moral distress, and moral injury among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely investigated; however, the literature in the post-COVID-19 era is scarce. Research aim: To examine the impact of moral resilience on moral distress and moral injury among nurses after the COVID-19 pandemic. Research design: Cross-sectional study. Participants and research context: We obtained a convenience sample of 1118 nurses in Greece. We collected demographic data (gender, age) and work-related data (understaffed wards, shift (...) work, clinical experience). We measured moral resilience with the revised “Rushton Moral Resilience Scale”, moral distress with the “Moral Distress Thermometer”, and moral injury with the “Moral Injury Symptom Scale-Healthcare Professionals” version. We adjusted all multivariable models for demographic variables. Ethical considerations: The Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens approved our study protocol (approval number; 474, approved: November 2023). Our study followed the Declaration of Helsinki. Findings/results: Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that moral resilience reduced moral distress and moral injury. In particular, we found that increased response to moral adversity was associated with decreased moral distress (adjusted coefficient beta = −1.81, 95% confidence interval [CI] = −2.07 to −1.54). Moreover, we found that increased response to moral adversity (adjusted coefficient beta = −8.24, 95% CI = −9.37 to −7.10) and increased moral efficacy (adjusted coefficient beta = −3.24, 95% CI = −5.03 to −1.45) were associated with reduced moral injury. Conclusions: Moral resilience can reduce the level of moral distress and moral injury among nurses. However, the persistence of moderate moral resilience among Greek nurses does not guarantee its sustainability. To ensure that this resilience is maintained and potentially enhanced, it is imperative for nurse leaders and policymakers to strategically design interventions to address issues at the organizational, team, and individual levels. (shrink)

Access to communication is critical for individuals with late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and minimal volitional movement, but they sometimes present with concomitant visual or ocular motility impairments that affect their performance with eye tracking or visual brain-computer interface systems. In this study, we explored the use of modified eye tracking and steady state visual evoked potential BCI, in combination with the Shuffle Speller typing interface, for this population. Two participants with late-stage ALS, visual impairments, and minimal volitional movement completed a (...) single-case experimental research design comparing copy-spelling performance with three different typing systems: commercially available eye tracking communication software, Shuffle Speller with modified eye tracking, and Shuffle Speller with SSVEP BCI. Participant 1 was unable to type any correct characters with the commercial system, but achieved accuracies of up to 50% with Shuffle Speller eye tracking and 89% with Shuffle Speller BCI. Participant 2 also had higher maximum accuracies with Shuffle Speller, typing with up to 63% accuracy with eye tracking and 100% accuracy with BCI. However, participants’ typing accuracy for both Shuffle Speller conditions was highly variable, particularly in the BCI condition. Both the Shuffle Speller interface and SSVEP BCI input show promise for improving typing performance for people with late-stage ALS. Further development of innovative BCI systems for this population is needed. (shrink)

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of positive personality traits and negative personality traits on consumer ethics in Indonesia. This is one of the first studies to explore this topic in relation to Indonesia, which is the fourth most populous country in the world. The paper-based survey was distributed to a large private university in Indonesia. Based on this convenience sample of 540 respondents, the results showed that cognitive empathy and compassion negatively impacted consumers’ perception toward (...) various unethical behaviors, while desire for control and distrust of others positively influenced such behaviors. Based on earlier studies showing that the younger generation has less empathy than previous generations, the findings of the present study have important implications for creating a more empathetic and compassionate society. (shrink)

The patient’s autonomy and well-being are sometimes seen as central to the ethical justification of voluntary euthanasia (VE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS). While respecting the patient’s wish to die plausibly promotes the patient’s autonomy, it is less obvious how alleviating the patient’s suffering through death benefits the patient. Death eliminates the subject, so how can we intelligibly maintain that the patient’s well-being is promoted when she/he no longer exists? This article interrogates two typical answers given by philosophers: (a) that death (...) confers a well-being benefit in the sense that it actualises a comparatively better life course for the patient (ie, a shorter life with less net suffering), and (b) that death is beneficial because non-existence which entails no suffering is superior to an existence filled with suffering. A close examination of the two senses in which the patient might incur a well-being benefit reveals problems that preclude physicians delivering VE/PAS in the name of beneficence. (shrink)

This book —the first of a two-volume monograph— seeks to unify the hitherto perceived-as-disparate foundations of psychology and artificial intelligence. It does this by replacing their constitutive notions with a novel common one: noémon system. The ensued Theory of Noémon Systems is developed in terms of an interdisciplinary, language-based axiomatic approach. The first volume details the development of the foundations of the theory and expounds ramifications for cognitive science and AI including novel solutions to the AGI debate and Darwin’s mental (...) gap issue, while offering the first complete definition of AI. The book concurrently explores the similarities and differences between humans and AI/robot systems with respect to the evolution-dependent phenomena of representation, thinking, understanding and communication. The book is an extensive one; because of it’s extensiveness and broad ramifications, this book will appeal to scientists working on the interfaces of psychology, AI, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and the humanities. The complicated and extensive unification of the fields of Artificial Intelligence and psychology is continued in the second volume that breaks further new ground for both disciplines, with thought-provoking and compelling implications for both. (shrink)

This chapter has three sections. The first one introduces the principle of noémon systems (PriNS) and discusses the relation between human and artificial minds. It constitutes the backbone of the Theory of Noémon Systems. PriNS specifies the two definiens of the noémon system theoretical construct, namely, noémon species and noémon entity. They are defined in terms of parametric conditions that determine necessary and sufficient conditions for biological, artificial, and hybrid minds. On this basis, the second section discusses the nature of (...) AI and the notion of own robot evolution; develops a novel argument and result on the AGI and superintelligence debates, and provides the first complete definition of AI. The chapter’s last section introduces the current state of evolutionary theory, reviews the gradualist debate (originating with Darwin in 1871), and offers a radical solution to it in terms of written human language. © Petros A. M. Gelepithis 2024. (shrink)

This chapter unifies the disciplinary studies of the last two definiens of noémon system (NoS), namely, communication and understanding. Its first section succinctly reviews the literature on the nature of communication and defines human communication in terms of the process of mutual human understanding. The latter is in turn defined in terms of a system of human primitives. The second section discusses the process of human understanding and in particular the end result of it, namely, a system of human primitives. (...) We conclude that the processes of human communication and understanding constitute qualitative invariances of historic H. sapiens psychology. The last section extends our definitions for any NoS, discusses the limits of communication among NoSs, and compares well known regularities and qualitative invariances of psychology and AI. © Petros A. M. Gelepithis 2024. (shrink)

Thinking is widely agreed to be the most basic mental phenomenon that permeates all others across animals and machines. Its building blocks are unanimously taken to be ‘concepts’. This chapter demonstrates that the latter viewpoint is mistaken. The building blocks of both thinking and concepts are the notions of ‘meaningful neural formation’ for biological systems, and its generalisation of ‘meaningful material formation’ for all types of noémon systems. Following a succinct review of the major theories of meaning the chapter outlines (...) a novel physical theory of thinking and meaning that is extended to include significant notions of both psychology and AI including ‘concept’, ‘idea’, ‘belief’, ‘information’ and ‘reasoning’. © Petros A. M. Gelepithis 2024. (shrink)

The article analyzes the impact of modern digital technologies used in the information society on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in general. Both positive and negative aspects of such impact are considered. The importance of this topic is due to the need for further deepening of scientific knowledge related to the development of the rule of law in the information society and insufficient research from the legal point of view of current theoretical problems of the rule of (...) law in the digital era. The purpose of this article is to study the rule of law as a principle of the modern state of the 21st century and to study the problems in matters of human rights that have arisen with the development of modern digital technologies. The study of this issue is quite relevant, considering the conclusions, made as a result of our work, can be taken into account in further theoretical developments of international and national human rights protection aimed at improving the effectiveness of human rights judicial protection and improving current legislation. (shrink)

The Web may critically transform the way we understand the activity of proving. The Web as a collaborative medium allows the active participation of people with different backgrounds, interests, viewpoints, and styles. Mathematical formal proofs are inadequate for capturing Web-based proofs. This article claims that Web provings can be studied as a particular type of Goguen's proof-events. Web-based proof-events have a social component, communication medium, prover-interpreter interaction, interpretation process, understanding and validation, historical component, and styles. To demonstrate its claim, the (...) article discusses the Kumo and Polymath projects, both of which employ Web-based communication as part of proving. Web proving is a novel type of proving activity that may have a serious impact on the change in mathematical practices, despite the fact that it is not currently a universally acceptable methodology. (shrink)

In the histories formulation of quantum theory, sets of coarse-grained histories that are consistent obey the classical probability rules. It has been argued that these sets can describe the quasi-classical behaviour of closed quantum systems, e.g. Omnès (Rev. Mod. Phys. 64(2), 339, 1992) and Hartle (Les Houches1992). Most physical scenarios admit multiple different consistent sets and one can view each of these as a separate context. Using propositions from different consistent sets to make inferences leads to paradoxes such as contrary (...) inferences, first noted by Kent (Phys. Rev. Lett. 78(15), 2874, 1997). In this contribution, we use the consistent histories to describe a quasi-classical and macroscopic system to show that paradoxes involving contextuality persist even in the quasi-classical limit. This is distinctively different from the contextuality of standard quantum theory, where the contextuality paradoxes do not persist in the quasi-classical limit. Specifically, we consider different consistent sets for the arrival time problem of a (quasi-classical) ball in an infinite square well. For this setting, we construct two different consistent sets. We find the probabilities that each consistent set assigns to the simple question of whether the ball ever crossed the middle of the interval. We show that one consistent set concludes with certainty that the ball crossed it while the other consistent set concludes with certainty that it did not. Our results point to the need for constraints on the histories sets, additional to the consistency condition, to recover the correct quasi-classical limit in this formalism and lead to the motto ‘all consistent sets are equal’, but ‘some consistent sets are more equal than others’. (shrink)

This article reintroduces the Quaker moral philosopher Jonathan Dymond (1796–1828) and examines his pacifist thought. Despite the fact that Dymond’s publications, which provided the most cogent and methodical exposition of his religious denomination’s doctrine of “non-resistance,” remained highly influential in Britain and other parts of the world throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, his name has largely been forgotten. Offering a sustained, systematic, and contextual reading of Dymond’s works, this article provides fresh perspectives on the challenges (...) the Quaker moralist mounted against war through both scriptural and non-scriptural arguments; on his ideas about the origins of war and its deleterious consequences; and on his critiques of militarism, traditional foreign policy, and the profession of the soldier. Through this analysis, Dymond emerges not only as a Quaker pacifist powerhouse, but also as one of the most sophisticated writers of the early nineteenth century who vigorously challenged the idea of “just war.” At the same time, the article sheds light on the “afterlives” of Dymond’s writings and their intellectual and moral impact on nineteenth-century religious and political thought. The article first reconstructs Dymond’s biographical context, situating the development of his pacifism within the history of the early peace movement in Britain. It then provides a close reading of Dymond’s major works, focusing primarily on his 1823 An Inquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity, tracing the contours of his pacifist thought and placing it in its proper intellectual context. Ultimately, the article argues that our understanding of the historical development of “Western” pacifist tradition and its intellectual vitality will continue to remain poorer and incomplete unless we fully appreciate Dymond’s arguments and the timelessness of his irenic message. (shrink)

The concept of proof can be studied from many different perspectives. Many types of proofs have been developed throughout history such as apodictic, dialectical, formal, constructive and non-constructive proofs, proofs by visualisation, assumption-based proofs, computer-generated proofs, etc. In this paper, we develop Goguen’s general concept of proof-events and the methodology of algebraic semiotics, in order to define the concept of mathematical style, which characterizes the proofs produced by different cultures, schools or scholars. In our view, style can be defined as (...) a semiotic meta-code that depends on the underlying mode of signification (semiosis), the selected code and the underlying semiotic space and determines the individual mode of integration (selection, combination, blending) into a narrative structure (proof). Finally, we examine certain historical types of styles of mathematical proofs, to elucidate our viewpoint. (shrink)

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and non- geostationary satellite (NGSO; LEO/MEO) services promise faster, safer, and “ greener ” mining, but also raise ethical and governance risks. This study interrogates the technofix narrative. Objectives were to map NGSO+AI applications across the mining value chain ; assess technical, operational, environmental, and economic performance; examine governance, data rights, and justice implications ; evaluate capacity and procurement models ( with an East African lens ); and distill actionable guidance. Following a (...) PRISMA-2020 protocol, a mixed-methods review ( database inception –12 Aug 2025) of peer- reviewed and grey literature was undertaken with duplicate screening and appraisal (JBI, RoB 2/ROBINS-I, AACODS; GRADE/ CERQual ). Over 80 empirical studies and initiatives were synthesized ; random-effects meta- analysis was used where outcomes were comparable, alongside realist narrative synthesis. NGSO connectivity reduced latency (LEO: tens of ms; MEO: ~100–200 ms) and high-revisit EO (SAR/ optical ) improved surface-change detection ; operational gains ( uptime, reporting ) were noted but with low – moderate certainty given short follow -up and sponsorship. Governance lagged capability : data ownership and portability were unclear, third-party audit access rare, and community participation uneven ; ethical risks included bias, privacy, and cultural impacts. East African pilots showed technical promise amid institutional gaps. NGSO+AI can advance SDG- aligned mining only when coupled to binding data rights, independent assurance, participatory pathways, open interfaces, and local capacity ; otherwise tools risk performative compliance rather than accountable, just outcomes. (shrink)

Following the argument of Pusey et al. (in Nature Phys. 8:476, 2012), new interest has been raised on whether one can interpret state-vectors (pure states) in a statistical way (ψ-epistemic theories), or if each one of them corresponds to a different ontological entity. Each interpretation of quantum theory assumes different ontology and one could ask if the PBR argument carries over. Here we examine this question for histories formulations in general with particular attention to the co-event formulation. State-vectors appear as (...) the initial state that enters into the quantum measure. While the PBR argument goes through up to a point, the failure to meet some of the assumptions they made does not allow one to reach their conclusion. However, the author believes that the “statistical interpretation” is still impossible for co-events even if this is not proven by the PBR argument. (shrink)

This brief position paper addresses three central issues characterising cognitive theories and Newell's and Anderson & Lebiere's views on them. Specifically, first, on the choice of criteria for cognitive theories, I argue against any list and for a system of criteria. Second, on grading, I suggest modifications with respect to consciousness and development. Finally, on the choice of “theories” for evaluation, I argue for Edelman's theory of neuronal group selection instead of connectionism (classical or not).

The book you are holding is the second of a two-volume monograph on the Unification of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology. It unifies four pivotal topics of cognitive science: knowledge, consciousness, emotion, and human nature. Specifically, a new physicalist, evolutionary, and socio-biological theory of Homo knowledge is presented along with three major consequences concerning mathematics, philosophy and the unity of Homo Knowledge. The consciousness chapter reviews selected theories of human consciousness, and proposes a novel theory of both biological and artificial consciousness (...) that is inspired by the notion of evolutionary transitions. The chapter on emotions addresses the lack of a generally accepted, interdisciplinary-based framework for their study, contributes to some clearing of the terminological chaos characterising them, and takes the first step towards the development of such a framework. The last chapter brings together all previous ones into a radical perspective for the future of humanity. It argues for a new necessary and consciously-causedtransitionTransitions in the evolutionEvolution of our species. It involves a common societal organisation of our species and discusses the prerequisites for such a major transition. (shrink)

I propose a physicalist theory of consciousness that is an extension of the theory of noémona species. The proposed theory covers the full consciousness spectrum from animal to machine and its huma...

In this chapter, I explore the ideology, economics, and aesthetics of what I call “austerity media.” I focus on texts that tell unconventional stories about people often ignored—hoarders, street hustlers, and transgender people, all living on the edge in an increasingly austere age. The ideology of austerity is often linked to the ideology of self-help that suggests that individuals rather than systems of power require modification. In the context of the loss of public resources, popular culture attempts to make cultural (...) sense of these complex developments. But the economics of austerity media also encompasses the proliferation of cheap media productions, which, in turn, provide compelling examples of austere economic practices. Reality TV is one example, but so are neo-documentaries, made on extreme micro-budgets, and shot in a neo-neorealist style, such as Sean Baker’s recent _Tangerine_ and _The Florida Project_. Through an analysis of reality television shows about hoarding and these two recent films, I aim explore the ideology, economics, and aesthetics of austerity, as well as distinct scholarly approaches to understanding austerity’s impact and reach. I am interested in these media texts because they tell us a lot about how life is lived today in the context of over-consumption, planned obsolescence, and vast mountains of disavowed waste. They tell us about dwelling and dispossession, but also reveal impulses to hope and prospects for human flourishing. (shrink)

A brief critical review of C. Adami's "Introduction to Artificial Life". In particular, I point out the grounds against Adami's claim that "complexity of life can be equated with information content".

The best developed formulation of closed system quantum theory that handles multiple-time statements, is the consistent (or decoherent) histories approach. The most important weaknesses of the approach is that it gives rise to many different consistent sets, and it has been argued that a complete interpretation should be accompanied with a natural mechanism leading to a (possibly) unique preferred consistent set. The existence of multiple consistent sets becomes more problematic because it allows the existence of contrary inferences [1]. We analyse (...) the conceptual difficulties that arise from the existence of multiple consistent sets and provide a suggestion for a natural set selection criterion. This criterion does not lead to a unique physical consistent set, however it evades the existence of consistent sets with contrary inferences. The criterion is based on the concept of preclusion and the requirement that probability one propositions and their inferences should be non-contextual. The allowed consistent sets turn-out to be compatible with coevents which are the ontology of an alternative, histories based, formulation [2–4]. (shrink)

Selected historical and contemporary aspects of the debate between the syntactic and semantic views of scientific theories are presented. The theory of institutions is an abstract model theory approach which allows representation of both the syntactic and semantic views of scientific theories in a way which is free from dependence upon particular formal languages and logics. The standard definition of an institution, and the logical equivalence of the syntactic and the semantic definitions of a theory over an institution are presented. (...) The value of the theory of institutions for formalising computer science theories is reviewed and the wider methodological implications of this approach are considered. Formalising social science theories in the theory of institutions has a number of benefits including enabling approaches which simultaneously require the use of more than one theoretical vocabulary and permitting transitions between different levels of abstraction. (shrink)

This chapter is structured in three sections. In the first one I present the few remarks on which there is consensus about ‘knowledge’ as well as the major views attempting to define it. These remarks and viewpoints provide the basis for what follows. In section 2.2, I present a new physicalist, evolutionary, and socio-biological theory of Homo knowledge. In a nutshell, my thesis is that understanding, communication, and scientific reasoning (equivalently, method) are the three principal and interdependent processes that jointly (...) define the H-science and its compatibility with both animal knowledge and the steadily increasing AI- and robot- derived knowledge. Section 2.3 presents the immediate consequences of my theory. They concern: (i) the nature of mathematics; (ii) the place of philosophy within human knowledge; and (iii) the unity of Homo knowledge and the extent of its formalisability. (shrink)

This 2-part chapter discusses the current state of humanity and the possibility of a consciously-caused transition in the evolution of our species. Its first part introduces the global threats and possible existential risks that humanity face along with the major policy agendas, by leading contemporary economists, to address them. It also highlights the means used by the global power elites to substantially oppose them. The first section of its second part argues for the need to change the dominant self-image of (...) our species. The core of that self-image is, the imposed, mistaken and dominant view of human nature (used by Established Networks of Vested Interests for their own purposes). The section finishes off with redefinition and discussion of individual human nature. The last section of the second part briefly argues for the need to develop a common societal organisation of our species and discusses the prerequisites for such a major transition. The interdependent natures of AI and Homo sapiens should play a key role to that transition. I have termed it: Hybrid Planetary Organisation. (shrink)

The major disciplines contributing to affective science are: philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, AI, and medicine. This complexity is exacerbated by the fact that there are important cultural differences affecting the phenomena studied by affective science. A useful contribution to the latter would be even partial clearing of the terminological chaos that characterise it and provision of an interdisciplinary globally accepted working framework. The objective of this chapter is to contribute to this end by addressing the issue of the nature of emotional (...) biological systems and affective robots. In particular: (i) it proposes a cluster of issues that any theory of affective science, and therefore of mind, should address; (ii) reviews the major theories on the generation and regulation of emotions; (iii) defines human and animal emotions and develops a rudimentary theory of them; and (iv) discusses the scope and limits of affective computing. (shrink)

This article is concerned with the concept of ambiguity in argumentation. Ambiguity in linguistics lies on the coexistence of two possibly interpretations of an utterance, while the role of contextual factors and background/encyclopedic knowledge within a specific society seems to be crucial. From a systemic point of view, Halliday has proposed three main language functions (meta-functions): a) ideational function, b) interpersonal function, c) textual function. Language could reflect speaker’s experience of his external and internal world, interpersonal relationships and organization of (...) text, respectively. Lexico-grammatical choices under a micro-level perspective and context (the environment of language) may lead to inconsistent interpretations through semantic or syntactic ambiguities. In philosophy and argumentation logic, strategies of ambiguity have been investigated by Aristotle, since the first sophistic movement. In his Topics, Metaphysics and Rhetoric, has pointed out the notion of “τὸ διττῶς / διχῶς λεγόμενον”, meaning that a term can have different senses and double interpretation. In this paper we discuss how we reconstruct the meaning of an utterance in dialogue through the mechanism of interpretation and how we analyze and construe ambiguities, combining the insights of argumentation theory and text linguistics. Research results show that in case of misunderstanding, the “best interpretation” is the less defeasible one according to contextual presumptions. (shrink)

The authors analysed the essence of the institutional approach in scientific researches and the peculiarities of its types using in the analysis of political phenomena and processes. Characterised types of the institutional approach are used to analyse democracy with the distinction of institutional and organisational, institutional and legal and institutional and cultural dimensions.

This paper considers the impact of the AI R&D programme on human society and the individual human being on the assumption that a full realisation of the engineering objective of AI, namely, construction of human-level, domain-independent intelligent entities, is possible. Our assumption is essentially identical tothe maximum progress scenario of the Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress.Specifically, the first section introduces some of the significant issues on the relational nexus among work, education and the human-machine boundary. In particular, based on (...) a Russellian conception of rationality I briefly argue that we need to change our related conceptions of work, employment and free time, through a new human-centred education. On the human-machine boundary problem, I make a couple of tentative suggestions and put forward some crucial open questions.Section two discusses the impact of the emerging machine intelligence on human nature both as modification of its self-image, keeping human nature itself unchanged, and its potential for altering human nature itself. I briefly argue that: (i) in a certain context, the question of the supremacy or uniqueness of human intelligence loses much, if not all, of its ‘weight’; and (ii) appearance of Robot-X species would immortalise the human spirit. (shrink)

У статті йдеться про етимологічну герменевтику власних імен як метод визначення приблизного датування тексту, а також – змісту тексту та наміру його авторів чи редакторів. Автор статті ілюструє цей метод на прикладі етимологічного аналізу власних імен персонажів легенди про Сема, Хама і Яфета й приходить до висновку, що їхня етимологія – грецька, а відтак легенду потрібно датувати елліністичним періодом. Вона була витворена для правового обґрунтування перебування Ізраїля на землях завойованих народів Ханаана. Водночас автор готовий визнати, що грецька етимологія згаданих власних (...) імен вторинна й похідна, якщо фахівці з давньоєврейської мови й Старозавітної біблеїстики доведуть, що їхня семітська етимологія – давніша за грецьку. (shrink)

За дорученням Національної академії наук України відділ історії релігії і практичного релігієзнавства Відділення релігієзнавства Інституту філософії імені Г. С. Сковороди НАН України розглянув надісланий Релігійним центром Свідків Єгови в Україні лист з проханням зробити аналіз релігійної літератури Свідків Єгови в Україні, яка безкоштовно надсилається цьому релігійному центру із-за кордону, зокрема з Німеччини, і надати експертний висновок: чи за своїм змістом і застосуванням ця література є богослужбовою.

Recent developments in economics and the science of law emphasize their cooperation for a better understanding of social structures and interactions, an effective application of social scientific knowledge and a rational evaluation and implementation of social norms. There are, however, difficult methodological problems in this endeavor: Whereas economics is mainly (with the exception of welfare economics) an empirical science which collects information about economic activities and the functioning of the economic system, the science of law is a normative discipline aiming (...) at solving social conflicts and establishing rational principles for judicial decisions. In this paper, we suggest a three-level scheme for the interdisciplinary cooperation of law and economics, addressing the different problems that positive and normative economics face as they apply economic knowledge to legal matters. Economic analysis of law is proposed as a model for a general transformation of the traditionally hermeneutical jurisprudence into an analytic-normative science of law based on theoretical expectation (explanation) and the rational evaluation of the consequences of legal rules and principles. (shrink)

In this article, I try to present some effects of the acceptance of nonconceptual content of perception in the realism problem. After having enhancement as main the problem of discrimination observable - unobservable into the conflict of realism with the constructive empiricism, I criticize a particular aspect, that nonconceptual content of perception strengthens the realistic position. Arguing that, while the starting point of the realist position is the existence of entities of common sense, there is nothing that assures us that (...) the world of our daily life consists of objective, specific, unambiguous entities, that is made up the deep structure of the world - as realists believes - and entities are not just "relevant" objects, which are meant only for our own biological species. These “subjective for species” entities we are obliged, as a particular species, to percept with particular perceptual organs in order to satisfy specific needs, and manage to survive ourselves in a particular environment. (shrink)

A short response from an Orthodox perspective to Prof. Dana Robert’s paper. It contains some specific information and focuses, not fully highlighted in her keynote address. The present situation in global mission is what the Orthodox expected as the very first step the ecumenical movement should take, as it was requested by the Orthodox even before the 1910 Edinburgh mission conference. The social and economic nuances of the new mission statement are underlined, together with the ecclesial dimension of mission, the (...) implicit liturgical aspect, the explicit environmental and inter-faith consequences of an authentic Christian witness, and the clear connection between mission and unity. A plea is finally made that the missiological consequences of the deification theology of the Orthodox become an integral part of today’s world mission. (shrink)

Absolut-realistisch und als solche idealistisch ist die Marxsche Geschichtsphilosophie a) insofern, als derer «Kategorien... nicht mehr oder minder reflexive Aussagen über etwas Seiendes oder Werdendes, sondern bewegende Formen der Materie selbst», ja sogar vielmehr, logisch-historische dialektische Realstrukturen des als real vorkonzipierten weltgeschichtlichen dialektischen Gesamtprozesses selbst sind; und b) insofern, als sie ihren Erkenntnisstandpunkt nicht kritisch hinterfragt, sondern die Sinnerkenntnis des weltgeschicht- lichen Prozesses auf definitive und damit dogmatisch-metaphysische Weise sich erschlossen zu haben vorgibt.

Tomos II. Koinōnikes epistēmes kai epistēmes tou anthrōpou: ho gallikos dromos tēs ennoias.

(1997). A rudimentary theory of information: Consequences for information science and information systems. World Futures: Vol. 49, The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information, pp. 275-286.

This talk made two points. First, how eudaemonia (human flourishing, happiness) can become an integral and indispensable part of hybrid planetary organisation. Second, I pointed out that the attempts to link the most significant ethical and political concepts of Aristotle’s work to the R&D of new AISs are subject to the limits of human knowledge formalisability (such a fact signals caution for the goals of related AI projects).

This book extends in three directions the Unification of Artificial Intelligence and Psychology: Volume One - Foundations. First, it unifies the so-far fragmented study of the natural phenomena of knowledge, consciousness, and emotions. As a prerequisite for these unifications, the book reviews and discusses the similarities and differences between humans, AI systems, and social robots. Second it draws three major consequences concerning the nature of mathematics, the nature of philosophy, and the issue of the unity of science and humanities. Finally, (...) it brings together all chapters into a radical, perspective-for-action concerning the future of humanity: Hybrid Planetary Organisation. Overall, the second volume breaks further new ground for both AI and Psychology, with thought-provoking and compelling implications for both. As such it will appeal to scientists working on the interfaces of psychology, AI, philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, and the humanities. (shrink)

My apologies go to the scientists who know in more detail each one of the shared foundational topics of psychology and artificial intelligence (AI) that I treat in this book and they specialise in. Barring exceptions, neuroscientists, psychologists, AI-ists, and philosophers tend to employ tunnel vision and excessive topicality in their work. On the exceptions side, there are many topic integrations in, and unification efforts of, psychology and several successive integrations of AI in terms of corresponding robot generations. This book (...) is different. Primarily, it unifies the shared foundations of psychology and AI. It does this by developing a common constitutive notion for them: noémon system. The associated theory developed in this book has been termed: the theory of noémon systems (TNS). The space of noémon systems (S) encompasses all biological, artificial, and hybrid noémon systems. As such, it is a superspace of the space of phenomena addressed by cognitive science. The second major purpose of this book follows from the first and has two aspects. One, to bring out the similarities and differences between psychology and AI flowing from their non-shared foundations. Two, to draw some of the major consequences of the TNS concerning cognitive science, AI, philosophy of mind, mathematics, and the issue of the unity of science and art. (shrink)