Beyond the Holistic Constitution?

Beyond the internalism/externalism debate: the constitution of the space of perception.

This paper tackles the problem of the nature of the space of perception. Based both on philosophical arguments and on results obtained from original experimental situations, it attempts to show how space is constituted concretely, before any distinction between the "inner" and the "outer" can be made. It thus sheds light on the presuppositions of the well-known debate between internalism and ex...

Beyond Holistic Object Recognition: Enriching Image Understanding with Part States

Important high-level vision tasks such as human-object interaction, image captioning and robotic manipulation require rich semantic descriptions of objects at part level. Based upon previous work on part localization, in this paper, we address the problem of inferring rich semantics imparted by an object part in still images. We propose to tokenize the semantic space as a discrete set of part s...

Beyond Wsis: Charting a Course for Holistic Information Development Policies

This paper will discuss a reframing of the ICT4D agenda of WSIS, and the importance of culturally relevant, grassroots, and " bottom-up " approaches for ICT interventions. The " ICT4D " framing needs to be expanded to accommodate a more realistic expectation of the effects and promises of ICTs. ICTs can have unexpected effects on communities, as " good " and " bad " outcomes can be intertwined ...

Taxation and the Constitution

The Constitution of Status