De-objectifying Animals

Objectifying the Subjective Self

parsing and generation (considered from a competence view) are non-deterministic processes, i.e., without any further (non-grammatical) information both processes have inherent degrees of freedom; cf. also Shieber (1993). Furthermore, the mentioned properties (reversibility, implicit search space, and modularity) are also important in the context of the “recursion-only hypothesis” discussed by ...

Contracts with Animals: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

Modem philosophers interested in the moral status of animals frequently debate the possibility of extending justice to animals througb a theory of social contract, witb Rawl's theory usually providing the basis of discussion. Contractualism was, of course, also an interest of ancient pbilosopbers, particularly tbe Epicureans, wbo believed that "pleasure," dermed as "freedom from anxiety," was t...

Objectifying values in science: A case study

On Objectifying Untyped Memory in Java Operating Systems

Accessing memory is essential in hardware programming, because the configuration and controlling of the hardware is often done via memory-mapped registers or control structures in memory. In a programming language like C, the structure of a register or the memory is mapped to a struct. In the JX operating system [GFW+02] the device drivers are written in Java, where the type safety forbids a ma...

Isochrony reconsidered. Objectifying relations between Rhythm Measures and Speech Tempo

Recently, new ways of measuring rhythmic differences have been proposed. These are derived from syllable structure and prosodic differences between languages. The measurements are all durational: the variability of vocalic and consonantal intervals is calculated and plotted on two axes. Very small amounts of read material have been analysed. But the structural basis of the measurements implies ...