EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: SEBUAH ULASAN SINGKAT IL PRINCIPE KARYA MACHIAVELLI

If God's Existence Is Unprovable, Then Is Everything Permitted? Kant, Radical Agnosticism, and Morality

This essay is about how four deeply important Kantian ideas can significantly illuminate some essentially intertwined issues in philosophical theology, philosophical logic, the metaphysics of agency, and above all, morality. These deeply important Kantian ideas are: (1) Kant’s argument for the impossibility of the Ontological Argument, (2) Kant’s first “postulate of pure practical reason,” immo...

Everything Is Permitted? People Intuitively Judge Immorality as Representative of Atheists

Scientific research yields inconsistent and contradictory evidence relating religion to moral judgments and outcomes, yet most people on earth nonetheless view belief in God (or gods) as central to morality, and many view atheists with suspicion and scorn. To evaluate intuitions regarding a causal link between religion and morality, this paper tested intuitive moral judgments of atheists and ot...

Dolev-Yao is no better than Machiavelli

Opponent Modeling in Machiavelli

Opponent modeling is a technique in computer game-playing which attempts to create a model of an opponent’s strategy. This model can then be used to predict the opponent’s future actions. This paper attempts to apply opponent modeling to the commercial card game Machiavelli, a game containing imperfect information. Neural networks are used to build the models. These neural networks are trained ...

Is Timing Everything?

Thank you Ben and AmSECT for organizing this conference. And thank you all for showing up on Saturday morning. My objectives for this presentation are to review the current knowledge of time spent below critical thresholds and more specifically the relationship between low oxygen delivery and organ function following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Additionally, we will investigate the time–dose ...