First steps toward a nonideal theory of justice

First Steps Toward a Computational Theory of Autism

A computational model with three interacting components for context sensitive reinforcement learning, context processing and automation can autonomously learn a focus attention and a shift attention task. The performance of the model is similar to that of normal children, and when a single parameter is changed, the performance on the two tasks approaches that of autistic children.

First steps toward a usage-based theory of language acquisition*

Usage-based models of language focus on the speci®c communicative events in which people learn and use language. In these models, the psycholinguistic units with which individuals operate are determined not by theoretical ®at but by observation of actual language use in actual communicative events. This data-based approach make these models especially congenial for the analysis of children's la...

Scale Relativity: First Steps toward a Field Theory

After having briefly recalled the principles and methods on which the theory of scale relativity is founded, we apply our scale-covariant methods to the problem of recovering relativistic quantum mechanics. The withdrawal of the hypothesis of differentiability of space-time leads to the demonstration of the divergence of spacetime coordinates in terms of resolutions, then to the definition of s...

First Steps Toward Narrative

Marya Schechtman has argued that contemporary attempts to save Locke’s account of personal identity suffer the same faults that are to be found in Locke, among which is an inability to capture the role our unconscious states play. To avoid these problems, she advocates giving up the mainstream Psychological View and adopting a narrative account like her ‘SelfUnderstanding’ View that, she claims...

Steps toward a possible theory of organization