Professor Dworkin's External/Personal Preference Distinction

Winsor , Major Professor Albert Choi , Minor Professor

Professor Bahram Peimani-Fard

Bahram Peimani-Fard was born in 1941, in Yazd, Iran, where he completed his elementary, and high school education. He received his M.Sc. degree in Soil and Water Engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University. Then, he was employed in the Range Improvement and Forage Supply Organization, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture to collaborate with Mr. Kernik, the FAO expert...

PROFESSOR KARIM SAEI

Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...

The Distinction

When we disagree, we want our disagreements to be substantive. Substantive disagreements require agreement on what the disagreement is about, which in turn requires mutual understanding. Lack of mutual understanding comes from two kinds of defects: hidden differences in how the parties understand some expression, or hidden differences in what they take to be the context in which their views are...

Distinction Networks

Intelligent systems can be modeled by organizationally closed networks of interacting agents. An interesting step in the evolution from agents to systems of agents is to approach logic itself as a system of autonomous elementary processes called distinctions. Distinction networks are directed acyclic graphs in which links represent logical implication and nodes are autonomous agents which act i...