Rejecting Reason and Embracing Modernized Art

The Supreme Court and terminal sedation: rejecting assisted suicide, embracing euthanasia.

Reason Maintenance - State of the Art

This paper describes state of the art in reason maintenance with a focus on its future usage in the KiWi project. To give a bigger picture of the field, it also mentions closely related issues such as non-monotonic logic and paraconsistency. The paper is organized as follows: first, two motivating scenarios referring to semantic wikis are presented which are then used to introduce the different...

Hegel and Herder on Art , History , and Reason

The introduction of a historical perspective in aesthetics is usually traced back to Hegel’s 1820 lectures on fine art. Given at the University of Berlin, these lectures were amongst Hegel’s most successful and best attended.1 By then a recognized intellectual figure, Hegel sets out to salvage art from its subjectivization in Kantian and romantic aesthetics, but ends up declaring that art, cons...

Rejecting arrogance

Baseball players, works of art and rare postage stamps have value in the market place partially as a function of their rarity. What is it about human nature that drives some to chase a postage stamp or coin, precisely because it is rare, and others of us to crave the stamp of approval that comes with publishing a paper in a prestige journal? It is not uncommon for prestige-seeking journals (or ...

Modernized Latvian Ergonomic Keyboard

Increasingly more people use computers and create content using keyboards (even with leading edge touch-screen technology). As in the most part of the world, in Latvia also conventional "Qwerty" keyboard is used. Though for Latvian it is much worse than for English, especially due to enormous load to little fingers. It causes repetitive strain injuries and affects productivity of workers with e...