The body image: taking an evaluative stance towards semiotic resources

Taking a Mental Stance Towards Artificial Systems

This paper argues that supervised cognitive growth in artifacts will be very difficult to achieve without detailed knowledge about systems‟ internal states. Physical information is too low level to provide a useful understanding of a system‟s behavior, and it is more pragmatically useful to take a mental stance towards an artificial system and interpret its actions in terms of mental states. Th...

Taking the Intentional Stance Toward Robot Ethics

I wish to defend the thesis that robot ethics is a legitimate, interesting, and important field of philosophical and scientific research. I believe it is a coherent possibility that one day robots will be good ethical decision-makers at least in limited situations and act ethically on the basis of their ethical understanding. Put another way, such envisioned future robots will not only act acco...

Towards an Automated Semiotic Analysis of the Romanian Political Discourse

As it is known, on the political scene the success of a speech can be measured by the degree in which the speaker is able to change attitudes, opinions, feelings and political beliefs in his auditorium. We suggest a range of analysis tools, all belonging to semiotics, from lexical-semantic, to syntactical and rhetorical, that integrated in the exploratory panoply of discursive weapons of a poli...

The Development and Standardization of an Indian Positive Body Image Scale with an Exploratory Research Design

Background: Body image is an integral component of the self-concept that significantly shapes human functioning and people’s life outcomes. Although negative body image is well-studied, there is little research on positive body image. The study examined the basic characteristics of positive body image intending to standardize a scale for it.  Methods: The study used using an exploratory resear...

The Semiotic Body in its Environment