Worldly shame: Ethos in action

Worldly Indeterminacy: a Rough Guide

There is a widespread suspicion that indeterminacy and vagueness can only be features of claims or representations, and hence that it makes no more sense to ask whether the world is indeterminate than it does to ask whether the world rhymes or whether it’s written in English. On this view, it is not a genuine possibility that the world itself — as opposed to our representations of it — may be u...

Authentication in Ethos

Authentication primitives should be simple, general, and robust against attack. We describe the authentication mechanisms of Ethos, an experimental, clean-slate operating system that has been designed for security. We reexamine and redesign software layering for authentication, and evaluate the resulting security properties. In Ethos, integrated network security and simplified local authenticat...

The worldly constituents of perceptual presence

In a thought-provoking article, Seth (2014) has elaborated a combined sensorimotor and predictive coding approach to perception. His proposal links perceptual presence with the counterfactual richness of predictive models in the brain, an appealing move, which is not without problems. Here I briefly state my main conceptual concern with the idea. I believe Seth can take this worry into account ...

A Worldly Look at Language Acquisition Dan

Mining Ethos in Political Debate

Despite the fact it has been recognised since Aristotle that ethos and credibility play a critical role in many types of communication, these facts are rarely studied in linguistically oriented AI which has enjoyed such success in processing complex features as sentiment, opinion, and most recently arguments. This paper shows how a text analysis pipeline of structural and statistical approaches...