Discussions on mental attitudes for managers present arguments in favor of a flexible mentality – which combines a broad perspective with a positive attitude – as a basic asset in times of change . Persons managers, leaders, collaborators – with this mentality are always available to live up to new information, knowledge and challenges. Another characteristic of persons with a flexible mentalit...

The 'Strong A I ' claim that suitably programmed computers can manipulate symbols that THEY understand is defended, and conditions for understanding d iscussed. Even computers without AI programs exhibit a signif icant subset of characteristics of human understanding. To argue about whether machines can REALLY understand is to argue about mere de f in i t ional matters. But there is a residual ...

This paper uses (tele)presence concepts to explore the practical and philosophical implications of the simulation argument: the notion that individuals may be trapped within manufactured realities. After describing a series of hypothetical simulation scenarios, key distinguishing dimensions of the scenarios are considered and implications for epistemology, religion and morality, mortality, and ...

Patient Health Record (PHR) systems offer great promise but raise significant philosophical, cultural, legal, and technical challenges. In hopes of furthering debate on key issues, we explain some central questions about the role, purpose, and policies associated with these systems. We also propose a framework for addressing policy questions and candidate technology that we believe may sharpen ...

In an earlier paper we developed an intermediate representation for languages based on composition, and showed how the representation could facilitate generating code for functional languages, such as FP. In this paper we follow the same philosophical approach, using instead the applicative language APL. Further, we show how this intermediate representation simpli es the task of generating code...

A major problem for all metaphysical systems and their corresponding epistemologies, including methods, mediations, and pretensions at being certain, inextricably presume the issues of reliability and validity. For the perspectival modern mentality reliability and validity, or intersubjective agreement among experts, constitutes objective knowledge. Scientific discourse, which is the most power...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.