This article stresses the main lines of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy on the nature of the body-soul union. Following Aristotle, Aquinas sees the soul as a 'principle of life' which is intimately bound to a body. Together they form a non-contingent composition. In addition, the distinctive feature of the human soul is rationality, which implies that a human needs a mind to be what it is. However,...

This paper describes the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) systems developed by IOIT for the evaluation campaign of IWSLT2013. For the ASR task, using Kaldi toolkit, we developed the system based on weighted finite state transducer. The system is constructed by applying several techniques, notably, subspace Gaussian mixture models, speaker adaptation, discriminativ...

one of the prominent figures in epistemology from a moral-educative perspective is mulla sadra. this essay tries to analyze his ideas in a library-based method in order to find his educative methods. the key question is what educative methods are explicitly or implicitly mentioned in his epistemological ideas. he based his educative ideas upon his philosophical foundations specially the substan...

Various models of personhood exist within Christianity. These often involve a particular understanding of the human soul. We believe that three common assumptions about the soul are incorrect and may lead to errors in Christian praxis. These assumptions are that the soul (1) is instantaneously created at the moment of fertilization, (2) is immaterial and pure and somehow better than the body, a...

the soul in immaterial for descartes, because it’s inherent attribute; i.e. thought is immaterial. moreover, it is independent from body and matter and has no extend. in his view, the soul from the beginning has been immaterial, while mulla-sadra recognizes it as a corporeal object at the beginning, in generation, and immaterial afterward and survivance. mulla-sadra demonstrates that, soul need...

The lead article in this January-February 2021 issue—the first of the Hastings Center Report's fiftieth year publication—does not set out to change medicine. It tries instead understand it. In “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and Lived Body,” Mary Jean Walker draws on work phenomenology empirical research with people who have received artificial heart devices argue that such may two ver...