Recent contributions to discussions on paediatric cochlear implantation in Norway indicate two mutually exclusive doctrines prescribing the best course of post-operative support for a child with cochlear implants; bilingually with sign language and spoken language simultaneously or primarily monolingually with speech only. This conflict constitutes an ethical problem for parents responsible for...

This paper describes the work on the Collaborative Planning Model in Project 12. An hypothesis is presented to attempt to unify the different planning doctrines under a common model. This has guided the development of a generic planning OWL ontology containing aspects of constraint-based reasoning and teamwork. The ontology also models “reasoning steps” and the dependencies between expertise, i...

We investigate how liability rules and property rules a ect the incentives to invest in research tools. We argue that it is hard to deter infringement under any of the enforcement regimes available. However, counterintuitively, a credible threat of infringement can actually be bene cial to the patentholder. We compare the two doctrines of damages under the liability rule, namely, lost pro t (lo...

Real-world dispute resolution should be guided by laws, even if such disputes may be resolved by bodies other than the court of laws. Hence in order to build contract dispute resolution systems we need a tool capable of representing, reasoning and programming with contract laws. In this paper we present such a tool called MoDiSo (MOdular Argumentation for DIspute ReSOlution) which combines the ...

John Perry (1986) has argued that language, thought and experience often contain unarticulated constituents. John Campbell (1993, 1994, 1998) has taken up a similar theme with his distinction between monadic and relational notions and the related notion of causal indexicals, as has Sydney Shoemaker (1994). I shall argue (using Perry’s terminology) that the presence of unarticulated constituents...

This study explains trade regimes in Kenya from a History of Economic Thought (HET) perspective using secondary materials (books, papers, and original manuscripts). We found that the pre-colonial era (before 1895) had mixture Classical doctrines Mercantilism, whereby long-distance barter between communities were practiced. Nonetheless, certain restricted trade. economic thought was practiced co...

This article examines the legal implications linked to recent scientific research on human consciousness. The article contends that groundbreaking revelations about consciousness expose the frailties of the criminal law's traditional dual dichotomies of conscious versus unconscious thought processes and voluntary versus involuntary acts. These binary doctrines have no valid scientific foundatio...

ThisArticle broadly examines the conservative Rehnquist Court's federalism doctrines and, in doing so, explores the connections between judicial conservatism and a commitment to federalism. Three conclusions emerge First, although the Court has moved aggressively to advance federalism through well-known doctrines, it frequently proves more substantively conservative than it does profederalism w...

The article analyzes the concept of ideal social life, developed by B.N. Chicherin. first part examines his criticism various representations in history thought and socio-economic political concepts contemporary to Special attention is paid analysis socialist doctrines. second devoted tendencies liberal thought, controversial from Chicherin's point view. It provides notions liberalism ...