From a technical point of view, standards make it possible to combine a variety of components into a functional system or network, thus creating the ‘‘network effects’’ with which we are all familiar. From a strategic point of view, stories about standards are necessarily about power and control—they always either reify or change existing conditions and are always conscious attempts to shape th...

In this paper we re-consider the theoretical basis for the Lucas Critique from the point of view of Robust Decision Theory. We ...rst emphasise that the Lucas Critique rests on a weak theoretical paradigm in that it fails to consider the motivation for the policy change by the government and hence inconsistently assumes limited rationality by the government. When placed in a proper dynamic gene...

Citation: Koutsoklenis A and Gaitanidis A (2017) Interrogating the Effectiveness of Educational Practices: A Critique of Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children Diagnosed with AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Front. Educ. 2:11. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00011 interrogating the effectiveness of educational Practices: A critique of evidence-Based Psychosocial treatments for chil...

In this paper, we give a comprehensive summary of the discussion on the Epicurean critique of mathematics and in particular of Euclid’s geometry. We examine the methodological critique of the Epicureans on mathematics and we assess whether a “mathematical atomism” was proposed, and its implications. Finally, we examine the Epicurean philosophical stance on mathematics and evaluate whether it wa...

This paper describes our experience in developing the CRITIQUE system. It describes three application areas in which the system is being used and discusses some characteristics of CRITIQUE which we believe are applicable to large-scale natural language systems in general: performance, robustness, flexibility, presentation, and accuracy.

Economic freedom indicators have become quite popular recently as a useful tool to quantify the relationship between a country’s institutions and its prosperity. In a recent article, Hanson (2003) criticizes these types of studies for: (i) failing to adequately distinguish between different proxies for economic freedom, (ii) not considering the potential for endogeneity, and (iii) accepting sig...

The formal specification of spatial objects and spatial relations is at the core of geographic data exchange and interoperability for geographic information systems (GIS). It is necessary that the representation of such objects and relations comes close to how people use them in their everyday lives, i.e., that these specifications are built upon elements of human spatial cognition. Image schem...

Drawing on a significantly updated version co-authored by Reynolds and the originator of Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH), Werner Ulrich, CSH is regarded as part of a ‘systems thinking in practice’ framework for evaluating complex situations from different stakeholder perspectives. The situation under evaluation (e.g. a purposeful activity like a report, programme or project etc.) is framed as...

Legal theorists, liberal philosophers, and feminist scholars have written extensively on questions surrounding consent and sexual consent, with particular attention paid to the sorts of conditions that validate or vitiate consent, and to whether or not consent is an adequate metric to determine ethical and legal conduct. So too, many have written on the historical construction of childhood, and...