In this wide-ranging interview Andrew Sayer discusses how he became a realist and then the development of his work over subsequent decades. He comments on postdisciplinary approach, early economy its influences, came to write Method in Social Science transition Realism normative critical social science moral economy. The concludes with discussion three most recent books themes that connect them...

Fifteen years ago, Sharon Street and Richard Joyce advanced evolutionary debunking arguments against moral realism, which purported to show that the history of our beliefs makes realism untenable. These have since given rise a flurry objections; epistemic principles relied upon, in particular, come for number serious challenges. My goal this paper is develop new account avoids pitfalls encounte...

Large-scale competitive P2P systems are threatened by the noncooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in current P2P free file-sharing systems, it is likely to be a problem in such P2P systems as pay-per-transaction file-sharing systems, P2P auctions, and P2P service discovery systems, where peers are in competition...

The focus of this paper is unusual, disoriented, often psychologically unstable characters, for they represent the layer society where emotional instability and immaturity, desire personal domination liberation from all moral social shackles are evident. shows that, in addition to characteristics specific characters realism, Dostoevsky, using monological-associative elements, introduces new pro...

The field of humanoids robotics is widely recognized as the current challenge for robotics research. Developing humanoids poses fascinating problems in the realization of manipulation capability, which is still one of most complex problem in robotics. The paper, starting from an overview of current activities in the development of humanoid robots, with special focus on manipulation, presents th...