interests of this ancient Society; we recall the occasions on which, by means of papers and discussion, he contributed so profitably to our deliberations out of his large experience; but we remember, perhaps, more even than these, the appeal of a personality that charmed us alike by its simplicity, its sympathy and its sincerity. The loss the Society has sustained in the death of Davidson is a ...

Message semantics are traditionally defined in terms of mental states, which is a trend that is criticized for assuming the sincerity and cooperativeness of agents. To circumvent these limitations, several proposals have been put forth to define the semantics of messages using social commitments. We follow this trend and present a conversational model where the meaning of messages is based on t...

We discuss here the need to define what we call an agent conversational language, a language for Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) to have conversations with a human. We propose a set of Expressive Multimodal Conversation Acts (EMCA), which is based on the Expressive Speech Acts that we introduced in a previous work, enriched with the multimodal expression of the emotions linked to these act...

Both prosecutors and defense attorneys have presented religious appeals and testimony about a defendant's religious activities in order to influence capital jurors' sentencing. Courts that have objected to this use of religion fear that religion will improperly influence jurors' decisions and interfere with their ability to weigh aggravators and mitigators. This study investigated the effects o...

The paper is about trust in information sources in the context of Multi Agents Systems and it is focused on information and trust propagation. Trust definition is inspired from Cognitive Science and it is seen as a truster’s belief in some trustee’s properties which are called: sincerity, competence, vigilance, cooperativity, validity and completeness. These definitions are formalized in Modal ...

What is the relationship between truth, sense of self and being a professional in Japanese queer nightlife? For service industry professionals’ spontaneity not fruitful quality to cultivate establish oneself. Instead, commitment customers’ satisfaction adaptability their wants, needs grudges are considered by customers providers be paramount qualities professional. Drawing on my ethnography at ...

Serving out of post-natal care role is not an easy thing, especially for mothers who are giving birth to children the first time. The adaptation process become a primiparous mother have some problems, one them that it can cause Postpartum Depression (PPD). In addition, things which suspected be causes PPD their spiritual factor sincerity and psychological emotional maturity. This study aims fin...

Abstract This paper assesses leading Japanese philosophical thought since the onset of Japan’s modernity: namely, from Meiji Restoration (1868) onwards. It argues that there are lessons global value for AI ethics to be found examining philosophers modernity and (Yukichi Fukuzawa, Nishida Kitaro, Nishi Amane, Watsuji Tetsurō), each whom engaged closely with Western traditions. Turning these allo...