Agent-based technology could revolutionize the manner by which distributed computation is performed. The fact that the information returned by an agent to the agent owner cannot be validated by the owner is impeding the widespread adoption of agent-based computing. Our paper addresses this concern by proposing a new type of software assertion to increase observability by providing agent owner's...

The medico-legal issues raised by 'conscientious objection' constitute a particularly revealing, though hitherto neglected instance of the emerging relationship between community responsibility and personal health during the late Victorian period. The following paragraphs seek to indicate the relevance of a medico-legal approach to Victorian social history, and to suggest certain areas of resea...

Social epistemologists often operationalize the task of indirectly assessing experts’ trustworthiness to identifying whose beliefs are more reliably true on matters in an area expertise. Not only does this neglect philosophically rich space between belief formation and testimonial utterances, it also reduces reliability. In ethics trust, by contrast, explicitly relational views trust include th...

This article discusses the main differences in dealing with insurers’ bad faith under American and Chinese insurance law, and recommends Chinese Government introducing the American bad faith lawsuit to China. For this purpose, the nature, essence, and the general and specific requirements of bad faith lawsuit in America is firstly presented. Then, the article states how insurers’ bad faith in C...

A theory T is trustworthy iff, whenever a theory U is interpretable in T , then it is faithfully interpretable. In this paper we provide a characterization of trustworthiness. We provide a simple proof of Friedman’s Theorem that finitely axiomatized, sequential, consistent theories are trustworthy. We provide an example of a theory whose schematic predicate logic is complete Π2.

This paper summarizes theoretical perspectives from psychology supportive of a healing effect of faith. First, faith is defined as a congruence of belief, trust, and obedience in relation to God or the divine. Second, evidence for a faith-healing association is presented, empirically and in theory. To exemplify religiously sanctioned affirmation of such a connection, selected passages are cited...

Based on the recent proposal in this journal (Streib, 2001a) to revise James Fowler’s (1981) faith development theory, the article argues for a revision of faith development research to account not only for structural diversity, but also for narrative and content diversity. Therefore, it suggests the inclusion of content-analytical and narrative-analytical procedures into faith development rese...