The last three decades of media expansion and technological innovation, encompassing the 24-hour news cycle, original desktop- later site-based internet, gaming, social media, smartphone, have radically altered means by which citizens developed developing world access information how they construct maintain relationships. As reach, robustness, ubiquity, engagement potential two-dimensional expa...

1 Introduction In the philosophy of language, examining the role and significance of derogatory words serves to counter our tendency to divorce theories of meaning from the social settings in which the phenomenon is found, and the communicative acts, attitudes and shared interests they incorporate. 1 Hornsby stresses the significance of this in a recent paper, which will form the basis for disc...

As presented in other chapters contained within this book, emotions, and particularly their social aspects, have a vast infl uence on people’s attitudes, motivations, and behaviors in almost every domain of life. Yet, in some domains emotions operate merely peripherally and at times even as negligible psychological forces. In other domains, however, and under specifi c circumstances, collective...

It is for the cultural anthropologists to explain the great popularity of a recent publication1 that bases man’s evolutionary success on his alleged intrinsic habit to kill and to destroy. Since this belief is contrary to the thesis on which my paper today rests, I hope you will forgive me if I open my remarks with an apparently unpopular confession: in contrast to the tenets of some self-appoi...

The phenomenon of information in cyberspace can be likened to an almost limitless library where anyone can upload any information for the public to read. To live up to our belief in freedom of expression such openness should be defended as long as the material is not aimed at fomenting communal hatred, inciting violence and affecting public opinion. Lack of control and ease of publication signi...

Psychopaths are agents who lack the normal capacity to feel moral emotions (e.g. guilt based on empathy with the victims of their actions). Evidence for attributing psychopathy at least in some cases to genetic or early childhood causes suggests that psychopaths lack free will. However, the paper defends a sense in which psychopaths still may be construed as responsible for their actions, even ...

“An interesting question is, ’Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?’ The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research. I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would t...