The Russian aggression against Ukraine has unleashed new fears of a nuclear war and also due to direct indirect threats by the side. As consequence, it seems appropriate re-open debate about legality threat or use weapons, led somewhat inconclusive results ICJ Opinion 1996 on ‘Legality Threat Use Nuclear Weapons’. If some elements rationality are left in this war, weapons will not be employed U...

Background: Global and Iranian statistics indicate a rise in the newly emerging phenomenon of voluntary childlessness as a permanent status among couples. Childlessness is one of the main challenges of modern society. In Iran, studies on the process of voluntary permanent childlessness are scarce. The present study aimed to investigate the causes and underlying factors of voluntary childlessnes...

I propose to investigate the computable foundations of decision making along the lines of Classical Behavioural Economics. First, decision makers will be represented as Information Processing Systems underpinned by bounded rationality and satisficing as in the theory of Human Problem Solving proposed by Herbert Simon. The game of Go, which has a finite and large search space, provides a rich pa...

The long-standing critique of the ‘economic model of man’ has gained new impetus not least due to the broadening research in behavioral and experimental economics. Many of the critics have focused on the apparent difficulty of traditional rational choice theory to account for the role of moral or ethical concerns in human conduct, and a number of authors have suggested modifications in the stan...

This position paper has three parts. In the first part, a brief historical background and various modern formulations of the concept of emergence are presented. A number of problems associated with the concept are identified. One outstanding problem involves the incommensurability of secondary qualities (or phenomenal qualia) with materialist (externalist) ontologies. The intractability of this...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between German Expressionist film and Hegel’s system of aesthetics. Through an analysis of the aesthetic qualities of Hanns Ewers’ The Student of Prague (1913) and F.W. Murnau’s Faust, I believe we have evidence to believe that the subjectivity that German Expressionist film sought to capture is aligned with the ‘interiority’ that Heg...