That past patterns may continue in many different ways has long been identified as a problem for accounts of induction. The novelty of Goodman’s ‘‘new riddle of induction’’ lies in a meta-argument that purports to show that no account of induction can discriminate between incompatible continuations. That metaargument depends on the perfect symmetry of the definitions of grue/bleen and green/blu...

goal words (e.g., ‘‘equality,’’ ‘‘thin’’) significantly predicted their success at pursuing those goals, and sometimes did so above and beyond participants’ explicit (i.e., intentional, conscious) ratings of the desirability of the goals (Ferguson, 2007). Together, these findings suggest that successful goal pursuit (e.g. refusing a fattening snack), may at times depend on people’s ‘‘snap’’ eva...

We conduct a laboratory experiment of second-price sealed bid auctions of a common value good with two bidders. Bidders face three different types of information: common uncertainty (unknown information), private information (known by one bidder) and public information (known by both bidders), and auctions differ on the relative importance of these three types of information. We find that subje...

In this paper we give a thorough presentation of a model proposed by Tononi et al. for modeling integrated information, i.e. how much information is generated in a system transitioning from one state to the next one by the causal interaction of its parts and above and beyond the information given by the sum of its parts. We also provides a more general formulation of such a model, independent f...

Please do not cite without permission The concept of 'tradition' is used in a range of different ways within studies of British politics. Despite this there have been only a few attempts to theorise notions of tradition within British political science. Furthermore the different concepts of tradition forwarded by conservatives, interpretivists and realists have each been contested. This paper e...

Philosophers and cognitive scientists alike have recently been interested in whether cognition extends beyond the boundaries of skin skull into environment. However, extended hypothesis has suffered many objections over past few decades. In this paper, I explore option control extending human boundary. My aim is to convince reader three things: (1) that can be implemented artifacts, (2) humans ...

A hipótese da investigação é que a racionalidade pragmático-sistêmica no Direito manifesta uma espécie de descentramento epistemo-lógico do sujeito na fundamentação conhecimento jurídico. Para demonstrá-la, analisar-se-á o seu modelo como instância Epistemologia Social Construtivista. autopoiesis será perquirida enquanto núcleo comunicação pragmático-sistêmica. Especialmente, à luz adaptação co...

To my dear family, friends and my teachers iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my advisor, Dr. David Anderson, for the guidance, support, endurance, and encouragement during my graduate studies at Georgia Tech. He has always been supportive of me not only when I made progress but also when I made mistakes. I am also deeply impressed with his ...