1. MOTIVATION Recently, there has been much work on incorporating declarative goals in Belief-Desire-Intention Agent Programming Languages (e.g. [3]). In a BDI APL with declarative goals (APLwDG), declarative goals are used essentially for monitoring goal achievement and performing recovery when a plan has failed, performing rational deliberation, and reacting in a rational way to changes in go...

In several papers, Hubert Dreyfus has used chess as a paradigmatic example of how experts act intuitively, rarely using deliberation when selecting actions, while individuals that are only competent rely on analytic and deliberative thought. By contrast, Montero and Evans (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 10:175–194, 2011) argue that intuitive aspects of chess are actually rational, in ...

democray is the most importantn element in dewey’s thought. in this paper dewey’s theory on democray will be evaluated, furthermor some challenges are ascrbed to it: first, dewey has not presented any philosophical argument about his idea: “democracy is a moral ideal”. second: if it is known by a posteriori method that democracy is the best, this idea can not be generalized to future, so it cou...

to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, as to whether damage, structural or functional, not impairing locomotion, but seriously affecting comfort and capacity could be conscientiously pronounced to be " equivalent, or nearly equivalent, etc." The foundation of the phrase was altogether faulty. It included one effect of ?"jury and left every other effect out. Hardship and injustice were no doubt...

We present a generic denotational semantic framework for protocols for dialogs between rational and autonomous agents over action which allows for retraction and revocation of proposals for action. The semantic framework views participants in a deliberation dialog as jointly and incrementally manipulating the contents of shared spaces of action-intention tokens. The framework extends prior work...

Individual differences in love attitudes and the relationship between love attitudes and other variables in Asian culture lack in-depth exploration. This study conducted cluster analysis with data regarding love attitudes obtained from 389 college students in mainland China. The result of cluster analysis based on love-attitude scales distinguished four types of students: game players, rational...

Is collaborative governance ‘democracy-enhancing’ and does it generate legitimacy? Drawing from the literatures on administrative burden policy feedback a positive approach to legitimacy, this theoretical article studies how institutional design of impacts legitimacy citizens grant state bureaucracy. It argues that three legitimacy-enhancing effects based targeting, deliberation exposure are li...

In their thoughtful and thought-provoking article, Clayton Chin Geoffrey Brahm Levey argue that a distinctive conception of recognition as acknowledgement can should be used in order to achieve the symbolic inclusion all members multicultural democracies. this response, I offer number critical – but hope also constructive remarks on aspects thesis. First, discuss forms which they identify. Seco...

Abstract Political CSR emphasizes the need for democratic governance of business conduct through public deliberation, and expects multinational enterprises (MNEs) to contribute self-regulation goods provision fill gaps left by unwilling or unable governments. In under-researched context autocracies, however, political pluralism participation are severely limited, which confronts MNEs with limit...

Both Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeffrey Stout are concerned social critics who lament many of the features of contemporary life and political and ethical discourse. They both see the global market and government bureaucracies as institutional arrangements that often rob their citizens of the capacity to hold reasoned debates about important matters and lead virtuous, meaningful lives. And both want...