There is growing interest in Asian traditions amongst Western-trained philosophers. A major contributing factor has been the publication in the past twenty years of several bold philosophical works that critically engage with positions advanced by Asian philosophical thinkers. The Bodhisattva's Brain [henceforth, BB] contributes to this emergent trend. BB is divided between two main lines of co...

I n their paper Subramanian and colleagues show us that both individual and community level health and happiness tend to covary but that the community level health-happiness covariation is quite a bit stronger than that for individuals. Their approach is novel in that they examine the covariation in these two outcomes nested within individuals who are in turn nested within USA communities. The ...

As Man is a reasonable Being, and is continually in Pursuit of Happiness, which he hopes to find in the Gratification of some Passion or Affection, he seldom acts or speaks or thinks without a Purpose and Intention. He has still some Object in View; and however improper the Means may sometimes be, which he causes for the Attainments of his End, he never loses View of an End, nor will he so much...

We develop a formal framework for comparing different versions of ontologies, and apply it to ontologies formulated in terms of DL-Lite, a family of ‘lightweight’ description logics designed for data-intensive applications. The main feature of our approach is that we take into account the vocabulary (= signature) with respect to which one wants to compare ontologies. Five variants of difference...

The inseparability graph of an oriented matroid is an invariant of its class of orientations. When an orientable matroid has exactly one class of orientations the inseparability graph of all its orientations is in fact determined by its non-oriented underlying matroid. From this point of view it is natural to ask if inseparability graphs can be used to characterize matroids which have exactly o...

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