This is an interview by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics with Ian Carter. The covers Carter's intellectual biography; his extensive writings on measurement value of freedom; reflections use formal methods in philosophical work freedom political philosophy more broadly; recent basic equality respect persons; and, finally, advice to young scholars.

It has recently been suggested that a distinctive metaphysical relation — ‘Grounding’—is ultimately at issue in contexts in which some goings-on are said to hold ‘in virtue of’’, be (constitutively) ‘metaphysically dependent on’, or be ‘nothing over and above’ some others. Grounding is supposed to do good work (better than merely modal notions, in particular) in illuminating metaphysical depend...

The double function of language, as a social/communicative means, and as an individual/cognitive capability, derives from its fundamental property that allows us to internally re-represent the world we live in. This is possible through the mechanism of symbol grounding, i.e. the ability to associate entities and states in the external and internal world with internal categorical representations...

Grounding textual phrases in visual content with standalone image-sentence pairs is a challenging task. When we consider grounding in instructional videos, this problem becomes profoundly more complex: the latent temporal structure of instructional videos breaks independence assumptions and necessitates contextual understanding for resolving ambiguous visual-linguistic cues. Furthermore, dense ...

Measurement of the grounding system impedance of a substation or power plant is often required immediately after construction, in order to verify that the design calculations correctly predict the performance of the system. Years later, new measurements are sometimes required to check that the performance of the grounding system has not deteriorated. This type of measurement, however, which is ...

The grounding grid design must be made in such a way that the fundamental parameters do not exceed the safety limits. The estimation of the values of the grid resistance, the touch voltage and the step voltage is carried out by means of formulas and algorithms based on the average potential methods. In this framework, the average potential is often obtained taking into account the mutual influe...

This paper starts with an overview of the common grounding techniques used in distribution grids. Next some important issues and problems related to grounding of distributed generators implemented in these grids will be described. Two applications will be discussed in detail: UPS systems and microgrids. The presence of a neutral conductor in these systems and the ability to operate both in grid...

Sensitivity analysis of a power system against overvoltage was performed. The analysis took into account the origin of the overvoltage, the grounding resistance magnitude and overvoltage injection point. The IEEE 13 bus test feeder system was implemented in EMTP-ATP and lightning and switching overvoltages were applied. Three cases were evaluated: the first one, applying lightning overvoltage a...

1. Abstract This paper focuses on two problems related to establishing common ground in different modes of communication. The paper reviews publications that explore grounding with relation to humanhuman interaction, in both verbal interaction and common grounding in vision based interaction. With verbal and vision as the first level premise, this paper also discusses issues on grounding that c...