Many have urged that the biggest obstacles to a physicalistic understanding of consciousness are the problems raised in connection with the subjectivity of consciousness. These problems are most acutely expressed in consideration of the knowledge argument against physicalism. I develop a novel account of the subjectivity of consciousness by explicating the ways in which mental representations m...

this paper intended to analysis the essay of the spirit of christianity and it s fate, one of the hegel’s initial writings, with a view to the issue of love and its role in his thought. in this essay, hegel considered the christian tradition categories, including life and love, in respect to the social and political condition of modern man. this essay has written in frankfurt and in it, in spit...

This paper poses a Deweyan challenge to both the neoclassical framework of rational choice and models of bounded rationality and deliberation, especially the procedural theory of rationality advanced by Herbert Simon. We demonstrate how modern theories on procedural or instrumental rationality trace their origin to the tradition of British empiricism, especially the philosophy of David Hume. Mo...

We address the problem of coordinating the plans and schedules for a team of agents in an uncertain and dynamic environment. Bounded rationality, bounded communication, subjectivity and distribution make it extremely challenging to find effective strategies. The Criticality-Sensitive Coordination (CSC) system uses multiple policy modification managers making predictable policy changes based on ...

The paper focuses on empirical studies of a class of very simple games of the reward allocation, dictator and ultimatum type. It is demonstrated that true explanations of social phenomena cannot conceivably be derived in terms of the perfect rationality concept underlying neo-classical economics. Analyzing the simple paradigm games it is explored in some depth, if speculatively, how experimenta...

Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency. As far as beliefs are concerned, rationality is equated with having a prior belief over a “Grand State Space”, describing all possible sources of uncertainties. We argue that this notion is too weak in some senses and too strong in others. It is too weak because it does not distinguish between rational and irrational be...

the article includes two discourses: first discourse, discusses about modernity and two of its main foundations; rationalism and humanism, and then explanes their impacts on the formation of the modern world, society and human being. second discourse, considers the postmodern critical approach to modernity and its principles. postmodernism, totally rejects the modern reason and deconstructs all...