In his overlooked 1955 book, The Phenomenology of Moral Experience, Maurice Mandelbaum presented a nuanced moral phenomenology, on the basis of which he defended a kind of moral objectivism, specifically moral realism, against the sorts of non-objectivist views in ethics that were popular in analytic philosophy in the 1940s and early 1950s. A central feature of Mandelbaum's moral phenom-enology...

The scientific classification of human psychopathology raises a host of important philosophical issues ranging over all major areas of philosophical inquiry; logic, semantics, ontology, epistemology and ethics. The paper focuses on the major views of the ontological status of our psychodiagnostic constructs; idealism, nominalism and finally, neoaristotelian realism. Idealism holds that our psyc...

Active inference offers a first principle account of sentient behavior, from which special and important cases—for example, reinforcement learning, active Bayes optimal inference, design—can be derived. finesses the exploitation-exploration dilemma in relation to prior preferences by placing information gain on same footing as reward or value. In brief, replaces value functions with functionals...

The present paper considers the activity of tele-care within the broad framework of the information age, of how modern society is organised and of the structuring role of the health sector. The importance of key concepts such as social structures, human agency and the instance of being-in-the-world, are highlighted and explored. The inputs of computer ethics, critical realism and philosophy of ...

(Here ΛE is a suitable period lattice commensurable with the Néron lattice of E.) The function Φ, which is transcendental as a function of τ , enjoys the following notable algebraicity property, a consequence of the theory of complex multiplication: Theorem HP: Let K ⊂ C be a quadratic imaginary extension of Q, and let K denote its maximal abelian extension. If τ belongs to H ∩ K, then Φ(τ) bel...

Let K be a complete field with a discrete valuation v, ring of integers OK , and maximal ideal (πK). Let k := OK/(πK) be the residue field, assumed to be separably closed of characteristic p ≥ 0. Let A/K be any abelian variety of dimension g. Let A/OK denote its Néron model, with special fiber Ak/k and group of components ΦA,K . Let A′/K denote the dual abelian variety, with Néron model A/OK an...

This article presents the question whether it is correct to classify Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum as a work of magical realism. A brief scrutiny of the elements of magical realism, particularly Authorial Reticence and concept of Hesitation indicates that contrary to the advertisement of certain sources and publishers, this novel in certain circumstances, contradicts and opposes these two indispe...