In his article "Animal Rights," [lJ Jan Narveson presents an alternative "rroral" theory to what he calls the "Singer-Regan position." This theory--"rational egoism"-­ \\Quld exclude non-human animals from rroral consideration and deny them all rights. His excuse for developing this "nasty doctrine" is that he is "not convinced that they [Sing­ er and Regan] are right" and that "there is much t...

The doctrine of divine simplicity, the doctrine that God has no physical or metaphysical complexity whatsoever, is not a doctrine designed to induce immediate philosophical acquiescence. There are severe questions about its coherence. And even if those questions can be answered satisfactorily in favour of the doctrine, there remains the question why anyone should accept it. Thomas V. Morris rai...

Awareness of application performance can be derived through various quantitative analyses, model-based and measurement-based approaches. A suitable visualization supports the understanding of application performance. Usually, analysis tools include a tool specific visualization or no visualization at all. In this paper we proposed to decouple the result visualization from the analysis approach....

Many neuroscientists and philosophers endorse a view about the explanatory reach of neuroscience (which we will call the neuron doctrine) to the effect that the framework for understanding the mind will be developed by neuroscience; or, as we will put it, that a successful theory of the mind will be solely neuroscientific. It is a consequence of this view that the sciences of the mind that cann...

I shall confine my attention to the one Scotist doctrine that seems to be singled out as especially worrisome, the doctrine of univocity. In the first part of the paper I argue that the doctrine of univocity is true. So even if the doctrine has unwelcome consequences, we ought to affirm it anyway; it is not the job of the theologian or philosopher to shrink from uncomfortable truths. In the sec...

according to common law rules of england, obligation by one party is enforceable when the other has provided a consideration or the contract has been put in a deed. in some common law jurisdictions, such as australia, canada and the united states, another doctrine, named reasonable reliance, has developed, which could act as surrogate for the doctrine of consideration. english courts, however, ...

Controlling blocks of stock generally command a premium. Current doctrine allows controlling shareholders to sell without sharing this control premium in most, but not all, circumstances. The two dominant schools of academic thought on sales of control agree on one point: this current doctrine is wrong. Under one school of thought, the equal sharing school, noncontrolling shareholders should al...

Lawvere theories provide a categorical formulation of the algebraic theories from universal algebra. Freyd categories are categorical models of first-order effectful programming languages. The notion of sound limit doctrine has been used to classify accessible categories. We provide a definition of Lawvere theory that is enriched in a closed category that is locally presentable with respect to ...

The Descartes Query Language (DQL) enables to query the performance of a system using adapters to various solution approaches. Thereby, DQL is a realization of the vision of Declarative Performance Engineering (DPE) which decouples the description of user concerns (performance questions and goals) from the task of selecting and applying a specific solution approach. While model-based approaches...

When the U.S. conducts warfare, elements of a force are drawn from different Services and work together as a single team to accomplish an assigned mission on the basis of joint doctrine. To achieve such unified action, it is necessary that specific Service doctrines be both consistent with and subservient to joint doctrine. But there are two further requirements that flow from the ways in which...