Rocco J. Gennaro Indiana State University [final version in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2002] Jean-Paul Sartre believed that consciousness entails self-consciousness, or, even more strongly, that consciousness is self-consciousness. As Kathleen Wider puts it in her terrific book The Bodily Nature of Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, “...all consciousness is, by its ...

A Case-Based Reasoning system, nicknamed SARTRE, that uses a memory-based approach to play two-player, limit Texas Hold’em is introduced. SARTRE records hand histories from strong players and attempts to re-use this information to handle novel situations. SARTRE’S case features and their representations are described, followed by the results obtained when challenging a world-class computerised ...

SARTRE (Similarity Assessment Reasoning for Texas hold’em via Recall of Experience) is a heads-up (two-player) poker-bot that plays limit Texas Hold’em using the case-based reasoning methodology. This paper presents an overview of the SARTRE system. As far as we are aware SARTRE is the only poker-bot designed specifically to play heads-up Texas Hold’em using a CBR foundation. The design and imp...

What brings together Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory and JeanPaul Sartre's Imagination and The Psychology of Imagination is the question of the ontology of the image. Bergson attempts to use the image to bridge the gap between mind and matter by refusing to distinguish clearly between what he calls “matter-images,” “perception-images,” and “memory-images.” By defining both consciousness and t...

Sartre (1956) describes ways in which one may present oneself to others as being a certain sort of person. In one of his examples, a waiter presents himself as a waiter by as it were acting the part of a waiter. More generally, Sartre argues that, wanting to be, or at least to appear to others to be, a person of a certain sort or character, one often acts the part of a person of that sort of ch...

In previous papers we have presented our autonomous poker playing agent (SARTRE) that uses a memory-based approach to create a betting strategy for two-player, limit Texas Hold’em. SARTRE participated in the 2009 IJCAI Computer Poker Competition where the system was thoroughly evaluated by challenging a range of other computerised opponents. Since the competition SARTRE has undergone case-based...

I was very much interested in the article by Rom and Ansbacher entitled "An Adlerian Case or a Character by Sartre?" (4) not only because of its intrinsic value but also because I had myself analyzed the hero of Sartre's story "Erostratus" (5, pp. 41-58) and others of this author's characters from the angle of Adler's Individual Psychology some I 5 years ago (6, 7). Before quoting from this ana...

If the scholarly principle of her literary "vocation", of her emotional "choices" and even of her relation to her own status as a woman offered to us by Toril Moi have but little chance of appearing as Simone de Beauvoir, this is because she is separated from this by the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to whom she delegated, in a way, her capacity to do philosophy... There is not a better exampl...