The Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology.AdamGraycar &Peter Grabosky (eds.) -2009 - Cambridge University Press.detailsAs a unique work of reference, The Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology covers the broad range of contemporary and historical subjects of criminology, combining statistical and narrative analyses. The book provides the most up-to-date figures and facts, traces historical trends in Australian crime and criminal justice, and comprehensively covers the key contemporary issues in Australian criminology. Including valuable crime statistics compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this book is the complete companion to Australian criminology - the single most important (...) resource for Australian criminology and criminal justice. (shrink)
How to Serve the Customer and Still Be Truthful: Methodological Characteristics of Applied Research.MatthiasAdam,Martin Carrier &Torsten Wilholt -2006 -Science and Public Policy 33 (6):435-444.detailsTransdisciplinarity includes the assumption that within new institutional settings, scientific research becomes more closely responsive to practical problems and user needs and is therefore often subject to considerable application pressure. This raises the question whether transdisciplinarity affects the epistemic standards and the fruitfulness of research. Case studies show how user-orientation and epistemic innovativeness can be combined. While the modeling involved in all cases under consideration was local and focused primarily on features of immediate practical relevance, it was informed by theoretical (...) insights from basic research. Conversely, industrial research turns out sometimes to produce theoretical understanding. These findings highlight an interactive relationship between science and technology (moderate emergentism), which is distinct from the traditional view of a one-sided dependence of technology on science (cascade model) and from the newly received independence account (emergentism). (shrink)
An ontology in owl for legal case-based reasoning.Adam Wyner -2008 -Artificial Intelligence and Law 16 (4):361-387.detailsThe paper gives ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) for Legal Case-based Reasoning (LCBR) systems, giving explicit, formal, and general specifications of a conceptualisation LCBR. Ontologies for different systems allows comparison and contrast between them. OWL ontologies are standardised, machine-readable formats that support automated processing with Semantic Web applications. Intermediate concepts, concepts between base-level concepts and higher level concepts, are central in LCBR. The main issues and their relevance to ontological reasoning and to LCBR are discussed. Two LCBR systems (...) (AS-CATO, which is based on CATO, and IBP) are analysed in terms of basic and intermediate concepts. Central components of the OWL ontologies for these systems are presented, pointing out differences and similarities. The main novelty of the paper is the ontological analysis and representation in OWL of LCBR systems. The paper also emphasises the important issues concerning the representation and reasoning of intermediate concepts. (shrink)
Postface. Le texte est-il soluble dans le textiel?Jean-MichelAdam -2020 -Corela. Cognition, Représentation, Langage.detailsIl est […] illusoire de vouloir affronter seul des problèmes qui appellent le dépassement des limites liées aux spécialisations disciplinaires et aux enjeux institutionnels. Après avoir lu l’ensemble des contributions au présent volume de Corela et m’être plongé dans un certain nombre de travaux cités dans ces articles, profitant du fait qu’Ingrid Mayeur et Marie-Anne Paveau ont eu l’élégance de me convier à un dialogue critique, je répondrai brièvement à cert...
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Leistungssport: Sinn u. Unsinn.KarlAdam -1975 - München: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung.detailsLeistungssport, Olympische-Spiele, Schulsport, Ideologie, Jugendsport, Trainingslehre, Doping, Massenmedium.
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Logic, Inductive and Deductive: An Introduction to Scientific Method.Adam Leroy Jones -1909 - New York, NY, USA: Holt.detailsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps, and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely (...) copy and distribute this work, as no entity has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. (shrink)
Empiricism and Moral Status.Adam Kadlac -2013 -Social Theory and Practice 39 (3):397-421.detailsMany inquiries into the scope of moral value try to adopt an impersonal perspective on the world—that is, a perspective that abstracts away from the particularities of our personal experience and attempts to view the world from no place within it. In contrast to this approach, I argue that our investigation into the nature and scope of moral value should proceed from a more thoroughly personal standpoint by taking seriously our moral experience and the relational possibilities that obtain among various (...) entities. (shrink)
[email protected].Adam Leite &Sycamore Hall -unknowndetailsIn Knowledge and Its Limits, Timothy Williamson argues that knowledge is a purely mental state, that is, that it is never a complex state or condition comprising mental factors and non-mental, environmental factors. Three of his arguments are evaluated: arguments from (1) the non-analyzability of the concept of knowledge, (2) the “primeness” of knowledge, and (3) the (alleged) inability to satisfactorily specify the “internal” element involved in knowledge. None of these arguments succeeds. Moreover, consideration of the third argument points the (...) way to a cogent argument that knowledge is not a purely mental state. (shrink)
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Looking back into the past. About the stream o f the so called "fate archeological narration" in the twentieth century science-fiction literature.Adam Mazurkiewicz -2025 -Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 7 (1):481-493.detailsThe category of late archeological narrative, related to science-fiction, is distingushed due to thematic criterion. The plot is based on a motif of excavations. The heroes, situated in distant future, are usually research workers, studying the lost civilisation. However, they have nothing but excavation for their research, because of discontinuity of culture, due to the erlier great dissaster (for instance the total war). This is why their investigation turns out to be vain: the argumentation is correct, but deduction is false, (...) that is obvious for a learner. The learner can easily recognize the lost civilisation, the subject of research in the presented world, as his own contemporaneousness. Late archeological narrative is a kind o f mental experiment, that presents limitations of science and of human capibility to make the past known. There are few novels in Polish literature, representing this trend; in my opinion, it hasen’t exhausted its artistic possibilities yet. (shrink)
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Strategy as enough: Statesmanship as the peacemaker in Hobbes's behemoth.Adam Yoksas -2013 -History of Political Thought 34 (2):226-251.detailsBehemoth is traditionally read as supporting Hobbes's science from the treatises, but it also goes beyond the strict limitations of Hobbes's science. Understanding how Hobbes expands his approach requires that we examine how A's confidence in institutional reform is met by B's cynicism. Hobbes shifts from an analysis of general inclinations to an analysis of the particular strategies that skilful sovereigns use to acquire and maintain peace. The result is a theory of the state that relies less on> institutional arrangement, (...) and more on effective statesmanship, than we typically see when considering Hobbes's treatises alone. (shrink)