In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin.Ryan Balot,Timothy W. Burns,Paul A. Cantor,Brent Edwin Cusher,Hugh Donald Forbes,Steven Forde,Bryan-Paul Frost,Kenneth Hart Green,RanHalévi,L. Joseph Hebert,Henry Higuera,Robert Howse,Seth N. Jaffe,Michael S. Kochin,Noah Laurence,Mark L. Lutz,Arthur M. Melzer,Miguel Morgado,Waller R. Newell,Michael Palmer,Lorraine Smith Pangle,Thomas L. Pangle,William B. Parsons,Marc F. Plattner,Linda R. Rabieh,Andrea Radasanu,Michael Rosano &Nathan Tarcov (eds.) -2015 - Lexington Books.detailsThis collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy.
In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin.Ryan Balot,Timothy W. Burns,Paul A. Cantor,Brent Edwin Cusher,Donald Forbes,Steven Forde,Bryan-Paul Frost,Kenneth Hart Green,RanHalévi,L. Joseph Hebert,Henry Higuera,Robert Howse,S. N. Jaffe,Michael S. Kochin,Noah Lawrence,Mark J. Lutz,Arthur M. Melzer,Jeffrey Metzger,Miguel Morgado,Waller R. Newell,Michael Palmer,Lorraine Smith Pangle,Thomas L. Pangle,Marc F. Plattner,William B. Parsons,Linda R. Rabieh,Andrea Radasanu,Michael Rosano,Diana J. Schaub,Susan Meld Shell &Nathan Tarcov (eds.) -2015 - Lexington Books.detailsThis collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy.
Laurent Bove et Colas Duflo (dir.), Le Philosophe, le Sage et le Politique. De Machiavel aux Lumières.Frédéric Gabriel -2003 -Astérion 1 (1).detailsLe titre de ce recueil indique trois fonctions et une période. Heureux complément au très beau volume, plus historique, dirigé par RanHalévi (Le savoir du Prince du Moyen Age aux Lumières, Paris, Fayard, 2002), son intérêt repose sur le jeu permis par cette triade problématique. Du conseiller professionnel au pur littéraire, de nombreux auteurs et textes aux statuts différents sont examinés. Au-delà de la question classique de l’engagement du philosophe dans un domaine qui n’est pas pour lui..
The life of Friedrich Nietzsche.Daniel Halévy,Joseph M. Hone &Tom Kettle -1911 - New York,: The Macmillan company. Edited by Joseph M. Hone & Tom Kettle.detailsHalevy (1872-1962) was a French historian who became a friend of Marcel Proust while studying at the Lycee Condorcet. This biography of the celebrated German philosopher, Nietzsche, was first published in the original French in 1909 and appeared in this English translation in 1911.
The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith.Yehuda Halevi & Judah -1998 - Feldheim Publishers. Edited by N. Daniel Korobkin.detailsThe Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith is the first new translation into English of The Kuzari since 1905, annotated and explained based on the classic commentaries. Written by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi of Spain over a period of twenty years and completed in 1140, The Kuzari has enthralled generations of Jews and non-Jews alike with its clear-cut presentation on Judaism, and its polemics against Greek philosophy, Christianity, Islam, and Karaism.
Swāmī Hariharānanda Āraṇya's Yoga kārikā: with Yoga sūtras, transliteration, English translation & special notes.Hariharānanda Āraṇya -2008 - Lonavala, Pune: Kaivalyadhama. Edited by Maheshananda, Patañjali & Hariharānanda Āraṇya.detailsClassical commentary on Yogasūtra of Patañjali, work on Yoga philosophy; includes complete text of Yogasūtra.
The Theologian's Doubts: Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazali.Leor Halevi -2002 -Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (1):19-39.detailsIn lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Theologian's Doubts:Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of GhazālīLeor HaleviIn the history of skeptical thought, which normally leaps from the Pyrrhonists to the rediscovery of Sextus Empiricus in the sixteenth century, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) figures as a medieval curiosity. Skeptical enough to merit passing acknowledgment, he has proven too baffling to be treated fully alongside pagan, atheist, or materialist philosophers. As a theologian defending certain Muslim (...) dogmas, Ghazālī has not met what historians consider the mark of the true skeptic, a mind doubting the possibility of all systems of knowledge. But what is fascinating about him is that he brought into practical operation the tools of what I call "functional skepticism."1He denied the claims to truth of Aristotelian physics—whose basis he showed to rest on groundless belief—then turned and argued for the possibility of the Resurrection tooth and nail. The scholarly debate on The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahāfut al-falāsifa) has concentrated on the extent to which Ghazālī qua Ashcarite theologian was seduced into Aristotelian philosophy despite himself.2 In my view this debate has been misguided in the attempt to distill the [End Page 19] essence of Ghazālī from the book's eclectic theology; I will argue for a different view of Ghazālī on the basis of a close reading of key passages. In the unusual sections where Ghazālī applies Aristotelian language to a world not following the ordinary laws of physics, some have found Ghazālī slipping, unconsciously perhaps, into an Aristotelian frame of mind. I will show that, as a skeptical theologian with a dialogic imagination, he was rather deconstructing Aristotelian discourse while playing a Wittgensteinian sort of language game.Natural Philosopher or Speculative Theologian?The disagreement about the extent to which philosophy infected Ghazālī is ancient. Ghazālī might have studied philosophy only in order to refute it. He himself defended his philosophizing with the claim that one cannot deconstruct a system of thought until one has understood it so deeply as to elaborate upon its fundamental principles.3 His Maqāṣid al-falāsifa was in fact received, especially in trans-Pyrenean Europe, as a philosopher's genuine summary of the object of philosophy.4 The book strikes me as suspiciously creative in its representation of philosophical discourse, but it appears in any case as an expert and surprisingly unbiased treatment.5 Arabic readers knew that Ghazālī had also written a polemical treatise against philosophy, Tahāfut al-falāsifa, but they still wondered about his engagement with the ideas he challenged. Abū Bakr Ibn al-cArabī, for example, commented that Ghazālī had been unable to extricate himself from philosophy.6 Other philosophers pondered whether or not he had been a closeted member of their charmed circle and sought in his writings traces of esoteric philosophy.7Averroës's own sober sense of distance between philosophy and theology was partially a reaction to what he perceived as Ghazālī's dangerous and carefree mixture of the two sciences.8 He attacked Ghazālī's book in The Incoherence [End Page 20] of the Incoherence to restore philosophy's sense of purity, an aim he sought to accomplish by separating religious concerns from the philosopher's field of inquiry.9 Ironically, such a separation is precisely what Ghazālī might have wished to provoke by crisscrossing and blurring the line between religion and philosophy.The modern debate on chapter 17 of Tahāfut al-falāsifa has concentrated on defining Ghazālī as either a natural philosopher or an occasionalist theologian. In his defense of the possibility of miracles Ghazālī presented two theories of causation, one denying the logical basis of Aristotelian notions of natural causality, and the other more or less adopting these notions. Jointly, the two theories have seemed incompatible, and for this reason scholars have attempted to sort Ghazālī out of the apparent confusion. In 1978 L. E. Goodman argued persuasively that Ghazālī exploited rather than denied the philosophers' ideas of causality. In two articles Michael Marmura challenged Goodman, contending... (shrink)
The Ariel Rubinstein Seminar Comment Generator.Ran Spiegler -unknowndetailsIn this short article I proudly present ARSECOG: The Ariel Rubinstein Seminar Comment Generator. This is an AI program in the style of ELIZA. However, instead of simulating a psychotherapist, it simulates the eminent economist Ariel Rubinstein. Prof. Rubinstein is renowned for his insightful and penetrating comments during research seminars. I am sure many of us, who envy his capabilities in this department, would find a program such as ARSECOG quite useful.
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Corporate Philanthropic Giving, Advertising Intensity, and Industry Competition Level.Ran Zhang,Jigao Zhu,Heng Yue &Chunyan Zhu -2010 -Journal of Business Ethics 94 (1):39-52.detailsThis article examines whether the likelihood and amount of firm charitable giving in response to catastrophic events are related to firm advertising intensity, and whether industry competition level moderates this relationship. Using data on Chinese firms’ philanthropic response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, we find that firm advertising intensity is positively associated with both the probability and the amount of corporate giving. The results also indicate that this positive advertising intensity-philanthropic giving relationship is stronger in competitive industries, and firms in (...) competitive industries are more likely to donate. This study thus provides evidence suggesting that even in the wake of catastrophic events, corporate philanthropic giving is strategic. (shrink)
Cārbāketara Bhāratīẏa darśana.Raṇadīpama Basu -2017 - Ḍhākā: Rodelā.detailsOn Jaina, Bauddha, Nyaya, Vaiśeṣika, Sankhya, Yoga, Purva-Mimamsa and Vedānta systems of Indic philosophy.
What neuropsychology tells us about consciousness.Ran Lahav -1993 -Philosophy of Science 60 (1):67-85.detailsI argue that, contrary to some critics, the notion of conscious experience is a good candidate for denoting a distinct and scientifically interesting phenomenon in the brain. I base this claim mainly on an analysis of neuropsychological data concerning deficits resulting from various types of brain damage as well as some additional supporting empirical evidence. These data strongly point to the hypothesis that conscious experience expresses information that is available for global, integrated, and flexible behavior.
Competition over agents with boundedly rational expectations.Ran Spiegler -unknowndetailsI study a market model in which profit-maximizing firms compete in multidimensional pricing strategies over a consumer, who is limited in his ability to grasp such complicated objects and therefore uses a sampling procedure to evaluate them. Firms respond to increased competition with an increased effort to obfuscate, rather than with more competitive pricing. As a result, consumer welfare is not enhanced and may even deteriorate. Specifically, when firms control both the price and the quality of each dimension, and there (...) are diminishing returns to quality, increased competition implies an efficiency loss which is entirely borne by consumers. KEYWORDS. Bounded rationality, industrial organization, multi-dimensional pricing, law of small numbers, market exploitation, obfuscation. (shrink)
Inherently Ambiguous: Facial Expressions of Emotions, in Context.Ran R. Hassin,Hillel Aviezer &Shlomo Bentin -2013 -Emotion Review 5 (1):60-65.detailsWith a few yet increasing number of exceptions, the cognitive sciences enthusiastically endorsed the idea that there are basic facial expressions of emotions that are created by specific configurations of facial muscles. We review evidence that suggests an inherent role for context in emotion perception. Context does not merely change emotion perception at the edges; it leads to radical categorical changes. The reviewed findings suggest that configurations of facial muscles are inherently ambiguous, and they call for a different approach towards (...) the understanding of facial expressions of emotions. Prices of sticking with the modal view, and advantages of an expanded view, are succinctly reviewed. (shrink)
Corporate Philanthropic Disaster Response and Ownership Type: Evidence from Chinese Firms’ Response to the Sichuan Earthquake.Ran Zhang,Zabihollah Rezaee &Jigao Zhu -2009 -Journal of Business Ethics 91 (1):51-63.detailsThis article examines whether the charitable giving amount and likelihood of firm response to catastrophic events relate to firms’ ownership type using a unique dataset of listed firms in China, where state ownership is still prevalent. Based on the data of Chinese firms’ response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, we find that the extent of corporate contributions for state-owned firms following this disaster is less than that for private firms. State-owned firms are also less likely to respond in␣this disaster compared (...) to private firms. The results also␣reveal that firm size, profitability, geography, cash resource available, and leverage affect firms’ philanthropic disaster response behavior in China. (shrink)
A conjectural classification of strongly dependent fields.Yatir Halevi,Assaf Hasson &Franziska Jahnke -2019 -Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 25 (2):182-195.detailsWe survey the history of Shelah’s conjecture on strongly dependent fields, give an equivalent formulation in terms of a classification of strongly dependent fields and prove that the conjecture implies that every strongly dependent field has finite dp-rank.
A Memristive Hyperjerk Chaotic System: Amplitude Control, FPGA Design, and Prediction with Artificial Neural Network.Ran Wang,Chunbiao Li,Serdar Çiçek,Karthikeyan Rajagopal &Xin Zhang -2021 -Complexity 2021:1-17.detailsAn amplitude controllable hyperjerk system is constructed for chaos producing by introducing a nonlinear factor of memristor. In this case, the amplitude control is realized from a single coefficient in the memristor. The hyperjerk system has a line of equilibria and also shows extreme multistability indicated by the initial value-associated bifurcation diagram. FPGA-based circuit realization is also given for physical verification. Finally, the proposed memristive hyperjerk system is successfully predicted with artificial neural networks for AI based engineering applications.
Remote State Preparation for Quantum Fields.Ran Ber &Erez Zohar -2016 -Foundations of Physics 46 (7):804-814.detailsRemote state preparation is generation of a desired state by a remote observer. In spite of causality, it is well known, according to the Reeh–Schlieder theorem, that it is possible for relativistic quantum field theories, and a “physical” process achieving this task, involving superoscillatory functions, has recently been introduced. In this work we deal with non-relativistic fields, and show that remote state preparation is also possible for them, hence obtaining a Reeh–Schlieder-like result for general fields. Interestingly, in the nonrelativistic case, (...) the process may rely on completely different resources than the ones used in the relativistic case. (shrink)
(1 other version)Soyoung Kim’s Exile Trilogy.Ran Ma -2021 -philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 11 (1-2):145-153.detailsLooking at Soyoung Kim’s Exile Trilogy, three documentaries centering on ethnic Koreans in Central Asia and specifically the use of archival footages and soundtracks in Sound of Nomad, Arirang, this article considers Kim’s works an organic contribution to the image archive of/about/by the global Korean diaspora while seeking to interrogate the politics of “retro” by turning to what Catherine Russell has approached as “archiveology.” Foregrounding the representation of the transgenerational divas from the “Arirang Ensemble” of the Koryo Theater in Almaty, (...) Kazakhstan, this piece highlights how the divas’ personal stories reconstructed via images, oral accounts, sound recordings, and so forth need to be grasped as an assemblage of affective flows that has complicated the teleological narrative about the Korean diaspora and problematized the Soviet state’s ideocultural representations of the Koryo people. (shrink)
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ʼAnupaññā caṃ.Khaṅʻ Moṅʻ Raṅʻ -1997 - Ranʻ kunʻ: [Phranʻʹ khyi reʺ], Muṃ rveʺ Cā ʼupʻ Tuikʻ. Edited by Joʻ Joʻ ʼOṅʻ.detailsAesthetics of art and literature; articles.
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A three-valued quantified argument calculus: Domain-free model-theory, completeness, and embedding of fol.Ran Lanzet -2017 -Review of Symbolic Logic 10 (3):549-582.detailsThis paper presents an extended version of the Quantified Argument Calculus (Quarc). Quarc is a logic comparable to the first-order predicate calculus. It employs several nonstandard syntactic and semantic devices, which bring it closer to natural language in several respects. Most notably, quantifiers in this logic are attached to one-place predicates; the resulting quantified constructions are then allowed to occupy the argument places of predicates. The version presented here is capable of straightforwardly translating natural-language sentences involving defining clauses. A three-valued, (...) model-theoretic semantics for Quarc is presented. Interpretations in this semantics are not equipped with domains of quantification: they are just interpretation functions. This reflects the analysis of natural-language quantification on which Quarc is based. A proof system is presented, and a completeness result is obtained. The logic presented here is capable of straightforward translation of the classical first-order predicate calculus, the translation preserving truth values as well as entailment. The first-order predicate calculus and its devices of quantification can be seen as resulting from Quarc on certain semantic and syntactic restrictions, akin to simplifying assumptions. An analogous, straightforward translation of Quarc into the first-order predicate calculus is impossible. (shrink)
Comments on the potential significance of neuroeconomics for economic theory.Ran Spiegler -2008 -Economics and Philosophy 24 (3):515-521.detailsIn this short note I speculate about the various ways in which the study of neurological aspects of decision making could be fruitful for economic modelling.
Implicit working memory.Ran R. Hassin,John A. Bargh,Andrew D. Engell &Kathleen C. McCulloch -2009 -Consciousness and Cognition 18 (3):665-678.detailsWorking Memory plays a crucial role in many high-level cognitive processes . The prevalent view holds that active components of WM are predominantly intentional and conscious. This conception is oftentimes expressed explicitly, but it is best reflected in the nature of major WM tasks: All of them are blatantly explicit. We developed two new WM paradigms that allow for an examination of the role of conscious awareness in WM. Results from five studies show that WM can operate unintentionally and outside (...) of conscious awareness, thus suggesting that the current view should be expanded to include implicit WM. (shrink)
The dp-rank of Abelian groups.Yatir Halevi &Daniel Palacín -2019 -Journal of Symbolic Logic 84 (3):957-986.detailsAn equation to compute the dp-rank of any abelian group is given. It is also shown that its dp-rank, or more generally that of any one-based group, agrees with its Vapnik–Chervonenkis density. Furthermore, strong abelian groups are characterised to be precisely those abelian groups A such that there are only finitely many primes p such that the group A / pA is infinite and for every prime p, there are only finitely many natural numbers n such that $\left[p]/\left[p]$ is infinite.Finally, (...) it is shown that an infinite stable field of finite dp-rank is algebraically closed. (shrink)