CRISIS CONSCIOUSNESS AS A MODERN HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE PROBLEM

Machine Consciousness: A Modern Approach

The purpose of the tutorial is to offer an overview of the theoretical and empirical issues in artificial consciousness. Is it possible to devise, project and build a conscious machine? What are the theoretical challenges? What are the technical difficulties? What is the relation between cognition and consciousness? The most promising models will be sketched and contrasted: Global Work Space, T...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?

Wilderness medicine in disasters and humanitarian crisis.

doi:10.1017/S1049023X11006479 In the wake of highly publicized recent disasters in Haiti, Pakistan, and elsewhere, discourse among those concerned with the management of public health emergencies has focused on defining a standard of professionalism for humanitarian and disaster responders.1 Few “prerequisites” exist for the diversity of casual responders, experienced providers, and humanitaria...

The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge

This article analyzes the role played in the credit crisis of the processes by which different groups of market participants produce knowledge about financial instruments. Employing documentary sources and a set of 76 predominantly oralhistory interviews, the article presents a historical sociology of the clusters of evaluation practices surrounding ABSs (asset-backed securities) and CDOs (coll...

A Modular Collaborative Web-Based Framework for Humanitarian Crisis Management