Deconstructing the anthropocentrism versus ecocentrism binary through Māori oral fire traditions

Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism: Moral Reasoning about Ecological Commons Dilemmas

When do humans extend their ethical scope to include nature? Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism are two ways of understanding an extension of ethics to nature. In an anthropocentric ethic nature deserves moral consideration because how nature is treated a¡ects humans. In an ecocentric ethic nature deserves moral consideration because nature has intrinsic value. In two experiments participants (n=...

Sade-omizing Sexuality: Deconstructing the Gender Binary through the Sadian Sexual Predator

Deconstructing Binary Classifiers in Computer Vision

This paper further develops the novel notion of deconstructive learning and proposes a practical model for deconstructing a broad class of binary classifiers commonly used in vision applications. Specifically, the problem studied in this paper is: Given an image-based binary classifier C as a black-box oracle, how much can we learn of its internal working by simply querying it? To formulate and...

Deconstructing Binary Oppositions in Literacy Discourse & Pedagogy

Deconstructing Cross-Entropy for Probabilistic Binary Classifiers

In this work, we analyze the cross-entropy function, widely used in classifiers both as a performance measure and as an optimization objective. We contextualize cross-entropy in the light of Bayesian decision theory, the formal probabilistic framework for making decisions, and we thoroughly analyze its motivation, meaning and interpretation from an information-theoretical point of view. In this...