Fictional Objects, edited by Stuart Brock and Anthony Everett

Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education Edited by Anthony Herrington and Jan Herrington

Over the last decade the use of the authentic cases, problems and projects as a starting point for learning has won ground in higher education. Usually, these cases refer complex, ill–defined or open ended problems and often require multidisciplinary approaches. Students start with analysis of the cases, which involves gathering information, constructing and testing possible solutions. In short...

The Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence edited by Stuart Shieber

1. This eagerly-awaited anthology, while surely not the last word on the Turing Test, equally surely deserves to become the principal source of information on the Test. It not only includes Turing’s classic paper, but a fine selection of the main replies to date, all tied together by an engaging and penetrating essay by the editor. Stuart M. Shieber’s name is well known to computational linguis...

Edited by DALE PURVES GEORGE J . AUGUSTINE DAVID FITZPATRICK WILLIAM C . HALL ANTHONY - SAMUEL

Fictional and Aesthetic Objects: Meinong’s Point of View

In contemporary philosophy there are a great many texts on aesthetics and the ontology of narrative discourse, that discuss Meinong’s theses, agreeing or disagreeing. But Meinong never wrote a single book or article on aesthetics or the ontology of art works, nor did he provide a structured system to deal with fictional aesthetic objects. What he wrote on these matters is to be found in texts d...

Characteristics of Heavily Edited Objects in OpenStreetMap

This paper describes the results of an analysis of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database for the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland (correct to April 2011). 15, 640 OSM ways (polygons and polylines), resulting in 316, 949 unique versions of these objects, were extracted and analysed from the OSM database for the UK and Ireland. In our analysis we only considered “heavily edited” objects in OSM: objects...