Foundational issues in information ethics

Foundational issues in information ethics

Purpose – Information ethics, as is well known, has emerged as an independent area of ethical and philosophical inquiry. There are a number of academic journals that are devoted entirely to the numerous ethical issues that arise in connection with the new information communication technologies; these issues include a host of intellectual property, information privacy, and security issues of con...

Foundational Issues

Ray Jackendoff is well qualified to talk about the trend towards increasing specialization and fragmentation of the science of language. For over 30 years he has been a prolific contributor to a number of different topics in syntax and semantics, and has also made notable contributions to other areas of cognitive science, including music, consciousness, spatial cognition, and psycholinguistics....

Foundational Issues in Presupposition

-1- Foundational Issues in Presupposition

This essay provides a brief introduction to the topic of presupposition, and then discuses three major approaches to this phenomenon, focusing on the answers which each approach gives to two foundational questions: What is presupposition? And how, or why, does it arise? 1. The phenomenon Consider sentence (1): (1) Jane has stopped drinking coffee in the evening. Among other things, this sentenc...

Foundational issues in statistical inference

Statistical inference is about using statistical data (x) to formulate an opinion about something that is defined well, but unknown (y). Testing a hypothesis H about y is one of the possibilities, the estimation or prediction of y is another one. We concentrate the attention on estimation or prediction in the sense that an opinion is required in the form of a probability distribution Q = Q(x) o...