Freedom Without Idealization: Non-Ideal Approaches to Freedom of Communication

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Verifying Deadlock-Freedom of Communication Fabrics

Avoiding message dependent deadlocks in communication fabrics is critical for modern microarchitectures. If discovered late in the design cycle, deadlocks lead to missed project deadlines and suboptimal design decisions. One approach to avoid this problem is to get high level of confidence on an early microarchitectural model. However, formal proofs of liveness even on abstract models are hard ...

Freedom to Tweet or Tweet to Freedom: the Relationship between Freedom Status and Tweets during Elections

Title of Document: FREEDOM TO TWEET OR TWEET TO FREEDOM: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FREEDOM STATUS AND TWEETS DURING ELECTIONS Zahra Ashktorab, Master of Science 2013 Directed By: Jen Golbeck, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies In this thesis, I conduct an exploratory study of the relationship between a country's freedom and the twitter activity during elections. While there have...

Kant's Four Notions of Freedom

Powers, Non-Consent and Freedom

There are a number of dispositionalist solutions to the free will problem based on freedom consisting in the agent’s exercise of a power. But if a subject a is free when they exercise their power P, there is an objection to be overcome from the possibility of power implantation. A brainwasher, rather than directly manipulating a subject’s movements, can instead implant in them a desire, to be u...