James Alvin Steintrager

Can We Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? The James/Clifford Quarrel and the Response of Alvin Plantinga

This paper aims to be a brief discussion about the character of “evidentialism” in the discussion between William Clifford and William James. Known under the topic “the ethics of belief,” it discusses the problem of religious epistemology, specifically the status of the rationality of religious beliefs. After such discussion, we shall adduce in an introductory way Alvin Plantinga’s so-called “r...

Alvin AuYoung : Research Statement

I am a systems researcher interested in designing, building, deploying and measuring large-scale systems. My primary research interests currently involve the application of economic theory to both fundamental and emerging problems in operating and distributed systems, including, but not limited to resource allocation and congestion pricing. The arrival of large-scale open platforms such as clou...

John Kagel and Alvin Roth Neuroeconomics

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a chair, he was the very picture of dejection. His small head was hanging, an obstreperous tuft of the coarse, sandy hair standing defiantly upright on the crown of it; his complexion was sallow and pasty, and not in any way enhanced by a sparse scattering of tiny yellow freckles, plainly visible at close view; his generous mouth drooped, like his head, the lips pale, but firmly closed. In his ...

Phonetics exercises using the Alvin experiment-control software.

PURPOSE Exercises are described that were designed to provide practice in phonetic transcription for students taking an introductory phonetics course. The goal was to allow instructors to offload much of the drill that would otherwise need to be covered in class or handled with paper-and-pencil tasks using text rather than speech as input. METHOD The exercises were developed using Alvin, a ge...