Knowing the value of nature

The Nature of Knowing How

In their delightfully provocative paper, “Knowing How,” Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson (“S&W”) reject Gilbert Ryle’s thesis (1949; 1971) that “there is a fundamental distinction between knowledge-how and knowledge-that” (2001: 411). Indeed, they seem to regard that widely accepted thesis as nothing but a “philosophical prejudice” (p. 431). They offer an ingenious linguistic argument for t...

The Value of Knowing Your Enemy

Many auction settings implicitly or explicitly require that bidders are treated equally exante. This may be because discrimination is philosophically or legally impermissible, or because it is practically difficult to implement or impossible to enforce. We study so-called anonymous auctions to understand the revenue tradeoffs and to develop simple anonymous auctions that are approximately optim...

Radical Empiricism: Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing

This paper explores connections between Radical Empiricism (RE), a philosophic attitude developed by William James at the beginning of the 20 century, and Empirical Modelling (EM), an approach to computerbased modelling that has been developed by the author and his collaborators over a number of years. It focuses in particular on how both RE and EM promote a perspective on the nature of knowing...

The Nature of Student Learning and Knowing in Science

conditional copula-garch methods for value at risk of portfolio: the case of tehran stock exchange market

ارزش در معرض ریسک یکی از مهمترین معیارهای اندازه گیری ریسک در بنگاه های اقتصادی می باشد. برآورد دقیق ارزش در معرض ریسک موضوع بسیارمهمی می باشد و انحراف از آن می تواند موجب ورشکستگی و یا عدم تخصیص بهینه منابع یک بنگاه گردد. هدف اصلی این مطالعه بررسی کارایی روش copula-garch شرطی در برآورد ارزش در معرض ریسک پرتفویی متشکل از دو سهام می باشد و ارزش در معرض ریسک بدست آمده با روشهای سنتی برآورد ارزش د...