Radical interpretation and decision theory

‘Radical Interpretation’ and the Assessment of Decision-Making Capacity

The assessment of patients' decision-making capacity (DMC) has become an important area of clinical practice, and since it provides the gateway for a consideration of non-consensual treatment, has major ethical implications. Tests of DMC such as under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) for England and Wales aim at supporting autonomy and reducing unwarranted paternalism by being 'procedural', focus...

Radical Interpretation and the Permutation Principle *

Davidson has argued1 that there is no fact of the matter as to what any speaker's words refer to because, even holding truth conditions fixed, a radical interpreter will always be able to come up with many equally good interpretations of the interpretee’s language. This conclusion, which Davidson (following Quine) refers to as the "inscrutability of reference", has caused many to reject the rad...

Textual Interpretation and Complexity -radical Hermeneutics

Decision Procedures and Abstract Interpretation

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14351 “Decision Procedures and Abstract Interpretation”. The seminar brought together practitioners and reseachers in abstract interpretation and decision procedures. The meeting highlighted the connections between the two disciplines, and created new links between the two research communities. Joint activities were also con...

FUZZY SOFT MATRIX THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION IN DECISION MAKING

In this work, we define fuzzy soft ($fs$) matrices and theiroperations which are more functional to make theoretical studies inthe $fs$-set theory. We then define products of $fs$-matrices andstudy their properties. We finally construct a $fs$-$max$-$min$decision making method which can be successfully applied to theproblems that contain uncertainties.