Was Taung human or an ape?

Ape or man? an incomplete chapter of human ancestry from South Africa.

APE: An AnsProlog* Environment

It has been recognised that better programming tools are required to support the logic programming paradigm of Answer Set Programming (ASP), especially when larger scale applications need to be developed. In order to meet this demand, the aspects of programming in ASP that require better support need to be investigated, and suitable tools to support them identified and implemented. In this pape...

Ape and Human Cognition: What’s the Difference?

Humans share the vast majority of their cognitive skills with other great apes. In addition, however, humans have also evolved a unique suite of cognitive skills and motivations—collectively referred to as shared intentionality—for living collaboratively, learning socially, and exchanging information in cultural groups.

From ape empathy to human morality?

The idea that empathy provides an important developmental precursor to moral decision making possesses significant conceptual appeal. However, the idea of a necessary, diachronic relation between empathy and morality has been rejected recently (by Prinz 2011, amongst others). This paper reassesses the strength of the claim that empathy is developmentally necessary for (at least some forms of) m...

Was the Watchmaker Blind? Or Was She One-Eyed?

The question whether evolution is blind is usually presented as a choice between no goals at all ('the blind watchmaker') and long-term goals which would be external to the organism, for example in the form of special creation or intelligent design. The arguments either way do not address the question whether there are short-term goals within rather than external to organisms. Organisms and the...