What Mankind May Have Lost Through Evolutionary Development: A Moral Enthymeme

Localization for Lost Robots through Scene Recognition ( May 2008 )

Mobile robot localization is a common problem in the robotics community, yet many proposed solutions are hardware dependent, requiring various sensors with prior environment information, or solutions that require continuous feature tracking such as the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, where prior motion dynamics or accurate odometry is required. However, these localizatio...

Parents Who Have Lost a Child to Cancer: What Do They Really Need?

In a sample of parents who lost a child to cancer, we investigated their needs before and after their child’s death and how these needs were fulfilled. We met parents of AYA (adolescents and young adults) between 15 and 25 years old, who died in Curie Institute between 2000 and 2003. Twentyone families agreed to participate in this study between October 2005 and April 2006. When a family agreed...

Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions

Situations where individuals have to contribute to joint efforts or share scarce resources are ubiquitous. Yet, without proper mechanisms to ensure cooperation, the evolutionary pressure to maximize individual success tends to create a tragedy of the commons (such as over-fishing or the destruction of our environment). This contribution addresses a number of related puzzles of human behavior wi...

Have Americans Lost Their Minds?

Moral treatment: how a caring practice lost its rationale.

The 19th-century practices of moral treatment and phrenology serve as historical examples of a narrowing focus in health care and reveal the manner in which theories can shape practice. The story of moral treatment, as it is told in connection with phrenology, emphasizes the push for success and right solutions. The push followed several shifts in the conceptualization of mental illness, the la...