Argument & Computation: Change and continuity

Bioethics and New Epoch

The main purpose of this article is an analysis of the Continuity Argument, one of the most influential arguments upon which the moral condemnation of scientific and medical practices such as embryo research and experimentation, assisted reproduction, abortion, therapeutic cloning, etc. are based. I have firstly given a very brief account of the approach that attributes the status of marker eve...

Continuity of Volumes – on a Generalization of a Conjecture of J.w.milnor

A. In his paper [6] J. Milnor conjectured that the volume of n-dimensional hyperbolic and spherical simplices, as a function of the dihedral angles, extends continuously to the closure of the space of allowable angles. A prove of this conjecture was recently given by F. Luo ([5]). In this paper we give a simple proof of this conjecture, provemuch sharper regularity results, and then exte...

Initiation of Cracks in Griffith's Theory: An Argument of Continuity in Favor of Global Minimization

The initiation of a crack in a sound body is a real issue in the setting of Griffith’s theory of brittle fracture. If one uses the concept of critical energy release rate (Griffith’s criterion), it is in general impossible to initiate a crack. On the other hand, if we replace it by a least energy principle (Francfort–Marigo’s criterion), it becomes possible to predict the onset of cracking in a...

American Policy in Persian Gulf Region: Continuity or Change at the Trump Era

United States power in Persian Gulf has risen since the end of Second World War. Dividing U.S. presence in the Region into the Cold war and post-Cold war era, the principle policy in first period was narrowing the impact of Soviet Union in the Region and in latter, Access to Persian Gulf region’s oil and controlling the major threats which can disrupt the flow of oil to global energy market. Fo...

Adaptive Dynamics: The Continuity Argument