In our day-to-day lives we are constantly exposed to the actions of other individuals who inhabit the social world. We not only experience their behavior, understand its contents and anticipate their consequences, but also we can do much more than that: we can attribute intentions to others and recognize immediately if their behavior is the result of an objective and a deliberative attitude or ...

Rationality has been regarded by many in the school of normative decision making as the sole criterion for good decisions. Its foundation is the subjective and personal interpretation of probability. In this brief, I argue that rational decision with personal probability is based on several assumptions and the validity of these assumptions is vastly debatable. First, I show that the history of ...

iii iv PREFACE I would like to thank my parents for supporting me all the time. At last, I would like to appreciate my fellow Nan Qin study together with me over the years. And, those technical and philosophical discussions in power system filed impel me to accomplish the project. ABSTRACT The future integration of large offshore wind farm requires a more advanced external grid for testing the ...