We use a preference-over-menus framework to model a decision maker who is a¤ected by multiple temptations. Our two main axioms on preference, Exclusion and Inclusion, identify when the agent would want to restrict his choice set and when he would want to expand his choice set. An agent who is tempted would want to restrict his choice set by excluding the normatively worst alternative of that ch...

THE COGNITIVE APPROACH TO DESIGN OF SOCCER AGENT L. Stankevich Saint-Petersburg State Technical University, Politekhnicheskay 29, (812)24742-14 e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Soccer (association football of robot) makes a good example of the problem of the real world which is moderately abstracted. This play has being chosen as one of standard problems for study on multi-agent sys...

effectively against many central tenets of moral philosophy and action theory, and advances a new view of her own. The book is a joy to read—clearly written, clever throughout, and compelling in its descriptions and analyses of some imperfect agents who have been widely misunderstood. Arpaly argues for a view about moral worth, or praiseworthiness. Her central claim is that praiseworthiness is ...

In Book Four of Plato's Republic, Socrates divides the soul. He argues that because one thing cannot do or undergo opposites in the same respect, in the same relation, and at the same time, some cases of psychological conflict can only be explained by supposing that the soul is actually more than one thing. But Socrates does not seem to deny that the soul is a unity. Rather, he seems to hold th...

This paper fortifies and defends the so called Sufficiency Argument (SA) against Classical Invariantism. In Sect. 2, I explain the version of the SA formulated but then rejected by Brown (2008a). In Sect. 3, I show how cases described by Hawthorne (2004), Brown (2008b), and Lackey (forthcoming) threaten to undermine one or the other of the SA’s least secure premises. In Sect. 4, I buttress one ...