The dramatic changes of the past 25 years in the nature and conditions of work, including the globalization of organizations and the introduction of a strategic as opposed to employee-centered conception of HR have impacted the ways in which moral problems are manifested. But the paradigmatic forms taken by those problems, the character traits and motives needed to recognize them as such, the e...

Do young children have a basic intuition of posterior probability? Do they update their decisions and judgments in the light of new evidence? We hypothesized that they can do so extensionally, by considering and counting the various ways in which an event may or may not occur. The results reported in this paper showed that from the age of five, children’s decisions under uncertainty (Study 1) a...

Innovative query interfaces to knowledge and database systems must go beyond simply returning the requested information. They must be capable of producing intentional answers when a description improves the understanding of an answer [Mot94], producing conditional answers when no one answer matches the conditions of a query, and using ontological information in processing a query. They should b...

One step towards a more systematic approach to the design of business processes is to develop models that provide appropriate representations of the knowledge that is needed for understanding and for reasoning about business processes. We present a modelling framework which uses goals, rules, and methods to support the systematic analysis and design of business processes. The framework consists...

When presented with a hammer that is being used as a paperweight, most people judge that its proper function is to pound nails in place rather than to hold down pieces of paper. The bias to assign proper function based on historically intended function rather than on manifest or current function, can be explained as a memory effect (we have learned that hammers are used to pound nails), as abdu...

This proposal discusses the use of the intentions of the actor in performing means-end reasoning. In doing so, it will show that preconditions and applicability conditions in existing systems are ill-defined and intrinsically encode situational information that prevents intentions from playing a role in the planning process. While the former problem can be fixed, the latter cannot. Therefore, I...

No account of property law can achieve a comprehensive understanding without factoring in natural rights. Professor Eric Claeys’s new book offers significant contribution to contemporary theory by setting out the most and defensible rights appear long time. Claeys describes function as productive work. Intentional planning, purposeful effort, creative ordering enable people lives flourishing. A...

The relationship between actions and intentions has always been at the centre of an articulated debate within philosophy social sciences. On one hand, there is a growing trend to naturalize concept intention: this based on wide empirical evidence, above all in neuroscientific field, suggests that human action mainly depends cerebral biological mechanisms. other especially sociological strong tr...

The intention of this paper is to propose interaction design as a venue for IS research into sustainability and in that connection also propose a new theoretical psychological approach to interaction design. This new theoretical psychological framework is based on ecological psychology and activity theory. The paper will outline the scientific demands for the framework as well as the frameworks...

Viewing a policy as harmful can lead to its moral condemnation. However, this harmfulness be constructed and negotiated different positions by building upon available, accessible, relevant discourses. This study examined how individuals harm in reasoning about contentious policy, Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs, locally known tokhang. We ...