In one perspective, the central problem pursued in this research is that of the inverse problem in the context of general rough sets. The problem is about the existence of rough basis for given approximations in a context. Granular operator spaces were recently introduced by the present author as an optimal framework for anti-chain based algebraic semantics of general rough sets and the inverse...

A ZOMBIE IS quite simply a physical and functional duplicate of you or me, who differs from us only in that she does not possess consciousness or phenomenological experience. 1 In other words, we know what it is to feel pain, happiness, and anger; a zombie does not: she completely lacks such experience. Many philosophers have recently befriended zombies. That is to say, these philosophers belie...

In this essay I describe the abstract logic of dialectical systems. I recognize that my description may be too abstract (not to mention tentative) to be of much use by itself. Even so, it will be helpful for the reader’s general understanding of dialectical structures if I point out certain abstract, general features of them, and in any case I mean this description to be used in conjunction wit...

Debate about our article on culture and dialectical thinking (Peng & Nisbett, September 1999) exemplifies a thousand-yearold Confucian saying: If the participants in an intellectual discourse have different understandings about the topic in question, then the conversation will surely get difficult. Being the perpetrators who opened this Pandora's box, we feel obligated to clarify some of the co...

his study aims to offer a model of propensity toward indebtedness using behavioral factors from 384 indebted customers of Maskan bank in Tehran. A questionnaire comprising 41 questions was administered. The questionnaire addressed demographic variables and seven behavioral factors: financial literacy, risk perception, risk behavior, emotion, materialism, indebtedness, and money-related values. ...

The present studies examined if materialists have an elevated concern about food availability, presumably stemming from a general survival security motivation. Study 1 found that materialists set a greater life goal of food security, and reported more food insecurity during their childhood. Materialists reported less present-day food insecurity. Study 2 revealed that materialists stored/hoarded...

Eliminative materialism is a bold position in philosophy of mind: proponents of it hold that folk psychology is a primitive theory of human behavior, and like most primitive theories, it is, unfortunately, false. The alarming implications of this are that mental states don’t actually exist—humans don’t actually believe anything. In this paper I try to show that several central claims of elimina...

It is widely noted that much of social and cultural theory is currently invested in examining matter, the material and materialization. Feminist theories have been especially important in both establishing this ‘material turn’, and in staking out some of its key features, including thinking about gender and sexuality, the body, nature and culture. Conceiving matter as that which is necessarily ...