Descartes has confronted science with a hard problem: the mind-body or, in modern terms, the consciousness-matter problem. According to the current state of modern theoretical physics { which is, basically, quantum physics { the question arises if we really should expect to solve the problems of mind independently of the problems of matter. Strangely enough, modern philosophy of mind deals exte...

Type-physicalism is the view that sensory states and properties are identical with their nomologically correlated brain states and properties. The main challenge to this view is how to overcome conceivability arguments such as the conceivability of disembodiment or of zombiehood. In this paper, I explain how I think the type-physicalist should respond to such arguments. More specifically, I wan...

Despite the surge in interest in research on organizational identification, little attention has been paid to investigating the notion of identification in the branding context. Moreover, consumer-brand identification has been conceptualized and opertionalized equally as organizational identification while ignoring both the shortcomings of organizational identification measures and the differen...

Managing one’s identity across time and through major life changes is a key process in the life course. Yet, prominent theories of identity have not been adequately tested across age groups and through life transitions. Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (N = 3,290), the basic hypotheses of identity theory are confirmed in explaining adolescents’ religious ide...

where Par denotes the set of all partitions, |λ| denotes the size (sum of the parts) of λ, θ(λ) denotes the number of odd parts in the partition λ, and θ(λ) denotes the number of odd parts in the conjugate of λ. A combinatorial proof of Andrews’ result was found by Sills in [2]. In this paper, we generalize this result and provide a combinatorial proof of our generalization. This gives a simple...

relations; moral dimensions of salesperson–doctor interactions ignored by crude surveillance

Can people influence others solely by virtue of shared group membership? To address this and related questions, we offer a theory of group-mediated social influence and then test it in a standardized collective task setting. The theory capitalizes on uncertainty reduction principles found in two longstanding social psychological traditions: social identity theory and status characteristics theo...

The Abel identity is (x + y) = n ∑ i=0 ( n i ) x(x − iz)i−1(y + iz)n−i, where x, y and z are real numbers. In this paper we deduce several polynomials expansions, referred to as Abel-type identities, by using Foata’s method, and also show some of their applications.

Two arguments are famously held to support the conclusion that consciousness cannot be explained in purely physical or functional terms – hence, that physicalism is false: the modal argument and the knowledge argument. While anti-physicalists appeal to both arguments, this paper argues there is a methodological incoherence in jointly maintaining them: the modal argument supports the possibility...

Those who make causality one of the original uralt elements in the universe or one of the fundamental categories of thought,—of whom you will find that I am not one,—have one very awkward fact to explain away. It is that men’s conceptions of a Cause are in different stages of scientific culture entirely different and inconsistent. The great principle of causation which we are told, it is absolu...