Theories of perception have traditionally dismissed the sense smell as a notoriously variable and highly subjective sense, mainly because it does not easily fit into accounts based on visual experience. So far, philosophical questions about objects olfactory started by considering nature However, there is no philosophically neutral or agreed conception experience: all depends what one thinks od...

Asia differs from other regions of the world with respect to its unique and longstanding cultural, social, economic, technological attributes, all which have eluded systematic exploration by entrepreneurship scholars, representing a entrepreneurial context. However, such uniqueness should not be restricted assertions about (among things) institutional voids, increased difficulty financing new v...

The invention of machine performers has a long tradition as a method of philosophically probing the nature of creativity. Robotic art practices in the 20th Century have continued in this tradition, playfully engaging the public in questions of autonomy and agency. In this position paper, we explore the potential synergies between robotic art practice and computational creativity research throug...

We survey the most important results and some recent developments about the secure key exchange protocol where the security is based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the robustness of classical physical information. We conclude that a classical physical system offers a higher level of control and security during the communication. We also mention some recent attempts inspired by this com...

Inclusion is a term and process that is culturally, politically, medically, philosophically, and historically relative in its interpretations in the education of the deaf. The present study is a comparative analysis of two substantially different education systems for deaf students, those of Norway and Australia. The study objective was to elucidate the sources of some of these differences and ...

I argue that Barrett et al. (2014) have misinterpreted evolutionary psychologists’ notion of computation. Barrett et al. seemingly presume that the notion of computation deployed by evolutionary psychologists (e.g., Pinker, 1997; Tooby and Cosmides, 2005) is tantamount to positing a physical architecture whose form of computation proceeds via the syntactic-like transformations of spatially disc...

This paper provides a method for computing the asymptotic covariance matrix from a likelihood function with known maximum likelihood estimate of the parameters. Philosophically, the basic idea is to assume that the likelihood function should be well approximated by a normal density when asymptotic results about the maximum likelihood estimate are applied for statistical inference. Technically, ...

Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...

I have experienced two philosophically epiphanic moments in my adult life. The first occurred during a solitary traversing of the mountains in the Guanxi province of China, and the second occurred at LatCrit IX. What I mean by epiphany is less a collection of thoughts than a singular feeling. Much like the Joycean artist, I felt at these moments an internal sense of realization and well-being, ...

To avoid ‘getting bogged down in theories of perception’, Prinz (2015) stipulates that ‘unconscious perception’ is to mean the ‘unconscious transduction of information ... useable by the organism that transduces it’. But this will not suffice if our interest is in defending the philosophically substantive thesis that episodes of the same fundamental kind as episodes of conscious perception can ...