In a previous paper, the question of whether diagnosis is a prerequisite of psychotherapy was discussed. On the one hand we have Thorne's statement that "it seems elemental that rational therapy cannot be planned and executed until an accurate diagnosis has been made." On the other hand, Rogers writes that "diagnostic knowledge and skill are not necessary for good therapy." Thorne bases his arg...

This paper develops an account of mood selection with attitude predicates in French. I start by examining the “contextual commitment” account of mood developed by Paul Portner and Aynat Rubinstein (P&R). I raise empirical and theoretical challenges for P&R’s analysis of contextual commitment and its role in P&R’s explanations of mood selection. There are indicativeselecting verbs that are felic...

This paper addresses the issue of battery power conservation in wireless personal area networks (WPANs). Specifically, we consider a WPAN, which contains a processor and a disk drive, and develop a collaborative power management technique, which minimizes the total WPAN power consumption. Our approach is based on the theory of rational behavior, which leads to a collaborative architecture where...

In this article, I reflect on the one-off sessions that Albert Ellis and I did with Jane. It is clear that Albert Ellis’s work is an example of inelegant or general REBT, while my session is an example of specific or elegant REBT. First, I speculate on the possible reasons why Ellis practised inelegant REBT is his session. Then, I critique my own work covering both what I like and dislike about...

Reasoning about agents that we observe in the world is challenging. Our available information is often limited to observations of the agent’s external behavior in the past and present. To understand these actions, we need to deduce the agent’s internal state, which includes not only rational elements (such as intentions and plans), but also emotive ones (such as fear). In addition, we often wan...

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