Abstract Ethical, social and human rights aspects of computing technologies have been discussed since the inception these technologies. In 1980s, this led to development a discourse often referred as computer ethics. More recently, middle 2010s, highly visible on ethics artificial intelligence (AI) has developed. This paper discusses relationship between two discourses compares their scopes, to...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...

The article deals with the specific features of dramatic conflict in plays modern playwright, director, actor Ivan Vyrypaev (born 1974), who works Russia and Poland. We explore nature his written 2010s (Iranian Conference (2017), Disquiet (2018) others). In that period, new tendencies development appeared Vyrypaev’s works, being based on clash not between characters, as before, but discourses: ...

BACKGROUND In recent decades many indigenous communities, policy makers and researchers worldwide have criticized the academic community for not being aware of the specific challenges these communities have faced and still are facing with regard to research. One result of the decades of discourse in indigenous communities is the development in many Western countries of indigenously sensitive et...

background: in modern biomedicine, there is an increasing speed of development of new ideas and technologies and, consequently, increasing speed of new applicable knowledge. the rapid advances in medicine and biotechnology during recent decades, is accompanied with important discussions about new questions and dilemmas in the field of professional ethics. the increased recognition of ethical pr...

This paper explores the neglected ‘harms-to-others’ which result from increased attention to beauty, increased engagement in beauty practices and rising minimal beauty standards. In the first half of the paper I consider the dominant discourse of beauty harms – that of ethics and policy – and argue that this discourse has overfocused on the agency of, and possible harms to, recipients of beauty...

In this article, I examine Galen's credentials as an ethical philosopher on the basis of his recently discovered essay Avoiding Distress (Peri alypias). As compensation for the scholarly neglect from which Galen's ethics suffers, I argue that his moral agenda is an essential part of his philosophical discourse, one that situates him firmly within the tradition of practical ethics of the Roman p...

The problem to be discussed here i.e. how to generate exponents of a morphosyntactic feature which is systematically used in the target hmguage, but not in the source hmguage is ch)sely related to the development of SWETRA a multilanguage MT system for translating between fragments of Russian, Swedish, English and German (Sigurd & Gawrof f ska -Werngren , 1988). Anyone working on translation be...