authentication and identity on the Internet is not, in fact, a debate about the mechanisms per se but is a proxy for the debate about a doctrine of deterrence through accountability. This doctrine equates attacks with crimes and focuses on policy and structures to support forensics, identify perpetrators , and prosecute them. However , this doctrine has no teeth and will fail absent an effectiv...

Awareness of application performance can be derived through various quantitative analyses, model-based and measurement-based approaches. A suitable visualization supports the understanding of application performance. Usually, analysis tools include a tool specific visualization or no visualization at all. In this paper we proposed to decouple the result visualization from the analysis approach....

The expansion of the US carceral state has been accompanied by the emergence of what we call the ‘shadow carceral state’. Operating beyond the confines of criminal law and justice institutions, the shadow carceral state expands penal power through institutional annexation and legal hybridity, including: (1) increased civil and administrative pathways to incarceration; (2) the creation of civil ...

In the article, I present main assumptions of natural-order theodicy and free-will defended by William Hasker. Next, pose question whether Hasker’s theodicies are compatible with Christian doctrine continuous creation accepted Hasker himself. consider several different ways how can be understood difficulties associated them. Finally, propose a modified conception claim that it is consistent the...

research about satan is always very important for scholars. in this respect, muslim mystics with the paraphrastic approaches, intuitional interpretations and introspectional knowledge, with mystical expressions, have an unrivaled position. some muslim mystics, especially the followers of sokr doctrine are justifying disobedience of satan (in prostrate to adam) with determinism (algebra) and the...

dionysius is one of the most important personages in christian mystic that some of his ideas were up to now popular ideas in christian theosophy, theology and philosophy. christian doctrine and neo-platonic ideas are viewed as two main sources for his opinions; although he sometimes leans to one and the rest to another. for example, in discussion about creation, angelology and trinity he tended...

Many neuroscientists and philosophers endorse a view about the explanatory reach of neuroscience (which we will call the neuron doctrine) to the effect that the framework for understanding the mind will be developed by neuroscience; or, as we will put it, that a successful theory of the mind will be solely neuroscientific. It is a consequence of this view that the sciences of the mind that cann...

I shall confine my attention to the one Scotist doctrine that seems to be singled out as especially worrisome, the doctrine of univocity. In the first part of the paper I argue that the doctrine of univocity is true. So even if the doctrine has unwelcome consequences, we ought to affirm it anyway; it is not the job of the theologian or philosopher to shrink from uncomfortable truths. In the sec...

according to common law rules of england, obligation by one party is enforceable when the other has provided a consideration or the contract has been put in a deed. in some common law jurisdictions, such as australia, canada and the united states, another doctrine, named reasonable reliance, has developed, which could act as surrogate for the doctrine of consideration. english courts, however, ...