Recently, Peter Carruthers has advanced the debate over first-order representationalist theories (FORs) and higher-order representationalist theories (HORs) of consciousness by offering two innovative arguments in support of dispositionalist HORs. In this article, I offer a limited defense of actualist FORs by showing that Carruthers' two arguments either beg the question against such accounts,...

We determine the number of functionally independent components of tensors involving higher–order derivatives of a Riemannian metric. A central problem in Riemannian geometry is to determine the number of functionally independent invariants which can be constructed out from a Riemannian metric and its derivatives up to a given order. Due to the inmediate applications of these invariants as Lagra...

in this paper, the effect of different boundary conditions on the free vibration analysis response of a sandwich plates is presented using higher order shear deformation theory. the face sheets are orthotropic laminated composite that follow the first order shear deformation theory (fsdt) based on rissners-mindlin (rm) kinematics field. based on energy method and hamilton's principle, the ...

In existing models of decision under uncertainty where the decision maker may have multiple beliefs (vague beliefs) the different beliefs are not distinguished by their degree of reliability. This paper extends the model of vague beliefs in this direction: the decision maker may have multiple beliefs, but also has a complete order over them (a belief over his own beliefs, or higher order belief...