rationality of religious belief is one of the most important issues in the philosophy of religion and includes five epistemological approaches. up till recent times, evidentialism was the approach prevalent in the field of rationality of religious beliefs. and it was considered as a symbol of maximal rationalism. reformed epistemology, however, is a newly-emerged school which opposes evidential...

a semi-micromechanical multilaminate model is introduced here to predict the mechanical behavior of soils. this model is like a bridge between micro and macro scale upon the satisfaction of minimum potential energy level during any applied stress/strain increments. the concept of this model is based on a certain number of sampling planes which constitute the elastic-plastic behavior of the soil...

Humans are without any doubts the prototypical example of agents that can hold rational beliefs and can show rational behaviour. When modeling human decision-making, it seems reasonable to take the remarkable abilities of humans into account with respect to rational behaviour, but also the apparent deficiencies of humans shining up in certain rationality tasks. Based on well-known challenges fo...

This paper develops a reputation strategic model of monetary policy with a continuous finite or infinite time horizon. By using the optimal stopping theory and introducing the notions of sequentially weak and strong rational expectation equilibria, we show that the time inconsistency problem may be solved with trigger reputation strategies not only for stochastic but also for non-stochastic set...

This paper uses a model of boundedly rational learning to account for the observations of recurrent hyperin°ations in the last decade. We study a standard monetary model where the fully rational expectations assumption is replaced by a formal de ̄nition of quasi-rational learning. The model under learning is able to match remarkably well some crucial stylized facts observed during the recurrent ...

Radial, space-filling (RSF) techniques for hierarchy visualization have several advantages over traditional node-link diagrams, including the ability to efficiently use the display space while effectively conveying the hierarchy structure. Several RSF systems and tools have been developed to date, each with varying degrees of support for interactive operations such as selection and navigation. ...

1 This research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), and the Berkeley Center of Chinese Studies (CCS). We would like to thank the Education Bureau of the Beijing’s Eastern City District, the Institute of Higher Education of Tsinghua University, and the Data Sea Survey Institute for their support while in China. 2 Corresponding auth...