The “colored-brain thesis”, or strong qualitative physicalism, is discussed from historical and philosophical perspectives. This thesis was proposed by Thomas Case (1888), in a non-materialistic context, close to views explored H. Price (1932) E. Boring (1933). Using Mary’s room thought experiment, one can argue that physicalism implies physicalism. Qualitative involves three basic statements: ...

Finding a thesis topic is hard. It may be the hardest thing you do during your graduate degree. But there are commonalities to topics—and approaches finding them—that might help focus efforts thesis-topic quest. Here I offer my advice and experience find way, perhaps shorten journey.

Tractable classes of binary CSP and binary Max-CSP have recently been discovered by studying classes of instances defined by excluding subproblems. In this paper we characterise the complexity of all classes of binary Max-CSP instances defined by forbidding a single subproblem. In the resulting dichotomy, the only non-trivial tractable class defined by a forbidden subproblem corresponds to the ...

Credibility is an old yet modern topic. It has a particular significance in the current trend of market economy. However, China is facing a serious crisis of credibility nowadays. This paper proposes the suggestion of building credibility system in China from legal perspective.