Abstract In this essay, I reply to an influential objection evolutionary debunking arguments against moral realism. According objection, our capacity for autonomous rational reflection allows us grasp truths independently of distorting influences, so those influences do not prevent from having knowledge. argue that is not, in fact, since it depends on evolved, pre-reflective properties. then co...

This paper tries to contribute to the understanding of the essence of rational systems design and verification. Information technologists and teachers and students of computer science may find the concepts presented here helpful to disentangle complex achievements of computer science and re-use their constituents in other contexts, but also to view their own activities in the light of other dis...

I develop a few suggestions how formal ontology can meet industry and practice. This is not just a matter of useful ontology-based applications. That is a necessary but also rather trivial idea that perpetuates the gap between fundamental and applied research and keeps alive associated outdated linear process ideas of innovation. Instead, I suggest that for further progress the ontology field i...

This paper presents a strategic model of common value elections with endogenous information acquisition. It proves that majoritarian elections can fail to aggregate information when voters have heterogeneous skills. Informational inefficiencies can be partially corrected by improving the skills of the electors as the population increases, or by limiting participation to the most competent citiz...

Conic section is one of the geometric elements most commonly used for shape expression and mechanical accessory cartography. A rational quadratic Bézier curve is just a conic section. It cannot represent an elliptic segment whose center angle is not less than . However, conics represented in rational quartic format when compared to rational quadratic format, enjoy better properties such as bein...

We use the concept of rational secret sharing, which was initially introduced by Halpern and Teague [2], where players’ preferences are that they prefer to learn the secret than not, and moreover they prefer that as few others learn the secret as possible. This paper is an attempt to introduce a rational secret sharing scheme which defers from previous RSS schemes in that this scheme does not r...

In this paper, we study a geometric G^2 Hermite interpolation by planar rational cubic Bézier curves. Two data points, two tangent vectors and two signed curvatures interpolated per each rational segment. We give the necessary and the sufficient intrinsic geometric conditions for two C^2 parametric curves to be connected with G2 continuity. Locally, the free parameters w...

Reflecting on the contemporary presentations of Buddhism within the Western context, particularly from the Tibetan traditions, this paper presents Buddhism from a ‘living tradition’ perspective arguing that the principle which links Buddhism across space and time is the concern with ‘lived experience.’ This perspective highlights the origins of Buddhism in the Buddha’s experience, and serves to...

Declaration I declare that this essay is work done as part of the Part III Examination. It is the result of my own work, and except where stated otherwise, includes nothing which was performed in collaboration. No part of this essay has been submitted for a degree or any such qualification. Self-reference has been a concept which has concerned philosophers for millennia, and which gives rise to...