The original edition of What Computers Can’t Do comprised three roughly equal parts: (i) a harsh critical survey of the history and state of the art in AI, circa 1970; (ii) a brilliant philosophical expose’ of four hidden assumptions shoring up AI’s misplaced optimism; and (iii) a much more tentative exploration of ways to think #about intelligence without those assumptions. Part I, because it ...

1 Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 2 National Institute in Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (CITECS), Salvador, Brazil, 3 Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Brası́lia, Brazil, 4 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Floranopólis, Brazil, 5 Secretaria de Vigilância a Saúde, Ministry of Health, Brası́lia, Brazil, 6 Instituto de Comunicaç...

recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

Nicholas Wolterstorff’s book Art Rethought objects to what he calls a now widely accepted “grand narrative” about art, originally proposed during the early modern period. According this narrative, art came into its own once it was contemplated for sake from an aesthetic point of view. Although Kant is foremost theorist period in which narrative took root, Wolterstorff does not directly criticiz...

The foundation of most intellectual discourse is Western-centric to the exclusion of other views. This includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. Such a position is culturally myopic. Western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. The assumption is ...

the focus of this paper lies on abu ali farsi's general views on the development of linguistic phenomena including synonymity, antonymity, parallelism, lexical assimilation, and metathesis. the paper sheds light on the views erroneously attributed to abu ali farsi, somehow analyzing and rectifying misinterpretations given to his views.

the present study attempts to define the meaning of faith according to the views of morjeeh since this definition distinguishes this sect from the other sects of the era and the belief in this definition of faith is the common point among all the branches of morjeeh. finally, this study criticizes their view on the basis of the quran and the traditions (hadiths) of the shiite imams (peace be up...

This study reports the cognitive processing of a Year 8 female student (Kerri) during a test, and during her subsequent homework as she consolidated as part of abstracting; a topic of recent research interest. This case adds to the body of knowledge about how constructing and consolidating can occur simultaneously. The analysis captured the complexity of the cognitive processing, and their inte...