The present article studies the opinions and
ideas death awakes among health professionals.
Not only the idea of their own death,
but the death of those patients or relatives they care
for. The concept of "death" is of paramount importance

Competing claims about the level of ignorance, or knowledge, among the current Nexus generation are addressed. The core of the paper is a theoretical analysis of ignorance in the knowledge society. Specifically, the knowledge-ignorance paradox suggests that the intense specialization…

We live in a world, where common sense is applied almost everywhere. To apply
common sense is to understand simple facts about people and everyday life.
The study of commonsense knowledge and reasoning is important, whether to
help understand…

Se presenta una metodología simple y poderosa para modelar un agente
en LUPS, como evidencia de que dicho lenguaje es adecuado para representar
actualizaciones de conocimiento dinámico. En particular, esta
metodología introduce conceptos nuevos en los sistemas automáticos

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

En este trabajo intento reflexionar acerca de lo que considero un problema olvidado entre los estudiosos de la filosofía de R. Descartes. ¿Es posible encontrar en el pensamiento cartesiano un ámbito fenomenológico que permita proporcionar un nuevo criterio de justificación…

En este escrito se analiza el estatuto epistémico del conocimiento de la propia alma, tal y como es presentado por Descartes, además se examinan varias críticas a su tesis, realizadas por algunos de sus seguidores, tales como Malebranche. Un estudio…

El objetivo del trabajo es subrayar la peculiaridad cartesiana y lo revolucionario de su propuesta al proponer estudiar las pasiones humanas de manera científica; como el propio autor lo afirma en la obra sobre el tema, al declarar que su…

I consider the implementation problem under complete information and employ Nash equilibrium as a solution concept. A socially desirable rule is given as a correspondence from the set of states to the set of outcomes. This social choice rule is…

Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier
involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of
a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about
the component…