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    The paper examines how values lose their sacred or protected significance and turn into values as a hobby. Using an excerpt from Arundhati Roy's novel “The God of Small Things”, a trend of transformation of values is outlined, raising questions about the importance of different values – both sacred and secular – for the representatives of these values. In short, the question is related to the value of values: is their practice (affirmation) meaningful in the basic sense of these values, or is th…Read more
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    Lost in Translation: Artificial Intelligence and the Burden of Bad Metaphors (forthcoming)
    In Vincent C. Müller, Aliya R. Dewey, Leonard Dung & Guido Löhr (eds.), Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art, Springernature. forthcoming.
    This paper examines how metaphors shape our thinking about and conceptualizing of artificial intelligence (AI), noting that their inherent imprecision leads to discrepancies in our understanding and objectives for AI. By exploring the concept of 'bad metaphors' that equate artificial intelligence with human intelligence, paper argues that these metaphors often carry additional, unintended meanings that distort our understanding and expectations of AI. The terms “artificial” and “intelligence” th…Read more
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    Community, Conversation and Search for Truth
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 30 29-34. 2018.
    The question about truth, experience and sharing of truth can be addressed from the viewpoint of a shared sense of community. The search for truth is related to the sensus communis and the conscience – con scientia – that is formed in the community. The sensus communis is not only a general faculty in all men, but also the sense that founds community. Thereby the knowledge is true only in front of the other. Truth reveals itself in conversation. By conversation it means that there are both someo…Read more
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    This article explores the confluence of human knowledge (human research) with terrorism research and just war theory. After a brief overview of leading trends in both the world and Latvia that outlines the shortcomings of the conventional terrorism research – the analytical weakness and methodological negligence, in other words, overreliance on secondary materials, the structural linkage with the industries of security and counterinsurge…Read more