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21E-Negotiations in Mergers and Acquisitions: The Importance of Cultural Familiarity in the Western and Arabic ContextsDialogue and Universalism 32 (2): 19-31. 2022.This paper focuses on the influence of cultural familiarity on getting the most out of an e-negotiation for merger or acquisition based on subjective and objective negotiation behaviors. We examined if cultural awareness could increase the rate of negotiation self-efficacy, shorten the length of negotiation and optimize deal closure results. To do so, firstly we investigate the concept of e-negotiation and its development in the last two decades. Then a series of systematic reviews is performed …Read more
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23Subjective, Objective and “Realistic” Moral ResponsibilityProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 5 5-9. 2018.As a common saying goes “Hell is paved with good intentions”, though Kant would disagree. In real world we may be morally responsible for more than one’s intentions. Moral agents need to navigate between Scylla of “objective” and Charybdis of “subjective” theories of moral responsibility; the resultant theory shall be called a theory of realistic obligation. It takes into account both subjective intentions and objective results of moral action. Since human beings are both intentional entities an…Read more
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302The philosophical issue in machine consciousnessInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 1 (1): 155-176. 2009.The truly philosophical issue in machine conscioiusness is whether machines can have 'hard consciounsess'. Criteria for hard consciousness are higher than for phenomenal consciousness, since the latter incorporates first-person functional consciousness
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100Replication of the Hard Problem of Consciousness in AI and Bio-AI: An Early Conceptual FrameworkIn Anthony Chella & Ricardo Manzotti (eds.), AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches, Aaai Press, Merlo Park, Ca. 2007.We should eventually understand how exactly first person phenomenal consciousness is generated. When we do, we should be able to enginner one for robots. This is the engineering thesis in machine consciousness.
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61Haikonen's Philosophy of Machine ConsciousnessInternational Journal of Machine Consciousness 6 (1): 5-11. 2014.Peter Boltuc, Int. J. Mach. Conscious., 06, 5 (2014). DOI: 10.1142/S1793843014400022
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43Understanding Action: An Essay on Reasons, F. Schick. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 167 + viii pagesEconomics and Philosophy 11 (2): 353. 1995.
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22Circular Constitution of Observation in the Absence of Ontological DataConstructivist Foundations 12 (1): 17-19. 2016.Open peer commentary on the article “Circularity and the Micro-Macro-Difference” by Manfred Füllsack. Upshot: We join Füllsack in his effort to untangle the concepts of circular causation, macro states, and observation by reanalyzing one of our own simulations in the light of these concepts. This simulation presents an example agent that keeps track of its own macro states. We examine how human observers can consider such an agent as an observing agent on its own.
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Why Common Sense Morality is Not Collectively Self-DefeatingPolish Journal of Philosophy 1 (2): 17-26. 2007.The so-called Common Sense Morality (C) is any moral theory that allows, or requires, an agent to accept special, non-instrumental reasons to give advantage to certain other persons, usually the agent’s friends or kin, over the interests of others. Opponents charge C with violating the requirement of impartiality defined as independence on positional characteristics of moral agents and moral patients. Advocates of C claim that C is impartial, but only in a positional manner in which every moral …Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |