Standard Bearers

In both ethics and epistemology an important question is whether justification is a fully internal or a partly external matter. In view of analogies between relevant considerations in each area, I recommend distinguishing, as basic and independent subjects of normative status, (i) people and (ii) what they do. Evaluations of subjects, on one hand, and of their beliefs and actions, on the other, are less intimately related than is presupposed. This helps resolve internalism/externalism controversies in both domains. An important related advantage of the distinction is its effect on our understanding of normative luck, both moral and epistemic

Diseño e implementación de un sistema de administración para la gestión de información, dirigido a la Parroquia San Pedro Julián Eymard de la localidad Ciudad Bolívar

Práctica SocialEste trabajo de grado está enfocado en la realización de una solución tecnológica que ayude a realizar de una forma más eficiente y eficaz las tareas diarias de las parroquias. Dicha solución tecnológica nació a partir de un análisis sobre las experiencias vividas en la parroquia San Pedro Julián Eymard, debido a las alfabetizaciones tecnológicas impartidas en la localidad Ciudad Bolívar, localizada en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. La solución tecnológica implementada contempla la gestión y organización de las principales tareas realizadas comúnmente en la parroquia, tales como la generación de actas de bautismo, confirmación, matrimonio y defunción, guardando en un almacén de datos todas las personas que han realizado dichos actos sacramentales, con el objetivo de que la información esté disponible en un futuro cuando requiera ser utilizada.PregradoIngeniero de Sistema

ALFA III – Projeto Universidades Estratégicas

Trabalho apresentado no 31º SEURS - Seminário de Extensão Universitária da Região Sul, realizado em Florianópolis, SC, no período de 04 a 07 de agosto de 2013 - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.O ALFA III é um projeto interinstitucional apoiado pela Comunidade Européia, iniciado em janeiro de 2012, com previsão inicial para término em dezembro de 2015, com efetivação da participação da UNIOESTE em agosto deste mesmo ano, a partir da assinatura do Acordo de Cooperação institucional entre nossa instituição e a Fundación Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), da Colômbia, instituição coordenadora do projeto na América Latina e Caribe. O projeto envolve 09 Universidades Latino-americanas, do Caribe e da Comunidade Européia, as quais foram convidadas para participação na proposta, no final do ano de 2011, por uma Unidade de Coordenação de Projetos Estratégicos da Comunidade Européia, as quais são: Fundación Unversidad Católica Del Norte – Colômbia; Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – Brasil; Universidad Nacional de Asunción – Paraguay; Universidad Nacional de San Martin – Argentina; Universidad Nacional del Litoral – Argentina; Universidad de Antioquia – Colômbia; Universidad Católica del Táchira – Venezuela; Centro de Formación Florida – Espanha; Universidade del Molise – Itália

Checking Searle's Background

The literal meaning of an ordinary sentence is often consistent with unacceptable interpretations. Searle's hypothesis of the Background enables us to understand how that literal meaning might nevertheless yield a determinate condition of satisfaction. But Searle intends the Background to be a condition on representation in general, not just on the representational significance of linguistic items. This paper argues, using distinctions Searle himself has drawn, that it is in the transmission of intentionality from the mental to the linguistic that a gap between meaning and condition of satisfaction opens up. A sharper distinction between mental and linguistic intentionality, thus, checks the role of the Background

Modelación económica con información espacialmente explicíta de la deforestación en Urabá, Colombia, 1980-2000

La deforestación tropical contribuye al cambio climático por ser la segunda fuente neta deemisión a la atmósfera de gases con efecto de invernadero. El objetivo del artículo fue laidentificación de la importancia relativa de los determinantes de la deforestación observadaen Urabá, 1980-2000. Para ello se usaron modelos conceptuales basados en teoría económicadel uso de la tierra rural, junto con modelos estadísticos discretos dicotómicos en los que seempleó información espacialmente explícita. Los resultados indican que la especialización enpasto, la especialización en maíz, la distancia a centros de importancia regional y la distanciaa los principales ríos de la región fueron los principales determinantes de la deforestación enUrabá. Información sobre la importancia relativa de los determinantes de la deforestación,constituye información valiosa para el diseño de política pública y proyectos de cambioclimático en Colombia

Systematic Recruiting: Reassessing a Structured Approach to Planning in an Interactively Complex Environment

This research presents the United States Marine Corps recruiting environment as exiting within an interactively complex environment. Standard planning methodologies focus on analytical or intuitive decision constructs best suited for structurally complex rather than interactively complex environments. Based on a literature review the author identifies the characteristics and differences between structurally and interactively complex systems. The literature review also reveals potential methods for assessment and planning within an interactively complex environment. Employing the literature and the author\u27s understanding of the recruiting environment the author demonstrates that the environment is interactively rather than structurally complex. From this proceeds an examination of the current planning processes available to the Marine Corps: the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) and the Rapid Response Planning Prncess (R2P2). The author also reviews a process peculiar to Marine Corps recruiting the Command Group Meeting. The author identifies the analytical and intuitive nature of each of these processes and suggests that they are not suited to planning in an interactively complex environment such as recruiting. As an alternative, the author highlights Operational Design as an application better suited to the needs of an interactively complex environment. Highlighting shortfalls in mission accomplishment at Recruiting Station Sacramento in 2007, the author works with the leadership of the station to implement the concepts of design to the station\u27s planning process. Out of the design, process emerges an adjusted plan focused on the environment as a whole and centered on the recruiter. The command implements the ideas incorporated in the design process over a period of three-month and witnesses and significant increase in production. Following the three-month implementation, the author administers a survey to assess the validity of the Command Group\u27s assessment that recruiter motivation and focused incentives should be the focus for improving the command\u27s performance. The improvement witnessed at the Recruiting Station and the results of the survey provide valuable insight into the potential for switching from analytical planning models to design focused approaches. In an era of increasing complexity where analytical and intuitive planning models fall short, design models offer an interesting alternative and a novel approach to problem framing and problem solving

Does belief aim (only) at the truth?

It is common to hear talk of the aim of belief and to find philosophers appealing to that aim for numerous explanatory purposes. What belief’s aim explains depends, of course, on what that aim is. Many hold that it is somehow related to truth, but there are various ways in which one might specify belief’s aim using the notion of truth. In this paper, by considering whether they can account for belief’s standard of correctness and the epistemic norms governing belief, I argue against certain prominent specifications of belief’s aim given in terms of truth and advance a neglected alternativ

Self-supervised 3D Human Pose Estimation from a Single Image

We propose a new self-supervised method for predicting 3D human body pose from a single image. The prediction network is trained from a dataset of unlabelled images depicting people in typical poses and a set of unpaired 2D poses. By minimising the need for annotated data, the method has the potential for rapid application to pose estimation of other articulated structures (e.g. animals). The self-supervision comes from an earlier idea exploiting consistency between predicted pose under 3D rotation. Our method is a substantial advance on state-of-the-art self-supervised methods in training a mapping directly from images, without limb articulation constraints or any 3D empirical pose prior. We compare performance with state-of-the-art self-supervised methods using benchmark datasets that provide images and ground-truth 3D pose (Human3.6M, MPI-INF-3DHP). Despite the reduced requirement for annotated data, we show that the method outperforms on Human3.6M and matches performance on MPI-INF-3DHP. Qualitative results on a dataset of human hands show the potential for rapidly learning to predict 3D pose for articulated structures other than the human body