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Radically enactive high cognition
I advance the Radically Enactive Cognition (REC) program by developing Hutto &
Satne’s (2015) and Hutto & Myin’s (2017) idea that contentful cognition emerges through
sociocultural activities, which require a contentless form of intentionality. Proponents of REC
then face a functional challenge: what is the function of higher cognitive skills, given the empirical
findings that engaging in higher-cognitive activities is not correlated with cognitive amelioration
(Kornblith, 2012)? I answer that functional challenge by arguing that higher cognition is an
adaptive tool of the social systems we are embedded in, therefore, it is not necessarily aimed at
achieving better cognitive states. In order to do so, I suggest interpreting key insights from
autopoietic enactivism through REC lenses
A fine-grained approach to scene text script identification
This paper focuses on the problem of script identification in unconstrained
scenarios. Script identification is an important prerequisite to recognition,
and an indispensable condition for automatic text understanding systems
designed for multi-language environments. Although widely studied for document
images and handwritten documents, it remains an almost unexplored territory for
scene text images.
We detail a novel method for script identification in natural images that
combines convolutional features and the Naive-Bayes Nearest Neighbor
classifier. The proposed framework efficiently exploits the discriminative
power of small stroke-parts, in a fine-grained classification framework.
In addition, we propose a new public benchmark dataset for the evaluation of
joint text detection and script identification in natural scenes. Experiments
done in this new dataset demonstrate that the proposed method yields state of
the art results, while it generalizes well to different datasets and variable
number of scripts. The evidence provided shows that multi-lingual scene text
recognition in the wild is a viable proposition. Source code of the proposed
method is made available online
Affirmative Action Policies: An International Perspective
human development, culture
When For Better Is For Worse: Immigration Law’s Gendered Impact on Foreign Polygamous Marriage
The United States has banned polygamous immigrants since the late nineteenth century. Enacted amid isolationist fears that an influx of polygamists would cause moral deterioration, the polygamy bar remains a resolute, if often overlooked, feature of modern immigration law. The current immigration scheme continues this tradition, rendering immigrants who intend to practice polygamy in the United States categorically ineligible for legal-permanent-resident status. As a result, the immigration bar allows polygamous men to immigrate with a wife of their choosing and the children from each of their marriages. Their other wives, however, are deemed inadmissible to the United States.
This Note explores the immigration bar’s disproportionate effect on the foreign wives of polygamous immigrants. In addition to precluding the other wives of polygamous immigrants from legal permanent-resident status, the current immigration bar also renders such women ineligible for humanitarian ingress. After offering a comparative analysis of how Canada and the United Kingdom reconcile their respective policies against polygamy with the burgeoning question of women’s rights, this Note proposes that Congress likewise treat foreign women in polygamous unions with a degree of equity
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