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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Information actors beyond modernity and coloniality in times of climate change:A comparative design ethnography on the making of monitors for sustainable futures in Curaçao and Amsterdam, between 2019-2022

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    In his dissertation, Mr. Goilo developed a cutting-edge theoretical framework for an Anthropology of Information. This study compares information in the context of modernity in Amsterdam and coloniality in Curaçao through the making process of monitors and develops five ways to understand how information can act towards sustainable futures. The research also discusses how the two contexts, that is modernity and coloniality, have been in informational symbiosis for centuries which is producing negative informational side effects within the age of the Anthropocene. By exploring the modernity-coloniality symbiosis of information, the author explains how scholars, policymakers, and data-analysts can act through historical and structural roots of contemporary global inequities related to the production and distribution of information. Ultimately, the five theses propose conditions towards the collective production of knowledge towards a more sustainable planet

    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2022-2023

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    A Theistic Critique of Secular Moral Nonnaturalism

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    This dissertation is an exercise in Theistic moral apologetics. It will be developing both a critique of secular nonnaturalist moral theory (moral Platonism) at the level of metaethics, as well as a positive form of the moral argument for the existence of God that follows from this critique. The critique will focus on the work of five prominent metaethical theorists of secular moral non-naturalism: David Enoch, Eric Wielenberg, Russ Shafer-Landau, Michael Huemer, and Christopher Kulp. Each of these thinkers will be critically examined. Following this critique, the positive moral argument for the existence of God will be developed, combining a cumulative, abductive argument that follows from filling in the content of a succinct apagogic argument. The cumulative abductive argument and the apagogic argument together, with a transcendental and modal component, will be presented to make the case that Theism is the best explanation for the kind of moral, rational beings we are and the kind of universe in which we live, a rational intelligible universe

    Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster

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    Evaluation and emergency medicine have appreciable parallels and are likely to intertwine as they each evolve, especially in response to disasters or other pervasive problems that can worsen into the future. Evaluative thinking—which largely involves critical thinking, valuing, and other dynamic processes—may be ubiquitously useful to practitioners, scholars, and others from both these fields of practice. In this dissertation, I referenced the dual systems theory of the human mind to conceptualize evaluative thinking as paradoxically fast (automatic) and slow (deliberate), and I characterized the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster laden with societal games. Derived from game theory, societal games range from the formal ones played by disciplines and fields of practice to the informal and diffuse games of social movements and special interests. I sought to answer two research questions. First, what are the manifestations of evaluative thinking within and between evaluation and emergency medicine amid disaster? Second, what linguistic patterns emerge from evaluative thinking amid disaster? My research design was multimethod, involving Q-methodology and function word analysis. I used purposive sampling to obtain two samples—one representing the context of evaluation ( n = 32) and another representing the context of emergency medicine ( n = 31). All research participants were professionals working in settings related to health and disasters, emergencies, and/or crises. Amid disaster, I found six styles of evaluative thinking in the evaluation context ( clarere, justificare, movere, verificare, informare, ponderare ) and three styles in the emergency medicine context ( cernere, librare, delineare ). Using intuition to render judgments is the most automatic process in the verificare, cernere , and delineare styles. Considering the availability of resources is the most deliberate process in the ponderare and delineare styles, while challenging personal beliefs and opinions is the most deliberate process in the clarere and librare styles. Whereas reflecting specifically on closing the gap between current and desired states is most deliberate in the cernere style, it is most automatic in the ponderare style. Lastly, broad reflection is most deliberate in movere and informare , deliberate in justificare and librare , automatic in clarere and ponderare , and circumstantial in the remaining styles. Function words in the English language may be divided into eight categories. On average across evaluative thinking styles, rates of personal pronouns, impersonal pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs , and non-referential adverbs were higher during the speaking mode than writing mode, while the rates of articles, prepositions, and negations were similar between modes. There were significant mode x style interaction effects for prepositions and articles, though the mean rates of these function words were similar between modes for most styles. There were also significant interaction effects for conjunctions and auxiliary verbs , though the mean rates of these function words were higher during speaking than writing for most styles. Furthermore, the relatively higher rates of spoken (compared to written) pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and non-referential adverbs with the relatively similar rates of spoken and written articles, prepositions , and negations suggest that even with different styles of evaluative thinking and societal games at play, professionals working in disaster, emergency, or crisis settings gravitate toward talking with others in an accessible manner while maintaining a sense of authority that is inherent in their written work. In conclusion, this dissertation contributes to the empirical evaluative thinking literature by providing insights into the nature of evaluative thinking amid disaster, and it also comprises an initial foundation upon which to further probe linguistic signals that help evaluators and other professionals recognize and express different styles of evaluative thinking

    (b2023 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!)

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    (b2023 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!

    Developmental Bootstrapping of AIs

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    Although some current AIs surpass human abilities in closed artificial worlds such as board games, their abilities in the real world are limited. They make strange mistakes and do not notice them. They cannot be instructed easily, fail to use common sense, and lack curiosity. They do not make good collaborators. Mainstream approaches for creating AIs are the traditional manually-constructed symbolic AI approach and generative and deep learning AI approaches including large language models (LLMs). These systems are not well suited for creating robust and trustworthy AIs. Although it is outside of the mainstream, the developmental bootstrapping approach has more potential. In developmental bootstrapping, AIs develop competences like human children do. They start with innate competences. They interact with the environment and learn from their interactions. They incrementally extend their innate competences with self-developed competences. They interact and learn from people and establish perceptual, cognitive, and common grounding. They acquire the competences they need through bootstrapping. However, developmental robotics has not yet produced AIs with robust adult-level competences. Projects have typically stopped at the Toddler Barrier corresponding to human infant development at about two years of age, before their speech is fluent. They also do not bridge the Reading Barrier, to skillfully and skeptically draw on the socially developed information resources that power current LLMs. The next competences in human cognitive development involve intrinsic motivation, imitation learning, imagination, coordination, and communication. This position paper lays out the logic, prospects, gaps, and challenges for extending the practice of developmental bootstrapping to acquire further competences and create robust, resilient, and human-compatible AIs.Comment: 102 pages, 29 figure
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