What is the use of the notion of the struggle of recognition ? / ¿A qué sirve la noción de un conflicto de reconocimiento ?

Version disponible sur Internet : [ http://www.uc.cl/icp/revista/pdf/rev272/27_2_11.pdf ]This article intervenes in the debate going on in philosophy and sociology regarding recognition and, in particular, the idea of a struggle of recognition. It seeks to make the meaning of the link between recognition and struggle explicit, as well as to discuss reasons for why theories of recognition could provide interesting insights into political theory. In a first step, it confronts Taylor's, Fraser's and Honneth's contribution to the debate on recognition. In a second step, it introduces the distinction between agonistic and consensual struggles of recognition. In a third step, it describes the relationships between institutions and recognition and the various problems that an analysis of claims for recognition has to tackle with.Este artículo contribuye al debate sobre el reconocimiento a través de un análisis de la relación entre reconocimiento y conflicto social, y explica por qué las teorías del reconocimiento son de importancia hoy en dí para la teoría política. En un primer momento, el artículo presenta las contribuciones de Taylor, Fraser y Honneth al debate sobre el reconocimiento. En segundo lugar, se introduce la distinción entre conflictos de reconocimiento de tipo agonóstico y los de tipo consensuado. Finalmente, el artículo ilustra las relaciones entre instituciones y reconocimiento y los diversos tipos de problemas que un análisis de las demandas de reconocimiento debe de enfrentar

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An informational approach to the global optimization of expensive-to-evaluate functions

In many global optimization problems motivated by engineering applications, the number of function evaluations is severely limited by time or cost. To ensure that each evaluation contributes to the localization of good candidates for the role of global minimizer, a sequential choice of evaluation points is usually carried out. In particular, when Kriging is used to interpolate past evaluations, the uncertainty associated with the lack of information on the function can be expressed and used to compute a number of criteria accounting for the interest of an additional evaluation at any given point. This paper introduces minimizer entropy as a new Kriging-based criterion for the sequential choice of points at which the function should be evaluated. Based on \emph{stepwise uncertainty reduction}, it accounts for the informational gain on the minimizer expected from a new evaluation. The criterion is approximated using conditional simulations of the Gaussian process model behind Kriging, and then inserted into an algorithm similar in spirit to the \emph{Efficient Global Optimization} (EGO) algorithm. An empirical comparison is carried out between our criterion and \emph{expected improvement}, one of the reference criteria in the literature. Experimental results indicate major evaluation savings over EGO. Finally, the method, which we call IAGO (for Informational Approach to Global Optimization) is extended to robust optimization problems, where both the factors to be tuned and the function evaluations are corrupted by noise.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Optimization (This is the revised version, with additional details on computational problems, and some grammatical changes

Riconoscimento, lotta, dominio: il modello hegeliano

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What could be the role of the concept of recognition in a social theory of domination?

This article discusses the possible contributions of the concept of recognition to a social theory of domination. In a first step, it clarifies the meaning of the notion of social theory and it explains in which sense Honneth’s theory of recognition is a social theory. In a second step, it spells out a series of conditions that should be met by a social theory of domination. The third step raises the main issue of this article: in which respect a theory of recognition could meet these series of conditions? It is argued that in order to answer these questions, the best option is to combine some Bourdieusian insights with some Honnethian themes.Esse artigo discute as possíveis contribuições do conceito de reconhecimento a uma teoria social da dominação. Primeiramente, vou esclarecer o significado da noção de teoria social e explicar em que sentido a teoria do reconhecimento de Honneth é uma teoria social. Em segundo lugar, vou apresentar uma série de condições que devem ser satisfeitas por uma teoria social da dominação. Por fim, vou colocar a principal questão deste artigo: em que medida uma teoria do reconhecimento poderia satisfazer essa série de condições? Para responder a essa questão, a melhor opção é combinar alguns insights bourdieusianos com alguns temas honnethianos