Understanding and modeling individuals’behaviors during epidemics is crucial for effective epidemic control.However,existing research ignores the impact of users’irrationality on decision-making in the epidemic.Mean...
This paper is adapted from my Ph.D.dissertation,“Say the unsaid,repair the fractures-On the narrative ruptures in Edgar Allan Poe’s detective stories”.Here,in addition to thanking the anonymous reviewer for his or her opinions on this paper,I would like to express my deepest appreciation for my Ph.D.dissertation advisors,Professor Frank W.Stevenson,and Professor Eva Yin-I Chen.And I must also be thankful to Professor Chin-Yuan Hu,Professor Yi Ping Liang,and Professor Brian D.Phillips,all three of whom participated in my oral defenses and proofread my Ph.D.dissertation.
It is generally believed that Edgar Allan Poe’s detective stories feature the ratiocination of C.Auguste Dupin,a detective Poe has created.However,this paper aims to demonstrate that there is actually an undercurrent...
The paper tests the hypothesis that the traditional Phillips curve will have a new relevance today, though with very different purposes from those who have inspired research in the past. Therefore, we investigated the...
On the basis of the analysis of past case studies of crashes or disasters, it has been clarified how cultural difference and cognitive biases become a trigger of serious crashes or disasters. Heuristic-based biases su...
This paper summarizes research intended to develop a pedagogically friendly argument that establishes the fact that (x,ex ) is never a rational point in the plane. A point (x, y)∈R2 is rational if both x and y are ra...
funded by 2015 Hefei Social Sciences Planning Project“English Translation Study of Hefei Public Logos for the Soft Environment Construction”;by 2014 Planning Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Anhui Province(AHSKY2014D140);by Project No.(JS2015HGXJ0074)Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
The implied meaning/intention probably varies with the changing context.But the inference of Zen koans is quite different and difficult,because the context for a Zen koan is usually implicit,and more confusing is the ...
The paper discusses several wide-spread misunderstandings of Kuhn's theory of scientific development, most prominently the ascription that he conceives of scientific development as irrational. The core of this ascrip...
Dr.Strangelove or:How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 black comedy film with satire of arm races and nuclear scare by the director Stanley Kubrick.In the movie,irrational practice and ideologies...
Bayesianism is a theory of probabilistic reasoning that attempts to capture the logic of confirming and disconfirming hypotheses. I first argue that Bayesianism reveals striking parallels between structures universall...
Financial tomes are rarely light, but with perseverance they can be infinitely rewarding. This is certainly the case with John Cassidy's How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities. The long-term New Yorker w...