First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This policy-capturing study, conducted in China, investigated the cognitive basis of managerial decisions to make a corporate charitable donation, a global issue in the context of corporate social responsibility research and practice. Participants responded to a series of scenarios manipulating pressure from the five stakeholders most commonly addressed by CSR research. The independent variables examined included organizational factors and the participants’ personal values. Results indicate a large positive effect of shareholder and governmental pressure on the decision with lesser positive effects (...) from customers and competitors. Surprisingly, employee pressure had a negative effect on the decision to make a charitable donation. Further, personal values and perceived CEO attitudes toward charity were significantly related to the decisions participants made. In line with our theorizing, the findings indicate that a combination of personal, organizational, and institutional factors was salient in the minds of decision makers. (shrink)

Notwithstanding its overwhelming descriptive power for existing data, it is not clear whether the kinematic theory of Plamondon & Alimi could generate new insights into biomechanical constraints and psychological processes underlying the way organisms trade off speed for accuracy. The kinematic model should elaborate on the role of neuromotor noise and on biomechanical strategies for reducing endpoint variability related to such noise.

CHAPTER ONE Augustine the Philosopher There are, according to Augustine in the early work entitled soliloquia, two principal (indeed, strictly speaking, ...

This collection of papers in epistemic logic is oriented towards applications to game theory and individual decision theory. Most of these papers were presented at the inaugural conference of the LOFT (Logic for the Theory and Games and Decisions) conference series, which took place in 1994 in Marseille. Among the notions dealt with are those of common knowledge and common belief, infinite hierarchies of beliefs and belief spaces, logical omniscience, positive and negative introspection, backward induction and rationalizable equilibria in game (...) theory. (shrink)

The goal of this paper is to explore the significance of Montague’s paradox—that is, any arithmetical theory $T\supseteq Q$ over a language containing a predicate $P$ satisfying $P\rightarrow \varphi $ and $T\vdash \varphi \,\therefore\,T\vdash P$ is inconsistent—as a limitative result pertaining to the notions of formal, informal, and constructive provability, in their respective historical contexts. To this end, the paradox is reconstructed in a quantified extension $\mathcal {QLP}$ of Artemov’s logic of proofs. $\mathcal {QLP}$ contains both explicit modalities $t:\varphi (...) $ and also proof quantifiers $x:\varphi $. In this system, the basis for the rule NEC is decomposed into a number of distinct principles governing how various modes of reasoning about proofs and provability can be internalized within the system itself. A conceptually motivated resolution to the paradox is proposed in the form of an argument for rejecting the unrestricted rule NEC on the basis of its subsumption of an intuitively invalid principle pertaining to the interaction of proof quantifiers and the proof-theorem relation expressed by explicit modalities. (shrink)

Inhalt: H. BOuillon, Gerard Radnitzky: Kritischer Rationalist und Klassischer Liberalist - G. ANdersson, Kritischer Rationalismus und Wissenschaftsgeschichte - B. KAnitscheider, Die Reichweite der Physik und das Problem des Szientismus - H. PRimas, Vor-Urteile in den Naturwissenschaften - H. K. ERben, Die Historizitat der Natur und der Kritische Rationalismus - P. BErnholz, Einige wissenschaftstheoretische Probleme aus der Sicht des Nationalokonomen - K.-D. OPp, Das Modell rationalen Verhaltens. SEine Struktur und das Problem der "weichen" Anreize - P. MUnz, Der Kritische Rationalismus (...) in der Geschichtswissenschaft - H. BOuillon, Braucht die Wissenschaft die Wissenschaftstheorie? (shrink)

Infatigable, Gérard Siegwalt enrichit sa Dogmatique d’un neuvième volume, intitulé « de la transcendance au Dieu vivant ». Nous voici donc conviés à revisiter le traité De Deo uno et trino sous la conduite d’un guide dont l’orientation et les références sont devenues familières à ses lecteurs. C’est précisément par un exposé méthodologique que l’auteur ouvre son propos (p. 21-96). Le contexte culturel dont il part est notamment marqué par le sécularisme, le pluralisme religieux et l’athéisme ..