Author | Lefebvre, Vladimir A. author |
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Title | Algebra of Conscience [electronic resource] : Revised Edition with a Second Part with a new Foreword by Anatol Rapoport / by Vladimir A. Lefebvre |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0691-9 |
Descript | XIV, 358 p. online resource |
Introductory Chapter -- I. Moral Cognition -- II. Ethical Systems and Boolean Algebra -- III. Boolean Algebra, Exponent, Logarithm -- IV. Individuals, Reflexion, and Interaction -- V. Automata with Semantics and Ethical Status -- VI. A Formal Representation of Doubts and Feelings -- VII. A Formal Comparison of Ethical Systems: Guilt, Condemnation, Doubt -- VIII. A Formal Comparison of Ethical Systems: Doubts and Ethical Status -- IX. Ethical Analysis of Artistic and Propagandistic Literature -- X. Experimental Analysis of Normative Individuals -- XI. The Principle of Maximization of the Ethical Status of Oneโs Image of Oneself -- XIIII. Feelings and Sacrifices -- XIII. Formal Connections between Modules of Inner Structures and Individuals -- XIV. Interaction. Activity and Its Measure -- XV. Ethical Typology in the Novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky -- XVI. Ideology, Morality, and Political Organization -- XVII. Generalization. Proof of Existence of Ethically Non-Measurable Situations -- I. The Three-Faced Janus: An Initial Metaphor for the Model of the Subject -- II. A Boolean Model of Bipolar Choice -- III. Metachoice -- IV. Modeling of Awareness -- V. The Prisonerโs Dilemma -- VI. The Morality of Results and the Morality of Means -- VII. A Boolean-Linear Model of the Subject -- VIII. Examples of Modeling the Process of Choice -- IX. Imitation of the Other -- X. The Subject Controlling His Relationships with Another Subject -- XI. Two Aspects of Choice -- XII. Generalization of Classical Game Theory of 2ร2 Zero-Sum Game -- XIII. Risk and Caution -- XIV. The Non-Linear Model of the Subject -- XV. Subject with a Quadratic Model of the Situation -- XVI. Streams of Consciousness and Difference Equations -- XVII. Streams of Consciousness and Acts of Awareness -- Appendices -- Appendix 2. Ethical Systems and Multivalued Logics -- Appendix 3. Self-Generation of Environments -- Appendix 4. A Method of Calculating Mean Ethical Statuses -- Appendix 5. Types of Adequacy of Reflexion -- Appendix 6. Schemas of Empirical Procedures -- Appendix 7. Tables -- Appendix 8. Problems of Substantiating the Initial Axioms in an Arbitrary Environment -- Appendix 9. Another Method of Representing Individuals -- Appendix 10. Representation of Completed Graphs with Polynomials -- Appendix 11. The Principle of Complementarity and the Phenomenon of Interference in the Algebraic Model of Ethical Cognition -- References -- Index of Names