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Showing 1 to 20 of 319 for “"deliberation"”.
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Joint practical deliberation
Joint practical deliberation is the activity of deciding together what to do. In this dissertation, I argue that several speech acts that we can use to alter our moral obligations - promises, offers, requests, demands, commands, and agreements - are moves within joint practical deliberation. The …
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DEliBots : Deliberation Enhancing Bots
Deliberation is the dialogue between a group of people that facilitates careful weighing of information, providing adequate speaking opportunities and bridging the differences among participants’ diverse ways of thinking and problem-solving. It is traditionally explored in the field of psychology, …
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The Extended Deliberation: Definitions of Sociology
The specific purpose of this study is to examine various definitions of sociology since the invention of the term. From this examination, an attempt will be made to determine the extent of agreement among sociologists as to what sociology means. The Procedure: Chapter II, Part A, is concerned with …
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Anytime deliberation for computer game agents
This thesis presents an approach to generating intelligent behaviour for agents in computer game-like worlds. Designing and implementing such agents is a difficult task because they are required to act in real-time and respond immediately to unpredictable changes in their environment. Such …
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Enhancing Natural Language Inference through Multi-Agent Deliberation
… critically dependent on the architecture of its deliberation protocol and the richness of the information exchanged between agents. To investigate this, we designed a systematic 3x4 experimental matrix to test three prompting strategies (from basic responses to step-by-step reasoning) against …
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Deliberation and Decision Making Online: Evaluating Platform Design
… deepen democracy and support large scale online deliberation. It draws together the most promising current practices in online deliberation, presenting a theoretical and empirical exploration of innovative online deliberation platforms. ICT and online communication is increasingly sophisticated …
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Democracy after deliberation: Bridging the constitutional economicsdeliberative democracy divide
… in a process of consensus-directed discourse, or deliberation; so that evaluations of democratic legitimacy and order depend on the degree to which institutional norms and practices promote deliberation and draw upon deliberated public judgment. I argue that despite the numerous incompatibilities …
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Debating deliberative democracy: how deliberation changes the way people reason
The concepts of deliberation and deliberative democracy have attracted much attention in political theory over the past twenty years. At first seen as both highly idealised and unreflective of reality, they have now shed this accusation of impracticality, as practitioners and policy makers alike …
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Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation
While much scholarly attention has been paid to deliberation as a set of procedures used to achieve democratic goals of individual autonomy and mutually beneficial policy outcomes, few studies have asked to what extent contemporary American society resembles a deliberative democracy. In order to …
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Divine Deliberation: Possible-Worlds Modality and the Divine Will-To-Create
Contemporary Christian theology regularly employs a key tool of contemporary philosophy’s turn towards modal metaphysics. Philosophy’s possible worlds modality has become the basis on which theologians regularly discuss both theology proper and such sub-disciplines as apologetics or the doctrine of …
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Visualizing belonging : Deliberation and identification in the Vestavia Hills mascot controversy
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Roboter-Fußball: Perzeption, Deliberation und Aktion autonomer Systeme in dynamischen Umgebungen
… das den Bogen von der Perzeption über die Deliberation zur Aktion spannt. <br> <br>Zur Evaluation solcher Systeme bietet es sich an, zunächst Aufgaben und Umgebungen zu betrachten, die zwar eine reduzierte Komplexität aufweisen, aber dennoch einen Roboter mit vielen Anforderungen …
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Deliberation : integrating stakeholder values and risk assessments in environmental decision making
… we devise strategies for a consensual deliberation that focus on the interests of the stakeholders while simultaneously account for the technical issues. This work presents the results of such an integration and details the formulation of strategies.
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Navigating Hate: The Public Deliberation of Matthew Shepard and Hate Crime Legislation
… seeks to evaluate how Shepard is used in public deliberation, the role of private organizations in the public deliberation of hate crime legislation, and the discursive history of the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009. Through a rhetorical criticism, this study finds that the nuances …
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Does Deliberation Make Better Citizens? Examining the Case of Community Conflict Mediation
… dissertation, I explore the educative effects of deliberation through interviews and observation at two community mediation organizations in Toronto. Theorists have long claimed that participation in deliberation can change the skills and dispositions of participants in ways that make them better …
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The quality of deliberation in Northern Ireland's district policing partnerships
This study uses theoretical based deliberative democratic dimensions to measure the deliberative quality of Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnership (DPP) meetings in public. The study combines Habermasian, and Young’s deliberative concepts to create an Augmented Discourse Quality Index. …
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Negotiation and deliberation in Mexico's democratization process : six cases of legal reform
… run counter to the logic of reason-based deliberations that are necessary to produce democratic legitimacy. I present six cases of political negotiation and deliberation that led to major democratic reforms in Mexico, during the period 2006-2009, and offer multiple examples of how …
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Playing to win : democratic deliberation, planning, and politics in Toronto's civic lottery
Government institutions across the world are currently experimenting with randomized household-selection engagement methods designed to maximize the diversity and representativeness of their sampled citizen participants. Varieties of "mini-publics" have been asked to deliberate on topics as …
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Deliberation as an Epistemic Endeavor: UMunthu and Social Change in Malawi's Political Ecology
… free, fair, and accommodative of open forms of deliberation, consultation, and dissent. The Habermasian ideals stipulate that no single form of reasoning or knowledge dominates others. By advocating for “the power of the better argument” Habermas (1984, 1998a, 1998b, 2001) provided room for …
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Präferenz für Intuition und Deliberation – Messung und Konsequenzen von affekt- und kognitionsbasiertem Entscheiden
… konstruiert, das die Präferenz für Intuition und Deliberation (PID, Betsch, 2004) auf zwei unabhängigen Skalen misst (Präferenz für Intuition und Präferenz für Deliberation). Intuition wird hier als ein rein affektiver Modus verstanden. Deliberation ist konzipiert als reflektiver, …
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