多目标规划弱有效解的一个必要条件

针对具有等式和不等式约束的多目标规划的弱有效解，在相对较弱的条件下给出了一个介于著名的Fritz—John条件与Kuhn—Tucker条件之间新的必要条件。     

John Dewey's pragmatist alternative to the belief-acceptance dichotomy

Defenders of value-free science appeal to cognitive attitudes as part of a wedge strategy, to mark a distinction between science proper and the uses of science for decision-making, policy, etc. Distinctions between attitudes like belief and acceptance have played an important role in defending the value-free ideal. In this paper, I will explore John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy of science as an alternative to the philosophical framework the wedge strategy rests on. Dewey does draw significant and useful distinctions between different sorts of cognitive attitudes taken by inquirers, but none can be used to support the wedge strategy.     

The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments

John D. Norton is responsible for a number of influential views in contemporary philosophy of science. This paper will discuss two of them. The material theory of induction claims that inductive arguments are ultimately justified by their material features, not their formal features. Thus, while a deductive argument can be valid irrespective of the content of the propositions that make up the argument, an inductive argument about, say, apples, will be justified (or not) depending on facts about apples. The argument view of thought experiments claims that thought experiments are arguments, and that they function epistemically however arguments do. These two views have generated a great deal of discussion, although there hasn't been much written about their combination. I argue that despite some interesting harmonies, there is a serious tension between them. I consider several options for easing this tension, before suggesting a set of changes to the argument view that I take to be consistent with Norton's fundamental philosophical commitments, and which retain what seems intuitively correct about the argument view. These changes require that we move away from a unitary epistemology of thought experiments and towards a more pluralist position.     

涉及重整化变换的有理函数族的Fatou集

主要研究了涉及重整化变换的一族有理函数 Tnλ Fatou 分支的拓扑性质。事实上,若 D 是有理函数Tnλ的任意1个 Fatou 分支,对任意的参数λ∈R 与 n >1,探讨了 D 与 John 区域的联系。所得结果给出了重整化变换的 Julia 集 J（Tnλ）拓扑复杂性的一个详细刻画。     

美国电视剧的文化解读

约翰·费斯克作为当代西方著名的大众文化理论家,他在《解读电视》中提出了电视在整个社会文化中,扮演了中古世纪的“游吟诗人”的角色,具有塑造集体文化的功能。美国电视剧作为一种最受欢迎的电视节目样式,也在塑造着美国文化,向观众传递着美国的文化价值和意识形态。     

约翰·厄普代克《兔子归来》中的电视媒介与现实

约翰·厄普代克兔子系列小说中引入大量的电视节目,显出其独特的文本特征。用新现实主义理论和麦克卢汉媒介理论可解读其“兔子四部曲”之二《兔子归来》中电视节目的文学功能。他大胆引用电视节目,让现实中真实的电视滑稽剧、广告、新闻报道成为虚构文本的一部分,使观众,即小说人物“卷入”电视节目内容,以此刻画人物形象、暗示小说情节、拓宽小说主题,这无疑体现出厄普代克作为新现实主义小说家创造模式上的多元化。     

生态视角下对福尔斯《魔法师》的解读

阐述英国当代著名的后现代主义作家约翰·福尔斯通过代表作《魔法师》,从自然生态、社会生态、道德生态的独特的、生态整体主义的视角,为读者揭示了生态失范的后现代社会的、人类赖以生存的环境状况。生态的失衡,给自然环境乃至人类的精神世界带来的种种危机,具有一定的社会和文化渊源。福尔斯希望建立的人与自然、人与人和谐相处的生态观,对于人类社会的生存、发展、前途和命运具有深远、现实的指导意义。     

黎曼流形上Fritz John必要最优性条件

在黎曼流形上给出了Lipschitz函数的广义方向导数和广义梯度的概念,利用黎曼流形局部上与欧氏空间开集微分同胚的性质以及切映射和余切映射导出了广义梯度的性质和运算法则,证明了定义在黎曼流形上的函数取得极小值的必要条件是广义梯度包含零元素,并利用这些性质给出了黎曼流形上数学规划问题的Fritz John型最优性条件.     

What is narrative possibility?

In this paper I offer a new account of narrative possibility that I call the “ecological approach.” I situate it relative to alternative “metaphysical” and “epistemological” approaches, and argue that it has advantages in comparison. It saves some of the important insights from each, but serves the purposes of narrative explanation better than either, specifically because it delimits the explanatory modal space of narrative explanation correctly, whereas the others do not.     

John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physics

This paper argues that non-empirical physics, as paradigmatically embodied by string theory, is a conservative research program, in spite of appearances. John Wheeler's 1950s research program of "daring conservatism" is identified as another non-empirical research program that checks all the same boxes as string theory. This case study is used to further analyze the connection between conservatism and a non-empirical approach. It is concluded that the prime difficulty of non-empirical physics is not that it involves unbridled speculation, but that the lack of empirical input prevents it from achieving revolutionary progress.