LEADER 03380nam 22006732 450 001 9910462792003321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-23665-7 010 $a1-139-61079-1 010 $a1-139-60906-8 010 $a1-139-61265-4 010 $a1-139-62195-5 010 $a1-283-98668-X 010 $a1-139-62567-5 010 $a1-139-20853-5 010 $a1-139-61637-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000326626 035 $a(EBL)1099907 035 $a(OCoLC)827212238 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430478 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844957 035 $a(PQKB)11494990 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139208536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1099907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1099907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645667 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL429918 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000326626 100 $a20111206d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCharacter as moral fiction /$fMark Alfano$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-53812-2 311 $a1-107-02672-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: tripartite naturalistic ethics -- Identifying the hard core of virtue ethics -- Rearticulating the situationist challenge -- Attempts to defend virtue ethics -- Factitious moral virtue -- Expanding the situationist challenge to responsibilist virtue epistemology -- Expanding the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology -- Factitious intellectual virtue -- To see as we are seen: a n investigation of social distance heuristics. 330 $aEveryone wants to be virtuous, but recent psychological investigations suggest that this may not be possible. Mark Alfano challenges this theory and asks, not whether character is empirically adequate, but what characters human beings could have and develop. Although psychology suggests that most people do not have robust character traits such as courage, honesty and open-mindedness, Alfano argues that we have reason to attribute these virtues to people because such attributions function as self-fulfilling prophecies - children become more studious if they are told that they are hard-working and adults become more generous if they are told that they are generous. He argues that we should think of virtue and character as social constructs: there is no such thing as virtue without social reinforcement. 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Languages, Decidability and Complexity -- Supervisory Control with Complete Observation. Supervisory Control with Partial Observation -- Observers with Automata -- Part II Introduction to Petri Nets -- Control of Petri Nets with Language Specifications -- Diagnosis of Petri Nets -- Diagnosis with Unfolding -- Structural Methods for the Control of Discrete-event Systems: The Case of the Resource Allocation Problem -- Timed and Time Nets -- Diagnosis of Petri Nets with Time. 330 $aControl of Discrete-event Systems provides a survey of the most important topics in the discrete-event systems theory with particular focus on finite-state automata, Petri nets and max-plus algebra. Coverage ranges from introductory material on the basic notions and definitions of discrete-event systems to more recent results. Special attention is given to results on supervisory control, state estimation and fault diagnosis of both centralized and distributed/decentralized systems developed in the framework of the Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants (DISC) project. Later parts of the text are devoted to the study of congested systems though fluidization, an over approximation allowing a much more efficient study of observation and control problems of timed Petri nets. Finally, the max-plus algebraic approach to the analysis and control of choice-free systems is also considered. Control of Discrete-event Systems provides an introduction to discrete-event systems for readers that are not familiar with this class of systems, but also provides an introduction to research problems and open issues of current interest to readers already familiar with them. 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