Paper Info
Title
Identification and Doing Without It, III: Authoritative Opinions, Purposeful Action, Relabeled Goods, and Forensic Examinations. The Case of the Stuffed Birds: Its Narrative Dynamics Set in Formulae
Abstract
A formal notation has been defined for the purposes of capturing a narrative, especially a legal narrative. In various papers, this technique has been applied to various accounts of individual (usually personal) identity being uncertain, and of a process of detection to the satisfaction of some agent(s). For example, in Part II, a narrative was formalized in which detecting the real personal identity of a given individual is associated with one's likeness: the man was eventually identified based on a portrait, notwithstanding his claiming a different identity. Portraits, or even likeness retention from processed remains (by taxidermy), are sometimes used to categorize a kind. In this paper, a case about deception in scholarship is set in formulae: in the 1990s, controversy surrounded an important bird collection; it was claimed that some specimens had been stolen, restuffed, and relabeled. It is shown how to represent this without trivializing the matter, and how to give proper leeway to conflicting considerations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1080/01969720302856
CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
personal identity
Categorization,Scholarship,Personal identity,Computer science,Deception,Portrait,Narrative,Taxidermy,Artificial intelligence,Formal notation,Epistemology,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34.0
6-7
0196-9722
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.52
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ephraim Nissan116421.59