TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - The temptation in the garden of R. Hiyya bar Ashi and his wife JF - European Judaism N2 - The narrative in BT Kiddushin 81b about R. Hiyya bar Ashi tells of a sage who waged a battle with his Urge after he refrained from engaging in sexual relations with his wife. He, however, did not reveal to her the battle being waged within him, but rather pretended to be an ‘angel’. When his wife incidentally found it, she disguised herself as a harlot and set out to seduce him. After they had engaged in sexual relations, the rabbi wanted to commit suicide. The traditional readings view R. Hiyya as the hero of the tale. This article claims that the aim of the narrative is to present the rabbi as being carried away by dualistic-Christian conceptions. The article further argues that the topic of the narrative is not sexual relations, but dialogue. KW - asceticism KW - dialogue KW - evil inclination KW - gender KW - Judaism KW - sex KW - Talmud Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2017.500214 SN - 0014-3006 SN - 1752-2323 VL - 50 IS - 2 SP - 129 EP - 146 PB - Berghahn Journals CY - Brooklyn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mast, Vivien A1 - Falomir, Zoe A1 - Wolter, Diedrich T1 - Probabilistic reference and grounding with PRAGR for dialogues with robots JF - Zeitschrift für pädagogische Psychologie. N2 - In this paper, we present a system for effective referential human-robot communication in the face of perceptual deviation using the Probabilistic Reference And GRounding mechanism PRAGR and vague feature models based on prototypes. PRAGR can handle descriptions of arbitrary complexity including spatial relations and uses flexible concept assignment in generation and resolution of referring expressions for bridging conceptual gaps in referential robot-robot or human-robot interaction. We evaluate the benefit of using vague as compared to crisp properties regarding referential success and robustness towards perspective alignment error in referential robot-robot and human-robot communication. KW - Reference handling KW - symbol grounding KW - human-machine interaction KW - vagueness KW - perceptual deviation KW - dialogue Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/0952813X.2016.1154611 SN - 0952-813X SN - 1362-3079 VL - 28 SP - 889 EP - 911 PB - Hogrefe CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pinkas, Ronen T1 - On prayer and dialectic in modern Jewish philosophy BT - Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig JF - Religions N2 - This paper is founded on two philosophical assumptions. The first is that there is a difference between two patterns of recognition: the dialectical and the dialogical. The second assumption is that the origins of the dialogical pattern may be found in the relationship between human beings and God, a relationship in which prayer has a major role. The second assumption leads to the supposition that the emphasis of the dialogic approach on moral responsibility is theologically grounded. In other words, the relationship between humanity and God serves as a paradigm for human relationships. By focusing on Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig, in the context of prayer and dialectic, this paper highlights the complexity of these themes in modern Jewish thought. These two important philosophers utilize dialectical reasoning while also criticizing it and offering an alternative. The conclusions of their thought, in general, and their position on prayer, in particular, demonstrate a preference for a relational way of thinking over a dialectical one, but without renouncing the latter. KW - dialectic KW - dialogue KW - prayer KW - modern Jewish philosophy KW - religious existentialism Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14080996 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 14 IS - 8 SP - 1 EP - 28 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER -