Game Theory Pirate Murder
9 december 2007
A pirate captain was brutally murdered today after taken ill advice from a paper on game theory.
From our nautical reporter
The Ocean — The fierce pirate One-Eyed Beardless was found dead in his cabin early this morning. The police quickly deduced from the multiple stab wounds the pirate's death was a brutal murder, but were puzzled by the fact a single golden coin was placed on his red bandanna. The forty-five year old pirate, who was the captain of the three pirate schooner The Black Compass of Hades, appears to have been stabbed with his own blue scimitar. The other two pirates on board are held for questioning by the nautical police.
Police sources disclosed to this paper, the motive for the murder seems to be a row over the division of a loot. Until recently, the loot was divided more or less equally, but after reading the paper 'A Puzzle for Pirates' a new system was introduced. The paper argues that, given a pecking order of pirates and a democratic majority voting system, the fiercest pirate (P3) can divide a 100 gold pieces loot by giving 1 piece to the least fierce pirate (P2), nothing to pirate in between ...
Zen en Nietzsche
4 november 2007
In zijn artikel 'Das absolute Nichts im Zen bei Eckhart und bei Nietzsche' (In: Die Philosophie der Kyôto-Schule (1990)) vergelijkt Shizuteru Ueda, zoals de titel reeds aangeeft, het absolute niets zoals hij dat kent vanuit het zenboeddhisme met het niets bij Eckhart en bij Nietzsche. Hij bespreekt het absolute niets in het zenboeddhisme aan de hand van het beeldverhaal 'De ...
Scriptie
17 augustus 2007
Op 17 augustus 2007 ben ik afgestudeerd in de filosofie. Mijn scriptie kun je hieronder downloaden in PDF: