Papers by Heidi Storl
Choice Reviews Online, 2012
Earliest arrival flows capture the essence of evacuation planning. Given a network with capacitie... more Earliest arrival flows capture the essence of evacuation planning. Given a network with capacities and transit times on the arcs, a subset of source nodes with supplies and a sink node, the task is to send the given supplies from the sources to the sink "as quickly as possible". The latter requirement is made more precise by the earliest arrival property which requires that the total amount of flow that has arrived at the sink is maximal for all points in time simultaneously. It is a classical result from the 1970s that, for the special case of a single source node, earliest arrival flows do exist and can be computed by essentially applying the Successive Shortest Path Algorithm for mincost flow computations. While it has previously been observed that an earliest arrival flow still exists for multiple sources, the problem of computing one efficiently has been open for many years. We present an exact algorithm for this problem whose running time is strongly polynomial in the input plus output size of the problem.
Teaching Philosophy, 1994
Philosophy and Literature, 2008
What is it that we human beings are? What is it that we do? The reduction of these questions to b... more What is it that we human beings are? What is it that we do? The reduction of these questions to biology doesn't do justice to how we think and act, nor do traditional philosophical approaches satisfy our intuitions. Fortunately, it's not in our nature to give up. While minds and bodies, subjects and objects, do play a role, to focus here is to miss the mark. Underlying each of these is something more fundamentally human. Martin Heidegger thinks of this as being, Virginia Woolf thinks of this as a purple triangle. Together, Heidegger and Woolf may succeed in unveiling the disguises which we, perhaps unwittingly, have imposed on our own being-in-the-world.
Southwest Philosophy Review, 1993
Teaching Philosophy, 2012
Care Management Journals, 1999
Case managers have never before faced the multitude of difficult ethical dilemmas that now confro... more Case managers have never before faced the multitude of difficult ethical dilemmas that now confront them daily. Legal, medical, social, and ethical considerations often fly in the face of previously reliable intuitions. The importance and urgency of facing these dilemmas head-on has resulted in clear calls for action. What are the appropriate legal, ethical, and professional parameters for effective decision making? Are normatively sensitive, but also practically sensible protocols possible? In an effort to address these concerns, Alternatives for the Older Adult, Inc., Rock Island, Illinois established an ethics committee to look into possible means of resolving or dissolving commonly occurring dilemmas. As a result of year-long deliberations, the committee formulated a decision-making strategy whose central apparatus is the decision tree--a flowchart of reasonable decisions and their consequent implications. In this article, we explore the development of this approach as well as the theory that underlies it.
Book Reviews by Heidi Storl
CHOICE, 2012
ChoiCe analysis, along with broad interdisciplinary collaboration, have formed the foundation of ... more ChoiCe analysis, along with broad interdisciplinary collaboration, have formed the foundation of modern neuroscience. The scientific data are clear: biological explanations of behavior, including physiological, ontogenetic, evolutionary, and functional explanations, provide a necessary, if not sufficient, explanation of who we are and what we do. Thus, "know thyself " now requires at least a minimal understanding of neurophysiology and a reexamination, if not reconceptualization, of many of our core beliefs. The scope of this essay will, of necessity, be wide. After a brief historical introduction, it will concentrate on three results of the neuroscientific revolution: the naturalization of the mind, its real-world ramifications, and a potential reconceptualization of ethics. Though the scientific data likely will continue to overwhelm a full philosophical understanding thereof, a consideration of the psychological, practical, and normative impact of these issues will lead to a better understanding of self and other, of who we are, and of how we ought to live. in the end, thus, we will arrive at a better understanding of what it is to "know thyself."
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