An innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth. The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German con…
In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intel…
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"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier…
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology).Includes indexes.The projection of light rays onto the retina of the eye forms a two-dimensional image, but through combining the stereoscopic aspect of vision with other optical clues by means of some remarkably effective image-processing procedures, the viewer is able to perceive three-dimensional representations of …
This mathematically oriented introduction to the theory of logic programming presents a systematic exposition of the resolution method for propositional, first-order, and Horn- clause logics, together with an analysis of the semantic aspects of the method. It is through the inference rule of resolution that both proofs and computations can be manipulated on computers, and this book contains ele…
An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A review of the theoretical research on unlawful collusion, focusing on the impact and optimal design of competition law and enforcement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Tendencies toward 'academization' of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redstr?om offers a new approach to theory development in design research--one that is driven by practice, experimentation, and making. Redstr?om does not theorize from the outside, but explores the idea that, just …