Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order but rather how we can understand its workings in order to make better decisions about our own cond…
Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others. A specter is haunting philosophy—the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? Entering from stage left: the philosopher's Hamlet. The philosopher's Hamlet is a conceptual character, played by philosophers rather than actors. He performs not in the theater but within the…
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing…
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions…
Saat memikirkan persamaan kuadrat Diophantine, serangkaian asosiasi muncul di benak seseorang. Bentuk kuadrat Gauss dan hubungannya dengan kelompok kelas, satuan dasar bidang kuadrat nyata dan persamaan Pell, representasi bilangan bulat sebagai jumlah dari dua atau empat kuadrat, atau persamaan yang tampaknya tidak bersalah p = x 2 + ny 2 dan hubungannya dengan bentuk norma bidang kuadrat imaji…
"A Bradford book."In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a dual nature -- as being both cognitive and social acts -- and proposes a comprehensive theoretical model that integrates the two aspects. When people try to understand puzzling human behavior, they construct behavior explanations, which are a fundamental tool of social cognition. But, Mall…
International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2015) ke-9 diselenggarakan di Kanazawa, 24-26 November 2015. Rangkaian ProvSec sebelumnya sukses diselenggarakan di Wollongong, Australia (2007), Shanghai, China (2008), Guangzhou, China (2009 ), Malaka, Malaysia (2010), Xi'an, Tiongkok (2011), Chengdu, Tiongkok (2012), Malaka, Malaysia (2013) dan Hong Kong, Tiongkok (2014). Ini adalah Prov…
"[Some essays] were first presented at the conference Character and Morality held at Radcliffe College in April 1988"--Acknowledgements."A Bradford book."Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraint…
"A Bradford book."Doing philosophy, according to Jerry Fodor, is like piloting: The trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it. In this book, Fodor contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky, a…
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and …