Streetlights and shadows :searching for the keys to adaptive decision making

In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines—gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in prac…

The natural resources trap :private investment without public commitment

Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and energy wealth. When prices skyrocket, governments want a larger share of revenues, sometimes to the point of nationalization or expropriation; when prices fall, larger state participation becomes a bur…

Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice: Combustion, Fuels, Materia…

"This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descri…

Logic Programming: The 14th International Conference

"The International Conference on Logic Programming is the main annual conference sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming. It covers the latest research in areas such as theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, language design and implementation nonmonotonic reasoning, and logic programming and the Internet."--BOOK JACKET.

The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science The Kantian Legacy in Ninet…

"Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.

Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology

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Logic Programming: The 12th International Conference

"13-16 June 1995, Tokyo, Japan ICLP, which is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming, is one of two major annual international conferences reporting recent research results in logic programming. Logic programming originates from the discovery that a subset of predicate logic could be given a procedural interpretation which was first embodied in the programming language, Prolog. The …

Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory

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The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Ce…

"In this book environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environmentalism is creating …