Author : Eric B. Baum
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262025485
Toward a computational explanation of thought: an argument that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world.
Author : Sihan Qing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642252427
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2011, held in Beijing, China, in November 2011. The 33 revised full papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital signatures, public key encryption, cryptographic protocols, applied cryptography, multimedia security, algorithms and evaluation, cryptanalysis, security applications, wireless network security, system security, and network security.
Author : Laura M. Castelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350214698
Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner and a respondent. Alexander takes the Topics as a sort of handbook teaching how to defend and how attack any philosophical claim against philosophical adversaries. In book 3, Aristotle develops strategies for arguing about comparative claims, in which properties are said to belong to subjects to a greater, lesser, or equal degree. Aristotle illustrates the different argumentative patterns that can be used to establish or refute a comparative claim through one single example: whether something is more or less or equally to be chosen or to be avoided than something else. In his commentary on Topics 3, here translated for the first time into English, Alexander of Aphrodisias spells out Aristotle's text by referring to issues and examples from debates with other philosophical school (especially: the Stoics) of his time. The commentary provides new evidence for Alexander's views on the logic of comparison and is a relatively neglected source for Peripatetic ethics in late antiquity. This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and of the developments of Peripatetic logic and ethics in late antiquity.
Author : Scott Hotton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262378957
An introduction to dynamical systems theory, a detailed mathematical analysis of pairs of Braitenberg vehicles, and a look at how these results apply to the study of physical and biological organisms. Powering the concept of a Braitenberg vehicle, developed in 1984 by the Italian-Austrian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg, is the idea that simple systems can produce complex behaviors. A pair of interacting Braitenberg vehicles is simple, but they can meander, wind around, and follow each another in a number of ways. In this book, Scott Hotton and Jeff Yoshimi show how dynamical systems theory—in particular the theory of open dynamic systems—can be used to analyze pairs of these vehicles in great detail. The result of the authors’ long-standing collaboration at the intersection of mathematics, philosophy, cognitive science, and biology, The Open Dynamics of Braitenberg Vehicles offers a rigorous mathematical foundation for embodied cognition, especially when it comes to two-way interactions between an agent and its environment. Following an introduction to dynamical systems theory, and the most detailed mathematical analysis of Braitenberg vehicles to date, Hotton and Yoshimi discuss how their results can be applied to the study of physical and biological systems. They also describe their work's relevance to debates in the philosophy of embodied cognitive science. Combining the best features of embodied and representational approaches to cognitive science, complete with code and simulations, The Open Dynamics of Braitenberg Vehicles provides an extremely accessible and visually rich look into the workings and applications of open dynamical systems.
Author : Tasaku Tsunoda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110517051
This is a cross-linguistic exploration of the use of clause linkage markers in causal, conditional, and concessive sentences. Employing a five-level classification of clause linkage based on semantic and pragmatic grounds, it shows that, within individual languages different markers exhibit different distributions on the five levels. Also, the rich evidence presented from seventeen languages from many parts of the world documents that these distributions present commonalities as well as differences across the languages of the sample.
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Author : Luke Thurston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040035868
What is at stake in Freud’s enduring preoccupation with a process supposedly diverting sexuality into cultural activity? In this study, a leading scholar of psychoanalysis and literature re-opens the old question of sublimation in a critical reading that explores one of the last remaining puzzles of Freudian thought. Using the rigorous framework provided by Jean Laplanche, Luke Thurston resituates sublimation as an unfinished Freudian concept bound up with a much wider history of philosophical and literary reflection. Exploring the misunderstanding and reinvention of sublimation both in accounts of cultural history and in Lacan’s celebrated reading of Antigone, Thurston challenges some of the prevalent assumptions still seen in contemporary “theory.” Thurston links his critical investigation of psychoanalysis to modernist literature, discovering both parallels and alternatives to Freud’s idea of sublimation in little-known works by May Sinclair and David Jones. The study concludes by arguing that these modernist artists, both of whom were significantly affected by trauma during the First World War, produced work radically at odds with the established canons of representation, and that this “anti-hermeneutic” art can be linked to a “Copernican” sublimation, a process not controlled by the ego but vitalizing it and decentring its habitual structure.
Author : Cliff Goddard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191645427
In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai Lama on happiness. The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.
Author : A. Covello
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9812708790
This volume gives a comprehensive overview of the latest research activity undertaken in the field of theoretical nuclear physics in Italy. Several topics of current interest are included: from nuclear matter and nuclear structure to nuclear astrophysics and quarkOCogluon plasma."
Author : Martin Vath
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2000-01-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780824703424
"Develops and applies topological and algebraic methods to study abstract Volterra operators and differential equations arising in models for ""real-world"" phenomena in physics, biology, and a host of other disciplines. Presents completely new results that appear in book form for the first time."
