Descartes’s Mathematical Thought

2003-11-30

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Author: C. Sasaki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402017469
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan. Especially, it shows what the concept of "mathesis universalis" meant before and during the period of Descartes and how it influenced the young Descartes. In fact, it was the most fundamental mathematical discipline during the seventeenth century, and for Descartes a key notion which may have led to his novel mathematics of algebraic analysis.

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

2021-09-20

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Author: Burt Hopkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000293238
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 697

Volume XVIII. Special Issue: Gian-Carlo Rota and The End of Objectivity, 2019

Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part II

2011-09-15

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Author: Andreas Koenig
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642238637
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 703

The four-volume set LNAI 6881-LNAI 6884 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2011, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2011. Part 2: The total of 244 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The 70 papers of Part 2 are organized in topical sections on web intelligence, text and multimedia mining and retrieval, intelligent tutoring systems and e-learning environments, other / misc. intelligent systems topics, methods and techniques of artificial and computational intelligence in economics, finance and decision making, workshop on seamless integration of semantic technologies in computer-supported office work (sistcow), innovations in chance discovery, advanced knowledge-based systems, recent trends in knowledge engineering, smart systems, and their applications.

Branching Off

2009-01-01

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Author: Vlad Alexandrescu
Publisher: Zeta Books
ISBN: 9731997431
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language

2017-03-02

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Author: Arielle Saiber
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351933671
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what Bruno believed to be an infinite universe-its qualities and vicissitudes-into the world of language, Bruno forged a system of 'figurative' vocabularies: number, form, space, and word. This verbal and symbolic system in which geometric figures are seen to underlie rhetorical figures, is what Saiber calls 'geometric rhetoric.' Through analysis of Bruno's writings, Saiber shows how Bruno's writing necessitates a crafting of space, and is, in essence, a lexicon of spatial concepts. This study constitutes an original contribution both to scholarship on Bruno and to the fields of early modern scientific and literary studies. It also addresses the broader question of what role geometry has in the formation of any language and literature of any place and time.

Platonisms

2007

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Author: Kevin Corrigan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158413
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292

By questioning the modern categories of Plato and Platonism, this book offers new ways of reading the Platonic dialogues and the many traditions that resonate in them from Antiquity to Post-Modernity.

Narrating Postmodern Time and Space

1997-01-01

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Author: Joseph Francese
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791435137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Although Morrison, Doctorow, and Tabucchi vary in their stylisitic responses to these changes, their narratives propose a collective recovery of the past into a future-oriented present and serve as examples of how literature can intervene in history, rather than merely reflecting and acquiescing to it.

The a priori in the Thought of Descartes

2017-05-11

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Author: Jan Palkoska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443893579
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 408

It has been acknowledged that, while Descartes’s usage of the term “a priori” is at odds with the now-current Kantian meaning, it also fails to correspond to the standard Aristotelian notion. However, there is, as yet, little agreement as to the exact positive meaning Descartes associates with the term. As such, this book offers a clear and historically adequate account of this disputed issue. Descartes’s concept of apriority is interpreted as resulting from an interplay of two trends: development of a universal method of discovery based upon Descartes’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of heuristic procedures in mathematics, and a substantial transformation of the Renaissance-Aristotelian conception of scientific reasoning. This interpretation stems from a fresh and innovative account of some central and controversial topics of Descartes scholarship and from a historically-informed outline of the situation in mathematics and in philosophy of science in Descartes’s times. The book will thus contribute to a better understanding of several fundamental issues in the philosopher’s thought. It will also help to shed light upon the challenging and strangely neglected question of why Kant decided to employ the term “a priori” in a way which differs so dramatically from the once well-established Aristotelian usage.

Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis

1881

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Author: Kungl. Vetenskaps-societeten i Uppsala
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : de
Pages : 730

Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models and Applications

2008-09-22

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Author: John Darzentas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540878815
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a dynamic field that is constantly expanding into new application areas, discovering new research challenges and facilitating the devel- ment of innovative products. Today’s information overload and rapid technological advancement raise needs for effective management of the complexity and heteroge- ity of knowledge, for intelligent and adaptable man–machine interfaces and for pr- ucts and applications that can learn and take decisions by themselves. Although the mystery of human-level intelligence has just started to be uncovered in various int- disciplinary fields, AI is inspired by the respective scientific areas to explore certain theories and models that will provide the methods and techniques to design and - velop human-centered applications that address the above-mentioned needs. This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2008), the official meeting of the Hellenic Society for Artificial Intelligence (EETN). Previous conferences were held at the University of Piraeus (1996), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002), at the University of the Aegean (2004) and at the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas) and the University of Crete (2006).