Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is written jointly by Witold Marciszewski, who contributed the introductory and the three subsequent chapters, and Roman Murawski who is the author of the next ones - those concerned with the 19th century and the modern inquiries into formalization, algebraization and mechanization of reasonings. Besides the authors there are other persons, as well as institutions, to whom the book owes its coming into being. The study which resulted in this volume was carried out in the Historical Section of the research project Logical Systems and Algorithms for Automatic Testing of Reasoning, 1986-1990, in which participated nine Polish universities; the project was coordinated by the Departme...

John Dee's Conversations with Angels
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

John Dee's Conversations with Angels

John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time philosophy, and the apocalypse, and argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.

The Maker of Pedigrees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Maker of Pedigrees

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  • Published: 2023-04-04
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

"The practice of genealogy, in particular the work of Jakob Wilhelm Imhoff from Nuremberg, Germany, a prolific and highly respected genealogical author, is a case study in how knowledge was produced and disseminated in the 17th and 18th centuries. During this time much of Europe was in the grip of a genealogical craze. Family lineages, and their display in multiple textual and visual forms, were key instruments in defining dynasties, organizing international relations, and structuring social life at large. Despite genealogy's overall impact on social, cultural, and political life, however, scholars have so far largely failed to investigate the complex knowledge economy that supported all forms of genealogical argumentation. This monograph, in fact, is the first book-length study of post-1600 continental genealogy"--

General Education and the Development of Global Citizenship in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

General Education and the Development of Global Citizenship in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China

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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

General Education has taken center stage in the greater China area (Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China) because of a number of important developments. First, globalization has created both opportunities and challenges for college students. When they graduate and enter the real world, they must have the cultural sensitivities and social skills, in addition to their professional training, to compete in a knowledge-based global economy. Equally significant for institutions of higher education, pressing global problems challenge traditional disciplines and demand new forms of learning that reshapes the boundaries of knowledge. In response to those rapidly changing dynamics, general education has taken an increasingly important role in undergraduate education. As the first English publication on the subject, this anthology brings together a distinguished group of General Education scholars and teachers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.

The Space of Mathematics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

The Space of Mathematics

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Tax Court Memorandum Decisions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1688

Tax Court Memorandum Decisions

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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Contains the full texts of all Tax Court decisions entered from Oct. 24, 1942 to date, with case table and topical index.

The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume explores the intersection between early modern philosophy and the life sciences by presenting the contributions of important but often neglected figures such as Cudworth, Grew, Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius, Stahl, Gallego, Hartsoeker, and More, as well as familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant.

Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 10, issue 1 (Spring 2021)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 10, issue 1 (Spring 2021)

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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Zeta Books

ARTICLES: Patrick BRISSEY, Reasons for the Method in Descartes’ Discours Abstract: In the practical philosophy of the Discours de la Méthode, before the theoretical metaphysics of Part Four and the Meditationes, Descartes gives us an inductive argument that his method, the procedure and cognitive psychology, is veracious at its inception. His evidence, akin to his Scholastic predecessors, is God, a maximally perfect being, established an ontological foundation for knowledge such that reason and nature are isomorphic. Further, the method, he tells us, is a functional definition of human reason; that is, like other rationalists during this period, he holds the structure of reason maps onto ...

Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 723

Kant's Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception

This volume examines (1) the philosophical sources of the Kantian concepts "apperception" and "self-consciousness", (2) the historical development of the theories of apperception and deduction of categories within the pre-critical period, (3) the structure and content of A- as well as B-deduction of categories, and finally (4) the Kantian (and non-Kantian) meaning of "apperception" and "self-consciousness".

The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 825

The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz

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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized around its diverse but interrelated aspects. By pulling together the best specialized work in the many domains to which Leibniz contributed, its ambition is to offer the most rounded picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.