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Beyond Alignment: Applying Systems Thinking to Architecting Enterprises is a comprehensive reader about how enterprises can apply systems thinking in their enterprise architecture practice, for...

The contributors to this volume engage with issues of normativity within naturalised philosophy. The issues are critical to naturalism as most traditional notions in philosophy, such as knowledge,...

Imagine a robot trying to size up a difficult situation, to find a way of responding. Its sensors receive streams of information from which it tries to reach judgements. If it relies on deduction...

This volume sheds new light on the multifarious personality of Bruno de Finetti and his outstanding contributions not only to probability and statistics, but also to economics and philosophy. Rather...

Causal inference is perhaps the most important form of reasoning in the sciences. A panoply of disciplines, ranging from epidemiology to biology, from econometrics to physics, make use of probability...

Growing out of a course in the history of mathematics given to school teachers, the present book covers a number of topics of elementary mathematics from both the mathematical and historical...

This book introduces elementary probability through its history, eschewing the usual drill in favour of a discussion of the problems that shaped the field's development. Numerous excerpts from the...

La Asociaci?n de Filosof?a e Historia de la Ciencia del Cono Sur (AFHIC) es una asociaci?n sin fines de lucro, fundada el 5 de mayo de 2000, en Quilmes, Argentina, durante el acto de clausura del II...

An abstract elementary class is a class of structures of the same vocabulary (like a class of rings, or a class of fields), with a partial order that generalizes the relation "A is a substructure (or...

An abstract elementary class (AEC) is a class of structures of a fixed vocabulary satisfying some natural closure properties. These classes encompass the normal classes defined in model theory and...

This volume is a collection of papers that explore various areas of common interest between philosophy, computing, and cognition. The book illustrates the rich intrigue of this fascinating recent...

Cette nouvelle ?dition contient de nouveaux chapitres pour les ?l?ves de licence, o? la progression est volontairement lente et chaque ?tape est expliqu?e. Le chapitre sur le tri par interclassement...

This is a volume containing papers honoring Patrick Suppes (1922-2014). All contributors have worked directly with Suppes or/and with his ideas. The book also contains one of the last papers by...

In Challenge and Response: Justification in Ethics, Carl Wellman coined 'conduction' and 'conductive' to name a distinctive kind of defeasible reasoning and argument-neither deductive nor...

This Festschrift is published on the occasion of Gerhard Heinzmann's 60th birthday. Its title "Construction" refers to Heinzmann's philosophical options (intuitionism, dialogical pragmatism,...

This book comprises a collection of 12 research articles pertaining to the infl uence of phenomenological analysis on current issues of epistemology, this one meant as a philosophy of science. Ten of...

"Control and eradication of endemic infectious diseases in cattle" provides the key elements that should be addressed in the establishment of bovine disease control and eradication programmes. The...

This book contains around of a score of essays that examine or use Popper?s fallibilist philosophy of science from various points of view. The opening sextet includes a new solution of the problem of...

Criminological Theory: Just the Basics is a refreshingly brief, affordable and straightforward introduction to classic theories of crime causation. While other textbook treatments of criminological...

Esse livro aborda inovadoramente de alguns problemas filos?ficos fundamentais, como os da realidade do mundo externo, do ceticimo, do livre arb?trio, das outras mentes, da identidade pessoal e do...

Logic and the Philosophy of Science are disciplines that avoid stopping and wandering around in circles on the same topics. Their role in dedicating themselves to scientific and applicative subjects...

La axiomatizaci?n de la geometr?a eucl?dea llevada a cabo por David Hilbert (1862-1943) en su monograf?a Fundamentos de la geometr?a (1899) es considerada no s?lo una de sus contribuciones m?s...

This book studies the Talmudic approach to Delegation. We develop logical models for the basic Talmudic views of delegation. The Talmudic approaches to the relationships between the Principal and his...

Depth-bounded Reasoning. Classical Propositional LogicAuthor: Marcello D'AgostinoPublisher: College PublicationsPublication Date: Nov 11, 2024Number of Pages: 252 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This new edition contains new chapters for undergraduates, where the progression is purposefully slow and every step explained. The chapter on merge sort has been rewritten for better clarity and new...

This festschrift is in honour of a leading philosopher of argumentation. His theories of argument structure, whilst rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, have been influential in computer science and...

Dialogical Logic was suggested at the end of the 1950s by Paul Lorenzen and then worked out by Kuno Lorenz. The basic idea f the dialogical approach to logic, inspired by Wittgenstein's "meaning as...

Non-classical views about important issues in logic and its philosophy are a distinctive trait of Shahid Rahman's work. This volume has been designed, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, as a...

This book provides a framework for presenting algebras and frames arising as semantic structures for formal languages and for proving relationships between the structures. For this purpose a discrete...

Pol?miques et constructifs ? la fois, faits de reprises et de traductions, de controverses et de confrontations, les ?changes entre les savants britanniques et fran?ais ont jou? un r?le essentiel...