IV.—THE PHILOSOPHY OF SAMUEL BUTLER

A Scheduling Philosophy for Multi - processing Systems 1 , 2 Butler

A collection of basic ideas is presented, which have been evolved by various workers over the past four years to provide a suitable framework for the design and analysis of multiprocessing systems. The notions of process and state vector are discussed, and the nature of basic operations on processes is considered. Some of the connections between processes and protection are analyzed. A very gen...

Structures of desire: Postanarchist kink in the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany

It's a beautiful universe ... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.-Samuel Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand The problem of power is one of the major philosophical and political preoccupations of the modern West. It is a problem which has drawn t...

'A vehicle of symbols and nothing more'. George Romanes, theory of mind, information, and Samuel Butler.

Today's 'theory of mind' (ToM) concept is rooted in the distinction of nineteenth-century philosopher William Clifford between 'objects' that can be directly perceived and 'ejects', such as the mind of another person, which are inferred from one's subjective knowledge of one's own mind. George Romanes, a founder with Charles Darwin of the discipline of comparative psychology, considered the min...

Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, and the Construction of a Jewish Tradition of Philosophy

During the thirteenth century, the Jews in southern France (called “Provence” in Hebrew sources) experienced a cultural revolution. Following the arrival of Maimonides’ writings and the translation of his Guide of the Perplexed into Hebrew, a very distinctive tradition of philosophy and exegesis was developed. Basic works of Graeco-Arabic and Arabic philosophy were translated into Hebrew, in re...

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