Marjorie Ann Reid

Ann H . Reid and Thomas G . Fanning Flu VIRUS Capturing a Killer

Understanding Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid offers a powerful challenge to Hume and his skeptical system. In “Thomas Reid on Epistemic Principles,” William Alston gives an explanation of that challenge and concludes in favor of a Reidian-inspired thesis. I argue, however, that Alston’s thesis is a diluted version of Reid’s radical position, one that Reid’s principles cannot accommodate. Thus, I conclude that, because Alston’s...

Art - Reid (E)

501 It has been widely accepted that spiking neurons code information in their firing rates1. A related assumption is that each neuron serves as an independent channel transmitting information from one stage to another. In principle, however, much more information can be coded in the activity of a neuronal ensemble if temporal correlations between neurons are also used to code additional inform...

Sam Reid

Pascal’s mechanical calculator and Babbage’s Analytic Engine set the stage for a great deal of modern computing machinery. Modern versions of these concepts were finally realized in von Neumann’s architecture in about 1950. However, the science of computing does not depend on physical implementations of these ideas, but rather on virtual machines—that is, abstractions that perform computations ...

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