The Philosophers' Process is a Markovian version of the famous Dining Philosophers Problem introduced by Dijkstra as a model for resource sharing. It can be viewed as a reversible interacting particle system. This paper deals with the problem of computing its reversible measure in the case of a large but nite number of sites. This equilibrium measure is a Markov eld on the underlying graph of i...

Artificial life (ALife) is the attempt to create artificial instances of life in a variety of media, but primarily within the digital computer. As such, the field brings together computationally-minded biologists and biologically-minded computer scientists. I argue that this new field is filled with interesting philosophical issues. However, there is a dearth of philosophers actively conducting...

The paper delineates the place of J. G. Hamann’s interpretation Socrates in view preceding tradition and context thought Enlightenment, as well influence his appropriation Socratic problematics on philosophy 18–19th centuries.

INTRODUCTION On Apollo’s ancient temple at Dephi three Greek maxims were inscribed whose importance was reaffirmed in Roman times, preserved in gilt letters. The most famous of these, “Know thyself,” forms the focus of this essay and constitutes one of philosophy’s most central ideals. If Heraclitus gave the injunction to selfknowledge its earliest surviving expression, recommending “to all men...

Heraclitus Organizations exist to enable ordinar_)f people to do extraordinaq~ thiqs. Organizatioq public andprirfate, are not exclusivelj4 ecouomicproduction units. Thqp are also complex arenas for people derwlopirlg their career liws aud anchorirlg their Iitws in a social t1'orId outside the family Rob Kling 442

The brain has long been an object of interest and fascination for philosophers. Some philosophers, such as Descartes, even offered proposals as to how it worked. But philosophers, using the tools of their profession, do not have the ability themselves to investigate the operation of the brain any more than they have tools to investigate the cell, the atom, or the solar system. With respect to t...

Because of the immensity of Augustine’s corpus and the complex intellectual patrimony that informs it, attempts to place him within the history of philosophical traditions are often partial and in need of supplementation. In treating below of Augustine’s engagement with Aristotelianism, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Stoicism, I shall be drawing attention to particular topics, lexical poin...

Mathematics and philosophy have historically enjoyed a mutually beneficial and productive relationship, as a brief review of the work of mathematician-philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, Bolzano, Dedekind, Frege, Brouwer, Hilbert, Gödel, and Weyl easily confirms. In the last century, it was especially mathematical logic and research in the foundations of mathematics which, to a significant...

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