The technique of imaging was first introduced by Lewis (1976), in order to provide a novel account of the probability of conditional propositions. In the intervening years, imaging has been the object of significant interest in both AI and philosophy, and has come to be seen as a philosophically important approach to probabilistic updating and belief revision. In this paper, we consider the pos...

© 2005 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0512-010-9 N explicit engagement with the philosophy of science plays almost no role in the training of physicists or in physics research. What little the student learns about philosophical issues is typically learned casually, by a kind of intellectual osmosis. One picks up ideas and opinions in the lecture hall, in the laboratory, and in colla...

* » by BARBARA WILSON W. H. Auden's For the Time Being is "A Christmas Oratorio," combining elements of the traditional Christmas pageant and the medieval miracle play with the oratorio form. It uses contemporary language and popular 6ong techniques to present a story of great scope that is uniquely historical as well as modern. Varying verse forms and meters are employed as the equivalent to m...

The physiologist and neo-Kantian philosopher Johannes von Kries (18531928) wrote one of the most philosophically important works on the foundation of probability after P. S. Laplace and before the First World War, his Principien der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (1886, repr. 1927). In this book, von Kries developed a highly original interpretation of probability, which maintains it to be both log...

Based on philosophical considerations, interpretations which connect concepts from the cognitive universe are presented. The resulting abstract theory is downward compatible with basic elements of Shannon Theory. Though philosophically based, the theory is quantitative and besides pragmatic with a multitude of possible applications, some of which are indicated. Major attention is payed to the c...

This paper describes the development of free/open-source morphological descriptions for Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the state of Maharashtra in India. We describe the conversion and usage of an existing Latin-based lexicon for our Devanagari-based analyser, taking into account the distinction between full vowels and diacritics, that is not adequately captured by the Latin. Marathi...

A new interest in the God of the orthodox Hebrew-Christian tradition has arisen recently among contemporary philosophers. This new interest in theism can be traced to the demise of logical positivism, a lack of intellectual rigor in theological liberalism, and the increased sophistication of theistic arguments. Two arguments illustrate the many contemporary proofs for theism that have attracted...

Conceptual Modeling is a discipline of great relevance to several areas in Computer Science. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level ontology, proposed in [4,5], to evaluate the ontological correctness of conceptual models and to develop guidelines for how the constructs of a modeling language (UML) should be used in...

UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. In a series of papers [1,2,3] we have been using the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level ontology, proposed in [4,5], to evaluate the ontological correctness of a conceptual UML class model and to develop guidelines for how the constructs of the UML should be used in concept...

The exponentially increasing body of work on the human brain has not only taught us a lot about how the brain does cognition, it has also had a profound influence on other disciplines that study cognition and behaviour. A notable example, interestingly enough, is philosophy. A small movement dedicated to applying neuroscience to traditional philosophical problems and using philosophical methods...