The scientific and academic contributions of the late William N. Schoenfeld (1915–1996) are large and, together with his personal qualities as a researcher, thinker, and teacher, supply the themes for this memorial essay on his work and life.

According to the view that Peacocke elaborates in A Study of Concepts (1992), a concept can be individuated by providing the conditions a thinker must satisfy in order to possess that concept. Hence possessions conditions for concepts should be specifiable in a way that respects a non-circularity constraint. In a more recent paper “Implicit Conceptions, Understanding and Rationality” (1998a) Pe...

This paper proposes a general system for computationintensive graph mining tasks that find from a big graph all subgraphs that satisfy certain requirements (e.g., graph matching and community detection). Due to the broad range of applications of such tasks, many single-threaded algorithms have been proposed. However, graphs such as online social networks and knowledge graphs often have billions...

Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates biological life individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether to what extent Hobbes may be regarded first biopolitical philosopher. I investigate this question by performing a close reading political texts comparing them some most influential theories on biopolitics proposed...