A pragmatic phenomenological approach in environmental planning Preface This thesis is the result of a year of research into the philosophical backgrounds of the design of our landscape. The main challenge was the integration of philosophical theories and ideas with concrete issues of environmental planning. My interest in both abstract theorising and concrete changes in the landscape led to a ...

the time evaluation of quantum entropy in a four-level double- type atomic system is theoretically investigated. quantum entanglement of the atom and its spontaneous emission fields is then discussed via quantum entropy. it is found that the degree of entanglement can be increased by the quantum interference induced by spontaneous emission. the phase dependence of the atom-field entanglement is...

§0. AlonzoChurch’s contributions to philosophy and to thatmost philosophical part of logic, intensional logic, are impressive indeed. He wrote relatively few papers actually devoted to specifically philosophical issues, as distinguished from related technical work in logic. Many of his contributions appear in reviews for The Journal of Symbolic Logic, and it can hardly be maintained that one fi...

Introduction Metaphilosophy is all the rage nowadays. Philosophers are becoming increasingly self-conscious about their methodology, as this volume showcases. And rightly so—it is part of our job description to put thinking under the microscope, and that obviously should include our philosophical thinking. Much as we want philosophers of physics, of biology, of mathematics, and so on to scrutin...

This article is an illustration of the construction of coherent and generalized intelligent states which has been recently proposed by us for an arbitrary quantum system [1]. We treat the quantum system submitted to the infinite square well potential and the nonlinear oscillators. By means of the analytical representation of the coherent states à la Gazeau-Klauder and those à la Klauder-Perelom...

Contextualism in epistemology is the view that on different occasions of utterance, the English verb know expresses different propositional attitudes—attitudes that vary in the required degree or kind of justification. For terminological convenience, I will distinguish between two contextualist theses. First, there is what Iʼll call linguistic contextualism (LC). By linguistic contextualism, I ...

he Applied Physics Laboratory, in its role as Technical Direction Agent for several Navy radar development programs, applies a coherent data collection and analysis methodology when evaluating system performance. Programs that have benefited from this approach include the Mark 92 Modification 6 (MK 92 MOD 6) fire control system, the Phalanx close-in weapon system, and the AN/SPS-48E surveillanc...