The wisdom to doubt [[electronic resource] ] : a justification of religious skepticism / / J.L. Schellenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456720003321
• Autore: Schellenberg J. L. <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-8014-6513-3; 0-8014-7851-0; 0-8014-6239-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 211/.7
• Soggetti: Religion - Philosophy; Belief and doubt; Skepticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Finitude and the future: seven modes of religious skepticism -- pt. 2. Cradles of conviction: the modes applied and fortified -- pt. 3. God and the gaps: the modes illustrated and vindicated.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as a species, there is no reasonable choice but to withhold judgment about the existence of an ultimate salvific reality. Schellenberg defends this conclusion against arguments from religious experience and naturalistic arguments that might seem to make either religious belief or religious disbelief preferable to his skeptical stance. In so doing, he canvasses virtually all of the important recent work on the epistemology of religion. Of particular interest is his call for at least skepticism about theism, the most common religious claim among philosophers.The Wisdom to Doubt expands the author's well-known hiddenness argument against theism and situates it within a larger atheistic argument, itself made to serve the purposes of his ; broader skeptical case. That case need not, on Schellenberg's view, lead to a dead end but rather functions as a gateway to important new insights about intellectual tasks and religious possibilities.

Stability of stationary sets in control systems with discontinuous nonlinearities [[electronic resource] /] / V.A. Yakubovich, G.A. Leonov, A. Kh. Gelig

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782119603321
• Autore: I͡Akubovich V. A (Vladimir Andreevich)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2004
• ISBN: 1-281-93440-2; 9786611934408; 981-279-423-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: Series on stability, vibration, and control of systems. Series A ; ; v. 14
• Altri autori (Persone): LeonovG. A (Gennadiĭ Alekseevich); GeligArkadiĭ Khaĭmovich
• Disciplina: 629.836
• Soggetti: Control theory; Nonlinear control theory; Set theory; System analysis; Differential equations, Nonlinear; Engineering mathematics; Engineering systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Preface ; List of Notations ; 1. Foundations of Theory of Differential Equations with Discontinuous Right-Hand Sides ; 1.1 Notion of Solution to Differential Equation with Discontinuous Right-Hand Side; 1.1.1 Difficulties encountered in the definition of a solution. Sliding modes 1.1.2 The concept of a solution of a system with discontinuous nonlinearities ; accepted in this book. Connection with the theory of differential equations with multiple-valued right-hand sides; 1.1.3 Relation to some other definitions of a solution to a system with discontinuous right-hand side 1.1.4 Sliding modes. Extended nonlinearity. Example ; 1.2 Systems of Differential Equations with Multiple-Valued Right-Hand Sides (Differential Inclusions); 1.2.1 Concept of a solution of a system of differential equations with a multivalued right-hand side the local existence theorem the theorems on continuation of solutions and continuous dependence on initial values 1.2.2 ""Extended"" nonlinearities ; 1.2.3 Sliding modes; 1.3 Dichotomy and Stability 1.3.1 Basic definitions ; 1.3.2 Lyapunov-type lemmas ; 2. Auxiliary Algebraic Statements on Solutions of Matrix Inequalities of a Special Type; 2.1 Algebraic Problems that Occur when Finding Conditions for the Existence of Lyapunov Functions from Some Multiparameter Functional Class. Circle Criterion. Popov Criterion
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a development of the frequency-domain approach to the stability study of stationary sets of systems with discontinuous nonlinearities. The treatment is based on the theory of differential inclusions and the second Lyapunov method. Various versions of the Kalman-Yakubovich lemma on solvability of matrix inequalities are presented and discussed in detail. It is shown how the tools developed can be applied to stability investigations of relay control systems, gyroscopic systems, mechanical systems with a Coulomb friction, nonlinear electrical circuits, cellular neural networks