1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791570703321

Autore

O'Byrne Anne E (Anne Elizabeth), <1966->

Titolo

Natality and finitude [[electronic resource] /] / Anne O'Byrne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97573-0

9786612975738

0-253-00477-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Birth (Philosophy)

Finite, The

Philosophical anthropology

Continental philosophy

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

Introduction: Sophocles' wisdom -- Historicity and the metaphysics of existence: Heidegger -- Generating life, generating meaning: Dilthey -- Philosophy and action: Arendt -- On the threshold of finitude: Nancy -- Afterword: what would the clone make of us?



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150748203321

Autore

al-Ghad£anfari Muntasir Abd al-Qadir

Titolo

Anasir al-qissah fi al-shir al-abbasi / / Muntasir Abd al-Qadir al-Ghad£anfari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amman : , : Dar Majdalawi lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi, , 2011

ISBN

9957-614-10-X

Edizione

[al-T£abah al-ula.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

813.5

Soggetti

Arabic literature - 750-1258 - History and criticism

Abbasids

Lingua di pubblicazione

Arabo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263).

Nota di contenuto

المحتويات; الفصل الأول:الحدث...الحبكة; الفصل الثاني:الشخصية; الفصل الثالث:الزمان والمكان; الفصل الرابع:السرد; الفصل الخامس:في الفن الشعري; جريدة المصادر والمراجع



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910901883803321

Autore

Lee Edward A. <1957->

Titolo

Plato and the nerd : the creative partnership of humans and technology / / Edward Ashford Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2017]

ISBN

0-262-34121-2

0-262-34120-4

Descrizione fisica

1 PDF (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The MIT Press

Disciplina

601

Soggetti

Technology - Philosophy

Computer science

Creative ability

Popular works.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; I Yang; 1 Shadows on the Wall; 1.1 Nerds; 1.2 Artificial and Natural; 1.3 Design and Discovery; 1.4 Engineering and Science; 2 Inventing Laws of Nature; 2.1 The Unknown Knowns; 2.2 Models of Nature; 2.3 Models Are Wrong; 3 Models of Models of Models of Models of Things; 3.1 Technological Tapestries; 3.2 Complexity Simplified; 3.3 Transitivity of Models; 3.4 Reductionism; 4 Hardware Is Ephemeral; 4.1 Hard and Soft; 4.2 Semiconductors; 4.3 Digital Switches; 4.4 Logic Gates; 4.5 Logic Diagrams; 4.6 Digital Machines; 5 Software Endures; 5.1 Self-Scaffolding

5.2 Instruction Set Architectures5.3 Programming Languages; 5.4 Operating Systems; 5.5 Libraries, Languages, and Dialects; 5.6 The Cloud; 6 Evolution and Revolution; 6.1 Normal Engineering; 6.2 Crisis and Failure; 6.3 Crisis and Opportunity; 6.4 Models in Crisis; II Yin; 7 Information; 7.1 Pessimism Becomes Optimism; 7.2 Information-Processing Machines; 7.3 Measuring Information; 7.4 Continuous Information; 8 The Limits of Software; 8.1 Universal Machines?; 8.2 Undecidability; 8.3 Cardinality; 8.4 Digital Physics?; 9 Symbiosis; 9.1 The Notion of a Continuum

9.2 The Impossible Becomes Possible9.3 Digital Psyche?; 9.4 Symbiotic



Partnership; 9.5 Incompleteness; 10 Determinism; 10.1 Laplace's Demon; 10.2 The Butterfly Effect; 10.3 Incompleteness of Determinism; 10.4 The Hard and the Soft of Determinism; 11 Probability and Possibility; 11.1 The Bayesians and the Frequentists; 11.2 Continuums, Again; 11.3 Impossibility and Improbability; 12 Final Thoughts; 12.1 Dualism; 12.2 Obstacles; 12.3 Autonomy and Intelligence; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans.