In 438 alphabetically-arranged essays, this work provides a useful overview of the core
mathematical background for nonlinear science, as well as its applications to key problems …

Philosophy and Computing explores each of the following areas of technology: the digital
revolution; the computer; the Internet and the Web; CD-ROMs and Mulitmedia; databases …

A traditional view of perception and action makestwo assumptions: that the causal flow
betweenperception and action is primarily linear or one-way, and that they are merely …

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the
world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by …

Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is
made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is …

Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial
philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his later philosophy remains shrouded in …

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology
are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's …

A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some
important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best …

Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental
psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive …

The philosophy of information (PI) is a new area of research with its own field of investigation
and methodology. This article, based on the Herbert A. Simon Lecture of Computing and …