Télécharger le livre :  The Horns of Moses. Setting the Bible in its Historical Context
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Developments in literary methodologies and archaeology have led scholars to question the traditional conception of biblical chronology and historiography. The starting point for Maximalist studies is the idea that the biblical story should simply be taken as true....

Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2013-09-08
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
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Télécharger le livre :  Physics of the Earth's Interior
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Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions: the extent of certain recent natural disasters and their dramatic consequences have reminded us of the power of terrestrial phenomena and of the need for scientific research to understand the Earth’s dynamics more fully. Over...

Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2013-06-17
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
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Télécharger le livre :  Can China Think?
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Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual...

Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2013-05-22
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphysical Knowledge
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Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it...

Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2013-05-22
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
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Télécharger le livre :  Robotics: Hephaestus does it again
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It was when I was preparing this lecture that I discovered that roboticists had a god: Hephaestus. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was a talented craftsman. Enamoured with Athena, he attempted to woo her, in vain. The goddess of knowledge withstood the advances of the...

Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2013-02-12
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
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Télécharger le livre :  Data Sciences: From First-Order Logic to the Web
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Relational database management systems, using as foundations a formal language, first-order logic, serve as mediators between individuals and machines. With the increase in the volume of data disseminated on the Web, a “collective intelligence” is currently emerging,...

Editeur : Collège de France
Parution : 2013-01-23
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
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