Aaron Temkin Beck

Aaron T. Beck: the Cognitive Revolution in Theory and Therapy

Aaron T. Beck is one of the leading clinical theorists of the last half century. Coming of age at a time when dynamic theory was monolithic and psychoanalysis the dominant method of treatment, he began his career by seeking to confirm the primacy of unconscious motivations and ended up formulating a theory of disorder that emphasized the role of inaccurate beliefs and errors in thinking that we...

Owsei Temkin 1902-2002.

Trade-offs, Transitivity, and Temkin †

The last few years have seen a number of new and important publications in moral theory. Arguably none more important than Larry S. Temkin’s Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning. This fascinating work highlights and explores in depth a seemingly fundamental inconsistency in our own axiological beliefs. Put roughly, the inconsistency arises given our general wi...

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We discuss and give elementary proofs of results of Brion and of LawrenceVarchenko on the lattice-point enumerator generating functions for polytopes and cones. While this note is purely expository, its contains a new proof of Brion’s Theorem using irrational decompositions.

Dataflow Predication Aaron

Predication facilitates high-bandwidth fetch and large static scheduling regions, but has typically been too complex to implement comprehensively in out-of-order microarchitectures. This paper describes dataflow predication, which provides per-instruction predication in a dataflow ISA, low predication computation overheads similar to VLIW ISAs, and low complexity out-of-order issue. A twobit fi...