Bergson leitor de lucrécio: as implicações existenciais do determinismo

Psychology and Metaphysics from Maine De Biran to Bergson

Introduction What can psychology, understood as a study of the nature of mental phenomena, tell us about metaphysics, understood as an account of the nature of being and of the most general properties of the world? At a certain degree of generality this question is itself a metaphysical one: how can what we know about our own minds tell us something about the world? But the meaning of the quest...

The Socratic Bergson

Tecnologias e redes informacionais e suas implicações sobre a força de trabalho no Brasil

The use of information technology networks and its impact on the labor force by means of continued education at a distance is but a few of the most appropriate ways of carrying out an analysis and identification – all assisted by theoretical construct – of the changes that are now taking place in our so called information/knowledge society. It has been, therefore, the main purpose of this work ...

Análise do Impacto do Gerador de Conjuntos de Dados em Experimentos de Deduplicação de Dados

Using tools to create synthetic datasets is the only solution for evaluating data duplication algorithms when real datasets are not available. However, the evaluation results may be affected by the diversity and levels of parameters available in such tools. Our goal is to verify which parameters and levels impact more on the results of deduplication experiments. Hence, we perform factorial proj...

Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...