Chorégraphie philosophique

Un protocole de coordination d'agents introspectifs pour la chorégraphie dynamique de services

We propose in our work to model a dynamic approach for service composition. The studied approach -service choreographyrelies on the decentralized collaboration of a set of services which aim is to achieve a specific goal. In our work, this goal consists to satisfy needs in software services freely expressed by human users (non predefined through a composition plan). The collaborations of servic...

Voltaire's Fables of Discretion: The Conte philosophique in Le Taureau blanc

Book Review:Ricoeur Paul, La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli, (L’ordre philosophique), Paris: Seuil, 2003

Errors of Probability in Historical Context

This article outlines some of the mistakes made in the calculus of probability, especially when the discipline was being developed. Such is the character of the doctrine of chances that simple-looking problems can deceive even the sharpest minds. In his celebrated Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités (Laplace 1814, p. 273) the eminent French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) said:

Writing the Case—Pinel as Psychiatrist

introduction P hilippe Pinel’s Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mentale ou la manie, published in 1802, is the cardinal book of aliénisme (the French word for the nascent field of psychiatry), and the work that, according to the myth of the birth of rational psychiatry, breaks with the ancient medical practices of treating the mentally ill. In it, Pinel defines the psychiatrist’s fi...