French historiographical Spinozism, 1893–2018. Delbos, Gueroult, Vernière, Moreau

A Historiographical Examination of Information Systems

As the Information Systems (IS) field enters its fourth decade of evolution, the time is right to provide a historiographical examination of this discipline. Methodological and thematic trends are gauged through a quarterly analysis of 2098 IS articles published in eight leading journals and the ICIS Proceedings in the 12-year period between 1985-1996. The results of this study show that signif...

Lagrangian-Dual Functions and Moreau--Yosida Regularization

In this paper, we consider the Lagrangian dual problem of a class of convex optimization problems. We first discuss the semismoothness of the Lagrangian-dual function φ. This property is then used to investigate the second-order properties of the Moreau-Yosida regularization η of the function φ, e.g., the semismoothness of the gradient g of the regularized function η. We show that φ and g are p...

Whigs in Court: Historiographical Problems with Expert Evidence

Medical causes of death in preindustrial Europe: some historiographical considerations.

ODERN science and medicine are human constructs. Thus, they constitute a system of thought and representation of reality, not reality itself. Emerging in Europe during the nineteenth century, they promoted a profound transformation in the dominant ways of representating external reality that was exported around the world. The Western framework for understanding scientific and medical reality oc...

The Roots of African Nationalism: A Conceptual and Historiographical Discourse

The literature on African nationalism is replete with conceptual categories that describe the various stages and types of African nationalism and the resistance to colonial rule. Among the foremost scholars on African nationalism are J. Ade Ajayi and Terrence Ranger. The works of these scholars appear to have created a conceptual disagreement on the roots of African nationalism. The article ana...