Kant, Schiller, Goethe.

Passions of the Sign. Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist (review)

Goethe for prosody

In this paper, we describe the way in which a recording of Goethe’s “Die Leiden des jungen Werther” published on a multimedia CDROM [7] was made accessible for prosody research. The recording is interesting for prosody research because of its prosodic richness as it displays a large variety of registers and speaking styles. Application areas are: development of prosody models for German TTS, un...

Kant V4

The software package KANT V4 for computations in algebraic number elds is now available in version 4. In addition a new user interface has been released. We will outline the features of this new software package.

Friedrich Schiller: {Philosophy of Physiology}

1. Destiny of Man This much will, I think, have been proven firmly enough one day: that the universe were the work of an Infinite Understanding, and were designed according to an excellent plan. Just as it now flows from the design into reality through the almighty influence of divine power, and all powers are active and act on each other, like strings of a thousandvoiced instrument sounding to...

Kant and Cognitive Science

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has a serious claim to be the single most influential figure in the pre20th century history of cognitive research. His influence continues to be so deep-running that in many respects he is the intellectual grandfather of contemporary cognitive science. Consider the widely-held view that sensory input has to be worked up using concepts or concept-like states, or the con...