Literate education in classical Athens

Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens

The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...

Understanding visuals in HIV/AIDS education in South Africa: differences between literate and low-literate audiences.

This article reports on a research project aimed at determining the scope and nature of differences in picture comprehension between literate and low-literate audiences in the context of HIV and AIDS. Structured interviews were held with 30 low-literate and 24 literate adult speakers of African languages. The responses were coded and analysed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Consistent wi...

Epistemic democracy in classical Athens : Sophistication , diversity , and innovation

Analysis of democracy in Athens as an “epistemic” (knowledge-based) form of political and social organization. Adapted from Ober, Democracy and Knowledge, chapters 1-4. Jon Elster (ed.), volume on “Collective Wisdom” (to be published in English and French). © Josiah Ober. [email protected]

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Literate Engines in Lisp

An engine is a programming language abstraction that implements timed preemption. Engines form a useful mechanism where bounded computation is needed. We describe an implementation of engines in Common Lisp and illustrate its functionality. We conclude with a discussion on how engines are being used in an ongoing project about goal-driven explanation. This paper is also an exercise in writing a...