MY LIFE WORK, AIDED BY MANY OTHERS

History of my life and work

■ Born in Indonesia in 1930, as a small child I already exhibited an interest in animals, perhaps stimulated by my first conscious observation. When I was 3 or 4 years old our gardener unearthed a nest of young black snakes, then told me to leave. So at my 6th birthday my parents presented me with Huey’s book De dierenwereld in een notedop 1935. This book became my bible and determined my futur...

Being Lived by My Life

The subsidiary title of this book is "A sort of biography"; and the publisher's note describes it as "a new departure in auto-biography". Both these claims are true. Dr. Berg, an analyst and the author of several technical works, has chosen to write his autobiography in much the same style as one might expect to hear a life story from the analyst's couch. How far he has succeeded, and how far h...

My Life

Description of My Previous Work

Today, advanced technological products often employ information and communication technology to enhance their functionality and quality. Therefore, nowadays software plays an important role in the control of many technical systems such as electrical and mechanical devices, technical processes in the chemical industry, or a modern automobile. In the future, software-intensive systems are in addi...

Themes in My Philosophical Work

This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. It follows closely the structure of the handout I used as the basis for a talk on this topic at the 2000 meeting of the Austro-Slovene Philosophical Association. The section-headings mention major themes, and various key concepts are indicated by boldface terms in the text. I invoked the notion of supervenience in my doctoral dissertation, Mic...