Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, Les Marchands de doute

Naomi Oreskes

Models in science may be used for various purposes: organizing data, synthesizing information, and making predictions. However, the value of model predictions is undermined by their uncertainty, which arises primarily from the fact that our models of complex natural systems are always open. Models can never fully specify the systems that they describe, and therefore their predictions are always...

De l'oprateur de trace dans les jeux de Conway

In this report, we propose a game semantics model of intuitionistic linear logic with a notion of brackets and a trace operator. This model is a revised version of Conway games augmented with an algebraicly defined gain which enable to describe well bracketed strategies. We then show the existence of a free cocommutative comonoid in the category of Conway. To conclude, we propose a new model of...

Les rongeurs de la region de Tehran

End Times

Historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, authors of Merchants of Doubt, have written a new book as ambitious as it is concise. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future is told from the perspective of a Chinese historian several centuries in the future, looking back at our current time and attempting to explain to readers the irrationality of our behavior. In the ...

Etat actuel de nos connaissances sur les argasidés de l'Iran