Robert Bellah as Modernization Theorist: Comments on Matteo Bortolini’s <i>A Joyfully Serious Man</i>

Comments on Robert Reymond’s Supralapsarianism

Comments on Robert Langland ’ s Lecture : “ Endoscopy and Beyond ”

Below I have put into writing my thoughts in connection with your lecture “Endoscopy and Beyond”† and especially the Section called “a pipe dream”. Also I have tried to digest your more recent letters and numerical experiment and I address at least some of the points that you raise in the last section. There are no doubt a number of inaccuracies below but I think most of them are good approxima...

On Prediction in Theorist

Thielscher, M., On prediction in Theorist (Research Note), Artificial Intelligence 60 (1993) 283-292. Theorist is a well-known framework and system for nonmonotonic reasoning which provides mechanisms for dealing with both explanations for observations and skeptical prediction. Its current implementation, developed by David Poole and co-workers, uses an algorithm for prediction which holds for ...

Some Properties of the Q-adic Vandermonde Matrix Vaidyanath Mani and Robert E. Hartwig

The Vandermonde and con uent Vandermonde matrices are of fundamental signi cance in matrix theory. A further generalization of the Vandermonde matrix called the q-adic coe cient matrix was introduced in [V. Mani and R. E. Hartwig, Lin. Algebra Appl., to appear]. It was demonstrated there that the q-adic coe cient matrix reduces the Bezout matrix of two polynomials by congruence. This extended t...

Pierre Bourdieu as a Post - cultural Theorist

Pierre Bourdieu is without a doubt one of the main figures in the sociological study of culture today. Yet, for a theorist so central to the subject matter of cultural studies, it is clear that there is no coherent account of Bourdieu’s stance in relation to the ‘concept of culture’ among current commentators. More importantly, in the sister-discipline of anthropology, Bourdieu’s is thought of ...