Science in the making: The Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences throughout history (1835–1966)

Book Reviews / Buchbesprechungen / Comptes rendus de lecture

Book Reviews / Buchbesprechungen / Comptes rendus de lecture

Vingt ans après son premier Manifeste pour la philosophie, où il dénonçait le discours sur la « fin » de la discipline, Alain Badiou se rebelle, cette fois-ci, contre la prolifération et « l’existence artificielle excessive » des nouveaux « philosophes » sur la scène médiatique et leur morale conservatrice, tout en poursuivant sa réflexion sur ce qu’est la philosophie, le philosophe, l’Idée. Qu...

Comptes Rendus / Book Reviews

Alex Voorhoeve sets the stage for his book by quoting Plato's Phaedrus in which the “the living, breathing discourse of the man who knows” (1) is deemed superior to the written discourse. Socrates's vindication of the dialogue as the blessed form of philosophical investigation is thus presented as the inspiration for these eleven conversations with prominent thinkers on ethics ― most of them pr...

Comptes Rendus / Reviews

The present volume represents an introduction to the highly interdisciplinary field of natural language processing (NLP), viewed, with the eyes of a computer scientist, primarily as a subfield of artificial intelligence. The book adresses both computer scientists, and linguists who are familiar with the fundamentals of logic programming, as well as all those who are interested in the basic comp...

The atmosphere seen from space / L'atmosphère vue de l'espace - Les numéros thématiques des Comptes rendus - Série Geoscience

Observing the Earth from space has considerably dified our view of the planet and galvanized the th’s sciences. Recent reviews on the Earth’s observas have focused on the ocean (Cazenave and Boucher, 6), the solid Earth or the biosphere. However, space sions are still largely driven by the need to knowmore the structure, composition and dynamics of the osphere. To review the entire field of atm...