Jerome Bruner points out in his prologue to the first volume of the English translation of The Collected Works that Vygotsky flirts with the idea that language creates free will. This paper attempts to consider the influence of the Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza on Vygotsky. An account of Spinoza's anti-Cartesian conception of will is given, to which Vygotsky recognises his indeb...

In this paper we offer a formal definition of Artificial Intelligence and this directly gives us an algorithm for construction of this object. Really, this algorithm is useless due to the combinatory explosion. The main innovation in our definition is that it does not include the knowledge as a part of the intelligence. So according to our definition a newly born baby also is an Intellect. Here...

given the importance of intellect in inference, especially in new issues, it is befitting to study the jurists’ works, such as examining the jurisprudential mode of life (sīra) of fayḍ kāshānī as an influential jurist in the evolution of jurisprudence in proving the above issue. to this end, his various books have been examined on the basis of content analysis method and every one of his legal ...

Editor’s Note: At the 1983 National Conference, there was a special session on Technology Transfer. Six speakers from different industrial organizations presented their personal views on the process of turning the results of AI restarch and development into commercial practice. Unfortunately there was not time to produce and distribute a written record of the Symposium for the attendees. To cor...

The process of mentorship in relationship to the community college professor and the potential to improve and enhance the teaching and learning process is explored in this article. This article suggests that not all community college professors are psychological or intellectually disposed to being or becoming a good mentor. It is put forth that mentoring is a subrole of the community college pr...

Varl???n mahiyeti meselesi, insan?n varl??a hangi aç?dan muhatap oldu?u ile do?rudan ilgilidir. Felsefe tarihinde ortaya ç?km?? olan farkl? ekoller aras?ndaki ayr?m? olu?turan da, temelde bu mesele kar??s?ndaki tutumlar?d?r. Nicholas of Cusa dü?üncesinde varl?k, salt epistemik yetileri vukufiyet kesp edebilece?i bir alan de?ildir. Bundan dolay? Mutlak Varl?k, haliyle kendi mükemmelli?i içerisin...

N THE OTHER ARTICLES in this series the digital computer has been thought of as a purely menial tool—in fact, as a kind of intellectual spade. This, it has been shown, can indeed assist a human scholar who is working on language, by performing for him a series of irksome repetitive tasks: tasks such as counting the number of words in a text, making a concordance of their occurrence, and mechani...

This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promis...