the revival of aquinas's philosophical and theological thought in modern age has been one of the mental disturbances of thinkers that found aquinas's ideas the best guide for resolving the modern philosophical and theological problems. this attitude to aquinas's ideas, that known as thomism, in 20th century by raising the analytical thomism resulted in a new age of thomism. analy...

I saac Newton would have been a failure as an agile programmer. Instead of sharing his work, New-ton rarely communicated with other workers and hid his results from them for fear they would steal his work. Instead of collaborating, he quarreled with coworkers, particularly Robert Hooke and Gottfried Leibniz, over credit for his discoveries (James Gleick, Isaac Newton, Pantheon, 2003). Newton's ...

Acquiring knowledge from a human expert is a major problem when building a knowledge-based system. Aquinas, an expanded version of the Expertise Transfer System (ETS), is a knowledge-acquisition workbench that combines ideas from psychology and knowledge-based systems research to support knowledge-acquisition tasks. These tasks include eliciting distinctions, decomposing problems, combining unc...

Gyula Klima, Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind (New York: Routledge, 1995) in Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998) 113–17. In this essay I will only deal with Kenny’s charges against Aquinas’s doctrine that directly concern Aquinas’s doctrine of being, namely, the charge of his failure to distinguish “specifi c existence” from “individual being” à la Frege, and the charges against Aquinas’s doctrin...

I am interested in improving software reliability through specification and verification techniques. Recently I have focused on improving the reliability of concurrent programs. Multi-core processors are leading to an increasing number of programs that utilize concurrency. Unfortunately, concurrency bugs tend to be among the most difficult to discover through testing. Therefore to improve the r...

the concept of casualty or the causal argument is a concept that draws attention of the philosophers over the time. among those who consider the causal argument is thomas aquinas, a famous philosopher of the scholastic era. among contemporary muslim philosophers, allameh mohammad hossein tabatabaee, has also worked on this concept. the aim of the paper is to study around the concept of casualty...