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The Sacrifice of Isaac, Caravaggio, 1603 Opening symposium 2007-2008 "Authority. The right or power to command, to be obeyed From antiquity to the present day, in every culture, authority - sovereignty, the sacred, the book, dogma - has founded social …

This colloquium closes the cycle of lectures entitled "Why and how the world is going digital", taught by Prof. Gérard Berry, holder of the 2007-2008 Liliane Bettencourt Chair in Technological Innovation. The morning will be devoted to three presentations …

Terrorism is a highly topical issue, mobilizing not only political players, but also the various fields of social science. The historical section, whose aim was to identify the shifts and diversity of forms of political violence over time, focused on a …

The word "vision", said Thomas Aquinas, can have two meanings: in the first, it signifies perception by the organ of sight; in the second, it is applied to internal perception due to the imagination or intellect (Summa theologica , I, q. LVII, a, 1). In …

In computer science, the notion of the bit, an elementary unit of information, is often discussed in abstract terms, dissociated from a particular implementation. This is the case, for example, when discussing Boolean operations. This is justified by the …