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Luigi Rizzi
The hierarchical nature of linguistic representations and the mapping of syntactic structures
Luigi Rizzi
The hierarchical nature of linguistic representations and the mapping of syntactic structures
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The unbounded nature of our linguistic capacities has inspired the computational approach to language: knowledge of the mother tongue implies implicit mastery of a system of recursive procedures, capable of generating a potentially unlimited set of …
5:00 - 6:00pm
Constituent Authority
Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics
Constituent Authority
Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics
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The poetry of the Gathas: Mysteries of composition, and the composition of mysteries: Compositional techniques of the individual poems, and of the serial generation of the corpus The esoteric dimensions of gathic style. Like other early Indo-European …
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Narrow-mindedness, dogmatism, intolerance and fanaticism are, to varying degrees, forms of confinement in a mental schema. To escape this, we need to gain access to "interpretative plurality": to become capable of "manipulating" our own representations …
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Wittgenstein : Images of the mind
Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge
Wittgenstein : Images of the mind
Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge
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The symposium was organized by Denis Perrin and Jean-Jacques Rosat. Wittgenstein: experience and subjectivity From the manuscripts of the 1930s to the Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology How can language, which is necessarily public and common (and …
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Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms
Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences
Collective wisdom : principles and mechanisms
Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences
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Symposium organized by the Institut du Monde Contemporain . The symposium La sagesse collective : principes et mécanismes (Collective wisdom: principles and mechanisms) will explore the nature, causes and mechanisms of the emerging phenomenon whereby a …
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Authority
Opening symposia
Authority
Opening symposia
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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 …
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Computing and Bioinformatics
Gérard Berry, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt
Computing and Bioinformatics
Gérard Berry, chair Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt
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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 …
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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 …
A Free Energy Principle for the Brain
Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology
A Free Energy Principle for the Brain
Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology
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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 …
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