On New Rhetoric, John Henry Newman and the Language of Metaphors: Implications for Branding Higher Education

This project interprets how John Henry Newman\u27s (1801-1890) system of thought informs the philosophical and theoretical grounds for rhetorical praxis in the marketplace. His seminal lessons in An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) and The Idea of a University (1873 ed.) demonstrate the metaphoric power of words with regard for diverse modes of epistemology. Newman\u27s scholarship on the unifying role of imagery grounds his theory of language on three claims: a holistic engagement of knowledge, communicable notions, and formative praxis. These essential principles correspond with fostering identity and promoting a public good. Specifically, Newman\u27s philosophical perspective and rhetorical strategies apply to critical marketing issues related to branding Catholic liberal arts education by advancing current trends in integrated marketing communication. The first chapter discusses how Newman\u27s philosophy of communication responds to the work of his intellectual predecessors spanning classical to new rhetoric. This broad epistemological point of view substantiates the central coordinates for his rhetorical theory based upon the philosophies of history, life, and knowledge. Newman\u27s heuristic perspective substantiates this project\u27s interpretation of his theory of language as a model for applying new rhetorical strategies to educational systems. In Chapter two, a historical review of 19th century England and the Oxford Movement characterizes the cultural, political climate of Newman\u27s day. This chapter identifies diverse philosophical schools of thought in order to understand Newman\u27s commitments to new rhetoric within the context of liberal education. Chapters three, four, and five develop the subject matter of metaphor while framing key communication concepts. These sections discuss Newman\u27s philosophical foundations and rhetorical practice for communicating figurative language to promote unification amidst diversity. The central terms and core components of his work are interpreted as underpinning the identity of a Catholic liberal arts university. The final chapter suggests how Newman\u27s theory of language informs the dominant discourse and modern trends in scholarship relevant to integrated marketing communication. It applies Newman\u27s model to challenge contemporary branding issues concerning the rhetoric of twenty-first century educational systems

Compositional Probabilistic Analysis of Temporal Properties over Stochastic Detectors

Run-time monitoring is a vital part of safety-critical systems. However, early-stage assurance of monitoring quality is currently limited: it relies either on complex models that might be inaccurate in unknown ways, or on data that would only be available once the system has been built. To address this issue, we propose a compositional framework for modeling and analysis of noisy monitoring systems. Our novel 3-value detector model uses probability spaces to represent atomic (non-composite) detectors, and it composes them into a temporal logic-based monitor. The error rates of these monitors are estimated by our analysis engine, which combines symbolic probability algebra, independence inference, and estimation from labeled detection data. Our evaluation on an autonomous underwater vehicle found that our framework produces accurate estimates of error rates while using only detector traces, without any monitor traces. Furthermore, when data is scarce, our approach shows higher accuracy than non-compositional data-driven estimates from monitor traces. Thus, this work enables accurate evaluation of logical monitors in early design stages before deploying them

The Dictates of Reason: Bacon, Ramus, and the Naturalization of Invention

This paper will discuss the history of argumentation, specifically the location of the canon of invention in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At that time, scientists, logicians, and philosophers began to seek new means of constructing and presenting arguments. New logical schemes, such as set forth by Ramus in his Logike or Bacon in the Novum Organon, attempted to place the invention and structure of arguments on a more rational, epistemologically secure basis. This paper will explore the shifts in rhetoric and logic in Bacon\u27s and Ramus\u27s work, with some reference to Wilson\u27s Rule of Reason and Art of Rhetoric

Topics of Thought

This book concerns mental states such as thinking that Obama is tall, imagining that there will be a climate change catastrophe, knowing that one is not a brain in a vat, or believing that Martina Navratilova is the greatest tennis player ever. Such states are usually understood as having intentionality, that is, as being about things or situations to which the mind is directed. The contents of such states are often taken to be propositions. The book presents a new framework for the logic of thought, so understood—an answer to the question: Given that one thinks (believes, knows, etc.) something, what else must one think (ditto) as a matter of logic? This should depend on the propositions which make for the contents of the relevant thoughts. And the book defends the idea that propositions should be individuated hyperintensionally, i.e. not just by the sets of worlds at which they are true (as in standard ‘intensional’ possible worlds semantics), but also by what they are about: their topic or subject matter. Thus, the logic of thought should be ‘topic-sensitive’. After the philosophical foundations have been presented in Chapters 1−2, Chapter 3 develops a theory of Topic-Sensitive Intentional Modals (TSIMs): modal operators representing attitude ascriptions, which embed a topicality or subject matter constraint. Subsequent chapters explore applications ranging from mainstream epistemology (dogmatism, scepticism, fallibilism: Chapter 4), to the nature of suppositional thinking and imagination (Chapter 5), conditional belief and belief revision (Chapter 6), framing effects (Chapter 7), probabilities and indicative conditionals (Chapter 8)

Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science

A collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers: ** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith ** The Bounds of Axiomatisation, Graham White ** Rethinking Boundaries, Wojciech Zelaniec ** Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition, Jean Petitot ** A Mereotopological Definition of 'Point', Carola Eschenbach ** Discreteness, Finiteness, and the Structure of Topological Spaces, Christopher Habel ** Mass Reference and the Geometry of Solids, Almerindo E. Ojeda ** Defining a 'Doughnut' Made Difficult, N .M. Gotts ** A Theory of Spatial Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries, A.G. Cohn and N.M. Gotts ** Mereotopological Construction of Time from Events, Fabio Pianesi and Achille C. Varzi ** Computational Mereology: A Study of Part-of Relations for Multi-media Indexing, Wlodek Zadrozny and Michelle Ki