Process in Reality: A logical offering

The conjunction of process and reality is familiar from the original theory of A. N. Whitehead and the subsequent development of process philosophy and metaphysics by Nicholas Rescher. Classical logic, however, is either ignored or stated to be inappropriate to a discussion of process. In this paper, I will show that the value of a process view of reality can be enhanced by reference to a new, transconsistent logic of reality that is grounded in the physical properties of energy in its various forms. These properties justify a principle of dynamic antagonism or opposition that explicates the phenomena of change at all levels of reality. It can be, accordingly, a preferred logic for understanding the dynamics of real processes

Reasoning with Contexts in Description Logics

Harmelen, F.A.H. van [Promotor]Schlobach, K.S. [Copromotor

Gatherings in biosemiotics

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Modal Action Logics for Reasoning about Reactive Systems

Meyer, J-.J.Ch. [Promotor]Riet, R.P. [Promotor]van de Wieringa, R. [Promotor

Abstract Consequence and Logics - Essays in Honor of Edelcio G. de Souza

Edelcio G. de Souza is a Brazilian logician and philosopher who has researches in the domains of abstract logic, non-classical systems, philosophy of science and the foundations of mathematics. This book is in his honor with the purpose of celebrating his 60th birthday. It contains some articles connected with the above topics and other subjects in logical investigations

Thinking According to Finance: A Critique of Financial Temporality

There are assumptions that undergird the discipline and practice of political economy. We address this by focusing on one contracted point of tension within political economy that is of great concern post-GFC. Namely, how are the presuppositions concerning the nature of temporality within the field of political economy determinate of deficient accounts of speculation, value, and even financialization more broadly? Thus, we argue that the temporal assumptions of political economy are abstractions that demand a demystifying critique. In particular, we contest linear notions of time that presume 1) a sequence of moments and 2) the idea that the future – as such – exists. We appeal to the speculative theories of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze to provide both a critique of temporality and also a prescriptive theoretical apparatus for constructive engagement with financial temporality. This takes place, first, through an elaboration of Bergson’s conception of duration and in Deleuze’s Three Syntheses of Time. Once elaborated, we, second, use our theoretical apparatus as a heuristic to critically engage three prominent political economic persuasions: the Marxian, Keynesian, and Critical Finance traditions. Each of these open an aperture on finance that is valuable but limited. These limitations reveal how and in what ways each are formalist projects trapped within their own schematic limitations because of the ways they think about time and finance in extensional terms; which in turn impacts how they understand the logic(s) of finance. Therefore, in order to avoid reproducing these schematic limitations, we, third, close our project by speculatively proposing a novel conception of financial temporality: what we call the ‘techno-temporal logic of finance’. This concept allows us to sidestep the limitations revealed in the Marxian, Keynesian, and Critical Finance approaches, while also constructively indicating novel ways we might be able to think according to finance

The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram

This thesis identifies and analyses the key creative protocols in translocal performance practice, and ends with suggestions for new forms of transversal live and mediated performance practice, informed by theory. It argues that ontologies of emergence in dynamic systems nourish contemporary practice in the digital arts. Feedback in self-organised, recursive systems and organisms elicit change, and change transforms. The arguments trace concepts from chaos and complexity theory to virtual multiplicity, relationality, intuition and individuation (in the work of Bergson, Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, Massumi, and other process theorists). It then examines the intersection of methodologies in philosophy, science and art and the radical contingencies implicit in the technicity of real-time, collaborative composition. Simultaneous forces or tendencies such as perception/memory, content/ expression and instinct/intellect produce composites (experience, meaning, and intuition- respectively) that affect the sensation of interplay. The translocal event is itself a diagram - an interstice between the forces of the local and the global, between the tendencies of the individual and the collective. The translocal is a point of reference for exploring the distribution of affect, parameters of control and emergent aesthetics. Translocal interplay, enabled by digital technologies and network protocols, is ontogenetic and autopoietic; diagrammatic and synaesthetic; intuitive and transductive. KeyWorx is a software application developed for realtime, distributed, multimodal media processing. As a technological tool created by artists, KeyWorx supports this intuitive type of creative experience: a real-time, translocal “jamming” that transduces the lived experience of a “biogram,” a synaesthetic hinge-dimension. The emerging aesthetics are processual – intuitive, diagrammatic and transversal

Towards a Rhetorical Ethos: Refractions of Classical Rhetoric in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory

In this thesis I attempt to facilitate a fluid conversation between the ‘rhetorical turn’ in literary and critical theory, and the burgeoning historical interest in rhetoric in fields such as Classical and Renaissance intellectual history. I take issue with those empirical histories of rhetoric that tend to rehearse a canon of programmatic treatises from Aristotle to Cicero and Quintilian, identifying the historical significance of rhetorical practice with the explicit statements of its canonical authors. I argue, rather, that the historiography of rhetoric requires a genealogy from the perspective of its influence on the present and the complex sensibility and multiple orientations it has inspired in its adherents. Evoking critics, philosophers, and political theorists such as Jena Romantics, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt as case studies, I argue that the public orientation of the rhetorical tradition has survived in the ambivalent conceptual persona of the orator or rhetor, inspiring a model of the intellectual as possessing a complex ethos and eclectic cultural competence. I argue that in the discourse of these theorists of modernity, the rhetor as communicator survives as a paradoxical possibility, an ethic of civic engagement and social intervention and a solitary, ‘untimely’ and transcendent figure beholden to no ideological standard or normative cultural code