Author: L E Medlock
Publisher: Stone Soul Publishing
ISBN: 1739322819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
IT TAKES A DEMON TO CATCH A DEMON LONDON, 1888 When her mentor is brutally murdered, Hazel Locke is dragged into the investigation as the newest agent at Her Majesty's Paranormal Investigation Agency. To solve the case, she must summon a demon partner called a Hound, a creature who can track down others of its kind. But the demon she summons is unlike any she's encountered before, and he wants nothing to do with her or the Agency. As the body count rises, Hazel realizes there's more at stake than getting justice for her mentor. A ruthless killer haunts the streets of London, and to stop them, she and her demon will have to put their differences aside and work together to solve the crime - no matter where the journey takes her... The Agent's Demon is the first book in the historical paranormal series, Locke & Steel.
The Agent's Demon
Author: L E Medlock
Publisher: Stone Soul Publishing
ISBN: 1739322819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
IT TAKES A DEMON TO CATCH A DEMON LONDON, 1888 When her mentor is brutally murdered, Hazel Locke is dragged into the investigation as the newest agent at Her Majesty's Paranormal Investigation Agency. To solve the case, she must summon a demon partner called a Hound, a creature who can track down others of its kind. But the demon she summons is unlike any she's encountered before, and he wants nothing to do with her or the Agency. As the body count rises, Hazel realizes there's more at stake than getting justice for her mentor. A ruthless killer haunts the streets of London, and to stop them, she and her demon will have to put their differences aside and work together to solve the crime - no matter where the journey takes her... The Agent's Demon is the first book in the historical paranormal series, Locke & Steel.
Publisher: Stone Soul Publishing
ISBN: 1739322819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
IT TAKES A DEMON TO CATCH A DEMON LONDON, 1888 When her mentor is brutally murdered, Hazel Locke is dragged into the investigation as the newest agent at Her Majesty's Paranormal Investigation Agency. To solve the case, she must summon a demon partner called a Hound, a creature who can track down others of its kind. But the demon she summons is unlike any she's encountered before, and he wants nothing to do with her or the Agency. As the body count rises, Hazel realizes there's more at stake than getting justice for her mentor. A ruthless killer haunts the streets of London, and to stop them, she and her demon will have to put their differences aside and work together to solve the crime - no matter where the journey takes her... The Agent's Demon is the first book in the historical paranormal series, Locke & Steel.
Autonomous Agents
Author: Alfred R. Mele
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195150430
Category : Autonomy (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Alfred Mele examines the concept of self-control on its terms, followed by an examination of its bearing on one's actions, beliefs, and emotions. He considers how, by understanding self-control, man can shed light on autonomous behaviour.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195150430
Category : Autonomy (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Alfred Mele examines the concept of self-control on its terms, followed by an examination of its bearing on one's actions, beliefs, and emotions. He considers how, by understanding self-control, man can shed light on autonomous behaviour.
Angels and Demons
Author: Victor Knowles
Publisher: College PressPub Company
ISBN: 9780899006758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Publisher: College PressPub Company
ISBN: 9780899006758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Demons of Science
Author: Friedel Weinert
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319317083
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319317083
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world.
CKBS ’90
Author: S.M. Deen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447118316
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This is the first international conference aimed at bringing the distributed database and distributed AI (DAD experts together, from both academia and industry, in order to discuss the issues of the next generation of knowledge based systems, namely Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems or CKBS for short. As the area of CKBS is new, we intended it to be an ideas conference - a conference where interesting new ideas, rather than results from completed projects, are explored, discussed, and debated. The conference was organised by the DAKE Centre. This is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Keele for research and development in Data and Knowledge Engineering (DAKE). The Centre draws most of its strength from the Department of Computer Science which also provides administrative support for the activities of the Centre, although its membership is spread over several departments. The Centre has three main streams of research activities, namely: Large Knowledge Bases Software Engineering Neural Networks The Large Knowledge Base group, which provided the focus for this conference, is active in a number of research areas relating to data and knowledge bases, spanning from distributed databases to cooperations among data and knowledge bases. The current research topics include integration of data and knowledge bases and coopera ting knowledge based systems, with several major projects in the latter (see the entries under the Poster Session given below).
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447118316
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This is the first international conference aimed at bringing the distributed database and distributed AI (DAD experts together, from both academia and industry, in order to discuss the issues of the next generation of knowledge based systems, namely Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems or CKBS for short. As the area of CKBS is new, we intended it to be an ideas conference - a conference where interesting new ideas, rather than results from completed projects, are explored, discussed, and debated. The conference was organised by the DAKE Centre. This is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Keele for research and development in Data and Knowledge Engineering (DAKE). The Centre draws most of its strength from the Department of Computer Science which also provides administrative support for the activities of the Centre, although its membership is spread over several departments. The Centre has three main streams of research activities, namely: Large Knowledge Bases Software Engineering Neural Networks The Large Knowledge Base group, which provided the focus for this conference, is active in a number of research areas relating to data and knowledge bases, spanning from distributed databases to cooperations among data and knowledge bases. The current research topics include integration of data and knowledge bases and coopera ting knowledge based systems, with several major projects in the latter (see the entries under the Poster Session given below).
Dragons & Demons
Author: Trudi Jaye
Publisher: Star Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Ever feel like you're a lobster, about to be dropped in a pot of hot water? That's me. Right now. Alert level ten. Code red. DEFCON 1. I'm stuck here at SIG headquarters in New York City. Director Holden's breathing down my neck, his creepy new sidekick is looking at me like I'm a magical lollypop he'd like to lick, and I haven't even seen the secret records room on level two. Every spidey-sense I have is telling me to run. Except I can't listen to my well-honed gut instincts this time. I have to find Frankie's heirloom - or I'll literally die - and then figure out whatever terrifying plan the director is putting in place to use the demon energy he's become obsessed with. It seems simple... but it's not. Nothing is going according to plan. I wish I wasn't here. I wish I was back at the apartment, playing video games with Blade and eating chocolate chip cookies dipped in milk. I guess we don't always get what we wish for - unless you've got Mr. Fookes in a mini-toaster-genie-bottle around your neck... If you like urban fantasy action and romance, buy now to join Hazel, the nerdy-girl demon hunter with a death-wish, on another adventure...
Publisher: Star Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Ever feel like you're a lobster, about to be dropped in a pot of hot water? That's me. Right now. Alert level ten. Code red. DEFCON 1. I'm stuck here at SIG headquarters in New York City. Director Holden's breathing down my neck, his creepy new sidekick is looking at me like I'm a magical lollypop he'd like to lick, and I haven't even seen the secret records room on level two. Every spidey-sense I have is telling me to run. Except I can't listen to my well-honed gut instincts this time. I have to find Frankie's heirloom - or I'll literally die - and then figure out whatever terrifying plan the director is putting in place to use the demon energy he's become obsessed with. It seems simple... but it's not. Nothing is going according to plan. I wish I wasn't here. I wish I was back at the apartment, playing video games with Blade and eating chocolate chip cookies dipped in milk. I guess we don't always get what we wish for - unless you've got Mr. Fookes in a mini-toaster-genie-bottle around your neck... If you like urban fantasy action and romance, buy now to join Hazel, the nerdy-girl demon hunter with a death-wish, on another adventure...
The Epistemological Spectrum
Author: David K. Henderson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019161937X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
David Henderson and Terence Horgan set out a broad new approach to epistemology, which they see as a mixed discipline, having both a priori and empirical elements. They defend the roles of a priori reflection and conceptual analysis in philosophy, but their revisionary account of these philosophical methods allows them a subtle but essential empirical dimension. They espouse a dual-perspective position which they call iceberg epistemology, respecting the important differences between epistemic processes that are consciously accessible and those that are not. Reflecting on epistemic justification, they introduce the notion of transglobal reliability as the mark of the cognitive processes that are suitable for humans. Which cognitive processes these are depends on contingent facts about human cognitive capacities, and these cannot be known a priori.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019161937X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
David Henderson and Terence Horgan set out a broad new approach to epistemology, which they see as a mixed discipline, having both a priori and empirical elements. They defend the roles of a priori reflection and conceptual analysis in philosophy, but their revisionary account of these philosophical methods allows them a subtle but essential empirical dimension. They espouse a dual-perspective position which they call iceberg epistemology, respecting the important differences between epistemic processes that are consciously accessible and those that are not. Reflecting on epistemic justification, they introduce the notion of transglobal reliability as the mark of the cognitive processes that are suitable for humans. Which cognitive processes these are depends on contingent facts about human cognitive capacities, and these cannot be known a priori.
Intelligent Virtual Agents
Author: Yukiko Nakano
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642331971
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2012, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in September 2012. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 31 short papers and 18 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IVAs on learning environments; emotion and personality; evaluation and empirical studies; multimodal perception and expression; narrative and interactive applications; social interaction; authoring and tools; conceptual frameworks.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642331971
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2012, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in September 2012. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 31 short papers and 18 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IVAs on learning environments; emotion and personality; evaluation and empirical studies; multimodal perception and expression; narrative and interactive applications; social interaction; authoring and tools; conceptual frameworks.
FM'99 - Formal Methods
Author: Jeannette M. Wing
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540665889
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 955
Book Description
Formal methods are coming of age. Mathematical techniques and tools are now regarded as an important part of the development process in a wide range of industrial and governmental organisations. A transfer of technology into the mainstream of systems development is slowly, but surely, taking place. FM’99, the First World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems, is a result, and a measure, of this new-found maturity. It brings an impressive array of industrial and applications-oriented papers that show how formal methods have been used to tackle real problems. These proceedings are a record of the technical symposium ofFM’99:alo- side the papers describingapplicationsofformalmethods,youwill ndtechnical reports,papers,andabstracts detailing new advances in formaltechniques,from mathematical foundations to practical tools. The World Congress is the successor to the four Formal Methods Europe Symposia, which in turn succeeded the four VDM Europe Symposia. This s- cession re?ects an increasing openness within the international community of researchers and practitioners: papers were submitted covering a wide variety of formal methods and application areas. The programmecommittee re?ects the Congress’s international nature, with a membership of 84 leading researchersfrom 38 di erent countries.The comm- tee was divided into 19 tracks, each with its own chair to oversee the reviewing process. Our collective task was a di cult one: there were 259 high-quality s- missions from 35 di erent countries.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540665889
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 955
Book Description
Formal methods are coming of age. Mathematical techniques and tools are now regarded as an important part of the development process in a wide range of industrial and governmental organisations. A transfer of technology into the mainstream of systems development is slowly, but surely, taking place. FM’99, the First World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems, is a result, and a measure, of this new-found maturity. It brings an impressive array of industrial and applications-oriented papers that show how formal methods have been used to tackle real problems. These proceedings are a record of the technical symposium ofFM’99:alo- side the papers describingapplicationsofformalmethods,youwill ndtechnical reports,papers,andabstracts detailing new advances in formaltechniques,from mathematical foundations to practical tools. The World Congress is the successor to the four Formal Methods Europe Symposia, which in turn succeeded the four VDM Europe Symposia. This s- cession re?ects an increasing openness within the international community of researchers and practitioners: papers were submitted covering a wide variety of formal methods and application areas. The programmecommittee re?ects the Congress’s international nature, with a membership of 84 leading researchersfrom 38 di erent countries.The comm- tee was divided into 19 tracks, each with its own chair to oversee the reviewing process. Our collective task was a di cult one: there were 259 high-quality s- missions from 35 di erent countries.
The Externalist Challenge
Author: Richard Schantz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110915278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of knowledge, justification, thought and language. What is at stake, is the very form that theories in epistemology and the philosophy of mind ought to take. This volume is a collection of original contributions of leading international authors reflecting on the present state of the art concerning the exciting controversies between internalism and externalism.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110915278
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of knowledge, justification, thought and language. What is at stake, is the very form that theories in epistemology and the philosophy of mind ought to take. This volume is a collection of original contributions of leading international authors reflecting on the present state of the art concerning the exciting controversies between internalism and externalism.