Patent law was built for an era when invention was slow, costly and uncertain. But as AI compresses discovery timelines and ...

The life of one of Britain’s most influential philosophers and logicians is set to be the subject of a feature-length screenplay, thanks to the efforts of a De Montfort University (DMU) Leicester PhD ...

Isaac Newton is among the most famous personalities in science. The legend of an apple falling on his head, leading him to develop his law of universal gravitation, is also equally popular. We all ...

With a $281,104 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), researchers at the University of Iowa and Western Kentucky University collaborated to ...

Synthese Vol. 199, No. 1/2, December 2021 On Ramsey’s reason to amend Principia Mathematica’s logicism and Wittgenstein’s reaction This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In the ...

THE third volume of this work has followed very closely upon the second, which was only published last year, and is in every respect a worthy successor to it. It is mainly concerned with the theory of ...

ABSTRACT: The work analyzes the basic assumption in Mach’s principle, namely that the inertia of material bodies is determined by their gravitational interaction with distant masses in the universe.

ABSTRACT: The work analyzes the basic assumption in Mach’s principle, namely that the inertia of material bodies is determined by their gravitational interaction with distant masses in the universe.

We are sometimes inclined to make celebrities out of intellectuals despite—or perhaps precisely because of—their producing work we can never hope to understand. Bertrand Russell’s oddly old-fashioned ...

Jason Yip explains the significance and uniqueness of the Shu Li Ge Zhi (數理格致) manuscript by Li Shanlan (李善蘭), one of the earliest Chinese translations of Newton’s work, archived in the SOAS Special ...