Showing posts with label Nancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nancy. Show all posts

Monday, September 28, 2015

On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy (repost)




On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy) by Darren Sheppard and Simon Sparks


English | 1997 | ISBN: 0415147948, 041514793X | 232 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB




This is the first book to consider the increasing importance of Jean-Luc Nancy"s work, which has influenced key thinkers such as Jacques Derrida. All his major works have been translated into English, yet until now little has been made available on his place in contemporary philosophy.




By showing how he situates his work in a contemporary context – the collapse of communism, the Gulf War, and the former Yugoslavia – this outstanding collection reveals how Nancy"s engagement with Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida makes him one of the key contemporary continental philosophers.




Providing new perspectives on the issues of sense, art and community, these essays make it impossible to approach philosophy without reference to the work Jean-Luc Nancy.












Saturday, September 12, 2015

Statistical Multiple Integration: Proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference Held... by Nancy Flournoy




Statistical Multiple Integration: Proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference Held at Humboldt University, June 17-23, 1989 (Contemporary Mathematics) by Nancy Flournoy


English | June 1991 | ISBN: 0821851225 | 289 Pages | DJVU | 2 MB




High dimensional integration arises naturally in two major subfields of statistics: multivariate and Bayesian statistics. Indeed, the most common measures of central tendency, variation, and loss are defined by integrals over the sample space, the parameter space, or both. Recent advances in computational power have stimulated significant new advances in both Bayesian and classical multivariate statistics. In many statistical problems, however, multiple integration can be the major obstacle to solutions.This volume contains the proceedings of an AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Statistical Multiple Integration, held in June 1989 at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.