The Muʿtazila was a school of rationalist Islamic theology, known as kalām, and one of the important currents of Islamic thought. Muʿtazilīs stressed the primacy of reason and free will, and developed an epistemology, ontology and psychology which provided a basis for explaining the nature of the [...]

englischDoes artificial intelligence need a psyche? How does AI change our self-image? Why does not anyone raise these urgent questions that will soon determine our everyday lives? - The explanation lies in the societal cognitive deficit: self-motivated researchers do not receive attention for [...]

englischProceedings of the Twelfth International ISKO Conference 6-9 August 2012 Mysore, India

englischThe 15th International ISKO Conference has been held in Porto (Portugal) under the topic Challenges and opportunities for KO in the digital age. ISKO has been organizing biennial international conferences since 1990, in order to promote a space for debate among Knowledge Organization (KO) [...]

Die 7. Internationale Konferenz der International Society for Knowledge Organization fand vom 10. bis 13. Juli 2002 in Granada, Spanien, statt und beschäftigte sich mit den Herausforderungen der Wissensorganisation im beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert.

These proceedings record most of the talks and posters presented at the International UDC Seminar 2015 "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" that took place on 29-30 October in Lisbon (Portugal).

englischThe identification and contextual definition of concepts is the core of knowledge organization. The full expression of comprehension is accomplished through the use of an extension device called the facet. A facet is a category of dimensional characteristics that cross the hierarchical array [...]

Im Dezember 1990 fand in Rom eine Konferenz der International Society for Knowledge Organization zum Thema "Documentary Languages and Databases" statt. Die Kongressbeiträge liegen im dritten Band der Serie Advances in Knowledge Organization gesammelt vor.

Der Band "Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization" veröffentlicht die Tagungsbeiträge der sechsten Internationalen Konferenz der International Society for Knowledge Organization. Sie fand vom 10. bis 13. Juli 2000 in Toronto statt.

englischFaceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End User are proceedings of the sixth International UDC Seminars that took place on 14-15 September in London (United Kingdom). The Seminars are devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a [...]

Nicht Sprache oder Physis, sondern der andere Glaube machte lange die christliche Differenzzuschreibung aus. Die vorliegende Studie beleuchtet aus historischer Perspektive und auf empirischer Basis, wie religiöse Alterität in deutschen Geschichtsbüchern konstruiert und immer weiter getragen wurde. [...]

L’un des objets de ce travail est de réinterroger les interprétations qui ont cours à propos d’une histoire inégalement traitée par la recherche. L’historiographie des relations entre l’Allemagne et l’Empire ottoman adopte presque exclusivement le point de vue allemand. Très peu d’études reposent [...]

englischIn this meta-essay, the author, a visionary inspired by cybernetics, probes the causes of intelligence in our world, with some old questions revealing surprising answers. He advocates a humanistic social order that he calls sapiocracy and, in a ‘Buberian Dialogue’, outlines his comprehensive [...]