Teleology
101Mesopotamian Marriage Law — Marriage Law in Ancient Mesopotamia very much resembled property law. As discerned from Hammurabi s Code, wives were bought and sold in a manner very much resembling slavery. The legal institution of marriage, its rules and ramifications, show… …
102Julian Bigelow — (1913 February 21, 2003 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a pioneering computer engineer.Bigelow obtained a master s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying electrical engineering and mathematics. During World War II, he… …
103History of variational principles in physics — A variational principle in physics is an alternative method for determining the state or dynamics of a physical system, by identifying it as an extremum (minimum, maximum or saddle point) of a function or functional. This article describes the… …
104Conatus — This article is about a term in philosophy. For the Zola Jesus album, see Conatus (album). For the species of fish, see Platycephalus. Conatus (Latin for effort; endeavor; impulse, inclination, tendency; undertaking; striving) is a term used in… …
105Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin …
106Textuality — is a concept in linguistics and literary theory that refers to the attributes that distinguish the text (a technical term indicating any communicative content under analysis) as an object of study in those fields. It is associated in both fields… …
107Errol Harris — Infobox Philosopher region = Western philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = name = Errol Eustace Harris birth = birth date and age|1908|2|19 death = school tradition = Western philosophy main interests =… …
108William C. Wimsatt — is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (previously Conceptual Foundations of Science), and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. He specializes… …
109Arturo Rosenblueth — (1900 1970) est un chercheur mexicain, physiologiste et physicien. Il obtient en 1930 le prix Guggenheim, entre au département de physiologie de l université de Harvard, alors dirigé par Walter Cannon, avec qui il travaillera en 1934 sur les… …
110Téléonomie — La téléonomie (du grec telos, but et nomos, loi) est un terme inventé par Colin S. Pittendrigh en 1958[1], puis repris par de nombreux autres biologistes de renom, dont Jacques Monod dans les années 1970[2],[3],[ …
