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"The stack" is a term used in science and technology studies, the philosophy of technology and media studies to describe the multiple interconnected layers that computation depends on at a planetary scale. The term was introduced by Benjamin H. Bratton in a 2014 essay [1] and expanded upon in his 2016 book The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, [2] and has been adapted, critiqued and expande
See also: The stack (model of planetary computation) Benjamin Bratton developed the concept of Planetary Computation which refers both to the global scale of digital infrastructures and also how contemporary scientific and philosophical concepts of the Planetary emerge in relation to computational perception and modeling.
The first nine blocks in the solution to the single-wide block-stacking problem with the overhangs indicated. In statics, the block-stacking problem (sometimes known as The Leaning Tower of Lire (Johnson 1955), also the book-stacking problem, or a number of other similar terms) is a puzzle concerning the stacking of blocks at the edge of a table.
The Stacks Project is an open source collaborative mathematics textbook writing project with the aim to cover "algebraic stacks and the algebraic geometry needed to define them".
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Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (or donkey ) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water.
Susan Haack (/ h æ k /; born 1945) is a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Haack has written on logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Ned Block (ed.), Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, 1981; Mario Bunge and Rubén Ardilla, Philosophy of Psychology, 1987; Paul E. Meehl, "Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology", 1992; Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, 2002