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Managing Climate Change. Climate, Growth and Equitable Development


Nicholas Stern


Climate change has been the source of immense challenges for ethical, economic or political analysts. We are aware of the scale of the action required to be taken and the areas in which that action is needed namely efficient energy use, low carbon technologies or...

Publication date: 2013-09-08
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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The Horns of Moses. Setting the Bible in its Historical Context


Thomas Römer


Developments in literary methodologies and archaeology have led scholars to question the traditional conception of biblical chronology and historiography. The starting point for Maximalist studies is the idea that the biblical story should simply be taken as true....

Publication date: 2013-09-08
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Physics of the Earth's Interior


Barbara Romanowicz


Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions: the extent of certain recent natural disasters and their dramatic consequences have reminded us of the power of terrestrial phenomena and of the need for scientific research to understand the Earth’s dynamics more fully. Over...

Publication date: 2013-06-17
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Can China Think?


Anne Cheng


Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual...

Publication date: 2013-05-22
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Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Metaphysical Knowledge


Claudine Tiercelin


Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it...

Publication date: 2013-05-22
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Robotics: Hephaestus does it again


Jean-Paul Laumond


It was when I was preparing this lecture that I discovered that roboticists had a god: Hephaestus. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was a talented craftsman. Enamoured with Athena, he attempted to woo her, in vain. The goddess of knowledge withstood the advances of the...

Publication date: 2013-02-12
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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Data Sciences: From First-Order Logic to the Web


Serge Abiteboul


Relational database management systems, using as foundations a formal language, first-order logic, serve as mediators between individuals and machines. With the increase in the volume of data disseminated on the Web, a “collective intelligence” is currently emerging,...

Publication date: 2013-01-23
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Publisher: Collège de France
Collection: Leçons inaugurales
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