WebGregory Bateson (né le 9 mai 1904 à Grantchester, Royaume-Uni – mort le 4 juillet 1980 à San Francisco) est un anthropologue, psychologue, épistémologue américain.Influencé par la cybernétique, la théorie des groupes et celle des types logiques, il s'est beaucoup intéressé à la communication (humaine et animale), mais aussi aux fondements de la …

WebWilliam James. William James (New York, 11 gennaio 1842 – Tamworth, 26 agosto 1910) è stato uno psicologo e filosofo statunitense di origine irlandese.Egli fu presidente della Society for Psychical Research dal 1894 al 1895.. Insieme a Charles Sanders Peirce, James fondò la scuola filosofica del pragmatismo, ed è anche citato come uno dei fondatori della …

WebWillem is een jongensnaam van Germaanse oorsprong. Het is een variant van de in het Nederlands taalgebied weinig voorkomende naam Wilhelm. Deze naam bestaat uit twee delen: wil en helm.Wil betekent 'de wil', 'het willen', 'het streven', en helm betekent 'bedekker, beschermer'. De twee elementen samen zouden dus 'met de wil zo sterk als …

WebGregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).. In Palo Alto, California, Bateson and colleagues developed …

WebPersonal life. Mapother was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Louisa (née Riehm) and William Reibert Mapother Sr (c.1938–2006). His father was an attorney, bankruptcy consultant, and judge in Louisville between 1967 and 1970. William Sr. died on June 22, 2006 as a result of lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. Mapother Jr. is a first cousin of …

WebPrinceton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its distinctive …

WebSystems theory is manifest in the work of practitioners in many disciplines, for example the works of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, and sociologist Talcott Parsons; in the study of ecological systems by Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum; in Fritjof Capra's study of organizational theory; in the study of management by Peter Senge; in …

WebWilliam Steig / ˈ s t aɪ ɡ / (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto.He was the U.S. nominee for …

WebWilliam Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.His early years were dominated by his experience of the countryside around the Lake District and the English moors. Dorothy Wordsworth, his …

WebEtymology. Sir derives from the honorific title sire; sire developed alongside the word seigneur, also used to refer to a feudal lord.Both derived from the Vulgar Latin senior, sire comes from the nominative case declension senior and seigneur, the accusative case declension seniōrem.. The form 'Sir' is first documented in English in 1297, as the title of …