Browsing Interdisciplinary Faculty Scholarship by Creation Date
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The Labyrinth Medieval Studies Website
(1993)The Labyrinth medieval studies website was the first website in the world in the humanities, created by Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine at Georgetown University in 1993. It is also the longest continuously available ... -
عروض الخليل فى ضوء علم اللسانيات الحديث
(Tajdid Online Forum for Facilitating Arabic Studiesمنتدى التجديد المنبر الإلكتروني لتيسير الدراسات العربية, 2021)This book discusses the prosodic system of Arabic poetry as defined by al-Khalīl ibn ’Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī, evaluates that system in the light of modern linguistics science, and presents a new theory developed in the light ... -
Uncertainty and the Black Swan Origin Story
(2022-02-04)The “black swan” metaphor is today frequently used in both academic and non-academic sources to describe a plethora of events that seem to have been previously unexpected and/or unpredictable. This working paper is mostly ... -
Uncertainty and the Unimaginable
(2022-02-08)How much can we “know”? In this essay, I sketch one stance on this question that, broadly speaking, posits that the resources of the human mind have some insurmountable limits, and that, as a result, the right answers to ...
