Douglas Luther Patterson

A Nonlinear Time Series Workshop: A Toolkit for Detecting and Indentifying Nonlinear Serial Dependence

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Conventions of Literary Writing (Conventions of Language, Thinking and Writing Book 3)

.I chose the title Conventions of Literary Writing in lieu of the phrase Creative Writing that is so widely used in the schools. That name is misleading. Creativity is a broad concept which refers to any act of invention. The notion that literature has a lock on creativity is simply absurd. Literal...

New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy

New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical background and contex...

Educational Planning

This essay is my attempt to present a coherent framework within which educational planning and instruction can occur. My central point is that we should frame the schools' mission(s) in terms of student behaviors in the three domains of learning: cognitive, affective and the psycho motor. At the nat...

Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic (History of Analytic Philosophy)

This study looks to the work of Tarski's mentors Stanislaw Lesniewski and Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and reconsiders all of the major issues in Tarski scholarship in light of the conception of Intuitionistic Formalism developed: semantics, truth, paradox, logical consequence.

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