“Archaeologists must solidly define what a symbol is …” (Coolidge, 2023). Archaeology is a field that traces the human past through material remains. Symbols are an important part of this process and ...

From resolutions to rituals, there are many ways to welcome in and mark the start of a new year. One thing I like to do is to ...

Gottfried Leibniz — who died 300 years ago this November — worked on many things. But a theme that recurred throughout his life was the goal of turning human law into an exercise in computation. Of ...

(1) A programming language that uses symbols, or mnemonics, for expressing operations and operands. All modern programming languages are symbolic languages. (2) A language that manipulates symbols ...

In our recent book Constructing Organizational Life, we propose a new way of understanding and analyzing the social world that we believe is particularly relevant to understanding social innovation.