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Determination of refractive index of submicron-thick films using resonance shift in a four-layer slab waveguide
2017
The measurement of refractive index of very thin films at the order of ten to hundred nanometers is cumbersome and usually requires employing sophisticated techniques such as the spectral ellipsometry. In this paper we describe a simple contact method for measuring the refractive index of thin films. Here we have used the prism-coupling technique for characterizing samples prepared as four-layer slab waveguides. The waveguide resonance condition can be calculated by solving simple analytic transcendental equations for the slab waveguide. Then the captured mode position as a function of cladding thickness is used for probing the refractive index of cladding layer. We used indium-tin-oxide la…
Modeling Metaphysics: The Rise of Simulation and the Reversal of Platonism
2019
Philosophical reflection on and around Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is often focused on the ethical and epistemological implications of empirical findings or innovative methods within the field. In this paper I highlight some of the metaphysical implications of developments within M&S. I argue that the rise of simulation within and across scientific disciplines is accelerating the reversal of Platonism, whose emphasis on transcendence and reliance on hierarchical, static categories has dominated western philosophy for over two millennia. The success of M&S methodologies opens up new conceptual space for articulating a metaphysics of immanence that may provide a more adequate basis for unde…
Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development
2017
In this target article, we argue that personality processes, personality structure, and personality development have to be understood and investigated in integrated ways in order to provide comprehensive responses to the key questions of personality psychology. The psychological processes and mechanisms that explain concrete behaviour in concrete situations should provide explanation for patterns of variation across situations and individuals, for development over time as well as for structures observed in intra–individual and inter–individual differences. Personality structures, defined as patterns of covariation in behaviour, including thoughts and feelings, are results of those processe…
Hartmanis-Stearns Conjecture on Real Time and Transcendence
2012
Hartmanis-Stearns conjecture asserts that any number whose decimal expansion can be computed by a multitape Turing machine is either rational or transcendental. After half a century of active research by computer scientists and mathematicians the problem is still open but much more interesting than in 1965.
Husserl on the Human Sciences in Ideen II
2012
Interpreted according to the intentions of the author in Ideen I, Ideen II (with Ideen III) analyzes the relation between phenomenology and the natural and the spiritual sciences. Dilthey and early twentieth century discussions of the Geisteswissenschaften, the historical sciences in particular, are not examined by Husserl, but reflections on the personalistic attitude explicates Dilthey’s intentions. The person, motivation, communities, cultural objects, psychology, and relations with nature and with transcendental phenomenology are considered, as are pertinent abstractive reductions. References to continuations of the analyses here in later works of Husserl are also included.
The Principle of the Transcendental Deduction. The First Section of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding
2019

 This paper considers the transcendental deduction of the categories from a specific point of view: the First Section of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding. In this passage, Kant not only explores the task and the method of the transcendental deduction, in form of the principle of the transcendental deduction, but also implements it. The subsequent section(s) of the deduction proceed(s) to build on the argument, and do(es) so in different ways in the A- and the B-deduction. Accordingly, the principle of the transcendental deduction has a crucial function for the entire deduction because it builds a transition between the first and the following section(s) in whic…
Metaphysics of cosmological models
2023
This article aims to address the metaphysical dimension of cosmological models, be they mythological, philosophical, religious or modern scientific models, using multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary methodology. Such an approach is a novelty, both in the theological field and in the philosophical field and secular sciences, which studies the origin of humans and the universe. Contribution: The originality of this article consists in introducing the concept of transcendental cosmology, which, along with spiritual cosmology, can be a serious theological and philosophical reply to the Bing Bang theory.
Profesors Teodors Celms: biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs
1993
Saturs: Priekšvārds. Teodora Celms / Dr. Juris Rozenvalds. Profesora T. Celma publicētie darbi. Profesora T. Celma rakstītās recenzijas par grāmatām. Profesora T. Celma lekciju atreferējumi. Profesora T. Celma manuskripti. Profesora T. Celma rediģētie darbi. Raksti par profesoru T. Celmu. Profesora T. Celma publicētie darbi, viņa lekciju atreferējumi un manuskripti (alfabētiskais rādītājs). Personu rādītājs.
Exact treatment of linear difference equations with noncommutative coefficients
2007
The exact solution of a Cauchy problem related to a linear second-order difference equation with constant noncommutative coefficients is reported.
Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions
2015
This article gives an analysis of Foucault’s studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault’s genealogical approach that “civil society” does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality—and more specifically the procedures he names “the conduct of conduct”—is not exercised through coercive power and domination, but is dependent on the freedom and activeness of individuals and groups of society. Civil society is thus analyzed as fundamentally ambivalent: on the one han…