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.

“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 ...