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This article explores disciplinary approaches to educational studies over the past fifty years, in particular those developed by exponents of the 'foundation disciplines' of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology. It investigates the establishmen

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The properties of Turing's famous 'universal machine' has long sustained functionalist intuitions about the nature of cognition. This paper shows that there is a logical problem with standard functionalist arguments for multiple realizability. These ar

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Training programs committed to the development of culturally sensitive family therapists must support dialogue that creates awareness of social structures promoting inequity and oppression. In order to facilitate meaningful conversations about issues of s

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In his inaugural lecture for the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the College de France, given on 16 January 2001, Ian Hacking develops the idea of styles of reasoning (credited to LudNvik Fleck) and considers the ways in which a

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It is argued that the cultural roots within Europe are powerful links and that there exist other regions as well, powerfully stamped by Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or Arabian and other Cultures; we need a modus vivendi of cooperative cornpetition; can OR/M

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Much of ecotheology and environmental philosophy has moved deductively from theological and ethical constructs to questions of how we should relate to the natural world. Such approaches are limited in their ability to guide us toward appropriate environme

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In a certain sense, uncertainty and ignorance have been recognized in science and philosophy from the time of the Greeks. However, the mathematical sciences have been dominated by the pursuit of certainty. Therefore, experiments under simplified and ideal

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The indisputable advantage of cognitive linguistics is that it places questions of metaphor and polysemy in the broader perspective of human cognition and conceptual organization. Experientialism, a philosophical theory developed by George Lakoff and Mark

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In a modern industrialized society it was essential for humankind to be protected by a strong medical presence, to establish a uniform system for public health everywhere in that society, to make public health independent from the welfare system, and to h

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Globalization as a coming-together of humanity requires an open-ended dialogue about philosophical and religious fundamentals. Have the Western philosophers who have turned to the East worked out any useful conceptual resources? I assess Roy Bhaskar's Ea

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It is argued that the universe as. a whole is not tractable as physical system. Since, as Mach stated, physical notions referring to the universe as a whole have no tangible sense because they imply applications of measurement notions to an object that is

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I survey in this article the practical uses of computers in philosophy: except for logic, computers have not yet noticeably improved the quality of philosophizing, research, or pedagogy. They have made work easier. My main interest, however, is in the 's

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In his later philosophy, Wittgenstein unlike Russell offers no theories, because he believes that philosophical theories are never explanatory. They try to imitate scientific theories, but they lack the empirical basis that gives science its explanatory p