Knowing Our Boundaries

Knowing no boundaries: five crucial conversations for influencing administration.

Knowing our Customers: A Quantitative Analysis of Geomatics Students

In recent years, there have been considerable changes to the Hong Kong education system, some of which directly influence the management of tertiary education. At the same time, the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has also gone through stages of restructuring. These changes were necessaryto adjust to the global broadening of the professio...

Identity, killing, and the boundaries of our existence.

We all agree that it is generally wrong to kill persons. Although we may differ over exceptions, and over which beings qualify as persons, the judgment that it is wrong, other things equal, intentionally to kill paradigm persons represents common moral ground. At the same time, there is profound disagreement regarding the ethics of killing-or allowing to die-those beings whose moral status is l...

Knowing How vs . Knowing That

More than forty years after Gilbert Ryle published his paper on "Knowing How and Knowing That" in 1945, 1 the problem of practical knowledge has still failed to establish for itself a secure position in the field of problems dealt with by analytic philosophers. Thus even today it can safely be asserted that it is discursive or theoretical knowledge, knowledge linguistically expressed, above all...

Emancipatory knowing: Hidden necessity

Background & Aim: Knowledge patterns in nursing are key foundation elements for the development of knowledge and practice. Carper identified four fundamental knowledge patterns; empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. Chain and Kramer added the pattern of emancipatory knowledge to Carperchr('39')s patterns. The pattern of emancipatory knowledge in nursing has been neglected. The aim of this...