Philosophical Issues in Adult Education

Nursing education as adult education: a philosophical standpoint.

Die outeur neem die standpunt in dat indien verpleegkundiges in Suid-Afrika die uitdagings van die toekoms te bowe wil kom verandering in fundamentele beskouings oor verpleegonderwys noodsaaklik is. Een van die beskouings wat moet verander is die siening dat basiese verpleegonderwys pedagogie eerder as andragogie is — die studentverpleegkundige moet beskou word as ’n volwasse leerder wat betrok...

Philosophical Issues in Kolmogorov

Philosophical Issues in Ecology

Dobzhansky’s (1964) sweeping generalization, “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” provocatively captures the centrality of evolutionary theory in biological science (see also Dobzhansky 1973). But his rally call is also grievously partial. Ecology casts the same indispensable light in biology, particularly on evolution. Although the term ‘ecology’ was not coined un...

Philosophical Issues in Computer Science

The traditional overlap between computer science and philosophy centres upon the issue of in what sense a computer may be said to think. A lesser known issue of potential common interest is the ontology of the semantics computer science assigns to programming languages such as Pascal or Java. We argue that the usual purely mathematical approach of denotational semantics necessarily excludes imp...

Emotion, philosophical issues about.

We start this overview by discussing the place of emotions within the broader affective domain-how different are emotions from moods, sensations, and affective dispositions? Next, we examine the way emotions relate to their objects, emphasizing in the process their intimate relations to values. We move from this inquiry into the nature of emotion to an inquiry into their epistemology. Do they p...