Philosophy: Its Scope and Relations.

Connection Relations and Quantifier Scope

A formalism will be presented in this paper which makes it possible to realise the idea of assigning only one scope-ambiguous representation to a sentence that is ambiguous with regard to quantif ier scope. The scope de te rmina t ion resul ts in ex tending this representat ion with addit ional context and world knowledge conditions. If there is no scope determining information, the formalism c...

Teaching Philosophy for Children (P4C) Using a Community of Inquiry Method and its Impact on Students’ Interpersonal Relations

To improve the personal relations among students the use of community of inquiry method was hypothesized to be effective, especially if the content being learned in this way is Philosophy for Children (P4C). To find support for this hypothesis, a group of 50 female students whose interpersonal relations were below the average was selected and then divided into two subgroups of experimental and ...

Information and Its Philosophy

THREE PROBLEMS IN RELATION TO Luciano Floridi's work on the Philosophy of Information (PI) and the relationship of PI to Library and Information Science (LIS) are considered: the claim that LIS is a materials-based discipline, Floridi's claim about Information as a message transfer system, and his downgrading of Social Epistemology to be a subset of PI. The recent history of LIS and the practic...

The Scope and Principles of the Evolution Philosophy

SINCE the interesting biological lectures of our last year's course were delivered, a noteworthy contribution has been made to that department of evolutionary thought, by the publication of Alfred Russel Wallace's" Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its Applications." A co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the law of Natural Selection, Mr. Wallace resemble...

The Subject-matter of Philosophy, and its Relations to the Special Sciences