Teaching with New Critics

Evaluation of teaching through lecture with new methods of student-centered teaching in medical students

Background: Research about teaching methods and students' education is an important subject which can improve the quality of education. This study was performed to compare three educational methods: teaching through lecture, presentation by small group of students, student's search and study of topics before the class. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 42 students' of 5th ...

New Vistas of Space-Time Rebut the Critics

In their critique of my book, Conner and Page fail to keep in mind that their own theory, the Big Bang, does not have a centre of mass. Thus they overlook an obvious contrast between the Big Bang and my cosmology, the existence of a centre of mass in my theory. The centre is crucial because it causes significant differences in gravitational potential energy between various places. During creati...

Reinforcement Control with Hierarchical Backpropagated Adaptive Critics

Present incremental learning methods are limited in the ability to achieve reliable credit assignment over a large number time steps (or events). However, this situation is typical for cases where the dynamical system to be controlled requires relatively frequent control updates in order to maintain stability or robustness yet has some action/consequences which must be established over relative...

Rorty and His Critics

Reply to Our Critics

Ratte for reading and criticizing our book. Interestingly, their three sets of comments (to which we shall respond in order) reflect three very different standpoints on both vision and the science of vision. 1. Reply to Tim Schroeder Tim Schroeder is a very sympathetic reader indeed. He raises two queries, both of which are well taken and go deep to the heart of our framework. His first questio...