The Wajang as a Philosophical Theme

Silence as the Ultimate Fulfillment of the Philosophical Quest

Predicativism as a Philosophical Position1

Predicativity requirements of explicit presentability of objects and predicatively acceptable proof are distinguished from predicativist theses of a philosophical character. Familiar among these are expressions of skepticism about the objectivity of full power sets of infinite sets. Articulation of strong, limitative theses, however, turns out to be problematic: impredicative commitments creep ...

An Enduring Philosophical Agenda. Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method

Is there something like a philosophical method? It seems that there are as many methods as there are philosophies. A method is any procedure employed to attain a certain end. So, before going to a method, we have to ask: what is the aim of philosophy? At the origin of philosophy, there is a questioning about the world. Leo Apostel and Jan Van der Veken made more precise and explicit those funda...

Paperless Philosophy as a Philosophical Method

I discuss the prospects for new forms of professional communication in philosophy. I argue that online discussions and online surveys ought to play a more important role in communications between philosophers than they play today. However, there are major obstacles to the widespread adoption of these media as channels of communication between academics. I offer an overview of these obstacles an...

the significance of conjunction as a cohesive device in teaching writing

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...