Abstract This paper contributes to the recent explosion of literature on epistemological role emotions and other affective states by defending two claims. First, might do more than position us receive evidence or function as evidence. Affective be thought appraise evidence, in sense that influence what doxastic state is rational for someone given a body The second claim evidentialism, view rati...

In 2008, the Ontario Long Term Care Association was awarded funding from HealthForceOntario to assist with its nursing recruitment strategy based on research it had initiated in 2007. The research goal was to understand the career motivations and perceptions of students enrolled in registered nursing (RN) and registered practical nursing (RPN) programs in Ontario to develop and test a message t...

abstract one of the best ways of understanding religion is to determine the role and status of reason in religiousknowledgeregarding faith, morality, theology, and law. this issue has been posed in religiousstudies for attraction and persuasion of younger generation. in our survey of imam ali’s speeches and sayings, as the true commentatorof the religion, we encounter propositions in which reas...

This paper presents a Ramsey account of conditionals within the framework of an implemented reason maintenance system. The reason maintenance system is built on top of a deductive reasoning engine based on relevance logic. Thus, the account of conditionals provided is not susceptible to the fallacies of relevance. In addition, it is shown that independently motivated requirements on practical r...

Speculation is frequent in distributed computing. It is even the norm in distributed algorithms that are designed for practical purposes. Yet, speculation is difficult and it has, so far, led to algorithms that are intricate and hard to reason about, let aside prove and test. The reason is simple: speculation involves different execution paths that are usually intermingled in the same algorithm...

The work of science teachers can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. In this article, teaching is seen as an activity in which teachers deliberate in the practical domain to decide on actions and goals. In the first part of the article, it is argued that, because practical reasoning is similar to scientific reasoning, a model of practical conceptual change can be developed that is analogo...