THIS lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways. You will naturally expect me to take a position on actual problems of the day. But that will be the case only in a purely formal way and toward the end, when I shall raise certain questions concerning the significance of political action in the whole way of life. In today's lecture, all questions th...

Student modeling systems must operate in an environment in which a student's mastery of a subject matter is likely to change as a lesson progresses. A student model is formed from evaluation of evidence about the student's mastery of the domain. However, given that such mastery will change, older evidence is likely to be less valuable than recent evidence. Data aging addresses this issue by dis...

Twentieth-century philosophers of religion made strides forward in advancing sophisticated arguments about religious knowledge, language, experience and arguments for the existence of the theistic God. However, by the end of the century Anglo-American philosophers in particular tended to treat philosophy of religion as synonymous with a Christian account of the divine. Male and female philosoph...

Rational belief belongs to a cluster of normative concepts that also includes reasonable, justified, and warranted belief. Each of these notions is commonly used by epistemologists, and along with the notion of knowledge, they form a central part of the subject matter of epistemology. However, there is no generally agreed way of understanding these notions. Nor is there even agreement as to whe...

Though there is considerable research to support using Game-Based Learning (GBL) in higher education, its implementation is lagging behind K-12 education by an order of magnitude. By considering the current state of GBL from leadership, primary consumer, academic and technical perspectives, the authors frame the main issues involved with successfully implementing these efforts. These issues inv...

To support paediatric cardiologists in prognostic assessment and treatment planning, a decision-theoretic network for congenital heart disease is being constructed. The network is built in collaboration with a domain expert, using modelling methods commonly advocated in the literature. Although these methods prove to be useful in many cases, it was found that in some situations their applicabil...

There is a general consensus that homeownership has beneficial effects for both individuals and society in many outcomes. However, research regarding the effect of homeownership on individuals’ subjective well-being remains inconclusive. In this paper, for the first time, we provide empirical evidence for the link between homeownership and housing satisfaction using panel data. We use the eight...

This is a useful and compact little work, giving in small compass a complete description of the use and action of all drugs and preparations of the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain and America and of some foreign countries. Many " pharmacological disappointments" have wisely been omitted, and so whole subject-matter is arranged alphabetically. The dosage is given in the English as well as in the...

The authors address the main questions in the insanity defense debate: Should it be abolished? Should psychiatrists participate as expert witnesses? Is the profession damaged by such testimony? Is there a logical leap between providing psychiatric findings and providing an opinion to the ultimate question? Because the free will/determinism model underlying the current insanity defense positions...

One outcome of the fourth in a series of Workshops on Reflection (as an approach to research), the production of a jointly authored subject matter, is discussed in terms of both Pask’s Entailment Meshes, and Schön’s Reflective Practice. A modification of Pask’s specification is proposed for the process of exploring an incomplete subject matter and in progress authoring of an Entailment Mesh, wh...