the present essay is a critical study of zagzebski’s reading and criticism of plantinga’s virtue-epistemology. zagzebski, on the account of her definition of knowledge and the role that she assigns to ‘volition’ and ‘awareness’ in virtuous acts, along with her acceptance of the uniformity of moral and epistemic virtue, challenges plantinga’s theory of knowledge. zagzebski believes that although...

The purpose of this grant is to enable the author to study and develop applications of hypertext in the teaching of writing. Hypertext is a form of writing consisting of multiple sections (also known as "lexia", reading-unit), whose relations are nonlinear, multiple, and partially constructed by the reader. The most prominent example of hypertext writing is the World Wide Web, where links betwe...

In this paper, the critical behavior of the percolation models is reviewed, with emphasis on the scaling laws present and its relationship with other simple models like the Ising magnet. A liitle bit of the history and some examples of its application are given to illustrate the range of phenomena that can be described with such models.

What is critical urban theory? While this phrase is often used in a descriptive sense, to characterize the tradition of post-1968 leftist or radical urban studies, I argue that it also has determinate social–theoretical content. To this end, building on the work of several Frankfurt School social philosophers, this paper interprets critical theory with reference to four, mutually interconnected...

A purpose of critical point theory is the counting of critical points of functions. Principal theorems in the subject state in precise terms that topological complexity of the underlying space is reflected in the existence and nature of critical points of any smooth real-valued function defined on the space. The initial development of critical point theory is peculiarly the work of one man, Mar...

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