Šešelja and Straßer’s critique fails to hit its target for two main reasons. First, the argument is not that Kuhn is a rationalist because he is a coherentist. Although Kuhn can be taken as a rationalist because of his commitment to epistemic values, coherence analysis provides a more comprehensive characterisation of cognitive process in scientific change than any of these values alone can off...

Chapter Overview In the past few decades, many practitioners of cognitive science and philosophy of mind have staked out programs and positions under the label of " embodied cognition " (EC). They have widely differing views, however, of what embodiment consists in and why a program of embodied cognition might be an improvement over classical cognitivism. Frederique de Vignemont and I have rece...

The agenda in music research that is broadly recognized as embodied music cognition has arrived hand-in-hand with a social interpretation of music, focusing on the real-world basis of its performance, and fostering an empirical approach to musician movement regarding the communicative function and potential of those movements. However, embodied cognition emerged from traditional cognitivism, wh...

The present study examines the relation between moral intuitions proposed by ‘Moral Foundations Theory’ according to J. Haidt and orientations in with competence, as described ‘Dual-Aspect Model of Moral Behaviour’ G. Lind.It is an empirical exploration five foundational domains (and/or corresponding two higher-order clusters) orientations, this results from theoretical assumptions both theorie...

This paper examines the implications of implementation a policy that promotes open teaching in an emerging university. It describes benefits and risks associated with such within context Mauritius. emphasises adoption cMOOCs which is more student-generated MOOCs encourages student engagement based on socio-constructivism heutagogy, instead behaviourism cognitivism. The use democratisation highe...

Medical education of today continues to evolve to meet the challenges of the stakeholders. Medical professionals today are expected to play multiple roles besides being experts. Thus, the curriculum has to be developed in a manner that facilitates learners to achieve the intended goal of becoming a medical professional with multiple competencies. The understanding of learning theories will be h...

The computer metaphor of cognitivism that has had such a strong innuence on cognitive science over recent decades seems to be confronted (again) by a competitor: the brain metaphor put forward by connectionism (e.g. Mc-Clelland and Rumelhart 1986] and Sejnowski et al. 1988]). Connectionism assumes that mental phenomena can be explained in terms of the parallel activation and interaction of a la...

Numerous studies have established that active participation in the learning process is more effective in a learning environment that emulates a real-world learning environment. In a traditional teaching and learning environment, only little learning is taking place in the classroom even though there appears to be an active shift of information. Studies have also clearly established that the rol...

Expressivism is most widely known as a thesis that semantically complements non-cognitivism in meta-ethics: if there are no moral facts to be known, if moral judgements or statements are not capable of being true or false, then the meaning of morally evaluative sentences cannot centrally consist in their having a truth conditional content, expressing a truth-evaluable proposition. But since the...

Review was made of publications that describe experience with printed material distributed to the lay public in hospital institutions. From the 146 leaflets examined, those aimed at professionals or disabled people, thus leaving 75 papers that illustrate the present pattern for the rationality behind the production, use and evaluation of this type of resource. In a general manner, such leaflets...