At the heart of our current environmental predicament lies issue relationship with nature. Michael Bonnett’s educational rehabilitation nature, which might be called a ‘metaphysical’ turn in nature-related issues, brings us back to core question educational-philosophical thinking: how we are understand ourselves and relation world. In this paper, by confronting his philosophy education what Joh...

What role does the body play in subject’s formation and interpersonal exchanges? Does merely perform an instrumental function, or can it claim to be a subject of freedom? Thinking within framework intersubjectivity requires reassessing bulk philosophical Western tradition. Form first-person’s perspective endorsed by this tradition, exteriority has been reduced weakness human nature. Starting fro...

Ian McDowell discusses many of the limitations of the risk factor paradigm in public health and epidemiology, building and amplifying on prior work. As discussed by McDowell, an important and perhaps unintended consequence of the focus on risk factors is that it has shifted epidemiologic inquiry from understanding causes to estimating ‘independent’ associations. This has impoverished epidemiolo...

It has frequently been observed that most of the world’s data lies outside database systems. The reason is that database systems focus on structured data, leaving the unstructured realm to others. The world of unstructured data has several very appealing properties, such as ease of authoring, querying and data sharing. In contrast, authoring, querying and sharing structured data require signifi...

It is sometimes said that the source of direct perceptual knowledge of the world around us is peculiarly transparent. In Michael Ayers's words, such knowledge is " perspicuous in that one who has it knows how he knows what he knows " (1991, p. 183). What is the content of this immediate understanding we seem to have of the source of perceptual knowledge? And what is the role of perceptual exper...

Content Conceptualism is the view that all representational content, including the content of perceptual experiences, is conceptual content. The main motivation for this view is that it alone intelligibly explains how perceptual experiences justify beliefs. Underlying this position is what I will call 'Epistemic Conceptualism', according to which only conceptual contents can provide reasons for...

Received 1 February 2002; accepted 2 November 2002. The Camfield Estates–MIT Creating Community Connections project has been a true team effort. Leadership at Camfield Estates consists of Paulette Ford, CTA President, and Nakia Keizer, Project Leader and MIT Reflective Community Practitioner, along with the following board members and advisors: Constance Terrell, Malissa Evans, Luon Williams, E...

The condition of an abnormal pulmonary artery supplying a sequestrated segment is not well known although more than 30 cases have been described. The fact that these cases have come from a few centres (Pryce, 1946; Pryce, Sellors and Blair, 1947; Butler, 1947; Douglass, 1948; Bruwer, Claggett and McDonald, 1950; McDowell, Robb, Hinds and Nicks, 1951; Kergin, 1952; McDowell, Robb and Indyk, 1955...

Approximately 20%–25% of the pediatric population will likely develop a sleep disorder sometime during childhood or adolescence. Studies have shown that untreated sleep disorders can negatively affect cognitive abilities, and academic and behavior performance. The Sleep Disorders Inventory for Students (SDIS) is a screening instrument designed to be used by school psychologists to determine if ...

Large-scale tree dieback events are increasing in frequency around the world, with many of them attributed to the effects of climate change-related droughts (i.e., droughts that co-occur with heat stress) (Adams et al. 2010, Allen et al. 2010). As mean global temperatures are expected to rise by 2–4 °C in the next 85 years (Christensen et al. 2007) and elevated temperatures are correlated with ...