Because of the immensity of Augustine’s corpus and the complex intellectual patrimony that informs it, attempts to place him within the history of philosophical traditions are often partial and in need of supplementation. In treating below of Augustine’s engagement with Aristotelianism, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Stoicism, I shall be drawing attention to particular topics, lexical poin...

In his published work and even more in conversations, Tarski emphasized what he thought were important philosophical aspects of his work. The English translation of his more philosophical papers [56m] was dedicated to his teacher Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and in informal discussions of philosophy he often referred to the influence of Kotarbinski. Also, the influence of Leiniewski, his dissertation ...

The traditional overlap between computer science and philosophy centres upon the issue of in what sense a computer may be said to think. A lesser known issue of potential common interest is the ontology of the semantics computer science assigns to programming languages such as Pascal or Java. We argue that the usual purely mathematical approach of denotational semantics necessarily excludes imp...

Within this issue, we are pleased to publish A Model for Standardizing Manipulation Terminology in Physical Therapy Practice, a manuscript by Paul Mintken and colleagues, which provides a model for standardized terminology to describe manipulative techniques regardless of individual clinical practices or schools of thought. Mintken and colleagues were charged with this assignment as part of a t...