Abstract Before diving into Ricœur’s historical and conceptual experiences of free speech about Algeria, Nanterre USA in Chaps. 4 , 5 6 I provide this chapter a clear working definition ‘free speech’ as negotiated process explore how, by using the Communities Inquiry approach, young people can learn art discussion they progress through university. As an antidote to chilling effects culture wars...

and Major Andrew Buchanau, m.d., i.m.s., and Mr. Stockman, M.R.C.V.S., late Professor of Pathology in the Veterinary College, Edinburgh, have been appointed to conduct the inquiry.* We have before us an outline for the inquiry drawn up by Major Andrew Buchanan, which admirably sums up the prevailing views and opinions on the nature and causation of this strange and interesting disease. Lathyris...

Computers are playing an increasingly central role in mathematical practice. What are we to make of the new methods of inquiry? In Section 11.2, I survey some of the ways in which computers are used in mathematics. These raise questions that seem to have a generally epistemological character, although they do not fall squarely under a traditional philosophical purview. The goal of this article ...

One of the most important and delicate judicial tasks in patent law is to keep the obviousness doctrine in reasonable working order. There are several reasons why the obviousness doctrine has been the subject of frequent judicial tinkering. First, patentability doctrines interact with each other, so doctrinal alterations that seem to be entirely external to the obviousness doctrine frequently h...

A new political season is upon us, and surely it will provide plenty of new examples for me to use during my first week of class. For more than two decades, I have spent at least the first week of my introductory biology course discussing human population growth, its underlying causes, and its environmental ramifications. I always begin with the website www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html (al...

In this paper I present the view that inquiry in education can profit from insights from semiotics. Semiotics holds that cognition, or semiosis, is the building up of structures of signs from experience. We create a personal world, an Umwelt, that determines what we perceive and know. The environment also “affords” various structures and these affordances offer special ways to interact with the...