An important aim of teaching philosophy in Dutch secondary schools is to learn about philosophy (i.e., the great philosophers) by doing philosophy. We examined doing philosophy and focused specifically on the relationship between student learning activities and teacher behavior; in doing so, a qualitative cross-case analysis of eight philosophy lessons was performed. The effectiveness of doing ...

Concerns raised about the relevance of philosophy to the work of nurses have prompted us to examine the importance of philosophy in professional nursing. We introduce diverse understandings of what philosophy is, provide an overview of analytical and continental philosophies, and describe how philosophy is central to the work of nurses, educators and researchers. The discussion is situated in w...

The difficulty in answering the question implicit in the title is that what is often referred to in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as philosophy is not philosophy at all but beliefs parading as philosophy. This has particularly been the case in chiropractic where traditionally the profession has referred to chiropractic philosophy to describe a whole field of beliefs, principles, ...

Biography Fernando Huesca Ramón has Bachelor studies in Biology and Philosophy from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Master studies in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and is currently finishing a doctorate project with the subject: “Political Economy in Hegel: Capital and ethical life.” His areas of research are Political Economy, Poli...

this paper deals with an essential problem which the modern western thinker faced with and tried to find a solution for that in the benefit of modern humanity. this problem is human reason and his free mind. the author tries here to go back to zarathrustrian concept of mind and bring forth some fresh reflections in a comparative way. this will let him to evaluate in the main the view that argue...

Under the impact of information technology and the information sciences, major changes are occurring in both science and philosophy that constitute an informational turn. The recently developed Philosophy of Information has integrated the unique dualistic ontological properties of information, and scientific rationality can now be seen to include an interactive relationship between science and ...

Teacher education philosophy plays an important role in enhancing the teachers’ awareness of the practices particularly in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study meant to observe the possible effect of the awareness of teacher education philosophy on EFL teachers’ professional skill in the light of Kumaravadivelu’s postmethod parameters, tapping teachers’ gender, academi...

in this paper i explore surprising parallels in the arguments between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind in india and the west. in particular, i compare the nyaya school of india with cartesian dualism and its western defenders and the carvaka school of india with contemporary western materialists.