Abstract Self-cultivation—taking pedagogical action to educate oneself—is an integral part of non-formal adult education. Ever since Greek antiquity, it has been a central ingredient in the western philosophical and educational tradition. However, we argue that global challenges have emerged present era ecological crisis call for new kind understanding this basic phenomenon. Based particular on...

This review discusses two books. Philosophical Psychopathology is an anthology of articles by philosophers in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition who address themselves to a disparate assortment of topics—including schizophrenia, MPD, autism, blindsight, diagnostic classification and the problem of despair. In general, the articles display admirable conceptual rigor, but are often accomp...

The task of designing software to support e-learning is complex. In particular, it requires careful consideration of social factors of adoption and use by communities. The tradition of engineering in America is too exclusively focused on the individual user; German philosophy provides a foundation for developing new methodologies oriented to groups of people learning collaboratively.

Philosophy of education especially higher is central to making a discipline or subject rational regarding its study as well implication in human society. In this regard, the research an attempt examine philosophical foundation stated major western-liberal philosophies e.g. Idealism, Realism, Thomism, and Pragmatism. It also figured out strengths weaknesses basis western system. The argues that ...

Twentieth-century philosophical and psychological thought about emotion effectively started with the work of William James. While for much of the second half of that century, James’s work had definitely fallen out of favour, recently there have been definite signs of a revival.1 Such a positive re-evaluation is, I believe, welldeserved, as James’s approach to emotion has many under-appreciated ...

There is a long philosophical tradition of addressing questions in philosophy of science and epistemology by means of the tools of Bayesian probability theory (see Earman (1992) and Howson and Urbach (1993)). In the late '70s, an axiomatic approach to conditional independence was developed within a Bayesian framework. This approach in conjunction with developments in graph theory are the two pi...

mac intyre believes that the history of the western culture and thought is analyzable in two different lines, so that the modern intellect is a free and liberated and thus wandering intellect that has not found its way to a strengthened and dignified thinking, and the pre-modern intellect is a theological one intertwined with excellence and committed to tradition. the pre-modern rational though...

There have been two main traditions in the study of language in modern times. The first is the tradition of "universal" or "philosophical grammar," which flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in intimate connection with philosophy and speculative psychology. The second is the tradition of modern linguistics, a nineteenth and twentieth century phenomenon that was also closely in...