Introduction Metaphilosophy is all the rage nowadays. Philosophers are becoming increasingly self-conscious about their methodology, as this volume showcases. And rightly so—it is part of our job description to put thinking under the microscope, and that obviously should include our philosophical thinking. Much as we want philosophers of physics, of biology, of mathematics, and so on to scrutin...

The use of a Classroom Response System (CRS) was evaluated in two sections, A and B, of a large lecture microbiology course. In Section B the instructor used the CRS technology at the beginning of the class period posing a question on content from the previous class. Students could earn extra credit if they answered the question correctly. In Section A, the class also began with an extra credit...

Contextualism in epistemology is the view that on different occasions of utterance, the English verb know expresses different propositional attitudes—attitudes that vary in the required degree or kind of justification. For terminological convenience, I will distinguish between two contextualist theses. First, there is what Iʼll call linguistic contextualism (LC). By linguistic contextualism, I ...

Contemporary conceptions of truth can be divided into two broad categories: philosophical and logical ones. Admittedly the division is not sharp, nor it should be: philosophers need formal results and the logicians often take philosophical intuitions into account in their formal constructions. Any intuitive conception of truth has to pass the test of formalization in order to count as valid or ...

The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting offers the prospect of resource discovery tools far beyond what is currently available to users of the Web via standard search engines. This article illustrates how existing information about available resources can be repurposed fairly easily and cheaply using standard tools. However the publishing of this information throws up a number of practical and...

The author presents a set of philosophical assumptions that provide a different language for thinking about and responding to the persistent questions: "How can our therapy practices have relevance for people's everyday lives in our fast changing world, what is this relevance, and who determines it?" "Why do some shapes of relationships and forms of talk engage while others alienate? Why do som...

Modern tools and methods of cognitive science, such as brain imaging or computational modeling, can provide new insights for age-old philosophical questions regarding the nature of temporal experience. This chapter aims to provide an overview of functional consciousness and time perception in brains and minds (Section 8.2), and to describe a computational cognitive architecture partially implem...

This paper gives a short overview of Artiicial Life research. The paper answers the questions of how Artiicial Life started, how far we have gone, and where we are heading. The paper emphasizes the emergence process and the dynamic embodiment with the environment as the new concepts introduced by Artiicial Life. In the paper the major research works in Artiicial Life are introduced by categoriz...