Propositional attitudes directed at facts of the world are cognitive or volitive. Cognitive attitudes contain beliefs and volitive attitudes desires. Beliefs are satisfied whenever they are true and desires whenever they are realized. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the logical form of such primitive kinds of attitudes and to explicate their conditions of possession and of satisfac...

The technology of airborne remote sensing encompasses a broad class of airborne platforms and a wide suite of remote sensing instruments. Usable platforms range from airships (Hamley, 1994; Windischbauer and Hans, 1994), UAVs (Unmanned Airborne Vehicles, Miller et al., 1999; Petrie, 2001), and helicopters (Gade et al., 1998; Matthews et al., 1997; Schaepman et al., 1997), to standard and high-a...

The aim of this critical analysis is to present the medical ethics of Galen in his treatise "The Best Physician is Also a Philosopher").Galen opens with the example of Hippocrates as a paradigm of his medical ethics, and continues by saying that the knowledge of the human body must be profound. In the third part of the treatise he stresses the importance of logic, precise use of language, study...

In introductory courses and textbooks on elementary thermodynamics, entropy is often presented as a property defined only for equilibrium states, and its axiomatic definition is almost invariably given in terms of a heat to temperature ratio, the traditional Clausius definition. Teaching thermodynamics to undergraduate and graduate students from all over the globe, we have sensed a need for mor...

despite the often false impression that the analytic philosophy as an anti-metaphysical movement has nothing to do with metaphysics, there can be found good reasons to grant the metaphysical dispositions of analytic philosophers, and thereby, to minimize the anti-metaphysical nature of analytic philosophy in its all phases. since analytic philosophy is a historical movement the main nature of w...