Standard models of representation as encodings of what is represented yield models of knowledge as banks of such encodings. Learning, in such a view, is the transmission of new encodings into those storage banks in the mind. Technology, therefore, can be a wonderful aid in enhancing the accessibility and transmission of these encoded representations — in enhancing learning as viewed in this mod...

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of sociological, anthropological, and ethnological works on the gift metaphor in organ donation contexts, as well as in the number of philosophical and theological analyses of giving and generosity, which has been mirrored in the ethical debate on organ donation. In order to capture the breadth of this field, four frameworks for thinking about bodily ...

in the tradition of philosophy prime matter has been often accepted as a genuine aristotelian concept. however, this has been doubted by some modern scholars. the dispute is mainly whether aristotle committed to prime matter or not. on the other hand, some scholars still endorse prime matter as a part of aristotle’s philosophy. prime matter is tied up to the problem of generation. generation, i...

The newness of the New World proved a challenge for the archivists of the Americas. Here I am alluding to a simple notion of archive: that of a mechanism that stores and organizes a documental body which, in turn, historicizes and defines the institution to which the archive belongs. There is, of course, nothing simple about this —starting with the fact that the archive is required to contain t...