The intention of this book is to demonstrate that curriculum design a profoundly philosophical exercise stems from perceptions the mission higher education. Since f

A recent focus of Philip Kitcher’s research has been, somewhat surprisingly in the light of his earlier work, the philosophical analyses of literary works and operas. Some may see a discontinuity in Kitcher’s oeuvre in this respect—it may be difficult to see how his earlier contributions to philosophy of science relate to this much less mainstream approach to philosophy. The aim of this paper i...

The basic notions of logic—predicate logic, Peano arithmetic, incompleteness theorems, etc.—have for long been an advanced topic. In the last decades, they became more widely taught, in philosophy, mathematics, and computer science departments, to graduate and to undergraduate students. Many textbooks now present these notions, in particular the incompleteness theorems. Having taught these noti...

When Mr. Bergen asked me to speak on the “Design of Bibliographic Systems,” he suggested that I discuss the experiences of the Institute for Scientific Information in using and compiling citation indexes. I shall not take advantage of Mr. Bergen’s mandate simply to repeat to this audience the mechanics and philosophy of the Science Citation Index system. Naturally it is impossible to avoid some...

This paper draws on literature from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy to portray a cross-modal conception of auditory and visual phenomena focusing on the similarities in form, structure, and function and exploring the links to perception, conception, and language. Through an extensive literature review, we identify issues related to audio-visual association and explore dive...

the purpose of this study is to review the viewpoints of the academic members of universities in tehran, about philosophy of education and its status and applications. the research is a kind of descriptive – analytical one and its instrument is a questionnaire with five questions (about the definition of philosophy of education, its applications, its relationship with the other fields of educat...

Since antiquity well into the beginnings of the 20th century geometry was a central topic for philosophy. In contrast, most philosophers of science, if they took notice of topology at all, considered it as an abstruse subdiscipline of mathematics lacking philosophical inter est. Here it is argued that this neglect of topology may be conceived of as the sign of a conceptual sea-change in philoso...

purpose: the aim of present study was the comparative evaluation of content and support quality of iranian academic libraries websites’ and provide recommendations to improve them.methodology: this study is an applied research and methodology was comparative survey. data gathering tools were three checklists extracted from relevant studies which compare with 5 foreign library websites, and thei...