This paper explores some questions about the use of models of nursing. These questions make various assumptions about the nature of models of nursing, in general and in particular. Underlying these assumptions are various philosophical positions which are explored through an introduction to postmodernist approaches in philosophical criticism. To illustrate these approaches, a critique of the Ro...

In this article, I outline the three main philosophical lessons that we may learn from Turing's work, and how they lead to a new philosophy of information. After a brief introduction, I discuss his work on the method of levels of abstraction (LoA), and his insistence that questions could be meaningfully asked only by specifying the correct LoA. I then look at his second lesson, about the sort o...

§0. AlonzoChurch’s contributions to philosophy and to thatmost philosophical part of logic, intensional logic, are impressive indeed. He wrote relatively few papers actually devoted to specifically philosophical issues, as distinguished from related technical work in logic. Many of his contributions appear in reviews for The Journal of Symbolic Logic, and it can hardly be maintained that one fi...

This paper, along with the following paper by John McCarthy, introduces some of the topics to be discussed at the IJCAI95 event ‘A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.’ Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in orde...

Starting point is that the chapter should address both philosophical and methodological issues as well as systematic questions concerning the nature and the role of the concept of information in philosophy of language and linguistic semantics. Whenever possible it should do treat both aspects in close connection: we will focus on systematic issues that illustrate a philosophical concern or a me...

‘‘I’d really like to do a survey’’ or ‘‘Let’s conduct some interviews’’ might sound like reasonable starting points for a research project. However, it is crucial that researchers examine their philosophical assumptions and those underpinning their research questions before selecting data collection methods. Philosophical assumptions relate to ontology, or the nature of reality, and epistemolog...