Music and Philosophy: Contemporary Challenges

An interpretation of philosophy and aesthetics for contemporary music education

NIME Design and Contemporary Music Practice: Benefits and Challenges

This paper deals with the question of how the development of new musical artifacts can benefit from deeply engaging with contemporary musical practice. With the novel ideas produced by the NIME community manifested in musical instruments in continuous use, new research questions can be answered and new sources of knowledge can be explored. This can also be very helpful in evaluation, as it is p...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

What’s Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?

Analytic Philosophy (AP), although it comes in many varieties, has four striking properties. First, it is cultivated with every appearance of theoretical rigour. Second, its practitioners do not, by and large, believe that philosophy is or can be a science, i.e., they do not believe that it can add to the stock of positive human knowledge. Third, the philosophers who until very recently were th...

Osteopathic Principles and Philosophy: a Contemporary View

Osteopathic medicine as we know it begins with Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. (1828 1917), who introduced its concepts in 1874. Still’s basic idea --that the human body was much like a machine, one that would function well if all its parts were in proper mechanical relationship --was unique compared to the medical thinking of the time. Doctor Still was a frontier doctor, and had trained like most ph...