The mesh debate

The Manifestation Challenge: The Debate between McDowell and Wright

In this paper, we will discuss what is called “Manifestation Challenge” to semantic realism, which was originally developed by Michael Dummett and has been further refined by Crispin Wright. According to this challenge, semantic realism has to meet the requirement that knowledge of meaning must be publically manifested in linguistic behaviour. In this regard, we will introduce and evaluate John...

Debate Debate

Geocomputation is an emerging field of research that advocates the use of computationally intensive techniques such as neural networks, heuristic search, and cellular automata for spatial data analysis. Since increasing amounts of health-related data are collected within a geographical frame of reference, geocomputational methods show increasing potential for health data analysis. This paper pr...

A debate on the blindness of IS journal reviews (Debate)

The Habermas-gadamer Debate

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The Recovered Memory Debate

Introduction Understanding memory, the search for the engram, is the holy grail of psychology and neuroscience. Researchers are continually searching for answers to different aspects of how memory works. Yet, in 1997 when someone mentions the ‘memory debate‘ it is generally understood that this refers to the controversy involving the recovery of repressed memories of childhood abuse, and the po...