The Struggle for Eclecticism

Eclecticism or Principled Eclecticism

The introduction of a new mandatory policy for the teaching of English at the higher education level in China, College English Curriculum Requirements (CECR, published in 2004), had the intention of modernising and improving the quality of English teaching at the tertiary level in China. The policy had a focus on student centred approaches to learning and the use of technology to support this p...

Eclecticism Shrinks the World

The Struggle for Existence

"It is in the nature of things" is surely, today, just as good an explanation of a biological phenomenon as it ever was; and now, as always, it is singularly unilluminating. That some of the problems to which such an explanation is usually given are susceptible to analysis appears obvious; at least an approach can be made toward segregating the many factors which, acting independently ox throug...

Conclusion : Re - evaluating Eclecticism

When looking at the original data analysis, we see a variety of approaches used to examine the discourse data of focus. The analysis is rich and includes a wide array of features. Conversely, the three single perspective analyses conducted for this Forum each drew upon different linguistic details to support their conclusions with different insights. It is important to consider how different ap...

Representational Eclecticism a Foundation Stone for the New Ai?

In this paper I support the view that neural networks and connec-tionism constitute a `new AI' but argue that the new eld incorporates both the reactive systems movement and work on genetic algorithms. The common theme in these approaches is, I propose, the idea that cognitive agents may use representations in an eclectic and opportunistic fashion rather than in the neatly structured manner pro...