Truth-Seeking in Matters of Religion

Science and Religion in Quest of Truth

What Matters in Help - Seeking ?

Offering help functions is a standard feature of computer-based interactive learning environments (ILE). Nevertheless, the effectiveness of learners’ use of help facilities has been subject to extensive debate. In this paper the issues of effectiveness of help and the impact of learner-related factors are addressed in an ILE for plant identification. We report first explorative data from a regu...

Objective Truth in Matters of Taste

In matters of personal taste, faultless disagreement occurs between people who disagree over what is tasty, fun, etc., in those cases when each of these people seems equally far from the objective truth. Faultless disagreement is often taken as evidence that truth is relative. This article aims to help us avoid the truth-relativist conclusion. The article, however, does not argue directly again...

Seeking What Matters

In their excellent and timely article ‘Patient and public involvement in patient-reported outcome measures: evolution not revolution,’ Sophie Staniszewska and colleagues make important points about the contribution of patients to the development of patient-reported outcomemeasures (PROMs), seeing ‘‘patients as research partners in the research process, not just as those individuals who are cons...

Rational action and truth-seeking