What kind of kind is intelligence?

What kind of “ is ” is Sahlins ’ “ is ” ?

What Kind of Production Is Construction?

Applicability of lean principles to construction might seem to require that construction’s differentiating characteristics be softened or explained away. This is the strategy employed by those who advocate making construction more like the manufacturing from which lean thinking originated. Following that line of thought, successive waves of implementation would leave ever smaller remainders tha...

What kind of doing is clinical ethics?

This paper discusses the importance of Richard M. Zaner's work on clinical ethics for answering the question: what kind of doing is ethics consultation? The paper argues first, that four common approaches to clinical ethics -- applied ethics, casuistry, principlism, and conflict resolution cannot adequately address the nature of the activity that makes up clinical ethics; second, that understan...

What kind of stroke is it?

The search for protein biomarkers in peripheral blood to aid in the diagnosis of stroke and the prediction of prognosis after stroke and risk of future stroke is an active area of investigation. Although some markers, such as S100b and neuron-specific enolase, have been shown to have prognostic value in ischemic stroke (1, 2 ), no biochemical markers have proven to be really useful in routine c...

What kind of machine is the mind?

Many computational modeling approaches of the mind seem to be characterized by an implicit strong physicalism, which frequently leads to confusion in philosophy of AI. This work aims at pointing out some fundamental aspects of this problem, both with respect to the relation between epistemological computationalism and physical realization, and the view of symbol manipulation as constrained comp...