Research goals: determine particularities of using cloud services in English communicative competence forming process and develop the model of distance learning system (DLS) and cloud services interaction that improves the quality of the learning process. Research objectives: to identify, describe and develop methodological features of the model of distance learning system and cloud services in...

Scheduling lectures or exams for universities is a large and complex task. There are many different departments and faculties, each with their own ideas about how and when their courses should be run. Furthermore, modularisation means that students can take courses from a combination of several departments, possibly even in different faculties. Numerous university timetabling systems have been ...

What type of computer is the human mind/brain? The answer we propose is this: the mind is a symbol-manipulating computer, an abstract virtual machine realized in a brain performing connectionist computation. This characterizes the core of higher cognition, the particularly challenging and important realm of cognitive faculties operating in domains like abstract reasoning and language—faculties ...

In the transcendental deduction, the central argument of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant seeks to secure the objective validity of our basic categories of thought. He distinguishes objective and subjective sides of this argument. The latter side, the subjective deduction, is normally understood as an investigation of our cognit ive faculties. It is identified with Kant’s account of a threefol...