We all know that ships are safest in the harbor; but alas, that is not what ships are built for. They are destined to leave the harbor and to confront the challenges that are waiting beyond the harbor mole. A similar challenge confronts the practice of research. Research at work cannot play it safe and stay in whatever theoretical and methodological harbors in which it may have found shelter in...

Both Leibniz and Kant were heirs of such a tradition. But both were also explanatory rationalists about the empirical world: more committed than your average philosopher to its thoroughgoing intelligibility. (Leibniz was also an explanatory rationalist about the nonempirical, fundamental world; on that issue, given his commitments to freedom and noumenal ignorance, Kant famously demurred.) Thes...

1. What is the measured curriculum? 2. In what waysdo alternative curriculum conceptions and designs influence curriculum delivery and evaluation? 3. What common ideas do technological, cognitive processes, and academic rationalism embrace? 4. How do social reconstructionism and self-actualization differ? 5. How do the means-end, naturalistic observation, educational connoisseurship, and case s...

That success story of instrumental reason, scientific method and of rationalism is however jeopardized by the cumulative effects they are creating for the world as a living organism. Instrumental reason has created techniques and technologies that are superbly efficient in increasing productivity, efficiency and well-being in separate segments of life. Taken together, they create a clear and pr...

The essay discusses the defense of religious tolerance presented in Johann Crell’s treatise On Freedom Conscience, pointing to tension between Christian exclusivism on one hand and practicalism rationalism other inherent views. This can be resolved by adopting theistic minimalism or extreme practicalism.

Abstract Ask most philosophers for an example of a moral rationalist, and they will probably answer “Kant.” And no wonder. Kant's first great work philosophy, Groundwork the Metaphysics Morals , opens with clarion call rationalism, proclaiming need to out once pure metaphysics morals. That this includes principle ethics, law, is obvious. But what about second principles, particular laws, such a...

Terrorism has been a constant threat in traditional and contemporary societies. Recently, it has been converged with new media technology and cyberspace, resulting in the modern tactic, cyber-terrorism, which has become most effective in achieving terrorist goals. Among the countless cyber-terrorist cases and scenarios of only this last decade, the paper discusses four cyber-terrorism cases tha...

TO MOST WRITING on the history of science is the content of the subj ect ; that is, the advancement of man's knowledge of himself and ofthe world about him. Accounts of methods employed in science are included as explaining the substantive achievements. No doubt this is the most natural way to deal with the subject. Yet at times one may shift his interest from the ends of science to the means e...

Decision-makers are sometimes depicted as impulsive and overly influenced by ‘hot’, affective factors. The present research suggests that decision-makers may be too ‘cold’ and overly focus on rationalistic attributes, such as economic values, quantitative specifications, and functions. In support of this proposition, we find a systematic inconsistency between predicted experience and decision. ...