The objective of this paper is to present a philosophically sound approach to conceptual model evaluation. Accordingly, the ontological evaluation of conceptual models is enriched with a linguistic interpretivist perspective. The need for such an approach to evaluation is justified by the substantial economic importance of conceptual models. The quality of a conceptual model has a significant i...

Transforming as it does from an exemplar of meticulous philosophical analysis into an allusive political/messianic tract, Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is representative of all that is most difficult about his work. Against those critics who find the eschatological dimensions of Benjamin’s texts unpalatable and/or philosophically bankrupt, however, the wager of this paper is that it ...

The claim that similarity plays a role in representation has been philosophically discredited. Psychologists, however, routinely analyze the success of mental representations for guiding behavior in terms of a similarity between representation and the world. I provide a foundation for this practice by developing a philosophically responsible account of the relationship between similarity and re...

Abstract: This article aims to describe philosophically related Science Practicum Activities and Mini Edupark School (MES) facilities which are expected support future education, especially environmental conservation attitudes. uses a qualitative descriptive approach. Philosophically, ontology is obtained an overview the nature of activities Facilities. From epistemological philosophy, we get p...

A personal reflection upon a career in medical ethics leads to four conclusions on what makes for 'good medical ethics'. Good medical ethics is practical in approach, philosophically well grounded, cross disciplinary, and while it might not be a necessary feature, the experience of the author suggests that it is the work of 'good people'.

Abstract. Good lattice quadrature rules are known to have O(N) convergence for periodic integrands with sufficient smoothness. Here it is shown that applying the baker’s transformation to lattice rules gives O(N) convergence for nonperiodic integrands with sufficient smoothness. This approach is philosophically and practically different than making a periodizing transformation of the integrand,...

We study a general proof-theoretical framework for logic programming, the so called uniform proofs. We consider several logic programming systems derived in a natural way from logical proof systems (namely, from classical, intuitionistic, minimal, positive, relevance, or paranormal sequent calculi). Our result is the construction of proof-theoretical logic programming systems for philosophicall...