The plurality of models of ultimate reality is a central problem for religious philosophy. This essay sketches what is involved in mounting comparative inquiries across the plurality of models. In order to illustrate what advance would look like in such a comparative inquiry, an argument is presented to show that highly anthropomorphic models of ultimate reality are inferior to a number of comp...

Despite of extensive efforts, software projects have to cope with the recurring problems of the software crisis. We argue that the software crisis problem is more deeply rooted than it is generally perceived and that the problem is in the first place conceptual rather than technical. This implies that software engineering as it is currently perceived and applied may lack some fundamental concep...

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In October 2007, a joint meeting was held successfully on Zijinggang campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, between the Chinese Comparative Physiology Committee (CCPC) of the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (CAPS) and a consortium of scientists from around the world under the umbrella of comparative physiology, biochemistry, and toxicology. Hangzhou is situated in the gr...