It has been suggested that philosophers should adopt a methodology largely inspired by mathematics and the “mathematical” virtues of rigor, clarity, precision are also fundamental philosophical virtues. In reply, this paper argues some excellent philosophy lacks these too much emphasis on mathematical excludes potentially valuable forms discourse makes profession less diverse than it be. Unduly...

We report anisotropic thermal expansion of the parent, AEFe2As2 (AE = Ba, Sr, and Ca), compounds. Above the structural/antiferromagnetic phase transition anisotropy of the thermal expansion coefficients is observed, with the coefficient along the a-axis being significantly smaller than the coefficient for the c-axis. The high temperature (200 K ≤ T ≤ 300 K) coefficients themselves have similar ...

Is there something like a philosophical method? It seems that there are as many methods as there are philosophies. A method is any procedure employed to attain a certain end. So, before going to a method, we have to ask: what is the aim of philosophy? At the origin of philosophy, there is a questioning about the world. Leo Apostel and Jan Van der Veken made more precise and explicit those funda...

As a Guggenheim and MacArthur fellow, Errol Morris ranks among the most academically-minded documentarians. His films explore difficult philosophical issues of truth and meaning, which he is always eager to discuss at length in interviews and in his high-profile New York Times column. In all of these venues, he frequently returns to a question of great interest to cognitive scientists: to what ...

The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their cultural life script. Single-event and life stor...

Лейбниц - автор интересной философской концепции, в основе которой идея предустановленной Богом гармонии мира и учение о монадах. Цель статьи показать, как состояние науки того времени повлияло на осмысление феномена жизни, предложенное немецким философом. Leibniz is the author of interesting philosophical concept in base which are idea harmony preset by God and doctrine monads. The purpose art...

We present in this paper a constrained version of the problem of enumerating all maximal directed acyclic subgraphs (DAG) of a graph G. In this version, we enumerate stories, which are maximal DAGs whose sources and targets belong to a predefined subset of the nodes. First we show how to compute one story in polynomial-time, and we then describe two different algorithms to “tell” all possible s...