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This paper is part of a study that explores learning difficulties in mathematics from the children’s point of view. An interview with a group of ten to eleven year old students is analysed with respec...
The distinction between presentism and eternalism is usually sought in some formula like ‘Only presently existing things exist’ or ‘Past, present, and future events are equally real’. I argue that amb...
Reichenbach's Epsilon Definition of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective
Reichenbach simultaneity convention
2008/4/22
I examine the development of Reichenbach's ideas concerning the conventionality of simultaneity in connection with his ``epsilon''-definition of simultaneity. It does not appear that he ever considere...
Spacetime, Structural Realism, and the Substantival/Relational Debate: An Ontological Investigation from the Perspective of Structural Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
spacetime structural realism substantivalism relationism
2008/4/21
This essay explores structural realist interpretation of spacetime with special emphasis on the close interrelationship between, on the one hand, ontological debates in spacetime structural realism an...
The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution
evolution Perspective
2008/4/21
Developmental systems theory is an attempt to sum up the ideas of a research tradition in developmental psychobiology that goes back at least to Daniel Lehrman’s work in the 1950s. It yields a represe...
General covariance from the perspective of Noether's theorems
general covariance Noether's theorems
2008/4/14
Analysis of Emmy Noether’s 1918 theorems provides an illuminating method for testing the consequences of “coordinate generality”, and for exploring what else must be added to this requirement in order...
This chapter describes a perspective on emotion, according to which emotions are: 1. Designed to function in a social context: an emotion is often an act of relationship reconfiguration brought about ...
Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective
decision-making rationality irrationality economics neuroscience
2008/4/11
This article introduces and discusses from a philosophical point of view the nascent field of neuroeconomics, which is the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic sig...
Complex Systems from the Perspective of Category Theory: I. Functioning of the Adjunction Concept
Complex Systems Information Structures Localization Systems
2008/4/10
We develop a category theoretical framework for the comprehension of the information structure associated with a complex system, in terms of families of partial or local information carriers. The fram...
A Topos Perspective on the Kochen-Specker Theorem: I. Quantum States as Generalised Valuations
Kochen-Specker theorem category theory
2008/4/9
Any attempt to construct a realist interpretation of quantum theory founders on the Kochen-Specker theorem, which asserts the impossibility of assigning values to quantum quantities in a way that pres...
ETHNOMATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL DIVERSITY: A RADICAL CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE
ETHNOMATHEMATICS MATHEMATICAL DIVERSITY
2008/4/8
Borba's use of ethnomathematics as a way of seeing diversity in our ways of doing mathematics complements the work of others in that area and forms the framework for understanding the important role o...
MATHEMATICS, EDUCATION AND PHILOSOPHY: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY
2008/4/8
This book addresses the central problem of the philosophy of mathematics education: the impact of conceptions of mathematics on educational practice. It also embodies a far-reaching interdisciplinary ...
A Deweyan Perspective on Aesthetic in Mathematics Education
A Deweyan Perspective Aesthetic Mathematics Education
2008/4/7
Some mathematics educational researchers (Papert, 1980; Davis & Hersh, 1981; cite) make a provocative assertion first posited by the nineteenth century French mathematician, Henri Poincaré, claiming t...
Maureen Christie: The Ozone Layer. A Philosophy of Science Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, xii + 215 pp., £45.00 [ISBN 0-521-65072-0]
Maureen Christie Philosophy of Science
2008/4/3
It is like an irony of the history of science that philosophy of chemistry emerged at a time when disciplinary research became increasingly replaced with transdisciplinary problem-orientated research....
Of Statues and Science Lavoisier in Perspective, ed. by Marco Beretta, Deutsches Museum, München, 2005, 213 pp. [ISBN 3-924183-07-4]
Marco Beretta Perspective
2008/4/3
Despite a rather vague and non-engaging title, this collective volume is the outcome of a great historical event: a solemn ceremony for the inauguration of a statue of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in the...