Content

Practice, Constraint, and Mathematical Concepts

by Mark C. R. Smith

Published in Philosophia Scientiae, 16:1, 2012.

Characteristics and content of medical library tutorials خصوصيات و محتوای برنامه های آموزشی کتابخانه پزشکی

by zahra batooli

تعيين موضوع برنام ههای آموزشی ارائه شده توسط کتابخان ههای پزشکی ، تعيين مشخصات طر ح های استفاده شده در این دوره ها و... more تعيين موضوع برنام ههای آموزشی ارائه شده توسط کتابخان ههای پزشکی ، تعيين مشخصات طر ح های استفاده شده در این دوره ها و ارزیابی عوامل یادگيری فعال در این دوره های آموزش ی، مسائلی بود که تيم پروژه به بررسی آنها پرداختند. با استفاده از طرح دوره های آموزشی بدست آمده از بررسی متون و ليست ذهنی تيم پروژه بر اساس عناصر طراحی دور ههای آموزشی، فهرستی شامل ده سئوال تهيه شد (پيوست) تا در سایت کتابخانه های پزشکی مورد نظر، بررسی شوند . مطالعه و بسایت کتابخانه های پزشکی دانشگاهی نشان داد با وجود تعداد زیاد دور ه های آموزشی پيوسته ، تعداد کمی از آنها عناصر یادگيری فعال از قبيل رابط تعاملی ١ یا برگه هاي قابل چاپ را شامل می شدند .

Constructing Worlds

by Mark Jago

Forthcoming in Synthese. Draft of February 2011.

You and I can differ in what we say, or believe, even though the things we say, or believe, are logically equivalent.... more You and I can differ in what we say, or believe, even though the things we say, or believe, are logically equivalent. Discussing what is said, or believed, requires notions of content which are finer-grained than sets of (metaphysically or logically) possible worlds. In this paper, I develop the approach to fine-grained content in terms of a space of possible and impossible worlds. I give a method for constructing ersatz worlds based on theory of substantial facts. I show how this theory overcomes an objection to actualist constructions of ersatz worlds and argue that it naturally gives rise to useful notions of fine-grained content.

The Content of Deduction

by Mark Jago

Forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Logic

For deductive reasoning to be justified, it must be guaranteed to preserve truth from premises to conclusion; and for... more For deductive reasoning to be justified, it must be guaranteed to preserve truth from premises to conclusion; and for it to be useful to us, it must be capable of informing us of something. How can we capture this notion of information content, whilst respecting the fact that the content of the premises, if true, already secures the truth of the conclusion? This is the problem I address here. I begin by considering and rejecting several accounts of informational content. I then develop an account on which informational contents are indeterminate in their membership. This allows there to be cases in which it is indeterminate whether a given deduction is informative. Nevertheless, on the picture I present, there are determinate cases of informative (and determinate cases of uninformative) inferences. I argue that the model I offer is the best way for an account of content to respect the meaning of the logical constants and the inference rules associated with them without collapsing into a classical picture of content, unable to account for informative deductive inferences.