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The Philosophy of Neuroscience
First published Mon Jun 7, 1999; substantive revision Tue May 25, 2010 Over the past three decades, philosophy of science has grown increasingly “local.” Concerns have switched from general features of scientific practice to concepts, issues, and puzzles specific to particular disciplines. Philosophy of neuroscience is a natural result. The literature distinguishes “philosophy of neuroscience” and “neurophilosophy.” 1. Contrary to some opinion, actual neuroscientific discoveries have exerted little influence on the details of materialist philosophies of mind. The apology for this lacuna by early identity theorists was that neuroscience at that time was too nascent to provide any plausible identities. Philosophical indifference to neuroscientific detail became “principled” with the rise and prominence of functionalism in the 1970s. A major turning point in philosophers' interest in neuroscience came with the publication of Patricia Churchland's Neurophilosophy (1986). 2.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophical teaching will get students thinking for themselves again | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional
Education would be more successful, and more enjoyable, if less time was spent teaching to the test and more time was spent teaching students to think for themselves. I'm not alone in believing this. In a recent Cambridge Assessment Research Survey, 87% of lecturers said that too much teaching to the test is a major factor contributing to students being under-prepared for degree-level study. With such widespread agreement about this, you would think that the issue of how assessment pressure is distorting teaching would be at the centre of the debate about A-level reform. Instead, the discussion so far has focused on assessment structure (modular versus linear) and standards (bringing in HE to restore rigour and counter 'grade inflation'). But if real teaching has given way to a process of training students to jump through assessment hoops, HE concerns aren't going to be met simply by reducing the number of hoops, or by lifting them higher. But there is a false antithesis here.
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Awe-Inspiring Landscapes
Photographer Hougaard Malan is inspired by moments when the land combines in magnificent beauty, and to the artist it appears like a God has painted it. 1. "About the Photographer." Hougaardmalan.com. Retrieved on October 7th, 2012.
Macchu Picchu, Peru
Ocean sounds
The Tree of Philosophy
Full Text ASCII Archive Copyright Stephen Palmquist, stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk. This archive created by Bruce Schuman, origin@rain.org June 26, 1995 How to order a printed version CONTENTS A Note to the Student PART ONE: THE ROOTS Metaphysics and the Recognition of Ignorance 1. What is Philosophy? 2. Philosophy as Myth 3.
DNA Evidence Debunks the "Out-of-Africa" Theory of Human Evolution
By Steven Strong Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Scientific evidence refuting the theory of modern humanity’s African genesis is common knowledge among those familiar with the most recent scientific papers on the human Genome, Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomes. This article was inspired by a comment made recently by Australian historian Greg Jefferys. The whole ‘Out of Africa’ myth has its roots in the mainstream academic campaign in the 1990′s to remove the concept of Race. It did begin the early 90’s. So how is it that their “probably” has morphed into our collective “definitely”? Over time, even the two researchers came to discover that the research of Original Mitochondrial DNA was fundamentally flawed. Professor Alan Wilson came to Australia in 1987 and 1989 to personally supervise the collection of Original blood from a variety of locations throughout Australia. Noted by Dr. Now the plot thickens and unravels. But past this point, nothing went according to their script.
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Akkadian Empire
Coordinates: During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Semitic Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.[5] Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate).[6] The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 BC). After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Akkadian people of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Akkadian speaking nations: Assyria in the north, and, a few centuries later, Babylonia in the south. City-state of Akkad[edit] History[edit] Origins[edit] Sargon and his sons[edit] Bronze head of an Akkadian, probably an image of Manishtusu or Naram-Sin; descendants of Sargon (National Museum of Iraq) "My mother was a changeling, my father I knew not. Kings of the Akkad Dynasty
