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Moral Education (Hardcover)
James M. Gustafson, Richard S Peters, Lawrence Kohlberg
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Striking a balance between the scientific and technological aspects
of radiation curing, this work includes both a summary of current
knowledge as well as many chapters which present the first
comprehensive accounts of their subjects.
SECTION I In 1972, Donald Davison and Gilbert Hannan wrote in the
introduction to the volume Semantics of Natural Language: "The
success of linguistics in treating natural languages as formal
~yntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists
in a parallel or related development of semantics. For the most
part quite independently, many philosophers and logicians have
recently been applying formal semantic methods to structures
increasingly like natural languages. While differences in training,
method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and
linguists are converging, it seems, on a common set of interrelated
problems. " Davidson and Harman called for an interdisciplinary
dialogue of linguists, philosophers and logicians on the semantics
of natural language, and during the last ten years such an
enterprise has proved extremely fruitful. Thanks to the cooperative
effort in these several fields, the last decade has brought about
striking progress in our understanding of the semantics of natural
language. This work on semantics has typically paid little
attention to psychological aspects of meaning. Thus, psychologists
or computer scientists working on artificial intelligence were not
invited to join the forces in the influential introduction of
Semantics of Natural Language. No doubt it was felt that while
psychological aspects of language are important in their own right,
they are not relevant to our immediate semantic concerns. In the
last few years, several linguists and logicians have come to
question the fundamental anti-psychological assumptions underlying
their theorizing.
This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on
strategy, management and innovation by drawing together the
literature from these three fields and closely examining a critical
issue, the importance of a firm's national base at a sectoral level
in an era of globalization. Differences in national economic
structures, management, firm learning, and firm strategy all
contribute profoundly to competitive success. By examining two very
dynamic high-technology industries--semiconductors and liquid
crystal displays, the author shows how national systems of
innovation are of critical importance in determining competitive
success.
This book draws together literature from the fields of strategy,
management and innovation to examine the importance of a firm's
national base at a sectoral level in an era of globalization. By
considering two very dynamic high-technology industries -
semiconductors and liquid crystal displays, the author shows how
national systems of innovation are of great importance in
determining competitive success.
Striking a balance between the scientific and technological aspects
of radiation curing, this work includes both a summary of current
knowledge as well as many chapters which present the first
comprehensive accounts of their subjects.
SECTION I In 1972, Donald Davison and Gilbert Hannan wrote in the
introduction to the volume Semantics of Natural Language: "The
success of linguistics in treating natural languages as formal
~yntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists
in a parallel or related development of semantics. For the most
part quite independently, many philosophers and logicians have
recently been applying formal semantic methods to structures
increasingly like natural languages. While differences in training,
method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and
linguists are converging, it seems, on a common set of interrelated
problems. " Davidson and Harman called for an interdisciplinary
dialogue of linguists, philosophers and logicians on the semantics
of natural language, and during the last ten years such an
enterprise has proved extremely fruitful. Thanks to the cooperative
effort in these several fields, the last decade has brought about
striking progress in our understanding of the semantics of natural
language. This work on semantics has typically paid little
attention to psychological aspects of meaning. Thus, psychologists
or computer scientists working on artificial intelligence were not
invited to join the forces in the influential introduction of
Semantics of Natural Language. No doubt it was felt that while
psychological aspects of language are important in their own right,
they are not relevant to our immediate semantic concerns. In the
last few years, several linguists and logicians have come to
question the fundamental anti-psychological assumptions underlying
their theorizing.
In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals
of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular
with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of
papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways
the paper 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary
English' (commonly abbreviated PTQ) represents the culmination of
Montague's efforts to apply the techniques developed within
mathematical logic to the semantics of natural languages, and
indeed it is the system outlined there that people generally have
in mind when they refer to "Montague Grammar." (We prefer the term
"Montague Semantics" inasmuch as a grammar, as conceived of in
current linguistics, would contain at least a phonological
component, a morphological component, and other subsystems which
are either lacking entirely or present only in a very rudi mentary
state in the PTQ system. ) Montague's work has attracted increasing
attention in recent years among linguists and philosophers since it
offers the hope that semantics can be characterized with the same
formal rigor and explicitness that transformational approaches have
brought to syntax. Whether this hope can be fully realized remains
to be seen, but it is clear nonetheless that Montague semantics has
already established itself as a productive para digm, leading to
new areas of inquiry and suggesting new ways of conceiving of
theories of natural language. Unfortunately, Montague's papers are
tersely written and very difficult to follow unless one has a
considerable background in logical semantics."
In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals
of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular
with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of
papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways
the paper 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary
English' (commonly abbreviated PTQ) represents the culmination of
Montague's efforts to apply the techniques developed within
mathematical logic to the semantics of natural languages, and
indeed it is the system outlined there that people generally have
in mind when they refer to "Montague Grammar." (We prefer the term
"Montague Semantics" inasmuch as a grammar, as conceived of in
current linguistics, would contain at least a phonological
component, a morphological component, and other subsystems which
are either lacking entirely or present only in a very rudi mentary
state in the PTQ system. ) Montague's work has attracted increasing
attention in recent years among linguists and philosophers since it
offers the hope that semantics can be characterized with the same
formal rigor and explicitness that transformational approaches have
brought to syntax. Whether this hope can be fully realized remains
to be seen, but it is clear nonetheless that Montague semantics has
already established itself as a productive para digm, leading to
new areas of inquiry and suggesting new ways of conceiving of
theories of natural language. Unfortunately, Montague's papers are
tersely written and very difficult to follow unless one has a
considerable background in logical semantics."
This volume presents multiple perspectives on the uses of the
history of mathematics for teaching and learning, including the
value of historical topics in challenging mathematics tasks, for
provoking teachers’ reflection on the nature of mathematics,
curriculum development questions that mirror earlier pedagogical
choices in the history of mathematics education, and the history of
technological innovations in the teaching and learning of
mathematics. An ethnomathematical perspective on the history of
mathematics challenges readers to appreciate the role of
mathematics in perpetuating consequences of colonialism. Histories
of the textbook and its uses offer interesting insights into how
technology has changed the fundamental role of curriculum materials
and classroom pedagogies. History is explored as a source for the
training of teachers, for good puzzles and problems, and for a
broad understanding of mathematics education policy. Third in a
series of sourcebooks from the International Commission for the
Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching, this collection of
cutting-edge research, stories from the field, and policy
implications is a contemporary and global perspective on current
possibilities for the history of mathematics for mathematics
education. This latest volume integrates discussions regarding
history of mathematics, history of mathematics education and
history of technology for education that have taken place at the
Commission's recent annual conferences.
Available in English for the first time, "Modern Armenian Drama"
presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over
a century (1871--1992), the plays explore such diverse themes
science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's
emancipation, and political reform through the medium of all the
major European dramatic genres.
Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe provide a comprehensive
introduction to the history of Armenian drama, giving a valuable
overview of its importance and development in Armenia, as well as a
brief biography for each playwright. A preface to each play helps
in placing the work within the context of historical and cultural
issues of the time.
Like the plays of Ibsen and O'Neill, the plays presented in this
anthology are considered modern classics. They have an enduring
quality and appeal to audiences who see them today. The editors
have collected translations of the best examples of Armenian
theater from its renaissance in the mid-nineteenth century to the
present.
Edited by S. Peter Borriello, Patrick R. Murray and Guido Funke. In
recent years there has been a revolution in our understanding of
infections and the infective process, as well as in our ability to
detect, identify, characterize and understand commensal and
pathogenic bacteria. The bacteriology volumes in Topley &
Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections have therefore been
thoroughly restructured and updated for this tenth edition to
include all new, emerging or re-emerging pathogens as well as
providing the ultimate reference to established organisms. The two
volumes provide comprehensive, authoritative coverage of all
aspects of bacteriology, and are divided into parts covering the
general basic characteristics of bacteria and bacterial infections;
their ecosystems; epidemiology, transmission and therapy; organ and
system infections and laboratory aspects. These are followed by
detailed reviews of the individual organisms and their biology. The
chapters distil current knowledge while providing insights into
future developments in the field. The editors' and contributors'
enthusiasm for this exciting subject, combined with the breadth of
coverage and the clinical relevance of the material, ensures that
Bacteriology will prove invaluable to students and teachers of
microbiology, while microbiologists working in general, medical,
food, environmental, and pharmaceutical fields will come to find
this their definitive reference work.
"Genomic Control Process" explores the biological phenomena
around genomic regulatory systems that control and shape animal
development processes, and which determine the nature of
evolutionary processes that affect body plan. Unifying and
simplifying the descriptions of development and evolution by
focusing on the causality in these processes, it provides a
comprehensive method of considering genomic control across diverse
biological processes.
This book is essential for graduate researchers in genomics,
systems biology and molecular biology seeking to understand deep
biological processes which regulate the structure of animals during
development. Covers a vast area of current biological research to
produce a genome oriented regulatory bioscience of animal life
Places gene regulation, embryonic and postembryonic development,
and evolution of the body plan in a unified conceptual
frameworkProvides the conceptual keys to interpret a broad
developmental and evolutionary landscape with precise experimental
illustrations drawn from contemporary literatureIncludes a range of
material, from developmental phenomenology to quantitative and
logic models, from phylogenetics to the molecular biology of gene
regulation, from animal models of all kinds to evidence of every
relevant typeDemonstrates the causal power of system-level
understanding of genomic control process
Conceptually organizes a constellation of complex and diverse
biological phenomenaInvestigates fundamental developmental control
system logic in diverse circumstances and expresses these in
conceptual modelsExplores mechanistic evolutionary processes,
illuminating the evolutionary consequences of developmental control
systems as they are encoded in the genome"
Although ancestral voices have inspired many Armenian American
writers of poetry and fiction in the twentieth century, their
expression through drama has been limited. The first of its kind,
this anthology is a collection of plays by notable Armenian
Americans. Written in English largely by artists of Armenian
extraction during the latter part of the twentieth century, the
plays reflect the outrage of the Armenian Genocide, the forced
transplantation that created the Armenian Diaspora, and the desire
to maintain the newly established democratic homeland.
Including a range of authors from William Saroyan to more
contemporary voices, this anthology represents the writers that
have stimulated cutting-edge contemporary drama from the
mid-twentieth century to the present. The collection includes
farce, comedy, tragicomedy, and tragedy (and sometimes blends of
all of these). The plays reflect the shared experiences of Armenian
family life in Armenia, Turkey, and America. The themes include the
joy of freedom to practice their faith and ethnic customs, the
turmoil of acculturation, and the feared loss of identity through
assimilation.
The editor has provided headnotes for each play and an extensive
introduction tracing the history of Armenian American drama in the
United States.
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