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Epigrams On Programming
Teaching computer science
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Challenges in traditional metaphilosophical investigations; individual biases and limitations
Traditional methods for obtaining a description of the intellectual space of the discipline take the form of a less than a handful of philosophers testing each other's intuitions about ways to organize the content of the discipline. There are many reasons to be skeptical about…
Role of inpho in metaphilosophy: a 'descriptive', not a 'normative' adequacy
Let us call a metaphilosophical position descriptively adequate if it portrays the discipline as it is currently practiced in such a way as to support practical applications. Let us call a metaphilosophical position normatively adequate if it outlines the best way to arrive at…
The precarious place of encyclopedias
Encyclopedias have always occupied a precarious position in academia. On the one hand they taxonomize human knowledge and provide valuable entry points for scholars and students into the intellectual worlds of academic disciplines, covering their subject matters in more breadth…
Ideas for a visualization system; open challenges for digital philosophy
Such a system would facilitate interaction with the encyclopedia for expert and novice users alike. Experts could see the “big picture” of an idea or philosopher in a glance, capturing a large amount of information in an efficient manner, and novices could surf through the…
Humans and computers work better together
A key challenge facing philosophers in the digital age is to discover how best to use computers to support our understanding of the discipline. As should be clear by now , we do not expect our text processing tools to write a compelling philosophy paper any time soon. Rather…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Philosophical influence of nishida kitaro
Nishida Kitarō was the most significant and influential Japanese philosopher of the twentieth-century. His work is pathbreaking in several respects: it established in Japan the creative discipline of philosophy as practiced in Europe and the Americas; it enriched that…
Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, And The Digital Humanities
Hybrid fields
the focus for this symposium will be to bring together the digital humanities and the bioinformatics communities --both hybrid fields whose members seek to apply computationally-based research methods to address questions within their larger disciplines (humanities and…