scholarly journals What is a Philosophical Question?

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Luciano Floridi
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Philosophical Questions

There are many ways of understanding the nature of philosophical questions. One may consider their morphology, semantics, relevance, or scope. This chapter introduces a different approach, based on the kind of informational resources required to answer them. The result is a definition of philosophical questions as questions whose answers are in principle open to informed, rational, and honest disagreement, ultimate but not absolute, closed under further questioning, possibly constrained by empirical and logico-mathematical resources, but requiring noetic resources to be answered. The chapter concludes with a discussion of some of the consequences of this definition for a conception of philosophy as the study (or ‘science’) of open questions, which uses conceptual design to analyse and answer them. That is the topic of Chapter 2.

Wilde’s New Republic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marylu Hill
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Classical Training ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
New Republic ◽  
Dorian Gray ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Philosophical Questions

As a result of his classical training in the Honours School of Literæ Humaniores at Oxford, Oscar Wilde drew frequently on the works of Plato for inspiration, especially the Republic. The idea of a New Republic and its philosophy resonated profoundly with Wilde—so much so that the philosophical questions raised in Plato’s Republic become the central problems of The Picture of Dorian Gray. This chapter maps the parallels between the Republic and Dorian Gray, with specific focus on several of Plato’s most striking images from the Republic. In particular, the depiction of Lord Henry suggests not only the philosophical soul gone corrupt, but also the ‘drone’ who seduces the oligarchic young man into a life of ‘unprincipled freedom’, according to Plato’s definition of democracy. By invoking the Socratic lens, Wilde critiques Lord Henry’s anti-philosophy of the ‘New Hedonism’ and contrasts it with the Socratic eros.

scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY IN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK AND DESIGN PARAMETERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 731-740
Author(s):  
Giovanni Formentini ◽  
Claudio Favi ◽  
Claude Cuiller ◽  
Pierre-Eric Dereux ◽  
Francois Bouissiere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Design For Assembly ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
System Architectures ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractOne of the most challenging activity in the engineering design process is the definition of a framework (model and parameters) for the characterization of specific processes such as installation and assembly. Aircraft system architectures are complex structures used to understand relation among elements (modules) inside an aircraft and its evaluation is one of the first activity since the conceptual design. The assessment of aircraft architectures, from the assembly perspective, requires parameter identification as well as the definition of the overall analysis framework (i.e., mathematical models, equations).The paper aims at the analysis of a mathematical framework (structure, equations and parameters) developed to assess the fit for assembly performances of aircraft system architectures by the mean of sensitivity analysis (One-Factor-At-Time method). The sensitivity analysis was performed on a complex engineering framework, i.e. the Conceptual Design for Assembly (CDfA) methodology, which is characterized by level, domains and attributes (parameters). A commercial aircraft cabin system was used as a case study to understand the use of different mathematical operators as well as the way to cluster attributes.

European Working Group on Clinical Cell Analysis: Consensus Protocol for the Flow Cytometric Characterisation of Platelet Function

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (05) ◽  
pp. 885-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Schmitz ◽  
Gregor Rothe ◽  
Andreas Ruf ◽  
Stefan Barlage ◽  
Diethelm Tschöpe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Function ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Consensus Protocol ◽  
Specific Flow ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Flow Cytometric ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
European Working ◽  
Definition Of

IntroductionAn increased or disturbed activation and aggregation of platelets plays a major role in the pathophysiology of thrombosis and haemostasis and is related to cardiovascular disease processes. In addition to qualitative disturbances of platelet function, changes in thrombopoiesis or an increased elimination of platelets, (e. g., in autoimmune thrombocytopenia), are also of major clinical relevance. Flow cytometry is increasingly used for the specific characterisation of phenotypic alterations of platelets which are related to cellular activation, haemostatic function and to maturation of precursor cells. These new techniques also allow the study of the in vitro response of platelets to stimuli and the modification thereof under platelet-targeted therapy as well as the characterisation of platelet-specific antibodies. In this protocol, specific flow cytometric techniques for platelet analysis are recommended based on a description of the current state of flow cytometric methodology. These recommendations are an attempt to promote the use of these new techniques which are at present broadly evaluated for diagnostic purposes. Furthermore, the definition of the still open questions primarily related to the technical details of the method should help to promote the multi-center evaluation of procedures with the goal to finally develop standardized operation procedures as the basis of interlaboratory reproducibility when applied to diagnostic testing.

scholarly journals Inference of Mulla Sadra's Ethical Views in the Four Realms of Meta-Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Mehran Seif-Farshad ◽  
Yousef Kheire ◽  
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Madayen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Philosophy ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Intellectual System ◽  
Human Ethics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Transcendent Wisdom

Meta-ethics is an important and fundamental part of ethical philosophy. Normative ethics discusses the ethical criterion and definition of happiness and obligation; but Meta-ethics deals with its background. In other words, it puts ethical propositions into philosophical questions in terms of meaning, cognition, and truth. In the intellectual system of transcendent wisdom, metaphysical issues and sheer philosophy are studied in order to help human beings to develop and transcend. In fact, human ethics and transcendence along with theology are two main goals of transcendent wisdom. In this regard, it is important to understand Mulla Sadra's views on meta-ethics as well as to discover and deduce it among Mulla Sadra's philosophical views. While defining meta-ethics, explaining its domains and asking main questions about each of these domains, the method of comparative study is used in this paper in order to provide the most appropriate and consistent possible answers to questions in the realm of meta-ethics - based on Mulla Sadra's views on the originality of existence Substantial motion and Union of Intelligent and Intelligible and so on. 

scholarly journals Ki vagyok én? - Szárnyas fejvadász 2049

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 307-312
Author(s):  
Pál Gerdesits
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Proper Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Philosophical Questions

My essay focuses on the ontological crisis articulated in the film Blade Runner 2049, the sequel for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. This film is based on the conflict between humans and androids called replicants who would like to live equally to humans. In my opinion the root of their opposition lies on the inability to give a proper definition of what we normally call ‘human’. In this writing I present and analyse the nature of this conflict and also the philosophical questions (representation, freedom, self-identity etc.) arising from it based on the ideas of philosophers like Michel Foucault. Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida and Ferdinand de Saussure.

scholarly journals Open issues and perspectives of the present arrangements between FR of Yugoslavia and international financial institutions

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Pero Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Framework

The economic-financial relations with foreign countries and organizations and that is include transition of the Yugoslav politics and it is complex subject about characteristics of the actual arrangements of the FR Yugoslavia with international financial institutions and organizations and that is only one important part. But interrelations that processes is obviously for this article main subject are open questions and dealed with it a perspective of the future arrangements. We must take micro and macroeconomic measures dealed with problems of our society and economy that arrangements will be important factors of the development of the economic development. International Monetary Found is concluded that FR of Yugoslavia have a great successes in the reforms of macroeconomic policy and in the first part dealing with inflation and growth of the currency reserves and growth of the industry production. Dealing with new macroeconomic policy bring the results and new tax politics and liberalization of the tax policy an currency system at the beginning of this year. New framework of the privatization and definition of banking system there is create a new legal framework with goal of transformation economy to free market economy.

scholarly journals Unpacking Robert Spaemann’s Philosophical Contribution to the Brain Death Debate

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Elinor Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Brain Death ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
Ordinary Person ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Philosophical Contribution ◽  
Sole Criterion ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Living Being

Questions of life and death are primarily philosophical questions, as philosopher Robert Spaemann argues. Spaemann argues that “brain death” is philosophically unsatisfactory as a definition of death, and as the exclusive criterion for determining death, for two main reasons: first, because it attempts to annul the basic perceptions of the ordinary person in regard to death. Second, because the cause of life and unity in a living being cannot be reduced to the brain. This essay is an explication of Spaemann’s contribution to the “brain death” question, which consists in illuminating the philosophical issues at stake. Summary: This article presents Robert Spaemann’s philosophical case that “brain death” suffices neither as a definition of death nor as the sole criterion of death.

Innovative Multiple Matching Charts approach to support the conceptual design of hypersonic vehicles

2020 ◽  
Vol 234 (12) ◽  
pp. 1893-1912
Author(s):  
Davide Ferretto ◽  
Roberta Fusaro ◽  
Nicole Viola
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Flight Vehicles ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Reference Vehicle ◽  
Vehicle Configuration ◽  
Definition Of

Several well-established best practices and reliable tools have been developed along the years to support aircraft conceptual and preliminary design. In this context, one of the most widely used tool is the Matching Chart (MC), a graphical representation of the different performance requirements (curves representing the thrust-to-weight ratio (T/W) requirement as function of the wing loading (W/S)) for each mission phase. The exploitation of this tool allows the identification of a feasible design space as well as the definition of a reference vehicle configuration in terms of maximum thrust, maximum take-off weight, and wing surface since the very beginning of the design process. Although the tool was originally developed for conventional aircraft, several extensions and updates of the mathematical models have been proposed over the years to widen its application to innovative configurations. Following this trend, this paper presents a further evolution of the MC model to support the conceptual design of high-speed transportation systems, encompassing supersonic and hypersonic flight vehicles. At this purpose, this paper reports and discusses the updates of the methodology laying behind the generation of the MC for high-speed transportation. Eventually, the results of the validation of the updated methodology and tool are reported, using as case study, the STRATOFLY MR3 vehicle configuration, a Mach 8 antipodal civil transportation system, currently under development within the H2020 STRATOFLY project.

scholarly journals Teachers’ perception of technology integration in learning spaces

2019 ◽  
pp. PDF
Author(s):  
Anna Escofet ◽  
Begoña Gros ◽  
Marta López ◽  
Marta Marimon-Martí
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Primary And Secondary Education ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Definition Of

La definición de las características de un espacio de aprendizaje nos sitúa frente a la existencia de tres dimensiones de análisis clave para su diseño conceptual: la dimensión ambiental, la dimensión pedagógica y la dimensión digital (Bautista y Borges, 2013). El artículo muestra los resultados de una investigación que tiene por objetivo analizar los conocimientos, preferencias, percepciones y necesidades del profesorado respecto a la configuración del aula como espacio de aprendizaje, concretamente en relación a la dimensión digital. Para ello se realizó un estudio cuantitativo mediante el método de encuesta a una muestra de 847 docentes de educación infantil, primaria y secundaria. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que los docentes perciben que la dimensión digital debería ser uno de los elementos clave para plantear nuevos espacios de aprendizaje en las escuelas. The definition of the characteristics of a learning space places us before the existence of three dimensions of key analysis for its conceptual design, the environmental dimension, the pedagogical dimension and the digital dimension (Bautista and Borges, 2013). The article shows the results of a research that aims to know the knowledge, preferences, perceptions and needs of teachers regarding the configuration of the classroom as a learning space, specifically in relation to the digital dimension. To do this, a quantitative study was carried out using the survey method of a sample of 847 preschool, primary and secondary education teachers. The results obtained show that teachers identify the digital dimension and consider that this should be one of the key elements to propose new learning spaces in schools.

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