The Game of Game-Based Learning

Games have been an inevitable part of education since the beginning. They have indescribably transformed the educational landscape with a higher emphasis on the learner-centric pedagogy. The educational games can be considered to be a contemporary manifestation of these centuries' old philosophies and practices aimed at imparting strategic and tactical thinking, language, logic, and mathematical skills amongst the learners. This chapter explores the meaning, significance, and scope of game-based learning as an instructional tool. It provides an interesting account of several games that are popularly used to facilitate effective learning in various settings. This chapter also examines the relevance and implications of games in education.

Modules Reconsidered

In recent decades, neuroscience has challenged the orthodox account of the modular mind. One way of meeting this challenge has been to go for increasingly “soft” versions of modularity, and one version in particular, the “system” view, is so soft that it promises to meet practically any challenge neuroscience can throw at it. But an account of the mind that tells us that the mind can do different things, even interesting things, is not itself necessarily an interesting account. This chapter considers afresh what ought to be regarded as the sine qua non of modularity, and offers a few arguments against the view that an insipid “system” module could be the legitimate successor of the traditional notion.

Continuity and Intuition in Eighteenth-Century Analysis and in Kant

This chapter considers the status of geometrical and kinematic representations in the foundations of 18th century analysis and in Kant’s understanding of those foundations. It has two aims. First, relying on relatively recent reassessments of the history of analysis, it will attempt to bring forward a more accurate account of intuitive representation in 18th century analysis and the relation between British and Continental mathematics. Second, it will give a better account of Kant’s place in that history. The result shows that although Kant did no better at navigating the labyrinth of the continuum than his contemporaries, he had a more interesting and reasonable account of the foundations of analysis than an easy reading of either Kant or that history provides. It also permits a more accurate and interesting account of how and when a conception of foundations of analysis without intuitive representations emerged, and how that paved the way for Bolzano and Cauchy.

The Interface between Tradition and Modernity in Naga Society: A Critique from Gender Perspective

ABSTRACT This paper questions to what extent do modern beliefs have an impact on the traditional values concerning the status of Naga women. Nagaland entered the modern era owing to the contact with the British administrators, Christian missionaries and the attainment of statehood. It was believed that the ushering of the modern era would uplift Naga women, however the traditional values were kept much intact, which hinders the opportunities promised by modernity. The interface of tradition and modernity is examined to highlight the incorporation of traditional practices, which hinders Naga women to exploit their potentials. A detailed enquiry through the prevailing customary laws and case studies conducted on the experiences of women provides an interesting account as to why Naga women are yet to achieve a status as par with Naga man. Such constraints can be traced to the ideologies, which glorified the Naga man and thereby occupy a secondary position to males till today.

Interesting Account

Transactive memories of Joseph Smith’s first vision—individual memories in communication and combination with each other—enter the historical record in the 1840s. The most significant and far-reaching of these memories is Orson Pratt’s “Interesting Account,” published in Scotland in 1840 after Smith confided his vision to Pratt in 1839. By sharing his memory, Smith ensured that published accounts of the 1840s consolidated via transaction. Individuals remembered and communicated memories, like Smith telling Pratt, who remembered and communicated via “Interesting Account.” That process placed memories in the saints’ buffer, available for selection, relation to other knowledge, and repetition until they became common knowledge. Otherwise, Smith’s memories would have died with him in 1844.

A Linguistic Specification of Aesthetic Judgments

This paper aims to delineate the class of aesthetic judgments linguistically. The main idea is that aesthetic judgments can be specified by a certain set of assertibility conditions—i.e., by norms that govern appropriate speech-acts. This idea is spelled out in detail and defended against various objections. The suggestion leads to an interesting account of aesthetic judgments that is theoretically fruitful: it provides the basis for a non-circular and satisfying characterization of the whole domain of aesthetic research and it marks an important linguistic difference between aesthetic judgments and judgments of personal taste.

Fractional Integration of the Product of two Multivariable Gimel-Functions and a General Class of Polynomials

A significantly large number of earlier works on the subject of fractional calculus give the interesting account of the theory and applications of fractional calculus operators in many different areas of mathematical analysis (such as ordinary and partial differential equations, integral equations, special functions, the summation of series, etc.). The object of the present paper is to study and develop the Saigo-Maeda operators. First, we establish four results that give the images of the product of two multivariable Gimel-functions and a general class of multivariable polynomials in Saigo- Maeda operators. On account of the general nature of the Saigo-Maeda operators, multivariable Gimel-functions and a class multivariable polynomials a large number of new and known theorems involving Riemann-Liouville and Erdelyi- Kober fractional integral operators and several special functions.

Grotius and Empire

This article reviews Andrew Fitzmaurice’s recent book Sovereignty, Property and Empire 1500–1800 with a critical examination of the author’s analysis of Hugo Grotius. Unlike other works of intellectual history that focus on the relationship between empire and political theory, this book offers a refreshing account of how Western political thought also provided a critique of empire. Using the law of occupation to explain the origin of property and political society, Fitzmaurice demonstrates how ‘occupation’ was used to both justify and criticise extra-European imperial expansion. His analysis of Grotius is centred on ‘occupation’, explaining that even though Grotius’s political thought supports an imperialistic thesis, there is also evidence of anti-imperialist sentiments running through his works. I argue, however, that whilst Fitzmaurice provide a sound and interesting account of the role occupation plays in explaining Grotius’s two different accounts of property in De Indis and De jure belli ac pacis, he disregards the broader philosophical implications this has for Grotius’s theory of property.