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Javier Kalhat 《Acta Analytica》2008,23(2):161-176
In this paper I argue against Armstrong’s recent truthmaking account of possibility. I show that the truthmaking account presupposes
modality in a number of different ways, and consequently that it is incapable of underwriting a genuine reduction of modality.
I also argue that Armstrong’s account faces serious difficulties irrespective of the question of reduction; in particular,
I argue that his Entailment and Possibility Principles are both false.
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Javier KalhatEmail: |
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Ana Isabel Sacristán Richard Noss 《International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning》2008,13(1):47-70
In this paper, we describe a design experiment aimed at helping students to explore and develop concepts of infinite processes
and objects. Our approach is based on the design and development of a computational microworld, which afforded students the
means to construct a range of representational models (symbolic, visual and numeric) of infinity-related objects (infinite
sequences, in particular). We present episodes based on four students’ activities, seeking to illustrate how the available
tools mediated students’ understandings of the infinite in rich ways, allowing them to discriminate subtle process-oriented
features of infinite processes. We claim that the microworld supported students in the coordination of hitherto unconnected
or conflicting intuitions concerning infinity, based on a constructive articulation of different representational forms we
name as ‘representational moderation’.
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Richard NossEmail: |
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Michael McDermott 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(4):333-335
In this note I discuss what seems to be a new kind of counterexample to Lewis’s account of counterfactuals. A coin is to be
tossed twice. I bet on ‘Two heads’, and I win. Common sense says that (1) is false. But Lewis’s theory says that it is true.
(1) If at least one head had come up, I would have won.
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Michael McDermottEmail: |
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Dor Abrahamson Uri Wilensky 《International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning》2007,12(1):23-55
We introduce a design-based research framework, learning axes and bridging tools, and demonstrate its application in the preparation and study of an implementation of a middle-school experimental computer-based
unit on probability and statistics, ProbLab (Probability Laboratory, Abrahamson and Wilensky 2002 [Abrahamson, D., & Wilensky, U. (2002). ProbLab. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University.
]). ProbLab is a mixed-media unit, which utilizes traditional tools as well as the NetLogo agent-based modeling-and-simulation environment (Wilensky 1999) [Wilensky, U. (1999). NetLogo. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling ] and HubNet, its technological extension for facilitating participatory simulation activities in networked classrooms (Wilensky and Stroup
1999a) [Wilensky, U., & Stroup, W. (1999a). HubNet. Evanston, IL: The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University]. We will focus on
the statistics module of the unit, Statistics As Multi-Participant Learning-Environment Resource (S.A.M.P.L.E.R.). The framework shapes the design rationale toward creating and developing learning tools, activities, and facilitation guidelines.
The framework then constitutes a data-analysis lens on implementation cases of student insight into the mathematical content.
Working with this methodology, a designer begins by focusing on mathematical representations associated with a target concept—the
designer problematizes and deconstructs each representation into a pair of historical/cognitive antecedents (idea elements),
each lying at the poles of a learning axis. Next, the designer creates bridging tools, ambiguous artifacts bearing interaction properties of each of the idea elements, and develops activities with these learning
tools that evoke cognitive conflict along the axis. Students reconcile the conflict by means of articulating strategies that
embrace both idea elements, thus integrating them into the target concept.
The research reported on this paper was funded by NSF ROLE Grant No. REC-0126227. The opinions expressed here are those of
the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of NSF. This paper is based on the authors’ AERA 2004 paper titled S.A.M.P.L.E.R.: Statistics As Multi-Participant Learning-Environment Resource.
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Dor Abrahamson (Corresponding author)Email: |
Uri WilenskyEmail: |
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Laetitia Bueno-Ravel Ghislaine Gueudet 《International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning》2009,14(1):1-20
The study we present here concerns the consequences of integrating online resources into the teaching of mathematics. We focus
on the interaction between teachers and specific online resources they draw on: e-exercise bases. We propose a theoretical
approach to study the associated phenomena, combining instrumental and anthropological perspectives. For given didactical
tasks, we observe teachers’ instrumental geneses, and the didactical techniques they develop. We exemplify our approach with
the analysis of a case study of trigonometry in grade 9.
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Ghislaine GueudetEmail: |
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This article illustrates how four teacher educators in training were challenged with respect to their epistemology and perceptions
of teaching and learning mathematics through their interactions with expressive digital media during a professional development
course. The research focused on their experience of communally constructing artifacts and their reflections on the nature
of mathematics and mathematics teaching and learning with digital media. I discussed three different ways in which this media
was used by the teachers; first, as a means to engage in technical-applied mathematics to engineer mathematical models; second,
as a means to construct models for students to engage in experimental-constructivist activity; thirdly, as a means to engage
in a discussion of a challenging mathematical problem.
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Chronis KynigosEmail: |
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Steffen Borge 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(2):149-154
In this paper I argue against a criticism by Matthew Weiner to Grice’s thesis that cancellability is a necessary condition
for conversational implicature. I argue that the purported counterexamples fail because the supposed failed cancellation in
the cases Weiner presents is not meant as a cancellation but as a reinforcement of the implicature. I moreover point out that
there are special situations in which the supposed cancellation may really work as a cancellation.
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Steffen BorgeEmail: |
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Kelly Becker 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(1):17-31
Timothy Williamson has provided damaging counterexamples to Robert Nozick’s sensitivity principle. The examples are based
on Williamson’s anti-luminosity arguments, and they show how knowledge requires a margin for error that appears to be incompatible
with sensitivity. I explain how Nozick can rescue sensitivity from Williamson’s counterexamples by appeal to a specific conception
of the methods by which an agent forms a belief. I also defend the proposed conception of methods against Williamson’s criticisms.
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Kelly BeckerEmail: |
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Charlie Pelling 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(3):169-182
According to the conceptualist view in the philosophy of perception, we possess concepts for all the objects, properties,
and relations which feature in our experiences. Richard Heck has recently argued that the phenomenon of illusory experience
provides us with conclusive reasons to reject this view. In this paper, I examine Heck’s argument, I explain why I think that
Bill Brewer’s conceptualist response to it is ineffective, and I then outline an alternative conceptualist response which
I myself endorse. My argument turns on the fact that both Heck, in constructing his objection to conceptualism, and Brewer,
in responding to it, miss a crucial distinction between perceptual demonstrative concepts of objects, on the one hand, and
perceptual demonstrative concepts of properties, on the other.
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Charlie PellingEmail: |
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We propose an approach to epistemic justification that incorporates elements of both reliabilism and evidentialism, while
also transforming these elements in significant ways. After briefly describing and motivating the non-standard version of
reliabilism that Henderson and Horgan call “transglobal” reliabilism, we harness some of Henderson and Horgan’s conceptual
machinery to provide a non-reliabilist account of propositional justification (i.e., evidential support). We then invoke this
account, together with the notion of a transglobally reliable belief-forming process, to give an account of doxastic justification.
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Terry HorganEmail: |
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Federica Olivero Ornella Robutti 《International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning》2007,12(2):135-156
This paper sits within the research on the affordances of new technologies in the mathematics classroom and focuses on a specific
feature that is available in dynamic geometry environments, i.e. measuring tools, within the context of conjecturing and proving
in open geometry problems. We develop a classification of different modalities of measuring, based on our previous work on
dragging. The modalities are illustrated through the analysis of 15–16 year-old students’ proving processes, which focuses
on how these modalities relate to the moves between the spatio-graphical field and the theoretical field and may either support
or hinder the proving process. The classification of the modalities of measuring enables researchers to access students’ cognitive
processes and teachers to be aware of the different possible uses and interpretation of measuring, giving them tools to support
students when difficulties arise.
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Ornella RobuttiEmail: |
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Nic Damnjanovic 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(2):113-126
In several publications Graeme Forbes has developed and defended one of the strongest arguments for essentialism about biological
origins. I attempt to show that there are deep, as yet unrecognized, problems with this argument. The problems with Forbes’s
argument suggest that a range of other arguments for various forms of origin essentialism are also likely to be flawed, and
that we should abandon the seemingly plausible general metaphysical thesis that concrete entities that share all intrinsic
properties are identical.
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Nic DamnjanovicEmail: |
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Michal Tabach Alex Friedlander 《International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning》2008,13(1):27-46
Use of spreadsheets in a beginning algebra course was investigated mainly with regard to their potential to promote generalization
of patterns. Less is known about their use in promoting understanding and learning of transformational activities. The overall
purpose of this paper is to consider the conceptual aspects of learning a transformational skill (use of the distributive
law to produce equivalent algebraic expressions) in a learning sequence composed of both spreadsheets and paper-and-pencil
activities. We conducted a sequence of classroom activities in several classes, and analyzed the students’ work on a spreadsheet
activity and on an assessment activity by both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings indicate both encouraging
benefits and some potential sources of difficulties caused by the use of spreadsheets at initial stages of learning symbolic
transformations.
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Michal TabachEmail: |
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James A. Kitts Paul T. Trowbridge 《Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory》2007,13(4):333-353
This paper considers a formal model of cultural transmission in organizations, examining the interplay of structured social
influence and organizational demography. A set of focused and fine-grained computational experiments elucidates this model’s
assumptions, facilitates deeper explanations for some of its behavior, and explores the robustness and scope conditions of
previously published conclusions. In doing so, this investigation highlights several important issues in the design and evaluation
of computational experiments.
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Paul T. TrowbridgeEmail: |
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Christopher Buford 《Acta Analytica》2009,24(3):197-209
Lynne Rudder Baker’s Constitution View of human persons has come under much recent scrutiny. Baker argues that each human person is constituted by, but not identical
to, a human animal. Much of the critical discussion of Baker’s Constitution View has focused upon this aspect of her account.
Less has been said about the positive diachronic account of personal identity offered by Baker. Baker argues that it is sameness of what she labels ‘first-person perspective’
that is essential to understanding personal identity over time. Baker claims that her account avoids the commitment to indeterminacy of personal identity entailed by the psychological
account. Further, the psychological account, but not her account, is plagued by what Baker labels the ‘duplication problem’.
In the end, I argue that neither of these considerations forces us to renounce the psychological account and adopt Baker’s
favored account.
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Christopher BufordEmail: |
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Steve Bankes 《Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory》2009,15(1):8-10
Computer models are artifacts that facilitate conducting computational experiments. In that sense they are laboratory equipment.
The utility of a piece of laboratory equipment comes from the range of useful experiments it supports. However, general purpose
models are in general much more costly to create and maintain. Consequently, issues regarding the design of computer models
are best understood as pragmatic questions regarding the costs and utility of alternative designs.
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Steve BankesEmail: |
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Andrew Bailey 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(2):85-103
This paper resurrects two discredited ideas in the philosophy of mind. The first: the idea that perceptual illusion might
have something metaphysically significant to tell us about the nature of phenomenal consciousness. The second: that the colours
and other qualities that ‘fill’ our sensory fields are occurrent properties (rather than representations of properties) that
are, nevertheless, to be distinguished from the ‘objective’ properties of things in the external world. Theories of consciousness
must recognize the existence of what Daniel Dennett mockingly labels ‘figment,’ but this result—though metaphysically and
epistemologically significant—is not incompatible with either physicalism or naturalized semantics.
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Andrew BaileyEmail: |
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Michael P. Wolf 《Acta Analytica》2007,22(3):207-222
Causal theories of reference in the philosophy of language and philosophy of science have suggested that it could resolve
lingering worries about incommensurability between theoretical claims in different paradigms, to borrow Kuhn’s terms. If we
co-refer throughout different paradigms, then the problems of incommensurability are greatly diminished, according to causal
theorists. I argue that assuring ourselves of that sort of constancy of reference will require comparable sorts of cross-paradigm
affinities, and thus provides us with no special relief on this problem. Suggestions on how to think about rigid designation
across paradigms are included.
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Michael P. WolfEmail: |
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Tom Satwicz Reed Stevens 《International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning》2008,13(3):179-206
This paper describes the use of quantities in video games by young people as part of a broader effort to understand thinking
and learning across naturally occurring contexts of activity. Our approach to investigating the use of quantities in game
play is ethnographic; we have followed eight children over a six-month period as they play their own games at home. The data
set is composed of video recordings and artifact-based interviews. The concept of disciplined perception is used to understand
how quantities are coordinated during game play. The current study shows young people using quantities in games to make predictions
and organize their actions based on those predictions. Some ideas based on the study’s findings for using video games in school
are discussed.
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Reed StevensEmail: |
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Anomaly detection in a mobile communication network 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Alec Pawling Nitesh V. Chawla Greg Madey 《Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory》2007,13(4):407-422
Mobile communication networks produce massive amounts of data which may be useful in identifying the location of an emergency
situation and the area it affects. We propose a one pass clustering algorithm for quickly identifying anomalous data points.
We evaluate this algorithm’s ability to detect outliers in a data set and describe how such an algorithm may be used as a
component of an emergency response management system.
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Greg MadeyEmail: |