This paper shows some indicators of the environmental crisis and its complex problems. It also recognizes that solutions to environmental problems require reflection on deep changes in knowledge organization, i. e., a new paradigm related to the concept of totality.…

In addition to explaining the complex paradigm shift from conceptual change to discourse analysis in Science Education, due, mainly, to the increasing influence of the use of electronic communication for learning, the aim of this paper is to describe the…

Assumimos a Direção do Arquivo Público do Estado em meados de 1971, recebendo-a das mãos de nosso ilustre antecessor senhor Djalma Coelho de Souza, sendo Governador do Estado o Exmo. Sr. Dr. Colombo Machado Sailes e Secretário da Administração o…

Issues of contemporary socio-environmental relations derive from the system of production and consumption which follows the market logics. Prior to this conformation, Marx and Engels (1832) had already warned about the consequences of this arrangement. In the light of this…

A emergência da web tem tido um impacto profundo a níveis diferentes da nossa sociedade. A web tem vindo a mudar a forma como os indivíduos interagem, partilham informação, aprendem e trabalham. Na economia do conhecimento actual, a ‘participatory media’…

This study takes into account that the understanding of the environmental reality has been going through a change in attitudes: the more knowledge people have about nature, the more they change their attitudes. This paper describes a work proposal in…

O conhecimento do comportamento fenológico e produtivo de videiras americanas, destinadas à produção de sucos e vinhos, como a ‘Jacquez’ (Vitis bourquina), na região norte do Paraná, é de extrema importância para que os viticultores locais tenham a possibilidade de…

In this paper, I question in what extent Heidegger’s philosophy has inspired the contemporary ontological relativism and has contributed to the constitution of the post-modern agenda in education. I consider that in the Heideggerian notion of overcoming metaphysics there is…

The paper presents the process of development of an artificial intelligence, AI, software prototype for environmental management developed in CETEC within the scope of Project CRHA (2003-2006). This software is a tool for helping the user in his/her way of…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p69For naturalistic and non-intuitionistic moral realists, moral knowledge is more problematic than ordinary and scientific factual knowledge. For without special faculties of moral discernment, how could we ever detect moral facts and properties? Physical facts and properties may be accessible to perceptual…