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…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n2p323This paper advances the main tenets of a new meta-ethical approach to moral problems. I holds that there is moral knowledge and that it is best understood in terms of knowing-how. Moreover, ir presents an analysis of knowing-how and shows…

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2008v7n1p87In the first part of this essay, I shall sketch the debate about vampirism during the age of Enlightenment historically, while in the second part, I will interpret this debate philosophically. The historical reconstruction mainly relies on Gábor Klaniczay’s brilliant essay The…

A falta de compreensão do paciente acerca do medicamento prescrito pode causar resultados insatisfatórios no tratamento. Ao iniciar a terapêutica medicamentosa com os pacientes diabéticos tipo 2, em particular, naqueles em uso de antidiabético oral, a equipe de saúde, deve…

Este artigo apresenta um algoritmo Cultural Extendido para o problema do Despacho Econômico. O Algoritmo Cultural têm cinco categorias de conhecimento. Este trabalho visa demonstrar a aplicação do conhecimento histórico, que objetiva monitorar a busca e armazenar os eventos importantes…

In this text after some epistemological and methodological comments, it is argued that, when working in a diversity of social and cultural contexts, and wanting learning processes to be meaningful to students, teachers will have to be more than knowledge…

O presente texto propõe-se a apresentar os modos pelos quais a noção de público é produtiva para compreender as tecnologias de poder produzidas nas interfaces entre a educação e a comunicação no capitalismo contemporâneo. Tal conceito, produzido a partir de…

O presente texto propõe-se a apresentar os modos pelos quais a noção de público é produtiva para compreender as tecnologias de poder produzidas nas interfaces entre a educação e a comunicação no capitalismo contemporâneo. Tal conceito, produzido a partir de…

The need of rehabilitation’s information management has promoted the idea of a Rehabilitation Information Network. The experience and knowledge sharing would improve information and counselling services related with assistive technologies. A formal network composed by social institutions, Universities and theirs research units…

This paper’s main objectives are to describe the environment surrounding Online Healthcare, as a potential means of providing health information and advice, and also to spread the major certification initiatives presently in course.Finally, and using the knowledge acquired with those initiatives, we proceed to the…