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Terrance Quinn obtained his BSc in 1987, his MSc in 1988 and his PhD in 1992 (all in mathematics). During his early career, he published in pure and applied mathematics, as well as in mathematics pedagogy. He gradually broadened...

Terrance Quinn obtained his BSc in 1987, his MSc in 1988 and his PhD in 1992 (all in mathematics). During his early career, he published in pure and applied mathematics, as well as in mathematics pedagogy. He gradually broadened...

In all disciplines there is the question of how to promote progress and offset decline. But, what are progress and decline? For this short article, the main discussion centers on biology. A solution called functional...

Methodology progress, decline, sciences, arts, technologies, functional specialization, functional collaboration, emergent.

A main purpose of this article is to draw attention to Lonergan’s discovery, functional specialization. Lonergan’s result was first presented in dense summary fashion, in a 20 page 1969 article "Functional Specialization in...

Philosophy of History, Interdisciplinary Methodology Functional specialization, division of labor, progress, human good.

There were two early incomplete attempts to think out practical philosophies in culture. About 2,400 year ago, Plato posed the problem of working out the finest implementable philosophy for culture’s progress. Later, there were...

Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Methodology collaboration, cosmopolis, progress, decline, biology, insight.

Physics, Mathematics relativity, Einstein, Lonergan, Tipler

The Calculus Campaign

Mathematics, Philosophy

Mathematics, Philosophy Dialectics

Now the notion of a thing is grounded in an insight that grasps, not relations between data, but a unity, identity, whole in data; and this unity is grasped, not by considering data from any abstractive viewpoint, but by taking...

My positioning focuses on the meaning of a single word, probability. As in the prior exercise,1 my tasks are to (i) make explicit, to talk about, that which I am capable of talking about; (ii) to identify that which I am not...

For a variety of reasons attention is now directed to the notions of space and time. Not only are these notions puzzling and so interesting, but they throw considerable light on the precise nature of abstraction, they provide a...

The common description of science as ‘an organized body of knowledge’ possesses more than merely metaphorical significance. Like any self-organizing body—be it a tadpole, a giraffe fetus, an animal species, or humanity in its...

Organizations are moving away from rigid planning to a more incremental style of planning and execution in projects. There is a growing acceptance of the effectiveness of incremental change, both in industry projects and in...

Higher Education Education Higher Education

The ability to predict the patients with long-term length of stay (LOS) can aid a hospital's admission management, maintain effective resource utilization and provide a high quality of inpatient care. Hospital discharge data...

IT Research & Theory Computer Science and Information Technology Data Mining and Databases