Explanations of diseases can result from a biological, psychological or social science approach. This project examines how these approaches relate to one another within the biomedical sciences. Should they be ...read more
The aim of this project is to elaborate a formal approach to problem solving. We shall elaborate a formally characterized kind of sequences of problems (in the narrow sense of ...read more
Although few people are familiar with the technicalities of human embryonic stem cell research, a large majority knows about its existence and most people even have an outspoken opinion about ...read more
The goal of this research project is to develop formal insight in the following pair of questions: (1) what is the relation between standard Boolean-valued logics and the contemporary non-standard ...read more
The traditional criteria for lawlikeness are rarely met in the special sciences (biology, economy, social sciences, etc.). These sciences seem almost never to discover universal, exceptionless regularities. Nevertheless, they are ...read more
In this study we will expand upon the hypothesis that the 16th-century tradition of master arithmeticians did influence the conceptual shift that has lead to a symbolic algebra. The origin ...read more