Philosophy of interdisciplinarity. What? Why? How?

Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity

“Interdisciplinarity” is now a buzzword for more than 40 years since Erich Jantsch coined the term for a broader audience, together with “transdisciplinarity” (Jantsch 1970; see also Apostel et al. 1972). The exact meaning of these and related terms seems to be still in flux. However, as Britt Holbrook explains in the first contribution to this special issue, we can observe a convergence in the...

Geospatial Semantics: Why, of What, and How?

Why are notions like semantics and ontologies suddenly getting so much attention, within and outside geospatial information communities? The main reason lies in the componentization of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into services, which are supposed to interoperate within and across these communities. Consequently, I look at geospatial semantics in the context of semantic interoperability...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Understanding Philosophy in a Nurse’s World: What, Where and Why?

Concerns raised about the relevance of philosophy to the work of nurses have prompted us to examine the importance of philosophy in professional nursing. We introduce diverse understandings of what philosophy is, provide an overview of analytical and continental philosophies, and describe how philosophy is central to the work of nurses, educators and researchers. The discussion is situated in w...

نقدی بر کتاب History: What and Why?

نوشتار حاضر به نقد و بررسی کتاب تاریخ: چیستی و چرایی آن، نوشته بِوِرلی ساوث گیت اختصاص دارد. در این مقاله نشان داده ایم که این اثر نه یک کتاب اجتهادی و نوآورانه، که صرفاً یک متن درسی تألیفی است در باب یکی از مهم‌ترین پرسش­های فلسفه تاریخ، یعنی این پرسش که آیا تاریخ از عینیت برخوردار است یا نه؟ مولف به خوبی توانسته است دیدگاه متقدمان و متأخران، یعنی متفکران باستان و متفکران بعد از عصر روشنگری را تب...