Quantum mechanics faces a strange dilemma. On the one hand it has long been claimed to be an irreducibly statistical theory, allowing the calculation of measurement outcome statistics while being unable to predict the behaviour of individual microphysical processes. On the other hand, quantum mechanics has been increasingly used, with stunning success in the past few decades, to gain experiment...

In 1908, the Third International Congress of Philosophy convened in Heidelberg, Germany. According to the editors of Pragmatism and Education, this event witnessed a rejection of pragmatic ideas in Germany which would hold throughout most of the twentieth Century. In the wake of the American revival of pragmatism, the intellectual landscape in Germany has changed, enough so to invite a reconsid...

Review of the book: Eduard R. Sukiasyan. The Library. Book. Reader : selected articles 2005–2020 / E. − St. Petersburg Professija, 2020. 480 p. [In Russian]. reviewer considers book to be Album Library Universe. i.e. world culture modern Russia. Sukiasyan is a distinguished library scientist. In his book, he openly shares sincere thoughts on cultural and philosophical problems paradigms, remini...

developed philosophical ideas as well. To be sure, he never considered himself a professional philosopher. Rather, as a consequence of his permanent commitment to scientific investigation and scientific methods, Köhler was eager to reflect upon the consequences of applying a scientific world view to human life. In his own words, he discussed the question of The place of value in a world of fact...

HIS is a very important contribution in the field of pure economics which I ought to be of interest to econometricians and those statisticians who concern themselves with economic matters. The author endeavors throughout to derive 'operationally meaningful" propositions in economics from the assumption of maximizing behavior. Operationally meaningful statements are hypotheses about empirical da...

in this book, elizabeth frazer offers a detailed study of the concept of community; and examines political and philosophical communitarianism. more specifically, she analyzes the relationships between communitarianism and interpretivism, social constructionism, locality, family life and finally politics.