This article examines the emergence of casuistical case analysis as a methodological alternative to more theory-driven approaches in bioethics research and education. Focusing on The Abuse of Casuistry by A. Jonsen and S. Toulmin, the article articulates the most characteristic features of this modern-day casuistry (e.g., the priority allotted to case interpretation and analogical reasoning ove...

This article uses a case of oil and gas exploration as the starting point for methodological considerations in the study of sociomateriality. I argue a sociomaterial research continuum ranging from " hard " to " soft " sociomateriality depending on how the technology-human relationship is conceptualised in the literature. In the hard end, there can be no understanding of the one without the oth...

§ 1. It is well-known that in the special theory of relativity the simultaneity of distant events is frame-relative: two events simultaneous according to the standard Einstein criterion as applied in one inertial frame are not simultaneous according to the same criterion applied in a relatively moving inertial frame. Not so well known is whether, given a fixed inertial frame, there is a fact of...

Friedman's 1953 essay " The methodology of positive economics " is undoubtedly one of the—or perhaps the—most influential and most widely and hotly debated papers on economic methodology. What economic methodologist would not dream of having more than 2,500 citations in Google Scholar for writing " the only essay on methodology that a large number, perhaps majority, of economists have ever read...

One of the essential issues of the Principia Cybernetica Project, which aims at the development of an evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy (Turchin, 1991; Heylighen, 1991ab), is epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. When we look at the history of epistemology, we can discern a clear trend, in spite of the confusion of many seemingly contradictory positions. The first theories of knowledge, su...

Classifying reality is an ancient and fundamental ability. Even the most basic living creatures classify their world as do social collectives of living things, most noticeably, human beings through psychological processes. An example of the rudimentary nature of classification exists in the behavior of slime molds. When food is abundant many of the more than 900 types of slime molds exist not a...

The significance of high or low right-wing authoritarianism on rape myth acceptance in female college students was investigated. One hundred and fifty-eight college undergraduates answered an anonymous questionnaire containing a modified version of Altemeyer’s (1996) Right-Wing Authoritarian Scale (RWA) and Burt’s (1980) Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (RMA) and related subscales: acceptance of inte...

The Newtonian notions of 3-space and time have been replaced by Minkowski space-time, a pseudo-Rimennian 4-manifold with Lorentz signature, because of the overcoming of the absolute notion of simultaneity. Even if the chrono-geometrical structure of Minkowski's space-time is xed and non-dynamical, the establishment of a metrology (rods and clocks) is necessarily observer-dependent and requires ...

The paper attempts to show how the Logical Empiricists' interpretation of the relation between geometry and reality emerges from a collision of mathematical traditions. Considering Riemann's work as the initiator of a 19th century geometrical tradition, whose main protagonists were Helmholtz and Poincaré, the Logical Empiricists neglected the fact that Riemann's revolutionary insight ourished r...