The existence of universal principles in both science and medicine implies that one can explore their common applicability. Here we explore what we have learned from quantum mechanics, phenomena such as entanglement and nonlocality, the role of participation of the observer, and how these may apply to oriental medicine. The universal principles of integrated polarity, recursion, and creative in...

Dealing with notions of health, illness and disease contains dealing with fuzziness. As the paper will demonstrate, states of these notions do not only exist or not exist. The medical philosopher and physician SadeghZadeh introduced the notions of fuzzy health, fuzzy illness and fuzzy disease. A closer look will be taken on the concept of fuzzy disease. Because there are different possibilities...

some arguments against infinite regress in islamic philosophy such as applied proof or argument of ones and thousands are based on the mathematical foundations and preliminaries. extraction and analysis of these preliminaries exposes mathematical nature of these arguments and shows that besides philosophical approach to these arguments should also look at them from perspective of mathematics. a...

Background and aim: Grounded theory has taken some different theoretical perspectives since its creation in 1967 by Barney Glaser. Considering that applying grounded theory partly depends on an awareness of its philosophical perspectives, gaining knowledge about these various perspectives is required for health care professionals who are interested in studying the social processes. This review ...

This IS and Philosophy mini-track, now in its tenth year, continues very successfully from its beginnings within the inaugural 1996 AMCIS/AIS conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This mini-track is now included in the track sponsored by the SIG “Philosophy and Epistemology of IS”created in 2002. Many leading IS scholars from Europe, UK, USA, and Australia, have, over the years, participated in this ...