In this paper we argue that the so-called 'positivism'-versus-'interpretivism' conflict raised by some constructivist, postmodernist, relativist philosophers and methodologists in information systems research is merely a pseudo problem which has no basis in reality. This pseudo problem of so-called 'positivism' versus 'interpretivism' only distracts from the genuine problem of the information s...

in 1944, henry corbin presented an article, the zoroastrians motives in sheikh al-ishraq, sohrawardi’s philosophy, in the institute of philosophy of iran. through this speech, he develops a sort of hermeneutics-phenomenological methodology to study sohrawardi and his philosophy, ishraq. this research, being done in the domain of translation studies, is looking for the ways through which this me...

(1) Johnny played a silly prank and had a lot of tasty licorice. phenomenon of perspectival plurality has been shown to pose a serious problem for at least some versions of relativism about predicates of taste (the view that postulates a parameter for perspectives in the circumstances of evaluation with respect to which utterances of sentences are evaluated). Perspectival plurality is the pheno...

making a distinction between the two concepts of explanation (tabyīn) and interpretation (tafsīr) in the study of history, the present article examines the status of traditional hermeneutics in the formation and development of history as a science (history science). explanation means a description of how and why a series of events take place in relation to the subject being studied in light of ...