This major “probes competing principles that have animated political communities and how we have attempted to translate these into practice. We raise complex fundamental questions as we try to sort out the values and principles that have been most important to us. What does it mean to flourish as a human being? What are the rights and responsibilities of good citizens? What is the best way of l...

The later Wittgenstein advanced a revolutionary but puzzling conception of how philosophy ought to be practised: Philosophical problems are not to be coped with by establishing substantive claims or devising explanations or theories. Instead, philosophical questions ought to be treated ‘like an illness’. Even though this ‘non-cognitivism’ about philosophy has become a focus of debate, the speci...

Is there something like a philosophical method? It seems that there are as many methods as there are philosophies. A method is any procedure employed to attain a certain end. So, before going to a method, we have to ask: what is the aim of philosophy? At the origin of philosophy, there is a questioning about the world. Leo Apostel and Jan Van der Veken made more precise and explicit those funda...

The question, “Is information systems a real discipline?” has taxed IS scholars for over 20 years, and they debate its identity at length. Many other disciplines are facing similar crises. This article suggests a new approach,which viewsdisciplines in termsofwhat ismeaningful to thosewhoworkwithin them.Making use of the philosophical notion of ‘spheres of meaning’, and one well-thought-out suit...

The tutorial will give attendees: – A firm grasp of an important debate in the history of ideas. – A logical framework within which to assess questions of diagrammatic justification. – Knowledge of some key philosophical arguments for and against the epistemic value of diagrams. – A deeper understanding of the nature of diagrammatic reasoning. 4 Content The Issue. Can diagrams have epistemic va...

In this article I assess Georges Canguilhem’s historical epistemology with both theoretical and historical questions in mind. From a theoretical point of view, I am concerned with the relation between history and philosophy, and in particular with the philosophical assumptions and external norms that are involved in history writing. Moreover, I am concerned with the role that history can play i...

Questions of a general philosophical, metaphysical nature about the properties space and time inevitably intersect with their physical interpretation, including in hypothetical experiments. In this paper, relational ideas limiting philosophical categories are studied, which make it possible to concretize ways specifying time. This approach is compared Leibniz’s concept. The development theoreti...

In this paper, we will try to outline a few major questions that the design of artificial cognitive systems should tackle. The argumentation will be led from a philosophical point of view, reviewing some of the latest epistemological positions, namely from the 20 century. The notion of the thing-in-itself, i.e. the substantial core of an object, will be central in the discussion of abstraction ...

IEEE President-Elect Candidates Respond to Questions on Governance Issues T he IEEE Computer Society has established a reputation for excellence within the computing field. As a component of the IEEE, the Computer Society’s activities parallel those of 44 other societies and councils serving the computing and engineering disciplines. Representing by far the largest IEEE society contingent, the ...