Лейбниц - автор интересной философской концепции, в основе которой идея предустановленной Богом гармонии мира и учение о монадах. Цель статьи показать, как состояние науки того времени повлияло на осмысление феномена жизни, предложенное немецким философом. Leibniz is the author of interesting philosophical concept in base which are idea harmony preset by God and doctrine monads. The purpose art...

A survey of intellectual currents in the philosophy of knowledge and research methodology is given. This survey provides the backdrop for taking stock of the methodological differences that have arisen between disciplines, such as the methods commonly used in science, history or literary theory. Postmodernism and scientific empiricism are described and portrayed as two sides of the same coin we...

This article examines definitions of cause in the epidemiological literature. Those definitions describe causes as factors that make a difference to the distribution of disease or to individual health status. In philosophical terms, they are "difference-makers." I argue that those definitions are underpinned by an epistemology and a methodology that hinge upon the notion of variation, contra th...

1. Background 1.1. The Approach to a Scientific Method in Clinical Medicine 1.2. How the Current Situation Developed 2. Essential methodological principles 3. Logical and methodological problems of clinical medicine science 4. Suggestions to improve medical scientific methodology 4.1. Creation of an Integrative Medical Scientific Methodology 4.2. Use of a “Recombinant” Hypothesis-Discovery Supp...

Purpose -The paper explores the question of whether the differences between meaning in philosophy and meaning in information retrieval (IR) have implications for the use of philosophy in supporting research in IR. Design/methodology/approach Conceptual analysis and literature review. Findings There are some differences in the role of meaning in terms of purpose, content and use which should be ...

Geographic concept definitions are a rich source of knowledge with special structure and content. Conceptual Graphs are a visual, advanced knowledge based representation formalism grounded on philosophical, linguistic and object-oriented principles (Sowa, 1984 & 2000). We introduce a straightforward and easy-to-implement methodology for the representation of geographic knowledge, expressed by d...

Philosophers disagree. A lot. Pervasive disagreement is part of the territory; consensus hard to find. Some think this should lead us embrace philosophical skepticism: skepticism about extent which we can know, or justifiably believe, views defend and advance. Most philosophers in literature fall into one camp other: anti-skepticism. Drawing on insights hinge epistemology, paper proposes anothe...