Organisational Semiotics is a young discipline which emerged from the late 1980’s, for which Ronald Stamper’s contribution is significant and essential. This paper is to mark his role and contribution to this field of study. The paper is based on an interview with Ronald Stamper and research of relevant papers. It reviews briefly the history of the evolution of Organisational Semiotics; summari...

Annett (2001) has made an in-depth critique of subjectivity in science, concentrating not only on those rating scales which are extensively used in ergonomics, but also the very philosophy of subjectivism itself. The present authors take this critique and use it to reappraise their own interpretation of mental workload, a key concept popularly assessed by subjective measurement. Having recently...

The injustices of “allowing certain people to succeed, based not upon merit but upon the cultural experiences, the social ties and the economic resources they have access to, often remains unacknowledged in the broader society” (Wacquant, 1998, p. 216). Cognizant of this, we argue that education requires researchers’ renewed examination and explanation of its involvement in the construction of ...

The early reception of German letters in London can be better understood through a close reading the bookseller Constantin Geisweiler's short-lived journal Museum (1800–1801). 1790s have been described as an era literary ‘Germanomania’, numerous translations works appeared for first time English. By 1800, however, increasingly pejorative assessment supposedly pro-Jacobin and atheistic character...

The increasing importance of Business Process Modelling and Knowledge Management within economic reality as well as their common epistemological problem are good reasons to look for an integrative approach to both disciplines. The widely recognized lack of epistemological foundation in information systems research also applies to Business Process Modelling and Knowledge Management, thus making ...

The theme of human action has undoubtedly been one of the central areas of investigation and debate within the sociological arena during the latter part of the 20 century. Among the ‘amalgamation of theories and theorists’ who have presented their accounts of human agency, two academics –and their ideashave monopolised most of the attention: Tony Giddens and his ‘Theory of Structuration’ and Pi...

Object oriented approaches (OO) may be placed within functionalism. It is argued why we should not use OO for analysing human worlds. OBJECTs are neither presentations of humans nor equal to humans as the literature often likes to suggest. 1 The ontological structure of the OBJECT world The OBJECT is the basic unit in a description of an OBJECT world, which functions as a script for an 'interac...

There has never been a single set of criteria for the ascription of disease. The pathoanatomic view ascribed to Virchow and propounded by Thomas Szasz has coexisted with the patient-centered or phenomenologic view for millennia. Schizophrenia, as well as such entities as idiopathic epilepsy and migraine, may be considered a disease because it entails suffering and incapacity, albeit in the abse...

In his paper, "Empathy versus Abstraction in Twentieth-Century German and Russian Aesthetics," Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that Alexander Koyré has shown how the crisis of belief incited by Bacon, Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes made that "man lost his place in the world." The German term Einfühlung (empathy) played an important role in the transformation of the relationship between the per...

Since the pioneering work by Kripke and Montague, the term possible world has appeared in most theories of formal semantics for modal logics, natural languages, and knowledge-based systems. Yet that term obscures many questions about the relationships between the real world, various models of the world, and descriptions of those models in either formal languages or natural languages. Each step ...