Recent heightened interest in the nature of IS as a discipline and what constitutes its theoretical basis offers a novel moment to reflect upon the role of philosophical knowledge in the evolution of IS as discipline. The debate on the "IS as a discipline" has taken multiple turns as reflected in arguments around relevance vs. rigor dilemma, or what constitutes a necessary theoretical core for ...

The ontological and epistemological positions adopted by information systems design methods are incommensurable when pushed to their extremes. Information systems research has therefore tended to focus on the similarities between different positions, usually in search of a single, unifying position. However, by focusing on the similarities, the clarity of argument provided by any one philosophi...

the problem of evil, along with its three subdivisions (ethical, physical and metaphysical) is among the most challenging philosophical and theological problems. one of the most important answers which have been given to this problem from various philosophical and theological traditions from ancient times until today is to judge that evil is related to non-existence. it seems that on the basis ...

1 Arguments from Reference and the Worry About Dependence "Arguments from reference" are arguments that employ the assertion of a substantive theory of reference as a premise in an argument with a philosophically significant conclusion. Recent work has challenged the viability of these arguments on the basis of empirical evidence of variation in the intuitions that substantive theories of refer...

The “received wisdom” in contemporary analytic philosophy is that intuition talk is a fairly recent phenomenon, dating back to the 1960s. In this paper, we set out to test two interpretations of this “received wisdom.” The first is that intuition talk is just talk, without any methodological significance. The second is that intuition talk is methodologically significant; it shows that analytic ...

Three broad paradigms initially dominated the deliberations among political analysts on what best mode of analysis exists when it comes to analyzing political issues and phenomenon. Recent studies however reveal that evolving trends of thoughts in political science and generally in the social sciences with regards to the questions above now exist among contemporary thinkers in the 21 st Century...

Drugs for curing any cancer must completely destroy a patient’s cancer without harming the patient. To avoid harming the patient, precision-targeted drugs are used to inactivate RNA transcripts that are absent from the patient’s normal cells, but present in and essential to the viability of the patient’s cancer. Such “cancer-essential” transcripts are from embryo-active genes normally deactivat...

democray is the most importantn element in dewey’s thought. in this paper dewey’s theory on democray will be evaluated, furthermor some challenges are ascrbed to it: first, dewey has not presented any philosophical argument about his idea: “democracy is a moral ideal”. second: if it is known by a posteriori method that democracy is the best, this idea can not be generalized to future, so it cou...