“Holistic eco-Buddhism” has been roundly criticized for its heterodoxy and philosophical incoherence: the Buddha never claimed we should protect an “eco-self” and there are serious philosophical problems attendant on “identifying with things.” Yet this essay finds inadequate attention has been paid to East Asian sources. Metaphysical issues surrounding eco-Buddhism, i.e., problems of identity a...

This interdisciplinary paper presents an autoethnography of author who self-publishes her own fanfiction via print-on-demand (POD) services. It reflects upon the subject fan writer as self-publisher, touching shifting notions authorship, format book, and literary practice, with implications for both studies Library Information Science (LIS). While its findings cannot be generalised to wider com...

ibn sina speaks repeatedly of the distinction between the specific (khas) being and the positive (ijabi) being; a distinction on the basis of which is his distinction of being and essence. thence, the famous problem of the distinction of being and essence is applicable to this distinction too. the difficulty is this: if the specific being is 'being'? this is indeed a problem about ess...

The transdisciplinary importance of distinctions is well-established as foundational to such diverse phenomena recognition, identification, individual and social identity, marginalization, externalities, boundaries, concept formation, etc., synonymous general ideas, thingness, concepts, nodes, objects, etc. Cabrera provides a formal description predictions for identity–other (D) or “D-rule” one...

quantum theory poses itself to be a challenging counterpart to the intelligent design argument. quantum physics founded upon uncertainty, probability and statistics has exerted great influence since its inception on the philosophical thinking of man. the findings of this theory has helped bring about a dramatic transformation in the notion of ‘order in nature.’ in modern physics, it is hardly p...

It would be nice if science answered all questions about our universe. In the past, mathematics has not just provided the language in which to frame suitable scientific answers, but was also able to give us clear indications of its own limitations. The former was able to deliver results via an ad hoc interface between theory and experiment. But to characterise the power of the scientific approa...

This paper presents observations and analysis of an activity of reification of professional practices within a community of practice. A case is examined of a distance community of tutors using a semantic Wiki for formalising their practices and a tool for storing and classifying documents. On the basis of the instrumental genesis theory, the author highlights the process of appropriation of the...

The discourse of posthumanism considers the body a site of negotiation between the material and the transcendent, and medievalists have noted the resemblance between this posthuman body-as-nexus and the medieval notion of the body of Christ as a material pathway to transcendence. The physical incarnation of Christ, in elevating the standing of humanity through a synecdochic association between ...

A debated topic in Avicennan psychology is whether for Avicenna abstraction is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stemsion is a metaphor for emanation or to be taken literally. This issue stems from the deeper philosophical question of whether humans acquire intelligibles externally from an emanation by the Active Intellect, which is a separate substance, or internall...