In this paper we emphasize the importance of questioning the global validity of significant concepts underpinning global health policy. This implies questioning the concept of global health as such and accepting that there is no global definition of the global. Further, we draw attention to ‘quality’ and ‘empowerment’ as examples of world-forming concepts. These concepts are exemplary for the g...

If information systems development (ISD) is to be anything other than an ad-hoc discipline it must have a theory-like foundation. This paper interleaves philosophical discussion of ISD with practical suggestions. A philosophy with radically different presuppositions allows us to take a multi-aspectual view of I.S. that can address even tricky problems of multiple stakeholders and unintended and...

The debate about the emptiness of space goes back to prehistory science and is epitomized by Aristotelian ‘horror vacui’, which can be seen as precursor ether, whose modern version dynamical quantum vacuum. In this paper, we suggest change a common view ‘gaudium vacui’ discuss how vacuum fluctuations fix value permittivity, ε0, permeability, μ0, modelling their response three-dimensional harmon...