This essay re-examines the once promising idea that style analysis can provide an independent source of insight into artifact's non-stylistic context. The makes explicit consequences treating collective as such a in archaeology and anthropology art, further develops new framing for avoids criticisms largely responsible decline theoretical interest epistemic import visual since World War II. re-...

Formal geometry is a fundamental tool for showing how relevant metric qualities, such as depths, lengths, and volumes, as well as location concepts, such as points, can be constructed from experience. The ontological challenge of information grounding lies in the choice of concepts to consider as primitive, vs. those to be constructed. It also lies in accounting for the relativity and finitenes...

In the Islamic tradition, Mulla Sadra is foremost among the philosophers who have dealt with the issue of prophecy from all three theological, philosophical, and mystical perspectives. Among Western scholars of religion, Henry Corbin is the most prominent commentator of prophetic wisdom, who has provided a mystical reading of the problem of prophecy drawing on the ideas of Muslim philosophers. ...

as this does nothing to support the thesis that the members of the two tribes share any important moral beliefs and would not help the absolutist in arguing against relativism. The claim of the absolutist about the Crow and the . . thing is not at all clear. If the relativist contention is expressed as “what is right and what is wrong varies fiom culture to culture,” then whether we are to asse...

As part of her argument that relativism and contextualism are nothing but notational variants each other, Stojanovic holds is flexible enough to achieve whatever might do if the matter what truth-value assigned pair sentence context. In this paper, I reply statement by arguing cannot be made as without in fact turning it into a version relativism. The key my response that, while relativizes utt...

This article has as its objective the desire to contribute to nursing practice with the use of Gadamer's hermeneutics. It reflects on the incorporation of the conceptual paradigm of health, care and therapeutic dialogue. In the first section the article discusses the Gadamerian concepts of the work Truth and Method, the hermeneutics philosophy proposed by the philosopher, and it concludes with ...

Despite the proliferation of information technology, the implementation of information systemsremains problematic. Many systems fail to live up to expectations and some end up as disasters. Research on implementation has been conducted for the past two decades, but no theoretical framework for IS implementation has been widely accepted. This paper proposes dialectical hermeneutics as a theoreti...

The philosophical hermeneutics is able to change the Brazilian Judiciary because of the understanding of the characteristics of the human being. It is impossible for humans, to be invested in the function of being a judge, making absolutely neutral decisions, but the philosophical hermeneutics can assist the judge making impartial decisions, based on the federal constitution. The normative lega...

This article considers the most important strategies, techniques, and concepts that formed in Moscow artistic environment from late 1970s until present day. The author of focuses on creative work Pavel Pepperstein, an artist writer who belonged to group young conceptualists. adopts some conceptual strategies he inherited his father V. Pivovarov, I. Kabakov, A. Monastyrsky develops them own mann...