Previous research describes phases in the design of electronically supported meetings from a temporal perspective. Yet the epistemological status of each phase has not been identified. It is proposed that the pre-meeting phase should be evaluated from a positivist orientation while the meeting itself should be evaluated from an interpretive orientation. Results are reported from a case study in...

This study analyzes how accumulation of knowledge takes place in para-scientific area, focusing on the case of Analytic Philosophy. The theoretical framework chosen for the analysis is Kuhn’s theory of normal science. The methodology employed is qualitative citation context analysis. A sample of 60 papers published in leading Analytic Philosophy journals between 1950 and 2009 is analyzed, and a...

The notion of 'information' is one of the most basic in the Information Systems field. However, a clear consensus of what the term signifies remains evasive to both theorists and practitioners. Even in the applied discipline of Information Systems Development, the notion of information as representation is ambiguous. To motivate the discussion, we demonstrate a variety of contradictory stances ...

In the following I discuss the debate between epistemological internalists and externalists from an unfamiliar meta-epistemological perspective. In doing so, I focus on the question of whether rationality is best captured in externalist or internalist terms. Using the idea of epistemic judgments as “doxastic plans”, I characterize one important subspecies of judgments about epistemic rationalit...

The semantic specification of Enterprise Modeling Languages (EMLs) is a challenging task that is primarily caused by the immanent subjectivity in the context of enterprise modeling. This covers the interpretation of respective meta model constructs due to their references to the reality. In contrast, EMLs may also contain formal semantics in regard of automating specific parts. Despite the gene...

Speech is generally looked upon as a succession of events in the time domain and analyzed frame by frame, while ignoring the fact that speech is dynamic. In the present paper, evidence in support of the dynamic nature of speech and dynamic invariance, as well as their consequences on speech research, are discussed.

The central problem in the epistemology of perception is that of explaining how perception could give us knowledge of an external world. Although this is a perfectly intelligible and pressing question in its own right, it is made especially salient by various forms of skepticism, which argue that the senses cannot give us knowledge or even justified belief. Such a conclusion would have far reac...