T paper confirms the evidence of diversity in information systems (IS) research and identifies the v^ays in which diversity both threatens and advances the field of IS. While advocating diversity within the field of IS, the paper also discusses the responsibilities that must be assumed by IS researchers. Responsibilities include a "disciplined methodological pluralism" (Landry and Banville 1992...

Death concept, death definition, death criterion and death test pluralism has been described by some as a problematic approach. Others have claimed it to be a promising way forward within modern pluralistic societies. This article describes the New Jersey Death Definition Law and the Japanese Transplantation Law. Both of these laws allow for more than one death concept within a single legal sys...

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This work discusses the presence of a dogmatic tendency within modern cosmology, and some ideas capable of neutralizing its negative influence. It is verified that warnings about the dangers of dogmatic thinking in cosmology can be found as early as the 1930’s, and we discuss the modern appearance of “scientific dogmatism”. The solution proposed to counteract such an influence, which is capable...

By assuming that the Universe is best described as a cellular automaton, and by making use of results from the field of computational mechanics, this paper discusses an extension of the notion of existence from a simple binary opposition to that of a continuum. It is argued that none of the traditional objects of science, or any objects from any discipline, formal or not, can be said to be real...

Opponents of mainstream economics have not yet called attention to the lack in-depth examination general scientific conception modern economics. However, economic science cannot consistently fulfil epistemological and ontological requirements standards underlying this conception. What can be scientifically recognized as true answered, neither through actual structure object observation nor a me...

The main ideas of Kant’s moral philosophy were embodied in what can be called the “Enlightenment Project”. calls for freedom, nti-paternalism and requirement abandonment concern behaviour are associated with ethical autonomy, categorical imperative, negative positive universality morality relation to human being as a rational actor etc. These consistent ideals following distinguished: 1) ideal ...

This volume brings together in twenty accessible chapters a large number of authors contributing previously unpublished work on economic pluralism. The editors present it as the collection of economic pluralism for the twenty first century. This sounds very ambitious but the table of contents is promising, because it reflects pluralism in themes and approaches as well as diversity in authors' g...

Beall and Restall’s Logical Pluralism [2] characterises pluralism about logical consequence in terms of the different ways cases can be selected in the analysis of logical consequence as preservation of truth over a class of cases. This is not the only way to understand or to motivate pluralism about logical consequence. Here, I will examine pluralism about logical consequence in terms of diffe...

In “‘Population’ is Not a Natural Kind of Kinds,” Jacob Stegenga argues against the claim that the concept of “population” is a natural kind and in favor of conceptual pluralism, ostensibly in response to two papers of mine (Millstein 2009, 2010). Pluralism is often an attractive position in the philosophy of science. It certainly is a live possibility for the concept of population in ecology a...