despite the often false impression that the analytic philosophy as an anti-metaphysical movement has nothing to do with metaphysics, there can be found good reasons to grant the metaphysical dispositions of analytic philosophers, and thereby, to minimize the anti-metaphysical nature of analytic philosophy in its all phases. since analytic philosophy is a historical movement the main nature of w...

Abstract According to an influential view, when it comes representing reality, some words are better suited for the job than others. This is elitism. There reason believe that set of best, or elite, should not be redundant arbitrary. However, we often forced choose between these two theoretical vices, especially in cases involving theories seem mere notational variants. riddle redundancy: both ...

Being an essentially multi-disciplinary field, Information Systems does not appear to be informed by a single dominant underlying philosophy. Since IT is an integral part of IS, its philosophical roots are associated with logical positivism. While logical positivism has several merits, its proponents have been unable to respond to criticisms leveled by the Humean Skeptics. Logical empiricism to...

This article presents the question whether it is correct to classify Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum as a work of magical realism. A brief scrutiny of the elements of magical realism, particularly Authorial Reticence and concept of Hesitation indicates that contrary to the advertisement of certain sources and publishers, this novel in certain circumstances, contradicts and opposes these two indispe...

Realism for agents with unconditional beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI agents) has been analyzed in modal logic. This paper provides a logical analysis of realism for agents with conditional beliefs and desires in a rule based approach analogous to Reiter’s default logic. We distinguish two types of realism, which we call ‘a priori’ and ‘a posteriori’ realism. We analyze whether these two n...

Philosophers of science often assume that logically equivalent theories are theoretically equivalent. I argue two theses, anti-exceptionalism about logic (which says, roughly, is not a priori, it revisable, and special or set apart from other human inquiry) logical realism differences in reflect genuine metaphysical the world) make trouble for this commitment, as well closely related commitment...