The philosophical discipline of Ontology is evolving towards an engineering discipline, and in this evolution the need for a principled methodology has clearly arisen. In this paper, we briefly discuss our recent work towards developing a methodology for ontology-based model engineering. This methodology builds on previous methodology efforts, and is founded on important analytic notions that h...

A conspicuous difference between ‘traditional’ philosophy of science and ‘traditional’ philosophy of mathematics concerns the relative importance of the notion of explanation. Explanation has long featured centrally in debates in the philosophy of science, for at least two reasons. Firstly, explanation has been viewed as playing an important role in the methodology of science, due principally t...

Given the role philosophical mentality can fulfill in bringing individuals the essential skills of wisdom and well thinking, the present paper, by applying Smith’s (2007) theoretical framework, strived to explore the extent philosophic-mindedness exists among the participants. Considering the fact that, a philosophic mind begets philosophical answers, the participants’ philosophical thi...

Although philosophers have puzzled about color for millennia, the recent explosion in philosophical interest in the topic can largely be traced to C. L. Hardin’s widely-read and deservedly-praised Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow [Hardin, 1988]. While Hardin has had no more than the usual, limited success in convincing other philosophers to adopt the substance of his views, he has ...

Purpose – Explores the relevance of structuralism and post-structuralism to the field of library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a literature-based conceptual analysis of the two philosophical movements, structuralism and post-structuralism, as represented by the seminal figures of Ferdinand de Saussure and Michel Foucault. Findings – The principles of ...

Lyee is not only a tool for generating code in a language, but also a methodology with a solid philosophical background and cognitive basis. We can even envisage the existence of a Lyee’s “hypothetical world”, as stated by its inventor, Fumio Negoro. In this paper we present an ontology of descriptions and situations designed with a cognitive approach and we investigate its relationships with t...

With their focus on documents, interpretation and intersubjectivity, Web 2.0 technologies have surprising analogies with philosophical hermeneutics, including the theory of text interpretation. Philosophical hermeneutics was generalised from Biblical hermeneutics by Dilthey in the 19th century and chosen as an alternative to positivism as a foundation for the epistemology and methodology of the...

any philosophical poet has a utopia. jamil sidqi al-zahawi was a philosophical poet, who analyzed phenomena of the universe from a philosophical perspective. he played a great role in awakening and motivating the nation and in developing in them the need for a better life. his intention was to promotecertain humanistic values in the society with his poems, and he therefore set out to build foun...

There are a number of different programs that fall under the umbrella of “experimental philosophy”, and our interest here is to drive a wedge of contention between two of them. These two programs concern traditional analytic philosophy’s practice of appealing to philosophical intuitions as either evidence for (or against) philosophical claims or data both about the nature of our folk philosophi...