Philosophical approaches to understanding accounting information in a post-industrial society

Industrial design in a post-industrial society- a framework for understanding the relationship between industrial design and interaction design

Industrial design and interaction design meet in the development of ubiquitous computing or Ubicomp, i.e., the currently emerging situation where information and communication technology move from the desktop to pervade most aspects of our everyday world. We show that the material qualities of Ubicomp coincide with the areas where contemporary industrial design and interaction design overlap th...

From Temporality to Eternity: Three Philosophical Approaches

This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in he...

From Philosophical to Industrial Logics

One of the surprising developments in the area of program verification is how ideas introduced by logicians in the early part of the 20th Century ended up yielding by the 21 Century industrial-standard property-specification languages. This development was enabled by the equally unlikely transformation of the mathematical machinery of automata on infinite words, introduced in the early 1960s fo...

Industrial ecology: a philosophical introduction.

By analogy with natural ecosystems, an industrial ecology system, in addition to minimizing waste production in processes, would maximize the economical use of waste materials and of products at the ends of their lives as inputs to other processes and industries. This possibility can be made real only if a number of potential problems can be solved. These include the design of wastes along with...

Approaches to Accounting Theories