Secularism is one of the major topics in political philosophy our age. The reason why it’s so, that secularized religion still a strong social glue and moral source day. Secularism, to say shortly, refers religion’s abandoning all its worldy demands, especially demands by turning into cultural body among others. In fact, secularism, as process, had begun mid Medieval Age. But neither reconcilia...

The usual horizon of knowledge science is limited to nominalism, empiricism, and naturalistic and evolutionary epistemologies. I propose to broaden this horizon by applying some other philosophical attitudes, such as a non-nominalistic philosophy of language. A basic methodology for the new episteme, including (non-nominalistic) typology and a definition of knowledge and of tacit knowledge, is ...

Devitt makes a sustained critique of Chomskyan linguistics, articulating persistent complaints about the “psychological reality” of generative grammars. I suggest these complaints are merely terminological and that Devitt fails to appreciate the status of Chomsky’s computational formalisms found elsewhere in cognitive science. Devitt ascribes an intentional conception of representations that Ch...

In this paper, we reconsider the context of Barbara Carper's alternative ways of knowing, a prominent discourse in modern nursing theory in North America. We explore this relative to the concepts of realism, non-realism and nominalism, and investigate the philosophical divisions behind the original typology, particularly in relationship to modern scientific enquiry. We examine forms of knowledg...

Properties and facts play a central role within metaphysics, yet there is no widely accepted account of what constitutes a property or a fact. Traditional conceptions of these metaphysical notions raise serious philosophical puzzles, making the existence of each seem dubious. Drawing on the minimalist theory of truth, I argue in favor of a minimalist conception of properties and facts. A minima...

In this article I will examine a metaontological problem, which has lately been thematized for example in [19]: what is the problem of universals? I will argue for a different solution from the one that has recently been popular, a solution that represents a return to an older view. What is the problem to which the postulation of universals or alternatively of tropes (or of both in barocque ont...

This article discusses the conceptualisation of enuresis nocturna by Dutch experts between c.1950 and 1990, years in which across West new child sciences rapidly developed. Today, bedwetting is conceived as a mental illness caused mixture nature- nurture-bound factors. Have organic environmental causes always figured twins, even post-war decades predominant environmentalism psychological theory...