This work offers an interpretation of phenomenological ontology by formulating its fundamental propositions in order to explain their significance for science and our personal worldview. In the paper, phenomenology is understood as proper method or “science being” most general philosophical discipline. embodies idea a “first philosophy” that free from all prejudice rejects criticizes metaphysic...

Researchers working on children's moral understanding maintain that the child's capacity to distinguish morality from convention shows that children regard moral violations as objectively wrong (e.g. Nucci, L. (2001). Education in the moral domain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). However, one traditional way to cast the issue of objectivism is to focus not on conventionality, but on whe...

This paper attempts to discuss how qualitative (intensive) and quantitative (extensive) research strategies differ by contrasting epistemological and ontological aspects and how these beliefs and views fit with their different intellectual goals. Firstly, this paper discusses the importance of understanding philosophy in social science research and its relation to qualitative (intensive) and qu...

Objectivism, supposing that information is ‘out there’ and can be accessed through appropriate research methods, is a valuable and unavoidable initial stance in field work. However, even within an objectivist paradigm, information gathered from field work can never be accepted uncritically, however rigorous the research methodology, since each step of the process from the choice of methodology ...

Though still barely known outside of Randian circles, the doctrine of the arbitrary assertion has come to occupy a prominent place in Objectivist epistemology. Ayn Rand’s disciple Leonard Peikoff is responsible for its only detailed presentation in print. The doctrine raises several philosophical questions. Does an epistemology firmly grounded in facts about human mental functioning, as Rand’s ...

Key words: imagination, integrative knowledge, the parts and a whole, verified and validated realities, indeterminate implication in technology, science and humanities How do we know the degree of imagination involved in knowing a reality? This is essentially an epistemological question. This essay discusses first the role of imagination in Polanyi's epistemology since it is used here as the ba...

Researchers have employed Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in a variety of methodological contexts, settings, and toward outcomes. For practitioners seeking to both identity amplify the best what is, AI has been sort multi-functional toolset, improving outcomes small grand. Amidst this successful history application (AI), little attention given some limitations or even risks applying its practices wha...

This paper focuses on dealing with probability theory, and it adopted an objectivism philosophic approach, as well a mathematical approach. These approaches aim to study the values behaviour discrete quantities in case of sample space for independent events through fractions composite functions. requires discussion usage statements, causes behind existence probabilistic phenomenon, explanation ...

1 What the book is about The Embodied Mind classiies all research in cognitive science into three major categories; cognitivist, emergent and enactive. Cognitivism is described as \no computation without representation" and is criticized for holding to the view of a world with pregiven features that are subsequently represented by cognitive systems. The criticism is not directed at the failure ...

The past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the works of twentieth-century Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. Political events ranging from rise Tea Party to 2016 election Donald J. Trump have only helped spur this resurgence, further evident film adaptations and reissues her popular literary novels. pundits abound have, turn, deemed return Rand as victory for libertarian thought Republi...