It has been suggested that philosophers should adopt a methodology largely inspired by mathematics and the “mathematical” virtues of rigor, clarity, precision are also fundamental philosophical virtues. In reply, this paper argues some excellent philosophy lacks these too much emphasis on mathematical excludes potentially valuable forms discourse makes profession less diverse than it be. Unduly...

We report anisotropic thermal expansion of the parent, AEFe2As2 (AE = Ba, Sr, and Ca), compounds. Above the structural/antiferromagnetic phase transition anisotropy of the thermal expansion coefficients is observed, with the coefficient along the a-axis being significantly smaller than the coefficient for the c-axis. The high temperature (200 K ≤ T ≤ 300 K) coefficients themselves have similar ...

Is there something like a philosophical method? It seems that there are as many methods as there are philosophies. A method is any procedure employed to attain a certain end. So, before going to a method, we have to ask: what is the aim of philosophy? At the origin of philosophy, there is a questioning about the world. Leo Apostel and Jan Van der Veken made more precise and explicit those funda...

Лейбниц - автор интересной философской концепции, в основе которой идея предустановленной Богом гармонии мира и учение о монадах. Цель статьи показать, как состояние науки того времени повлияло на осмысление феномена жизни, предложенное немецким философом. Leibniz is the author of interesting philosophical concept in base which are idea harmony preset by God and doctrine monads. The purpose art...

methods and principles used in education come from diverse foundations. this paper aims at examining philosophical and psychological foundations of education based on two similar views from the west and the east: the illuminationist philosophy of suhrawardi and phenomenology of husserl. questions of the research deal with philosophical and psychological foundations of education from the standpo...

Leadership Studies is a new interdisciplinary field of Organization Studies that is growing at a steady rate all over the world. Leadership studies are seen as a branch of Management and Organization Sciences despite its philosophical roots that can be traced back to Plato’s philosophical writings such as Laws, Politics, or The Republic. Starting from Burns’ seminal book, Leadership (1978), and...

one of the remarkable concerns of existing thinkers in the field of philosophy of religion is question of philosophical and epistemological approach to ideological movements. moreover, they explain their position toward reason and its epistemological value. the epistemological importance of this issue is because of its assumptions like: relation and situation of “narration and reason”, “revelat...