The methodological paper illustrates the informed grounded theory (informed GT) methodology by briefly demonstrating a case study about synchronous video communications and teacher presence in distance education. Unlike Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). discovery of theory. Aldine. GT, literature review is not delayed until end but ongoing integrated throughout research activity. After re...

In this article I address the tensions between normative political philosophy and aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Jurgen Habermas Jacques Derrida have been two of most influential philosophers to engage with ethical questions has drawn on foundations established by Immanuel Kant set out define an institutional framework that could secure rights people in age mobility. Derrida’s emphasis is more heav...

in this paper i explore surprising parallels in the arguments between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind in india and the west. in particular, i compare the nyaya school of india with cartesian dualism and its western defenders and the carvaka school of india with contemporary western materialists.

Is it possible today, within the framework of history philosophy, to reconstruct life path one philosophers, resorting recipes subsequent researchers — especially when these followers did their creative works a couple centuries after those who they should describe? Today empiricism dominates in humanities: flat facts are grasped on large scale and summed up everyday spaces, results correct only...

the ideal theory is plato’s most important philosophical view involving his allegory of the cave. he tried much to explain this theory and present arguments in order to prove it. however, his views on the proof arguments and the concrete materials with ideals suffer from shortcomings. the present paper argues that the critiques of aristotle, avicenna, and allamah tabatabaee against this theory ...