Ontologies (and Metaphysics) are floating around since Plato and Aristotle. Although these things have often been declared as non-existent, or as outright nonsense and frauds, nevertheless, rigorous, cold-blooded and definite proofs for these unfriendly judgements seem still to be lacking. The adjective sceptical in the title of the present paper is, of course, a polite euphemism. For we can sh...

This paper 1 discusses ontological implications of embodied AI for Arti-cial Life models. The importance of robotic systems for ALife lies in the fact that they are not purely formal models and thus have to address issues of semantic adaptation and epistemic autonomy, which means the system's own ability to decide upon the validity of measurements. Epistemic autonomy in artiicial systems is a d...

The notion of 'information' is one of the most basic in the Information Systems field. However, a clear consensus of what the term signifies remains evasive to both theorists and practitioners. Even in the applied discipline of Information Systems Development, the notion of information as representation is ambiguous. To motivate the discussion, we demonstrate a variety of contradictory stances ...

This article explores how our thinking about time shapes epistemological and ontological understandings of the world. It considers idea modernity as constituted by ancient/modern binary through an examination Montesquieu’s Benjamin Constant’s development this in relation to their commerce, law nations conquest, political rule freedom context European colonial empire. Modernity demarcates a brea...