Cultural psychology ultimately aims to increase intercultural understanding, but it has also been accused of reifying stereotypes. Can learning about cultural psychology research cause students to increase their cultural sensitivity, or does it increase stereotyped and rigid thinking about cultural others? Students in an undergraduate cultural psychology course (N = 34) were compared to student...

Being an essentially multi-disciplinary field, Information Systems does not appear to be informed by a single dominant underlying philosophy. Since IT is an integral part of IS, its philosophical roots are associated with logical positivism. While logical positivism has several merits, its proponents have been unable to respond to criticisms leveled by the Humean Skeptics. Logical empiricism to...

This paper is driven by the idea that the contextualism-relativism debate regarding the semantics of value-attributions turns upon certain extra-semantic assumptions that are unwarranted. One is the assumption that the many-place predicate of truth, deployed by compositional semantics, cannot be directly appealed to in theorizing about people's assessments of truth value, but must be supplement...

Abstract An ongoing project in the philosophy of science and medicine is effort to articulate a form relativism about that can find path between strongly realist pernicious relativist poles. Recent scholarship on has described characteristics must have order be considered thoroughgoing relativism. These include non-absolutism, multiplicity, dependence, incompatibility, equal validity non-neutra...

The old classical problems of theoretical physics are revisited from the point view nonlocal physics. Nonlocal leads to very complicated mathematical apparatus. Here, we explain main principles using transparent considerations and animations.

the purpose of this paper is to study the impact of using the internet on the normative, relativistic and cosmopolitan attitudes of the students of tabriz university. the writers have used the survey method in their study and obtained the data of their research through a questionnaire. the statistical sample consists of 283 graduate and doctoral students of tabriz university. the findings of th...