Over past several decades, the management information systems (MIS) community has adopted theories, methodologies, philosophical bases, and assumptions from sister disciplines. This paper reports the changing nature of information science (IS) towards multi-disciplinarity and its development over the past decade. It also examines the contribution of informetrics to MIS research in delineating t...

This paper discusses some aspects of the notion of scientific progress based on the reconstruction of two exemplary economic research programmes. These programmes are the Austrian School of Economics and OTHMAR SPANN’S Intuitive Universalism—two programmes that fought for intellectual leadership during the inter-war period in Austria. The philosophical framework used for the discussion is the I...

intellectuals as a group of spiritual practices and as a body of spiritual wisdom. The study has been realized through readings and meetings with Japanese Buddhist monks and/or Japanese immigrants. These intellectuals defend a religious experience based on a universal notion of representations of Japanese Buddhism, which provides them with a non-dualistic philosophical perspective and a unique ...

Evolution was popularized from 1860 to 1900 in the USA and Britain in a wide variety of media. Here I investigate traditional texts associated with the intellectual elite, including philosophical or scientific monographs, sermons, and published lectures. Evolution was rarely popularized in ways that reflected Darwin's major contribution to biology, his theory of natural selection. This meant th...

This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon’s attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon’s intelle...

| Dear schoolmates! In having the honor to speak in the context of a meeting devoted to the memory of Leonard Nelson, I would like first to set forth briefly the purpose of my presentation. Nelson was the appointed head of his school not only because of the sharpness of his thought but also on account of his overall personality. Such a personality gathers among its followers people who in part ...

‖ If we look upon the intellectual relationships of the mathematical sciences to philosophy as they have developed since the times of the Enlightenment, we notice with satisfaction that mathematical thought is now at the point of regaining the powerful influence on philosophical speculation that it possessed up to Kant’s time, but then suddenly lost completely. That sudde...

‖ If we consider the intellectual relationship of the mathematical sciences to philosophy, as they have developed since the time of the Enlightenment, we notice with satisfaction that mathematical thought is now at the point of regaining the powerful influence on philosophical speculation that it had up to Kant’s time, but then suddenly lost completely. That sudden turn from mathematical though...