- the papar starts with a definition of the term 'science' by which it is meant the empirical science. then, the question is formulated whether the notion of the religious science is meaningful or meaningless. epistemologically spkeaking, three standpoints are considered, that is,unitarianism, cotradictory pluralism, interactional pluralism. after defining them, with the views of the ...

Over the last several decades, historians of medicine have grown increasingly interested in the coexistence of medical systems, a phenomenon known as medical pluralism. While medical pluralism is not at all uncommon in present-day societies, Robert J€utte remarks that it is relatively recently that medical historiography has shifted the emphasis from renowned doctors and orthodox practitioners ...

Two central themes of Douglas Edwards’s The Metaphysics Truth are anti-deflationism and substantial pluralism. In Part I this paper discuss grounds for rejecting deflationism suggest a few additional grounds. II Edward's truth-pluralism respond to his criticism my correspondence-pluralism. While these pluralisms share significant features, their differences also raise several important questions.

The concept of preference structuration not only provides possible escape-routes from socialchoice-theoretic impossibility problems, but also points towards ways of formalizing notions of 'pluralism', 'consensus' and 'issue-dimensionality'. The present note introduces two methods of (operationally) measuring preference structuration, giving attention to both their conceptual characteristics and...

We analyze the evolution of culture when parents socialize children to the cultural variants that maximize child lifetime utility. Parents invest in cultural transmission taking into account that children are also influenced by peers. We model the influence of peers by assuming that children observe different cultural variants in their peer group, assign merit to them and adopt one variant, fol...

The intention in this position paper is to propose a possible new future for the technology diffusion research community, based on the integral approach of American philosopher Ken Wilber. The trends and current state of technology diffusion research are reviewed, and relevant aspects of Wilber's integral approach and its possible contributions are described. These aspects include Wilber's basi...

For the vast majority of the citizens in today’s advanced democracies, the media, in particular traditional media, represent the only window that can be opened daily into current public and political debates. In fact, a very small fraction of the population is actually able to experience politics directly. Consequently, it becomes crucial that those means – the media – that are assigned to keep...