the sociology of law is concerned with explaining the relationship between law and society and studying of the social organization of law (as an order or a system), the social interactions of legal practitioners and people in this area and the meaning that people actually give to sociolegal realities. among the founding fathers of sociology, max weber is one of the most famous thinkers that eve...

Francis Bacon (1561 1626) is the recognized philosopher of industrial science and Isaiah of the age of technocracy. It is on his ideas that the technocracy of today is largely founded, as well as the prevailing attitude toward nature as something to be improved upon for the betterment of society. Benjamin Farrington writes that Bacon "in challenging men to win power over nature in order to impr...

“Conceptual Graphs” have become a popular representational formalism in AI research. They were introduced by Sowa in his 1984 book “Conceptual Structures” [Sowa, 1984], as a modern treatment of ideas from the 19th century philosopher Peirce. Conceptual graphs are also the fundamental representational unit in KM/KQL [Clark, 1996], the language of the Botany KB project. In KM, these units are ref...

according to imam khomeini, based on the verses of the holy quran, salvation is equally bound to the two important principles of, knowledge and behavior, in the meantime salvation is influenced by his concept of monotheism. self-purification, virtuosity and submition only to god symbolize mere servitude which in imam’s opinion is the route to salvation dismissing whatever alien to god and alleg...

this paper deals with the philosophical aspects of nationalism and pan-islamism in view of dr. muhammad iqbal, a great poet and philosopher of sub-continent. the paper examines in an analytical way, how iqbal’s concept of nationalism is different from western brand of nationalism and coincided with jamal-u-din afghani’s ideal of pan-islamism. the paper discusses how iqbal reconciled his ideal w...

one of the prominent figures in epistemology from a moral-educative perspective is mulla sadra. this essay tries to analyze his ideas in a library-based method in order to find his educative methods. the key question is what educative methods are explicitly or implicitly mentioned in his epistemological ideas. he based his educative ideas upon his philosophical foundations specially the substan...

Bending of purple membranes in dependence on the pH analyzed by AFM and single molecule force spectroscopy R.-P. Baumann, M. Schranz and N. Hampp, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010 DOI: 10.1039/b919729j Bifunctional polyacrylamide based polymers for the specific binding of hexahistidine tagged proteins on gold surfaces Lucas B. Thompson, Nathan H. Mack and Ralph G. Nuzzo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2...