In this paper, we investigate how interorganizational networks and interpersonal networks interact over time. We present a retrospective longitudinal case study of the network system that developed a novel aircraft material and analyze change episodes from a structurationist perspective. We identify five types of episodes in which interpersonal and interorganizational networks interact (persist...

In this paper I explore the dialectics underlying the choice between a geometrical and a field interpretation of the metric tensor gab in general relativity. My aim is to examine the role of a specific type of reasoning process (which I call ‘similarity-based reasoning’) in interpreting gab. In recent years, philosophers of physics have claimed that the problem of choosing between the two inter...

E-mail–based conversations between thousands of people— very large-scale conversations (VLSCs)—now take place in a variety of on-line public spaces such as Usenet newsgroups and large listservs. This article describes the author’s prototype Conversation Map system, which can automatically analyze and graphically summarize thousands of e-mail messages exchanged in VLSCs. Example conversation map...

“A startling development in the last century has been the overflow of theoretical and observational sciences into the fields of philosophy, particularly quantum mechanics and cosmology. This book is doubly valuable on this fascinating subject in my opinion: on the one hand, for its clear and lucid exposition and application of Whitehead’s ontology as a most attractive framework for this kind of...