The paper explores the possibilities of ontological, epistemological and ethical justification art from perspective Christian understanding experience man world. Special attention is paid to communicative aspect work art, by which artistic creativity are included in complex dynamics relationship between God, world, has an eschatological dimension.

It will be shown in this article that an ontological approach for some problems related to the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (QM) could emerge from a re-evaluation of the main paradox of early Greek thought: the paradox of Being and non-Being, and the solutions presented to it by Plato and Aristotle. More well known are the derivative paradoxes of Zeno: the paradox of motion and the parad...

The purpose of this paper is to defend the systematic introduction of formal ontological principles in the current practice of knowledge engineering, to explore the various relationships between ontology and knowledge representation, and to present the recent trends in this promising research area. According to the "modelling view" of knowledge acquisition proposed by Clancey, the modeling acti...

Keywords: This paper reports progress from the EEII research project where ontological stratification is applied in the study of openness. We explain a stratification approach to reduce the overall complexity of conceptual models, and to enhance their modularity. A distinction is made between ontological and epistemological stratification. The application of the stratification approach to agent...

There are moments when philosophy captures the educator's attention. Such an occasion was the opening night of the 1990 annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching. Ernst von Glasersfeld gave a highly stimulating lecture on "radical constructivism." Radical constructivism is an epistemological philosophy that divorces knowing from any notion that reality is the r...

Students attending University come as a unique package complete with a variety of learning styles and experiences. Prior knowledge, understanding and personal epistemological beliefs play critical roles in how students understand and philosophise concepts surrounding information proffered by educators. The purpose of this study is to construct an epistemological beliefs survey instrument by ext...

Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged recent years. Research on topic developed along separate research streams, which broadened knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six streams environment, conflict: change...