The aim of this article is to outline some of the key themes that I believe are important, first, in applying the systems approach to produce high quality IS research in general and, second, to consider more specifically some of the questions and debates that are of interest within the philosophy of IS and of the systems approach. Four themes are identified: being systemic, being critical and r...

Two years after the uprising that forced President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali into exile, Tunisians are slowly coming to grips with the reality of politics in a pluralist system where opposition is real and the outcome of political contestation is not predetermined. The process is slow and somewhat uncertain, and it would be premature to conclude that Tunisian politicians have fully embraced not o...

I will outline an argument that intends to undermine a certain form of skepticism about mathematics. This skepticism hangs on the fact that mathematics is about ideal things—structures and their elements, such as numbers, sets, functions, etc.—concerning the objective knowledge of which our sensory experience is entirely irrelevant.1 Precisely because of this irrelevance, the skeptic holds that...

The idea of ‘progress’ was undoubtedly at the heart experience Moderns, guiding same time their thought, values that they gave themselves, hopes animated them and innumerable justifications found for all processes dispossession, disqualification dismemberment implemented. Starting with William James’s diagnosis hold has over us, following his proposition this is work in world itself, ecological...