> Context • In this empirical and conceptual paper on the historical, philosophical, and epistemological backgrounds of second-order cybernetics, the emergence of a significant pedagogical component to Heinz von Foerster’s work during the last years of the Biological Computer Laboratory is placed against the backdrop of social and intellectual movements on the American landscape. > Problem • Pr...

During the last two decades, concentration of measure has been a subject of various exciting developments in convex geometry, functional analysis, statistical physics, high-dimensional statistics, probability theory, information theory, communications and coding theory, computer science, and learning theory. One common theme which emerges in these fields is probabilistic stability: complicated,...

Interest in philosophy and the humanities increased after Second World War, especially West, as critical movement began to reconsider Western intellectual philosophical heritage, emerged approaches known as” postmodernism“, foundations of cultural thought, a product that cognitive postmodernism"; concept postmodernism, which is central This term associated with very diverse group rarely each ot...

There is no specific study about Stephan Kalynovskyi, and the texts written him contain many mistakes. This article presents biography of including following stages his life: student professor at Kyiv Academy, archimandrite Zaikonospassky Monastery, rector Moscow Alexander Nevsky Lavra, member Synod, bishop Pskov, archbishop Novgorod. In this article, attention paid to relations with students b...

Philosophical discussions of the rationality of science have focused almost entirely on belief. The traditional model supposes that there is a set of theories a scientist considers live alternatives and the scientist has access to some evidence which (potentially, at least) relates to some of those theories. Philosophers then ask, what are rational constraints on how a scientist changes her min...

Paradoxically, in the globalized world, contemporary architecture is represented as an illustration of the contemporary rupture between the rigor of structural geometry and the turgid corpulence of imagination. Moreover in times of cultural globalization local specificities dissolve. Nevertheless, there are trends, cultural traits, and influences of critical or intellectual tradition that persist.

many verses in the holy quran prove that there is a certain kind of knowledge that can be obtained through the practice of religious laws (sharia) and the way to doctrine (tarighat), progress  and conduct towards the most holy god and attention to the sacred universe. this knowledge is that intuitive knowledge which stands beside the other cognitive resources as a way of understanding. but like...

This article intents to discuss the relation between modernism and postmodernism as a reaction to modernism, from the point of view of the science and technology. It makes a parallel between the intelligent control and the new trends in intellectual thoughts. It also addresses the relationship between postmodernism and the fuzzy set