English herbals and floras', in which The Grete Herball of 1526, the second printed herbal in English, is subjected to "systematic analysis". Ryden's book is a philological study of The Grete Herbalrs 500 English plant names, their frequency of use, provenance, typology, and synonymy (i.e., identity). The purpose of the larger study of which this book is a part is to understand "continuity and ...

Problem setting. During the period of expansion practice argumentation in society, thanks to media, theory is also actively developing. In process interdisciplinary research and influence irrationalism, problem rethinking rationality argumentation, conditions for its preserve civilizational orientation development modern arises. Recent publications analysis. At present stage differences correct...

Social constructivism in the international relations theory (IRT) is youngest paradigm, which, together with neorealism and neoliberalism, one of three most popular theoretical patterns among specialists. This paradigm explains global transformations regional noticeable changes by studying social construction reality. Key concepts are identity, which shapes interests actors, intersubjectivity c...

modern scientific ideas as the truly great intellectual achievements they are, and perhaps rightly fears their debasement in the new dark churches of irrationalism, and their belittlement by those without the generosity or intellect to comprehend them. He is however, I believe, in the end, wrong. We should be able to see scientific ideas as produced and sustained by bodies ofmen and serving soc...

This paper has two main goals. First, it illuminates continuities between the ideas of “true Romanian-ness” as held by both the Romanian cultural elite and the Romanian political regimes in the interwar and communist periods. A manufactured definition of a “true” Romanian—as a Romanian Orthodox Christian, natively Romanian-speaking, and ethnically Romanian—formed the core of Romanian nationalis...

Bayesianism is the predominant philosophy of science in North-America, the most important school of statistics world-wide, and the general version of the rationalchoice approach in the social sciences. Although often rejected as a theory of actual behavior, it is still the benchmark case of perfect rationality. The paper reviews the development of Bayesianism in philosophy, statistics and decis...

abstract aesthetic viewpoints and philosophical concepts are effective factors which can conduct artistic movements. the impact of philosophical basis on the cultural, social, historical and artistic tendencies is to extent that the mentioned philosophical basis is specified as detailed and separated chapters. among the development and exposition of the philosophical concepts of art area, there...

" Kuhnians depict the history of any scientific discipline as a succession of incommensurable paradigms. Empirical work done in one paradigm is of little relevance to another, and comparisons of paradigms on such familiar grounds as experimental adequacy are said to be inconclusive. Different paradigms do not agree on what constitutes knowledge or the meaning of truth. The recent work of other ...

Wherever political philosophy deals with the concept of utopia, and thus evokes question by means which categorical vocabulary “non-place” realized emancipation is supposed to be articulated, thought finds itself (re)directed theology as place from it—at least according Carl Schmitt's reading (Schmitt, 1979, p. 49)—once originated. In this sense, many critical philosophies twentieth century are...