One of the biggest threats to dignity human person which characterizes today’s thinking is reduction one constitutive aspect: body, subjectivity, relationality, and like. Based on philosophy Dietrich von Hildebrand, paper demonstrates how six false dichotomies a similar kind are resolved, namely: spirit substance relation, subjectivity objectivity, Eigenleben transcendence, affectivity rational...

Recently emerging data-driven citizen sciences need to harness an increasing amount of massive data with varying quality. This paper develops essential theoretical frameworks, example models, and a general definition of complexity measure, and examines its computational complexity for an interactive data-driven citizen science within the context of guided self-organization. We first define a co...

The main focus of this essay is to closely engage with the role of scientist-subjectivity in the making of objectivity in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's book Objectivity, and Daston's later and earlier works On Scientific Observation and The Moral Economy of Science. I have posited four challenges to the neo-Kantian and Foucauldian constructions of the co-implication of psychology and epis...

The landmark Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control definitively demonstrated that infection surveillance and control programs prevent hospital-acquired infections. The rise of public reporting, benchmarking, and pay for performance movements, however, has considerably changed the infection surveillance landscape in the 27 years since this study was published. Clinically nuanced ...

This position paper has three parts. In the first part, a brief historical background and various modern formulations of the concept of emergence are presented. A number of problems associated with the concept are identified. One outstanding problem involves the incommensurability of secondary qualities (or phenomenal qualia) with materialist (externalist) ontologies. The intractability of this...

Subjectivity has always been a part of philosophical speculations. However, Immanuel 7 Kant is mentioned as the main figure to bring in subjectivity in modern philosophy by comparing 8 the Critique of Pure Reason with the Copernican revolution. We might include Descartes as well, and 9 not least the followers of Kant, like Fichte and Hegel. Yet none of these end up with subjectivity as 10 the o...