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The literature on physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, social sciences, arts and other related areas demonstrates in the last years a very strong trend in the use of Information Theory. Specially the strong interdisciplinary interest [1-3] the complexity studies [4-6] and some recent publications [7,8] demonstrated that there is no consensus on what information is, no consensus on the necessi...

Within the information systems (IS) research discipline, conceptual modeling is widely discussed as a fundamental task for IS-development as it leads to shared domain knowledge between IS developers and business personnel. As well as IS-research modeling takes place within a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural context. Thereby, the (mostly implicit) assumptions made by different researchers m...

Over the last three decades, a methodological pluralism has developed within information systems (IS) research. Various disciplines and many research communities as well, contribute to this discussion. However, working on the same research topic or studying the same phenomenon does not necessarily ensure mutual understanding. Especially within this multidisciplinary and international context, t...

Among researchers who study students’ epistemologies, a consensus has emerged about what constitutes a sophisticated stance toward scientific knowledge. According to this community consensus, students should understand scientific knowledge as tentative and evolving, rather than certain and unchanging; subjectively tied to scientists' perspectives, rather than objectively inherent in nature; and...

Information Science (IS) is commonly said to study collection, classification, storage, retrieval and use of information. However, there is no consensus on what information is. The paper examines some of the formal models of information and informational processes, namely Situation Theory and Shannon’s Information Theory, in terms of their suitability for providing a useful framework for studyi...

Objective To review the research literature on epistemic cognition in medical education. Methods We conducted database searches using keywords related to epistemic cognition and medical education or practice. In duplicate, authors selected and reviewed empirical studies with a central focus on epistemic cognition and participant samples including medical students or physicians. Independent th...

one of the remarkable concerns of existing thinkers in the field of philosophy of religion is question of philosophical and epistemological approach to ideological movements. moreover, they explain their position toward reason and its epistemological value. the epistemological importance of this issue is because of its assumptions like: relation and situation of “narration and reason”, “revelat...