【Philosophy】African philosophy cannot be a thing
This essay unpacks several arguments about the metaphilosophic nature of African philosophy and charts a way through the problems these arguments enco... [more]
【Philosophy】Fusion Philosophy and Epistemic Injustice
I use the concept of epistemic injustice to think through the practice and methodology of comparative, or fusion, philosophy. I make two related claim... [more]
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On the boundary of two worlds: Lithuanian philosophy in the twentieth century
Modern Lithuanian philosophy originated as a response to the questions formulated in Russian philosophy - religious, moral, and social. Later it turned to Continental European philosophy, preoccupying itself with German and French existentialism, hermeneu
Relationships of TQM philosophy, methods and performance: a survey in Taiwan
Total quality management (TQM) has been a widely applied process for improving competitiveness around the world. The implementation of TQM usually consists of both TQM philosophy from Deming's 14 points, Juran's ten steps, and Crosby's 14 steps and tec
How process philosophy can contribute to strategic management
Process philosophy can contribute with alternative perspectives and views to traditional strategic management theory. The Western tradition of thinking, the metaphysics of Being as presence, based upon the binary separation between transcendental ideas an
Introduction - risk from a philosophy of science point of view
In this paper it is argued that risk assessment (RA) should be based on principles of philosophy of science. However, in the field of toxicology and the associated RA this is generally not the case. The aim of this presentation is to demonstrate various p
What is the philosophy of information?
Computational and information-theoretic research in philosophy has become increasingly fertile and pervasive, giving rise to a wealth of interesting results. In consequence, a new and vitally important field has emerged, the philosophy of information (PIP
The principle of equivalence
start from John Norton's analysis (1985) of the reach of Einstein's version of the principle of equivalence which is not a local principle but an extension of the relativity principle to reference frames in constant acceleration on the background of Min
Spacetime as a fundamental and inalienable structure of fields
This paper offers an alternative view of spacetime different from both substantivalism and relationism. Using basic ideas underlying the fiber bundle formulation of field theories, it illustrates the function of spacetime in individuating local fields. As
The replication of Hertz's cathode ray experiments
I reappraise in detail Hertz's cathode ray experiments. I show that, contrary to Buchwald's (1995) evaluation, the core experiment establishing the electrostatic properties of the rays was successfully replicated by Perrin (probably) and Thomson (certai
The limits of information
Black holes have their own thermodynamics including notions of entropy and temperature and versions of the three laws. After a light introduction to black hole physics, I recollect how black hole thermodynamics evolved in the 1970s, while at the same time
Spacetime without reference frames: An application to the velocity addition paradox
Much conceptualisation in contemporary physics is bogged down by unnecessary assumptions concerning a specific choice of coordinates which often leads to misunderstandings and paradoxes. Considering an absolute (coordinate-free) formulation of special rel
Obstacles on the way towards the quantisation of space, time and matter - and possible resolutions
Most attempts at obtaining theories that unify quantum mechanics with general relativity require violation of locality and/or causality to some degree. Here, we suggest that these problems actually are very deep and fundamental; hence they may require rec
Space and time in particle and field physics
Textbooks present classical particle and held physics as theories of physical systems situated in Newtonian absolute space. This absolute space has an influence on the evolution of physical processes, and can therefore be seen as a physical system itself;
The 'Popperian Programme' and mathematics. Part II: From quasi-empiricism to mathematical
In the first part of this article I investigated the Popperian roots of Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations, which was an attempt to apply, and thereby to test, Popper's theory of knowledge in a held-mathematics-to which it had not primarily been intended
Negotiated measures: The institutional micropolitics of official criminal justice statistics
This paper examines some of the background social and institutional practices involved in the production of official statistics about crime and criminal justice. It documents how a host of micropolitical considerations impinge on what studies are conducte
Analytical symbols and geometrical figures in eighteenth-century calculus
Leibnizian-Newtonian calculus was a theory that dealt with geometrical objects; the figure continued to play one of the fundamental roles it had played in Greek geometry: it susbstituted a part of reasoning. During the eighteenth century a process of de-g