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Nihilism and Information Technology [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020
Søren Kierkegaard, in his essay "The Present Age," takes a hostile stance towards the press. This is because he maintains that the press prepares the ground for the emergence of nihilism. Hubert Dreyfus extends this idea to other information technologies,
Alireza Mansouri, Ali Paya
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Pancritical Rationalism Re Examined

Praxis Filosófica
Critical and pancritical rationalism were mainly debated in the second half of the XXth century, however a new important paper on pancritical rationalism has been published recently, and hence a critical commentary of this recent publication is required,
Armando Cíntora
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The Encounter of Arabic Intellectual Discourses with Modernity: An Introduction and Critique of Book of Arabic and Modernity: A Study in the Discourse of Modernists [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
Abdal-llah Belqiziz, a Moroccan philosopher in Arabic and Modernity: A Study of Modernist Discourse, poses the question of how he encountered Arab intellectual discourses (authentic, reformist, and liberal) with modernity and why these discourses have ...
Mohammad Ali Tavana
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A critical rationalist approach to organizational learning: testing the theories held by managers [PDF]

, 2011
The common wisdom is that Popper's critical rationalism, a method aimed at knowledge validation through falsification of theories, is inadequate for managers in organizations.
Faran, Doron, Wijnhoven, Fons
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Semantic primitives and compositionality: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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Hans Albert, Münchhausenovo trilema a bootstrapová racionalita

Filosofický časopis
In this article, I focus on a fundamental problem of traditional epistemology, which Hans Albert reformulates in his Treatise on Critical Reason, referring to it as “Münchhausen’s Trilemma”.
Vladimír Havlík
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The Question of Truth

Informal Logic, 2010
The problem with the pragma-dialectical view, it has been argued, is that it takes argumentation as aiming at consensus rather than truth or justified belief. The pragma-dialecticians often imply that an argumentative process aiming at consensus in a way
David Botting
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Re‐thinking teachers' professional development: An analysis of National Professional Qualifications for school leaders in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes, Elizabeth Gregory, Louisa Dawes   +2 more
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Democracy, Justice, and Peace in Popper's Critical Rationalism [PDF]

حقوق بشر, 2009
This paper attempts to explain the relationship between the concepts of democracy, justice and peace in political thought. Popper's critical and liberalist approach toward democracy impelled us to utilize this twenties-century's political philosopher's ...
Jahangir Bagheri Ilkhchi, Mahnaz Nazlian
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A Critical Commentary on Block 2011: "David Friedman and Libertarianism: a Critique" and a Comparison with Lester [2000] 2012's Responses to Friedman [PDF]

, 2014
David Friedman posed a number of libertarian philosophical problems (Friedman 1989). This essay criticizes Walter Block’s Rothbardian responses (Block 2011) and compares them with J C Lester’s critical-rationalist, libertarian-theory responses (Lester ...
Lester, J. C.
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