The paper presents a comparative analysis between hermeneutics and ethnomethodology of science. A careful examination of the approaches suggested by the two programs not only demonstrates that a ...

Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...

Obstetric violence has been analyzed from various perspectives. Its psychological effects have been evaluated, and there have been several recent sociological and anthropological studies on the ...

The remarkable advances in the fields of science and technology during the last few decades are strongly influencing the way we human beings perceive ourselves. A more integrated, humanist perspective ...

It is a complicated world out there, and the Tree of Knowledge (ToK) is a “language system” that is designed to help you understand the world and your place in it. It is simultaneously a scientific ...

One of the basic claims that stems from the unified approach is that human knowledge is “positional,” meaning that human knowers exist at certain points in social and historical contexts and that ...

Social philosophy scrutinises our social world, and looks at the identities, relations, and power structures within it. Some social philosophy is concerned with what makes up our social world - what ...