Criticism and a First Selectionist Metamodel for the Growth of
... There is a particular paradox entailed by the legacy of David Hume, perhaps both the most influential and the most ignored philosopher in the history of science. On the one hand, his empiricism was the chief philosophical inspiration of the logical positivists, who in turn gave shape to science as w ...
... There is a particular paradox entailed by the legacy of David Hume, perhaps both the most influential and the most ignored philosopher in the history of science. On the one hand, his empiricism was the chief philosophical inspiration of the logical positivists, who in turn gave shape to science as w ...
AHR Forum Crisis: A Useful Category of Post
... quickly became centered on exactly what kind of crisis it was, what its proper chronological and geographical scope might be, and what empirical tests best measured its impact and legacy. In short, the rapid consensus that solidified after 1954—that a general crisis of some sort did occur in the sev ...
... quickly became centered on exactly what kind of crisis it was, what its proper chronological and geographical scope might be, and what empirical tests best measured its impact and legacy. In short, the rapid consensus that solidified after 1954—that a general crisis of some sort did occur in the sev ...
0807-review
... such programmes will always take much longer than we think they will. This is particularly the case if we are privileging engagement and discussion. Which judgement we ultimately form, and we would suggest in the practice of evaluation one is always required to form judgements even if partial and te ...
... such programmes will always take much longer than we think they will. This is particularly the case if we are privileging engagement and discussion. Which judgement we ultimately form, and we would suggest in the practice of evaluation one is always required to form judgements even if partial and te ...
Computational Media and New Literacies—The
... trial and error. We have much to gain by thinking carefully about what the whole game of literacy is and about what we can do with computers that can either hasten or undermine new possibilities. The second pillar of literacy is mental or cognitive. Clearly the material basis of literacy stands only ...
... trial and error. We have much to gain by thinking carefully about what the whole game of literacy is and about what we can do with computers that can either hasten or undermine new possibilities. The second pillar of literacy is mental or cognitive. Clearly the material basis of literacy stands only ...
Punching our weight: the humanities and social sciences in public
... makers respond to these developments. However, short-term political pressures often work against policy makers’ efforts to prepare for future uncertainties. There needs to be greater recognition of the importance of increasing the stock of useful knowledge from a wide range of relevant academic sour ...
... makers respond to these developments. However, short-term political pressures often work against policy makers’ efforts to prepare for future uncertainties. There needs to be greater recognition of the importance of increasing the stock of useful knowledge from a wide range of relevant academic sour ...
Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Sciences --
... conditions of the mathematical theorems, and hence our ability to identify laws is always problematic and questionable. This view appears in textbooks as the only possible interpretation of the procedure. Thus, the practitioner of regression analysis who follows the textbook might unnecessarily subs ...
... conditions of the mathematical theorems, and hence our ability to identify laws is always problematic and questionable. This view appears in textbooks as the only possible interpretation of the procedure. Thus, the practitioner of regression analysis who follows the textbook might unnecessarily subs ...
The Ignorance Society
... is incomparably superior to everything that existed before it. Likewise, a process of technological convergence is taking place that is making the underlying complexity of the system increasingly invisible to its users, who tend to integrate a wide range of services into all the realms of our lives, ...
... is incomparably superior to everything that existed before it. Likewise, a process of technological convergence is taking place that is making the underlying complexity of the system increasingly invisible to its users, who tend to integrate a wide range of services into all the realms of our lives, ...
chapter3
... Hopkins University Press, 1994) briefly compare Stephen J. Gould with Kuhn: “Gould knows perfectly well that in the long run logic, empirical evidence , and explanatory parsimony are the master (with apology to our feminist friends for the metaphor) in the house of science. In this he echoes Thomas ...
... Hopkins University Press, 1994) briefly compare Stephen J. Gould with Kuhn: “Gould knows perfectly well that in the long run logic, empirical evidence , and explanatory parsimony are the master (with apology to our feminist friends for the metaphor) in the house of science. In this he echoes Thomas ...
9 Groups, norms, and conformity What`s it about?
... This chapter is about how, when, and why people conform to group norms. People conform to group norms because of their need to master the world, and the need to be connected by others. Conforming to group norms satisfies our need for mastery, because people believe that consensus tells something abo ...
... This chapter is about how, when, and why people conform to group norms. People conform to group norms because of their need to master the world, and the need to be connected by others. Conforming to group norms satisfies our need for mastery, because people believe that consensus tells something abo ...
Analyzing Communication in the International Workplace
... of “winning friends and influencing people” into the rule that you should always focus on learning a person’s personal name and then use that name to address the person. Using the practices of just one cultural or social group to try to standardize communication in international settings does not wo ...
... of “winning friends and influencing people” into the rule that you should always focus on learning a person’s personal name and then use that name to address the person. Using the practices of just one cultural or social group to try to standardize communication in international settings does not wo ...
LECHe Module3 Textbook
... I might quickly clarify some relevant theoretical points underpinning its meaning, even if very simply. The term was given a more particular and precise meaning in the works of the French philosopher and social theorist, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) who argued that our communication (spoken, written, ...
... I might quickly clarify some relevant theoretical points underpinning its meaning, even if very simply. The term was given a more particular and precise meaning in the works of the French philosopher and social theorist, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) who argued that our communication (spoken, written, ...
Quasi-natural Organization Science
... Positing that organizational phenomena result from both individual human intentionality and natural causes independent of individuals’ intended behavior, the need for a quasi-natural organization science is identified. The paradigm war is defined in terms of positivism and postpositivism, with the s ...
... Positing that organizational phenomena result from both individual human intentionality and natural causes independent of individuals’ intended behavior, the need for a quasi-natural organization science is identified. The paradigm war is defined in terms of positivism and postpositivism, with the s ...
Territorial Capital and Regional Growth
... spatial context. It posits that investments in knowledge by incumbent firms and research organizations such as universities will generate entrepreneurial opportunities, because not all of the new knowledge will be pursued and commercialized by the incumbent firms. The knowledge filter (Acs et al. 20 ...
... spatial context. It posits that investments in knowledge by incumbent firms and research organizations such as universities will generate entrepreneurial opportunities, because not all of the new knowledge will be pursued and commercialized by the incumbent firms. The knowledge filter (Acs et al. 20 ...
Two Modes of Reasoning with Case Studies1
... aspects of this epistemological view could be questioned and I cannot defend it here except by referring to the authority of philosophers of science like those mentioned above. Basically, the predictive mode of reasoning remains at the phenomenological level. It employs case studies to make predicti ...
... aspects of this epistemological view could be questioned and I cannot defend it here except by referring to the authority of philosophers of science like those mentioned above. Basically, the predictive mode of reasoning remains at the phenomenological level. It employs case studies to make predicti ...
Communication science and information science
... contributions to and connections with others’ works, especially when these works relate to the same topic. Failure to take account of this in our respective bodies of works defeats our mission as scientists. Scientific work is defined by the researcher’s proposed theories. The proposed theories are ...
... contributions to and connections with others’ works, especially when these works relate to the same topic. Failure to take account of this in our respective bodies of works defeats our mission as scientists. Scientific work is defined by the researcher’s proposed theories. The proposed theories are ...
ProCredit Regional Academy - Colombia
... probably not open and honest in other aspects of their lives; and those who are reluctant to accept with open arms the multicultural challenge that Academy life necessarily involves are probably chauvinistic in other respects too. It is not so important to be good at all the subjects on offer. That ...
... probably not open and honest in other aspects of their lives; and those who are reluctant to accept with open arms the multicultural challenge that Academy life necessarily involves are probably chauvinistic in other respects too. It is not so important to be good at all the subjects on offer. That ...
View/Open - Cadair - Aberystwyth University
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
... Archimedean starting-point, not just for knowledge itself (from a Foundationalist perspective) but also for a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of knowledge, which Richard Rorty (1979) critiqued as the “truth as correspondence” theory of knowledge, and which is central to Foundationalism its ...
to get the file
... of developing bankable project proposals complemented by hands-on exercises. In response to the needs expressed by the target countries, the training programme will focus exclusively on project proposals for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The GCF, after its initial capitalization of approximately USD ...
... of developing bankable project proposals complemented by hands-on exercises. In response to the needs expressed by the target countries, the training programme will focus exclusively on project proposals for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The GCF, after its initial capitalization of approximately USD ...
Position paper
... their instruments, the rationale for intervention is under permanent scrutiny and needs to be reassessed with the advancement of innovation theory as well as the implementation of good public management practices. Main stream economics accepts policy intervention on the level of improving framework ...
... their instruments, the rationale for intervention is under permanent scrutiny and needs to be reassessed with the advancement of innovation theory as well as the implementation of good public management practices. Main stream economics accepts policy intervention on the level of improving framework ...
An Optimal Voting System When Voting is Costly (R&R at Games)
... whether to leave their offices and to enter the chamber on the votes of those who come before them. The third feature of the optimal voting system is that participation may be artificially constrained, so that some voters are prevented from participating even if they want to. This is reminiscent of ...
... whether to leave their offices and to enter the chamber on the votes of those who come before them. The third feature of the optimal voting system is that participation may be artificially constrained, so that some voters are prevented from participating even if they want to. This is reminiscent of ...
6 Endogenous Knowledge: Implications for Sustainable Development
... fourth level is the world view which shapes environmental perception and gives meaning to observation of the environment, connecting it to the social and spiritual world. Research in Quechua and Aymara indigenous communities of Bolivia (Rist 2001; Boillat 2007) demonstrated that religious and spirit ...
... fourth level is the world view which shapes environmental perception and gives meaning to observation of the environment, connecting it to the social and spiritual world. Research in Quechua and Aymara indigenous communities of Bolivia (Rist 2001; Boillat 2007) demonstrated that religious and spirit ...
61 RAGE AGAINST REASON: ADDRESSING CRITICAL CRITICS
... criminology. Like the detested Lombroso, Ptolemy was a polymath who took the study of cosmology out of the world of philosophical speculation and brought it into the world of synthetic science. Although his geocentric model was wrong, it was useful because it encouraged others to think on its imperf ...
... criminology. Like the detested Lombroso, Ptolemy was a polymath who took the study of cosmology out of the world of philosophical speculation and brought it into the world of synthetic science. Although his geocentric model was wrong, it was useful because it encouraged others to think on its imperf ...
Unity through Diversity:
... Integrate Faith into Modern Multicultural Discourse – It is apparent that, contrary to earlier predictions, religion will not fade away as a source of distinctiveness in modern society. Previous decisions about how societal institutions and religions interact with one another may need to be revisite ...
... Integrate Faith into Modern Multicultural Discourse – It is apparent that, contrary to earlier predictions, religion will not fade away as a source of distinctiveness in modern society. Previous decisions about how societal institutions and religions interact with one another may need to be revisite ...
the disciplinary society and the birth of sociology: a foucauldian
... a “way out” – or the process that releases us from the status of “immaturity”. By that term he meant “a certain state of our will that makes us accept someone else’s authority to lead us in areas where the use of reason is called for” (also see Foucault 1984c). However, this historical period also p ...
... a “way out” – or the process that releases us from the status of “immaturity”. By that term he meant “a certain state of our will that makes us accept someone else’s authority to lead us in areas where the use of reason is called for” (also see Foucault 1984c). However, this historical period also p ...
Professions as Science-Based Occupations Brante
... in the latter tradition a number of items characterizing professions are enumerated, which is why it is also called the list, trait, or attribute approach. Numerous lists have been suggested since the 1930s up until today. The attributes involve theoretical knowledge, long education, examinations, l ...
... in the latter tradition a number of items characterizing professions are enumerated, which is why it is also called the list, trait, or attribute approach. Numerous lists have been suggested since the 1930s up until today. The attributes involve theoretical knowledge, long education, examinations, l ...