Importance: Philosophical debates are important for scientific research. Scientists should pay attention to these debates and consider the assumptions in their research. However, they cannot wait for philosophers to resolve all issues...
(2006). Quantitative research as an interpretive enterprise: The mostly unacknowledged role of interpretation in research efforts and suggestions for explicitly interpretive quantitative investigations. New Ideas in Psychology, 24, 189–211. Google Scholar Wittgenstein, L. (1958). Philosophical ...
Pragmatism for mixed method research at higher education level Just as Bobbio strove to provide a scientific account of law, he attempted to fight the decline toward legal positivism and Kelsen's legal theory accused of having dangerously decreased the anxious concern for values and the defense for...
social work in the United States, the field has embraced a positivistic view of science, a view continuing to be held by the mainstream of the ... Thyer,A B. - 《Research on Social Work Practice》 被引量: 33发表: 2008年 IR theory, historical materialism, and the false promise of inte...
propositions of logic and mathematics tautological, and moral or value statements merely emotive. They championed the highly influential verification principle, from which it follows that a proposition has meaning only if some sense experience would suffice to determine its truth. The Vienna Circle disi...
In particular, traditional management practices have relied on public scoping during planning sessions as a way to generate public input, while traditional research practices have relied almost entirely on educators to communicate the results of their work with community stakeholders during interpretive ...
Theory and practice of research in health social sciences involves a unique synergy of a range of quantitative, qualitative, and hybrid methodologies derived from parent disciplines of medicine, nursing, and various other branches of social sciences such
Thestructuralist methodis employed, first to analyze the stories separately, tracing their root in corresponding types of folklore, then to reveal the mechanism of meaning in their combination. 以结构主义研究方法为分析的总体思路,先在分解的层次上对每个故事作民间故事类型探源性分析,然后再从整体组合的层...
Positivism was seductive in part because what it offered was so breathtakingly pure. Philosophy, the positivist argued, had simply failed. Statements can be meaningful in either one of two ways. A sentence can be meaningful because it is analytic, meaning true simply because of the meaning of ...
While the Vienna Circle's early form of logical empiricism (or logical positivism or neopositivism: these labels will be used interchangeably here) no longer represents an active research program, recent history of philosophy of science has unearthed much previously neglected variety and depth in the...