Lastly, in the final section, I offer a statement on the potential value of adopting Deweyan pragmatism as a philosophy for design research involving practice and, as such, installing Dewey as an 'intellectual underwriter' of 'designerly knowledge production'.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47471-3_7Brian S. Dixon
but in the way it reorients our thinking about legitimacy toward political practice (Fossen2017). Sociotechnical pragmatism puts a premium on justification through informed, rational, and honest discourse. However, decades of research in philosophy, as well as in social and behavioral sciences, have...
He interprets Dewey, for example, as having at-tempted to ‘‘rub out’’ the distinctions between the arts, technos-cience, and philosophy, and to substitute for them a ‘‘vague and 56pragmatism as post-postmodernismuncontroversial notion of intelligence.’’12But, as I have noted else-...
Pragmatism as a research paradigm finds its philosophical foundation in the historical contributions of the philosophy of pragmatism (Maxcy 2003) and, as such, embraces plurality of methods. As a research paradigm, pragmatism is based on the proposition that researchers should use the philosophical and...
interactionism, inCartesianphilosophyand thephilosophy of mind, those dualistic theories that hold thatmindand body, though separate and distinct substances, causally interact. Interactionistsassertthat a mental event, as when John Doe wills to kick a brick wall, can be the cause of a physical actio...
Pragmatism fits my belief system because it influences not only one’s selection of methods but also a person’s approach to organizing the overall study to find concrete solutions to the identified research problem. Thus, pragmatism is selected as a key philosophy in this context because my task...
Pioneered in sociology, it is increasingly used in comparative research to explain social phenomena in various disciplines. Despite its growing adoption, and because of its eclectic nature, some methodological themes have proven elusive. Its philosophy of science is one such issue. Philoso...