Search results for "Empiricism"
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Empiricism and Experience: Two Problems
2009
In his attempt to answer a fundamental question: ‘What is the contribution of experience to knowledge?’ (E & E, pp. vii, 3, 11, etc.), 1 Anil Gupta wants to offer an account of knowledge and experi...
Frank H. Knight, pragmatism, and American institutionalism: A note
2009
This note deals with the debated question of whether, and to what extent, Frank Knight's epistemology was consistent with the general philosophy of American pragmatism. First, in accord with recent interpretations, I provide new evidence illustrating that Knight's views on science, knowledge and related philosophical topics present some important similarities with the pragmatic tradition. Second, I attempt to demonstrate that Knight's unsympathetic reading of Dewy and pragmatism was, to a relevant extent, a consequence of his aversion to the so-called scientific wing of American interwar institutionalism. © 2009 Taylor & Francis.
Empirical Research in Linguistics
2021
MATHEMATICS AS A QUASI-EMPIRICAL SCIENCE
2006
The present paper aims at showing that there are times when set theoretical knowledge increases in a non-cumulative way. In other words, what we call ‘set theory’ is not one theory which grows by simple addition of a theorem after the other, but a finite sequence of theories T1, ..., T n in which Ti+1, for 1 ≤ i < n, supersedes T i . This thesis has a great philosophical significance because it implies that there is a sense in which mathematical theories, like the theories belonging to the empirical sciences, are fallible and that, consequently, mathematical knowledge has a quasi-empirical nature. The way I have chosen to provide evidence in favour of the correctness of the main thesis of t…
Hume en Deleuze: los primeros lineamientos del empirismo trascendental
2012
Deleuze gustaba de parangonar su quehacer filosófico con una suerte de patchwork o collage: un pensamiento al estilo Arlequín, abigarrado y hecho de fragmentos no totalizables. Tal es el pluralismo (o empirismo) reivindicado por el filósofo francés, y también su resultado: un bizarro mosaico hecho de encuentros o téléscopages entre autores aparentemente no relacionados. No obstante, el caso de Empirismo y subjetividad (1953) resulta un tanto extraño: no parece encajar en este complejo puzzle, y la infravaloración de la que adolece en numerosos comentarios sobre Deleuze tiende a reforzar ese prejuicio. Por el contrario, nos proponemos mostrar que este estudio sobre Hume contiene las primeras…
Typologies of the Understanding of the Experience Notion in Pedagogy
2019
The aim of this paper is to present possible typologies of experience and to point out the need to allow for the multidimensionality of experience categories in pedagogical research. Since experience is primarily a philosophical concept, the first section presents a generally acceptable definition of experience. The second section refers to the main philosophical, epistemological and methodological typologies of experience. The last of the typologies which may be of particular use in pedagogy has been discussed in the third section. It describes experience as an activity, its production (result), and a way of perceiving something. This typology organises the types of understanding experienc…
Norwegian Sociology and the Recognition of the Saami Minority
2014
At a time when the Saami ethnic minority got little attention by the Norwegian public and the political authorities of the country, sociologists did much to raise public awareness about the conditions of this ethnic minority. In the postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s, sociologists of Norway focused to a large degree on social groups that fell outside the emerging welfare state. Norwegian sociology has been characterized by an approach named “problem-oriented empirism” and also by sociologists playing a vital role as public intellectuals. Sociology professor Vilhelm Aubert (1922- 88) coined the term “problem-oriented empirism” to characterize Norwegian sociology from the end of the Second…
Culture in sustainability : towards a transdisciplinary approach
2017
1 INTRODUCTION, 5, Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović, Katriina Soini, Katarzyna Plebańczyk, Sari Asikainen PART 1: CONCEPTS 2 ENCHANTING SUSTAINABILITY: From enlightened modernity towards embodiment and planetary consciousness, 9, Hans Dieleman 3 CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL LEARNING PROCESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY, 21, Philippe Vandenbroeck 4 UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: Connecting sustainability and culture, 28, Nathalie Nunes, Hanna Söderström and Sandra Hipke PART 2: POLICIES AND PRACTICES 5 CULTURAL PROJECTS, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, AND SMALL CITY SUSTAINABILITY, 45, Isabel Ferreira and Nancy Duxbury 6 HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE APPROACH AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT, 61, …
How and Why ‘Theory’ Is Often Misunderstood in Information Systems Literature
2019
IS theory accounts have increased our understanding of scientific theories. However, many influential theory accounts in Information Systems (IS) are influenced by the Received View of scientific theory (RV), which flourished in the philosophy of science around 1930-1969. The RV has been widely rejected in the philosophy of science, as the theory ignored much of the actual scientific context, and it mischaracterized several important characteristics of scientific research and theories. Although RV ideas were crafted for philosophers’ philosophical purposes, and not for scientists’ use, several IS scholars seem to believe that some of the RV theses represent actual (good or strong) scientifi…