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超越宣告性模式和判决主义模式* ———麦考密克对“法律推理和法律理论”的重新思考
2019
This paper offers a diachronic reconstruction of MacCormick’s theory of law and legal argumentation: In particular，two related points will be highlighted in which the difference between the perspective upheld in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory and the later writings is particularly marked． The ? rst point concerns MacCormick’s gradual break with legal positivism，and more speci? cally the thesis that the implicit pretension to justice of law proves legal positivism false in all its different versions． The second point concerns MacCormick’s acceptance of the one－right－answer thesis and the consequent thinning of the differences between MacCormick’s theory of legal reasoning and that of Ronal…
Demystifying the Influential IS Legends of Positivism
2018
Positivism has been used to establish a standard that Information Systems (IS) research must meet to be scientific. According to such positivistic beliefs in IS, scientific research should: 1) be generalizable, 2) focus on stable independent variables, 3) have certain ontological assumptions, and 4) use statistical or quantitative methods rather than qualitative methods. We argue that logical positivist philosophers required none of these. On the contrary, logical positivist philosophers regarded philosophizing in general and ontological considerations in particular as nonsense. Moreover, the positivists’ preferred empirical research method was not a survey, but rather a qualitative observa…
Demystifying the Influential IS Legends of Positivism : Response to Lee’s Commentary
2020
We respond to Lee’s (forthcoming) commentary on our article “Demystifying the Influential IS Legends of Positivism” (Siponen & Tsohou [S&T], 2018). Lee offers four arguments against our analyses and conclusions in S&T (2018). First, because logical positivism (LP) has been discredited, he contends it cannot be used as a normative standard in IS. We clarify that our conclusions in S&T (2018) point to (1) the lack of justification for certain IS beliefs, and (2) a misunderstanding rather than legitimacy of LP as a philosophy of science. Second, Lee argues that IS researchers characterizing positivism never said they were following the tenets of LP. We provide evidence to show some influential…