A Pluralist View about Information

Styles of reasoning: A pluralist view

Styles of reasoning are important devices to understand scientific practice. As I use the concept, a style of reasoning is a pattern of inferential relations that are used to select, interpret, and support evidence for scientific results. In this paper, I defend the view that there is a plurality of styles of reasoning: different domains of science often invoke different styles. I argue that th...

Codes of Ethics for Economists: A Pluralist View*

Within the discussion of ethics and economics some have considered designing a code of ethics for economists. But the idea of such a code is potentially problematic from a pluralist standpoint. Some possibilities are discussed here to show that any code concerning the behaviour of economists presumes a view of human nature and thus of professionalism. Further, issues of socio-economic power in ...

A pluralist view of generalization in qualitative research

Informational content and information structures: a pluralist approach

The tutorial connects two notions of information: the inverse relationship principle which relates informational content to the exclusion of possibilities, and information-structures based on a partial ordering on states of information. Jointly, these allow the formulation of several distinct precise notions of content-individuation.

Pluralist action research: a review of the information systems literature

Action research (AR) has for many years been promoted and practised as one way to conduct field studies within the information systems (IS) discipline. Based on a review of articles published in leading journals, we explore how IS researchers practise AR. Our review suggests that AR lends itself strongly towards pluralist approaches which facilitate the production of both theoretical and practi...