Breaking with tradition

Cutting Hacking: Breaking from Tradition

Student memories of introductory programming units regularly centre on seemingly interminable cycles of coding and debugging and the WIMP syndrome perpetuates this horror in the software development industry. Code construction is the one inescapable phase of the software development cycle yet educators seem unable to escape the mind-set which equates programming with syntax and semantics, conde...

Breaking Tradition in ICD-10 Testing

In most cases, determining payer readiness for an ICD-10 transition involves traditional system testing. The results of this strategy, however, do not completely reflect the widespread impact of ICD-10 on a payer’s business operations. A nontraditional testing approach is also required to understand and address ICD-10’s comprehensive effects on a healthcare organization’s people, processes, par...

Beyond Tradition

Reconstructing Quine: the Troubles with a Tradition*

There has developed in the professional literature a distinct tradition of interpreting and reconstructing Quine’s epistemology. The tradition has its roots in Gilbert Harman’s influential interpretation of Quine as an empiricist and in Harman’s reconstruction of Quine’s views on meaning.’ Richard Rorty, and those influenced by what may fairly be called the “Princeton School” of Quine scholarsh...

Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

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