Making sense of maladaptation: Nordic agriculture stakeholders’ perspectives

Making Sense of Design: A Thematic Analysis of Alumni Perspectives

In this paper, we present the findings of a thematic analysis on how alumni make sense of design in light of their undergraduate experiences in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. These findings are part of a larger embedded, sequential mixed-methods study on the overall alumni experience in EPICS and how this experience prepared them to enter the workplace. In this l...

Factives and Perspectives: Making Sense of Presupposition as Exemplary Inference

Inference has long been the concern of assorted disciplines that vary in focus, rationale, apparatus, terminology, and achievement. There would appear an inverse proportion between the range and the orderliness of the knowledge accumulated by the various disciplines. Literary study tends to the first extreme, logic and its heritage in modern pragmatics to the second, either imbalance precluding...

Perspectives for Nordic Companies

Making sense of Design & Requirements Perspectives - & their Inter-relations

This NSF Design Requirements Workshop has a very ambitious and wide-ranging set of objectives. It invites contributions from a wide range of disciplines and encourages a variety of perspectives on requirements and design, as applied to socio-technical systems. In attempting to position myself in relation to the Workshop themes and objectives as outlined in the invitation letter, I have extracte...

The Creation of Necessity: Making Sense of Cartesian Modality

دکارت در نوشته‌های کلامی خود، دو فرضیه‌ی گیج‌کنندۀ به ‌هم ‌پیوسته را به ‌پیش می‌برد: فرضیۀ1) خداوند آزادانه حقایق ازلی را می‌آفریند (یعنی آموزۀ خلقت)؛ فرضیۀ2) حقایق ازلی بالضروره صادق­اند. بنا به فرضیۀ نخست، خداوند آزادانه برمی‌گزیند که کدام قضایا ضروری باشد، کدام محتمل و کدام ممکن. اما آموزۀ خلقت دکارت قبول فرضیۀ دوم را دشوار می‌سازد، زیرا مستلزم آن است که خداوند می‌توانسته است ‌ــ با ایجاد مج...