1. Introduction 2. What philosophical/methodological issues? 3. Philsophy of science and empirical modeling: Logical positivism/empiricism The downfall of logical positivism/empiricism The new experimentalism Learning from error 4. The Error-Statistical perspective: Statistical inference and its philosophical foundations Statistical Induction and its underlying reasoning Severe testing reasonin...

Introducción Esta introducción fornece una visión general del Book Symposium sobre el libro Judging Positivism, de Margaret Martin, con contribuciones André Coelho, Thomas Bustamante y Jorge Fabra-Zamora, así como respuesta analítica Martin.

The paper focuses on the question “What research approach is effective in building trust with minority farmers?” The question is answered through a documentation of researchers’ experiences building trust and collaboration with minority farmers in the lower Mississippi Delta. The researchers applied two research paradigms -logical positivism and paradigm of praxis. The logical positivism resear...