Received: 22 November 2011 Revised: 05 May 2012 2nd Revision: 30 November 2012 3rd Revision: 15 July 2013 Accepted: 15 August 2013 Abstract Several studies explore information security awareness focusing on individual and/ or organisational aspects. This paper argues that security awareness processes are associated with interrelated changes that occur at the organisational, the technological an...

This article critiques major trends in the psychotherapy integration movement from the postmodem perspectives of contextualism and pluralism. A contextualist position asserts that psychothelrpeutic concepts and interventions u n be understood only within the linguistic, theoretical, and ideological f n m e w o h in which they are embedded. Therefore, they take on new meanings when extracted fro...

The paper takes as its starting point the observation that people can be led to retract knowledge claims when presented with previously ignored error possibilities, but offers a noncontextualist explanation of the data. Fallibilist epistemologies are committed to the existence of two kinds of Kp-falsifying contingencies: (i) Non-Ignorable contingencies [M-contingencies] and (ii) Properly-Ignora...

The aim of this paper is to examine the kind of evidence that might be adduced in support of relativist semantics of a kind that have recently been proposed for predicates of personal taste, for epistemic modals, for knowledge attributions and for other cases. I shall concentrate on the case of taste predicates, but what I have to say is easily transposed to the other cases just mentioned. I sh...

Most requirements engineering (RE) research and practice embodies a philosophy that we will call abstractionism, which involves the building of simplified models of domains of discourse and proposed systems. Abstractionists make much use of formal models, such as goal dependency networks. An alternative design philosophy is contextualism, according to which the peculiarities of the context of u...