Abstract This study examines the concept of “description” and its theoretical foundations. The literature about it is surprisingly limited, usage vague, sometimes even conflicting. Description should be considered in relation to other processes, such as representation, data capturing, categorizing, which raises question what means describe something. often used for any type predication but may ...

On a purely epistemic understanding of experimental realism, manipulation affords a particularly robust kind of causal warrant, which is – like any other warrant – defeasible. I defend a version of Nancy Cartwright’s inference to the most likely cause, and I conclude that this minimally epistemic version of experimental realism is a coherent, adequate and plausible epistemology for science.

The ideas presented in this paper concern computer science education research within Jean Piaget’s theory genetic epistemology. Results from Piaget and collaborators investigations about the recursive reasoning on the series of natural numbers are extended to learn about entering students recursive reasoning on other inductively defined structures. In this paper the main aspects of that extensi...

The connotation of the term “epistemology” is science knowledge. While having two broad branches i.e., normative and positive, knowledge comes under perspective. Thus concept epistemology although disregarded by many philosophers like Quine, however Quine’s theory was later criticized Colin McGuinn. In my paper I have first explained some points from perspective Navya Nyaya then made a comparat...

After more than half a century of eclipse, the mind (in contradistinction to brain and behavior) emerged in the 1950s as a legitimate object of experimental and quantitative research in natural science. This paper argues that the neural nets project of Warren S. McCulloch, in frequent collaboration with Walter Pitts, spearheaded this cognitivist turn in the 1940s. Viewing the project as a spiri...

In previous writings, I have set forth a rationale for the foundational knowledge value in psychology and psychotherapy of (a) the individual, systematic case study, and (b) inductive generalizations derived from databases of large numbers of such case studies. This rationale is build upon the epistemology and ontology of contemporary philosophical pragmatism and social constructionism as appli...

a Department of Biomedical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy b NEtS Center for Neurocognition Epistemology and Theorethical Syntax, IUSS, Pavia, Italy e Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, 48001, Spain c Department of Cognition and Formation Sciences, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy d BCBL, Basque center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Do...

It is no secret that the body of research about organizations is multiparadigmatic (Pfeffer, 1993; Donaldson, 1995). Kuhn (1962) characterizes such a body of research as prescientific. Two questions arise. First, does it matter if a discipline is a multiparadigmatic collection of what Kuhn calls “fields”? It is clear from Pfeffer’s (1993) analysis that multiparadigmatic disciplines are held in ...