socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

The new Curriculum for Wales seeks to develop young people who are ethical, informed citizens of and the world committed sustainability planet. While curriculum requires integration subject knowledge, associated guidance fails suggest a philosophy knowledge inform such integration. Having linked political economy regimes truth, rule accumulation, this article draws on Gesturing Towards Decoloni...

Academic Information Systems (IS) research has a serious utilization and relevance problem. To increase IS research utilization and relevance, scholars argue that the mainstream IS research, which is based on the behavioral science paradigm, should be complemented with research based on the design science paradigm. The current IS design science frameworks have a strong focus on the IT artefact,...

Information Systems (IS) research has a serious utilization and relevance problem. To increase IS research utilization and relevance, scholars argue that the mainstream IS research, which is based on the behavioral science paradigm, should be complemented with research based on the design science paradigm. The current IS design science frameworks and approaches have a strong focus on the IT art...

Philosophy of education especially higher is central to making a discipline or subject rational regarding its study as well implication in human society. In this regard, the research an attempt examine philosophical foundation stated major western-liberal philosophies e.g. Idealism, Realism, Thomism, and Pragmatism. It also figured out strengths weaknesses basis western system. The argues that ...

Security awareness is acknowledged as one of the true culprits in many failures in information security management, yet very limited amount of literature has explored the nature of security awareness. Although few studies have proposed guidelines of how to study and measure it, the power of those approaches appears to be inherently limited. To fill such gaps, the objectives of this paper are (1...

Purpose – The philosophical position known as critical realism is briefly introduced, and some of its central features are used to connect the philosophy and the realist social theory to some current library and information science (LIS) models of information behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a literature-based analysis of the critical realism concepts of a stratified soci...

Behavior analysis emphasizes the study of overt animal (human and nonhuman) behavior as a subject matter in its own right. This paper provides a metaphysical foundation for such an emphasis via an elucidation of a thesis that I generically call “realism about behavior,” where by “realism” I mean an assertion of mindindependent existence. The elucidation takes the form of a conceptual framework ...

Alan Musgrave has been one of the most passionate defenders of scientific realism. Most of his papers in this area are, by now, classics. The title of my paper alludes to Musgrave’s piece “The Ultimate Argument for Realism”, though the expression is Bas van Fraassen’s (1980, 39), and the argument is Hilary Putnam’s (1975, 73): realism “is the only philosophy of science that does not make the su...