Friedman’s (1981, 1983) transpersonal cartography of self-expansiveness places the individual self-concept in a central position at the intersection of temporal and spatial dimensions. This map can be inverted, however, by placing transcendent consciousness in the center, creating a new cartography that is equally viable. Juxtaposing the original version (depicting the individual self as emergi...

In the early part of the 20th century, a form of (social) psychology emerged that is entirely grounded in a dialectical materialist method. The dialectical materialist approach leads to a non-dualist, non-reductionist account of culture, cognition, and consciousness that begins with single-celled organisms and ends up with present-day science. In this paper, I present such an account initiated ...

Major books like Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (AGP)1 start from and develop a single (although complex) idea. This idea has been present in Habermas's work for some time. It can be traced back to the core project of Frankfurt School, tradition Horkheimer Adorno's Dialectic Enlightenment Horkheimer's Critique Instrumental Reason, reconstructing genesis criticizing one-sided forms rationa...

Information systems research continues to be criticised for the fundamental gap between theory and practice. Critics argue that this is largely the result of the methodological inadequacy of the dominant positivist paradigm to the ontological nature of the subject. Studies which recognise the applied nature of the information systems discipline and thus are committed to the production of practi...

This article presents the views and assumptions of logical positivism approach and realistic approach in conducting social science research in general and business research in particular. Logical positivism has influenced research methodologies in social science, in particular “model building”. The main assumptions of logical positivism are concerned with observation and “verification principle...