In this paper the relations among qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches are considered. Basic evidence for methodological analysis is consisted by Vladan Vidicki`s Snezana Stojsin`s article Zivan Ristic`s book devoted to topic. Vidicki Stojsin critics of dogmatism related rival approach. Their comprehension analyzed in first second sections paper. Third section deals with criti...

is a growing body of literature in that particular field which endeavours to tease out principles of healthy mental development and healthy mental practises in schools. Secondly, there is a growing amount of apparatus for use in examining and disseminating some of the principles? apparatus such as films, film strips, radio discs and so forth. Thirdly, there is a growing tendency (and I think th...

This article provides some philosophical “groundwork” for contemporary debates about the status of the idea(l) of critical thinking. The major part of the article consists of a discussion of three conceptions of “criticality,” viz., critical dogmatism, transcendental critique (Karl-Otto Apel), and deconstruction (Jacques Derrida). It is shown that these conceptions not only differ in their answ...

Recently in epistemology a number of authors have mounted Bayesian objections to dogmatism. These objections depend on a Bayesian principle of evidential confirmation: Evidence E confirms hypothesis H just in case Pr(H|E)>Pr(H). I argue using Keynes’ and Knight’s distinction between risk and uncertainty that the Bayesian principle fails to accommodate the intuitive notion of having no reason to...