Correspondence: Valéry Ridde Unité de santé internationale. 3875 St-Urbain, 5th floor (507); Montréal, QC; H2 W 1V1 Canada Tel +1 514 890 8125 Fax +1 514 412 7108 Email [email protected] Abstract: Like the field of medicine from which it emanates, public health is more a process of intervention than a research activity. As such, the premise of this empirical article is that public healt...

The future role for methodology will be conditioned both by the way in which its content has developed in the direction of pluralism, and by the growth and specialisation of the field. The paper suggests that, for methodology to steer a successful course between foundationalism and relativism, there needs to be clarity about the meta-methodological frameworks which methodologists employ (since ...

Theoretical pluralism adds depth to the mixing of methods in development studies. In this paper, pluralism is grounded in an assumption that society has both structure and complexity. Interdisciplinary research generates a dialogue across epistemological chasms. Such research can be valued for its discursive bridging function as well as for improved measurement. Divergent schools of thought can...

In this paper I first point out the pluralist constitution of science in general and of chemistry in particular and then argue that it is inevitable for epistemological reasons. Once methodological pluralism is accepted, many mainstream philosophical debates that are based on methodological monism become futile, of which I discuss “laws of nature”, “reductionism”, and “scientific realism”. That...

The point of this paper is to assess to what extent compositional pluralism and composition as identity can from a coherent package of views. Since I think there are good arguments for compositional pluralism and I feel the intuition that gives some support to composition as identity, I am motivated to determine this. But regardless of whether you feel attraction to either of these two views, i...

I defend logical pluralism against the charge that One True Logic is motivated by considerations of warrant transfer. On the way I attempt to clarify just a little the connections between deductive validity and epistemology.