Styles of reasoning are important devices to understand scientific practice. As I use the concept, a style of reasoning is a pattern of inferential relations that are used to select, interpret, and support evidence for scientific results. In this paper, I defend the view that there is a plurality of styles of reasoning: different domains of science often invoke different styles. I argue that th...

This paper explores relationships between interpretivist and positivist information systems research. The philosophical bases of these research methodologies are used to evaluate suggested pluralistic research designs. Three calls for methodological pluralism are shown to be unsoundly based as they appear not to have considered the implications of adopting the basic assumptions upon which their...

We pursue the definition of a KZ-doctrine in terms of a fully faithful adjoint string Dd ⊣ m ⊣ dD. We give the definition in any Gray-category. The concept of algebra is given as an adjunction with invertible counit. We show that these doctrines are instances of more general pseudomonads. The algebras for a pseudomonad are defined in more familiar terms and shown to be the same as the ones defi...

There is considerable disagreement over optimal antitrust policy. Some propose a weak role for antitrust authorities, others a strong role. These differences don’t stem principally from politics, in the sense of different interests expressing different views. Rather, they stem from differences in the overall antitrust doctrine held by regulators, other policymakers, scholars and advocates. In f...

With the increasing degrees AIs and machines, need for implementing ethics in is pressing. In this paper, we first survey current approaches to moral their inherent limitations. Then propose pluralist hybrid approach show how these limitations of can be partly alleviated by approach. The core ethical decision-making capacity an AI based on consists two systems. a deterministic algorithm system ...

Abstract Various theorists have endorsed the “communication argument”: communicative capacities are necessary for morally responsible agency because blame aims at a distinctive kind of moral communication. I contend that existing versions argument, including those defended by Gary Watson and Coleen Macnamara, face pluralist challenge: they do not seem to sit well with plausible view has multipl...