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Piacente, Albert. "Pragmatism and the Importance of Truth." Contemporary Pragmatism 18, no. 3 (November 10, 2021): 223–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10013.
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Abstract This paper develops a position I call “apathetic pragmatism.” Apathetic pragmatism is a form of pragmatism that, through advocating “apathy” about the topic of truth, avoids the troubled identification of utility and truth found in classical and neo pragmatist theories of truth. Initially explored by Stephen Stich, I argue Stich’s case for apathetic pragmatism relies upon a theory of truth that causes vicious circularity. I then pursue a different route to apathetic pragmatism, one that sees apathetic pragmatism as a “paradigm shift” in relation to previous forms of pragmatism. It is a paradigm shift where pragmatism becomes a normative view concerning the questions that are necessary to ask, not an attempt to answer questions assumed necessary.
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김재관. "Pragmatism as Policy Paradigm." Korean Public Management Review 22, no. 2 (June 2008): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24210/kapm.2008.22.2.001.
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Niu, Min, and Thawascha Dechsubha. "The semiotic dimension of contemporary pragmatics." Technium Social Sciences Journal 27 (January 8, 2022): 802–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v27i1.5651.
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Contemporary Pragmatics has the semiotic features from the respects of disciplinary naming, the means of development, and theoretical source to research object and method. It is not only an independent linguistics and language science, but also an interdisciplinary field and paradigm. This paper is to explore the semiotic features and dimensions of Pragmatics for tracing back the origin and the theoretical resources from semiotic perspective, and to define its research scope and clarify the connotation of its conception. As Semiotics has a triad dimension of semiosis, one of which is the “pragmatic dimension”. Therefore, contemporary pragmatics includes at least three semiotic dimensions: scientific semiotics, linguistic semiotics and social semiotics. The semiotic analysis of Pragmatics could be conducive to clarify and fix the semiotic and philosophical origin, definition, disciplinary connotation and meaning of Pragmatics, which is also theoretically helpful for clarifying the concepts for the study of philosophical pragmatism, pragmaticism, semiotics, semantics and syntax.
Key Words: Semiotic, Pragmatics, Pragmaticism
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Kamau, Gabriel Ndung'u. "ICT4D Research in Developing Countries: A Call for Pragmatism Approach." International Journal of Computer and Information System (IJCIS) 3, no. 2 (June 14, 2022): 51–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.29040/ijcis.v3i2.67.
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Today, Information Systems research and in particular in the area of ICT4D in developing nations is dominated by positivism and interpretivism paradigms. Information systems contributions are influenced by historical, cultural, and political contexts in which it is done. Researchers in this area question the appropriateness of positivism and interpretivism philosophical foundations to conduct ICT4D research. This paper explores the use of pragmatism as an alternative research paradigm to that can be employed to understand the state of the ICT4D research. Research drawing explicitly on pragmatism is still relatively rare. The paper reviews the pragmatism in terms of its ontology, epistemology, axiology and methodology and its value in the ICT4D research discipline. As a new paradigm, pragmatism disrupts the assumptions of older approaches based on the philosophy of knowledge, while providing promising new directions for conducting and understanding the nature of research in the area of ICT4D in developing countries. It is anticipated the readers of the article to make a more informed choice for themselves on whether or not to pursue the path ofpragmatism their own research. KeywordAxiology, epistemology, ICT4D, methodology, ontology, pragmatism, research paradigms
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Bergman, Mats. "Beyond the Interaction Paradigm? Radical Constructivism, Universal Pragmatics, and Peircean Pragmatism." Communication Review 14, no. 2 (April 2011): 96–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2011.573432.
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Kabanda, Gabriel. "Performance of Machine Learning and other Artificial Intelligence paradigms in Cybersecurity." Oriental journal of computer science and technology 13, no. 1 (May 29, 2020): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojcst13.01.01.
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Cybersecurity systems are required at the application, network, host, and data levels. The research is purposed to evaluate Artificial Intelligence paradigms for use in network detection and prevention systems. This is purposed to develop a Cybersecurity system that uses artificial intelligence paradigms and can handle a high degree of complexity. The Pragmatism paradigm is elaborately associated with the Mixed Method Research (MMR), and is the research philosophy used in this research. Pragmatism recognizes the full rationale of the congruence between knowledge and action. The Pragmatic paradigm advocates a relational epistemology, a non-singular reality ontology, a mixed methods methodology, and a value-laden axiology. A qualitative approach where Focus Group discussions were held was used. The Artificial Intelligence paradigms evaluated include machine learning methods, autonomous robotic vehicle, artificial neural networks, and fuzzy logic. A discussion was held on the performance of Support Vector Machines, Artificial Neural Network, K-Nearest Neighbour, Naive-Bayes and Decision Tree Algorithms.
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Kaushik, Vibha, and Christine A. Walsh. "Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm and Its Implications for Social Work Research." Social Sciences 8, no. 9 (September 6, 2019): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8090255.
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Debates around the issues of knowledge of, and for, social work and other social justice–oriented professions are not uncommon. More prevalent are the discussions around the ways by which social work knowledge is obtained. In recent years, social work scholars have drawn on the epistemology of pragmatism to present a case for its value in the creation of knowledge for social work and other social justice–oriented professions. The primary focus of this essay is on providing a critical review and synthesis of the literature regarding pragmatism as a research paradigm. In this essay, we analyze the major philosophical underpinnings and methodological challenges associated with pragmatism, synthesize the works of scholars who have contributed to the understanding of pragmatism as a research paradigm, articulate our thoughts about how pragmatism fits within social work research, and illustrate how it is linked to the pursuit of social justice. This article brings together a variety of perspectives to argue that pragmatism has the potential to closely engage and empower marginalized and oppressed communities and provide hard evidence for the macro level discourse.
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Maarouf, Heba. "Pragmatism as a Supportive Paradigm for the Mixed Research Approach: Conceptualizing the Ontological, Epistemological, and Axiological Stances of Pragmatism." International Business Research 12, no. 9 (August 26, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v12n9p1.
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The emergence of the mixed research approach has been accompanied by searching for a philosophy that legitimates mixing quantitative and qualitative methods in one research. Many researchers consider pragmatism as the most common philosophical justification for the mixed research approach; however, pragmatism is criticized as a philosophy in general and also as philosophical support for the mixed research approach especially for not addressing the differing assumptions of the quantitative and qualitative paradigms. Trying to overcome this criticism, the current research is mainly concerned with presenting pragmatism as a coherent, integrated paradigm by conceptualizing its ontological, epistemological and axiological stances. The researcher coins three new terminologies: the reality cycle, the double-faced knowledge, and the necessary bias principle. These philosophical stances combine both the quantitative and qualitative paradigms' points of view as two integrated, not conflicting philosophies.
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Morgan, David L. "Pragmatism as a Paradigm for Social Research." Qualitative Inquiry 20, no. 8 (February 3, 2014): 1045–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800413513733.
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Widiastuti, Kurnia, and Ikaputra Ikaputra. "MODEL PRAGMATISME EKSPERIMENTAL DALAM ARSITEKTUR." BORDER 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.33005/border.v2i1.28.
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The discourse on experimental pragmatism, as a paradigm in architecture and in other fields, is still very limited. Most references still place this term as jargon. This study aims to establish definition and working model of experimental pragmatism paradigm in architecture using content analysis methods. It was learned that experimental pragmatism can be defined as a design paradigm that prioritizes the strength of goals (discoveries) and their actualization in the process (experimentation) and design outcomes according to their attributes (method-and-parameter (process) and nature-and-parameters (output)). The definition of experimental pragmatism (PE) includes three aspects, namely the aspect of the goal (T) to get a new discovery (discovery), the process aspect (P), and the output aspect (L). This definition can be translated as a working model into formula PE = T x (PMP + LSP), where MP is Method and Parameter and SP is Characteristic and Parameter.
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Allemang, Brooke, Kathleen Sitter, and Gina Dimitropoulos. "Pragmatism as a paradigm for patient‐oriented research." Health Expectations 25, no. 1 (November 8, 2021): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13384.
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Modu, Mala Ali, Maimunah Sapri, and Zafirah Ab. Muin. "Positioning Research Paradigm in the Development of the Social Housing Management Model in a Semi-Arid Climate." International Journal of Real Estate Studies 16, no. 2 (December 29, 2022): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/intrest.v16n2.265.
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This paper examines the philosophical perspectives in research and the justification for the adoption of an appropriate paradigm in conducting social housing management research. An extensive review of established literature related to philosophical perspectives in social science research was conducted which forms part of the methodology. The review revealed several philosophical paradigms for conducting research such as positivism, realism, interpretivism, and pragmatism; and each of these paradigms aimed towards solving the many problems in research through appropriate methodologies. The review also indicated that effective strategy for housing management should be considered through research that is inclined to a relevant philosophical paradigm that dictates the appropriate research tools and design. The paper suggests that pragmatism with its methodological traditions was conceptualized by researchers to ensure not only adequate study of a given social phenomenon in the realm of social science as it views objective reality is embedded in the environment which is encountered through human experience; but also is a set of tools of value for addressing practical problems in the real world regardless of the peculiarity of research environment. Therefore, pragmatism has the potential to offer a suitable methodology to the social science research investigating social housing management in a peculiar environment such as the semi-arid climate by using different methodological combinations to address the research questions through either intermixing of interviewing, observation, and document analysis; relying on interviews rather than observations, or the intermixing of qualitative and quantitative data to address their research question.
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Pansiri, Jaloni. "Doing Tourism Research Using the Pragmatism Paradigm: An Empirical Example." Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development 3, no. 3 (December 2006): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790530601132401.
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Prus, Robert. "Redefining the Sociological Paradigm: Emile Durkheim and the Scientific Study of Morality." Qualitative Sociology Review 15, no. 1 (May 23, 2019): 6–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.1.01.
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Whereas Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) has long been envisioned as a structuralist, quantitative, and positivist sociologist, some materials that Durkheim produced in the later stages of his career—namely, Moral Education (1961 [1902-1903]), The Evolution of Educational Thought (1977 [1904-1905]), The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915 [1912]), and Pragmatism and Sociology (1983 [1913-1914]) attest to a very different conception of sociology—one with particular relevance to the study of human knowing, acting, and interchange. Although scarcely known in the social sciences, Emile Durkheim’s (1993 [1887]) “La Science Positive de la Morale en Allemagne” [“The Scientific Study of Morality in Germany”] is an exceptionally important statement for establishing the base of much of Durkheim’s subsequent social thought and for comprehending the field of sociology more generally. This includes the structuralist-pragmatist divide and the more distinctively humanist approach to the study of community life that Durkheim most visibly develops later (1961 [1902-1903]; 1977 [1904-1905]; 1915 [1912]; 1983 [1913-1914]) in his career.
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Ryan, Frank X. "Rethinking the Human Condition: Skepticism, Realism, and Transactional Pragmatism." Contemporary Pragmatism 13, no. 3 (August 23, 2016): 263–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01303003.
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For several decades, renewed interest in the connection between perception and knowledge has sustained a robust debate over external world skepticism (ews). Recently, however, a growing consensus claims the skeptical challenge has been substantially met, and that realism in some robust form has emerged a clear victor. I invite us to rethink this consensus in a two-part response. The first forges a temporary alliance with skepticism against prominent forms of contemporary realism. That these fail to rebuff ews bolsters Barry Stroud’s call for a new paradigm of objectivity. In the second part I sketch such a paradigm based upon a transactional interpretation of John Dewey’s pragmatism, and indicate its resilience to skeptical attacks.
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Fikrat Ismayilzada, Nusrat. "Avropa İttifaqının xarici siyasəti kontekstində dayanıqlılığın artırılması yanaşması." SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 09, no. 5 (May 22, 2022): 90–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2789-6919/09/90-93.
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This article analyzes resilience-building approach observed in the foreign policy of the European Union. The European Union Global Strategy (EUGS) emphasized the concept of principled pragmatism underlining importance of both realistic evaluation of existing situation and idealistic view of the world. It also mentions the resilience of neighboring societies and states as one of the main external policy priorities of the EU. Many scholars mentioned that the concept of resilience-building would bring a shift of paradigm to the foreign policy of the EU. To have a better understanding of the peculiarities of this new approach, I have compared it to an alternative paradigm of liberal interventionism. The implications of both paradigms have been briefly analyzed. In the end, the impacts of the rise of resilience approach on EU foreign policy have been discussed. Key words: principled pragmatism, resilience paradigm, liberal interventionism, resilience-building, shift of paradigm Nüsrət Fikrət oğlu İsmayılzadə Avropa İttifaqının xarici siyasəti kontekstində dayanıqlılığın artırılması yanaşması Xülasə Bu məqalədə Avropa İttifaqının xarici siyasətində müşahidə olunan dayanıqlılığın artırılması yanaşması təhlil edilir. Avropa İttifaqının Qlobal Strategiyasında (EUGS) həm mövcud vəziyyətin real qiymətləndirilməsini, həm də dünyaya idealist baxışın vacibliyini qeyd edən prinsipial praqmatizm konsepsiyası vurğulanmışdır. Bu sənəd, həm də cəmiyyətlərin və dövlətlərin dayanıqlılığını Aİ-nin əsas xarici siyasət prioritetlərindən biri kimi qeyd edir. Bir çox akademiklər dayanıqlılığın artırılması konsepsiyasının Aİ-nin xarici siyasətində paradiqma dəyişikliyi gətirəcəyini qeyd ediblər. Bu yeni yanaşmanın xüsusiyyətlərini daha yaxşı başa düşmək üçün onu alternativ paradiqma olan liberal müdaxiləçilik ilə müqayisə etmişəm. Hər iki paradiqmanın məğzi qısa şəkildə təhlil edilmişdir. Sonda dayanıqlılığın artırılması yanaşmasının Aİ-nin xarici siyasəti üzərindəki təsirləri müzakirə olunub. Açar sözlər:prinsipial praqmatizm, dayanıqlılıq paradiqması, liberal müdaxiləçilik, dayanıqlılığın artırılması, paradiqma dəyişikliyi
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Makumane, Makhulu A., Simon Bheki Khoza, and Blossom Bulelwa Piliso. "Representation of Pragmatism in Scholarly Publications on COVID-19." International Journal of Higher Education 11, no. 2 (November 21, 2021): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v11n2p161.
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Pragmatism is an important resource that has helped higher education institutions (HEIs) in Lesotho and South Africa to complete the 2020 academic year even when they were affected by COVID-19. Pragmatism is a philosophy of human actions combined with experiences in order to produce outcomes or consequences, where the reality is about what works according to individual needs based on a specific situation. During the COVID-19 era, pragmatism has been represented by the use of learning management systems (LMSs) and social media sites (SMSs). The representation of pragmatism, based on ten sampled publications of this study was divided into performance- (driven by LMSs) and competence-based (driven by SMSs) curricula. The purpose and objective of this study was to explore and understand the representation of pragmatism in ten scholarly publications purposively sampled for this study on education during the COVID-19 era. Document analysis framed by pragmatic paradigm, critical discourse analysis (CDA), and community of inquiry (CoI), was used to generate data for this study. The findings concluded that pragmatism was the reason for HEIs saving the 2020 academic year: pragmatism harmonised the tension between LMSs and SMSs which existed even before the COVID-19 era. Consequently, this study recommends the application of pragmatism in any uncertainty/novelty situation in education, in order to address individual needs before professional and societal needs.
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Dallago, Bruno. "Comparative economics, globalisation and the eurozone in the quest for a new eurozone paradigm." Acta Oeconomica 69, s1 (January 2019): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/032.2019.69.s1.7.
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The Eurozone is at a crossroads. Its neoliberal and ordoliberal construction proved to be unworkable and, after the crisis, made the macroeconomic adjustment slow and costly – causing financial and real divergence among the member countries. Kolodko’s writings offer interesting insights. This article considers Kolodko’s study of Poland and Greece and adds two other paradigmatic cases, those of Germany and Italy. Kolodko’s case studies and criticism of neoliberalism lead him to propose a New Pragmatism in policy making. This proposal offers important insights, but neglects two fundamental problems: moral hazard and institutional differences. These have to be included in the New Pragmatism to give this the strength and ability to contribute to solve the Eurozone problems.
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Dolgopolovas, Vladimiras, Valentina Dagienė, Eglė Jasutė, and Tatjana Jevsikova. "Design Science Research for Computational Thinking in Constructionist Education: A Pragmatist Perspective." Problemos 95 (April 26, 2019): 144–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.95.12.
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[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The article examines the modern computer-based educational environment and the requirements of the possible cognitive interface that enables the learner’s cognitive grounding by incorporating abductive reasoning into the educational process. Although the main emphasis is on cognitive and physiological aspects, the practical tools for enabling computational thinking in a modern constructionist educational environment are discussed. The presented analytical material and developed solutions are aimed at education with computers. However, the proposed solutions can be generalized in order to create a computer-free educational environment. The generalized paradigm here is pragmatism, considered as a philosophical assumption. By designing and creating a pragmatist educational environment, a common way of organizing computational thinking that enables constructionist educational solutions can be found.
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Kelly, Leanne M., and Maya Cordeiro. "Three principles of pragmatism for research on organizational processes." Methodological Innovations 13, no. 2 (May 2020): 205979912093724. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059799120937242.
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This article explicates pragmatism as a relevant and useful paradigm for qualitative research on organizational processes. The article focuses on three core methodological principles that underlie a pragmatic approach to inquiry: (1) an emphasis on actionable knowledge, (2) recognition of the interconnectedness between experience, knowing and acting and (3) inquiry as an experiential process. The authors’ doctoral projects on non-government organizations are used as examples to examine how the application of these principles strengthen each stage of the research process from project design and data collection to data analysis, conclusions and dissemination. This investigation suggests that pragmatism, which provides a guiding epistemological framework anchored in the inquiry process and research practicality, is a worthy paradigm for researching organizational processes. Pragmatism’s focus on the production of actionable knowledge is of particular benefit to research with non-government organizations, ensuring that research is contextually relevant as well as informed by theory.
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Da Silva, Jorge Francisco, and Karl Heinz Efken. "The concept of warranted assertibility in Dewey as the heart of his instrumental pragmatism." Cognitio-Estudos: revista eletrônica de filosofia 17, no. 2 (December 24, 2020): 221–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/1809-8428.2020v17i2p221-233.
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Pragmatism started in the second half of the 19th century in North America and, in many respects, is still with us today. This school of thought has been hugely influential in many areas such as in the philosophy of language, science, logic and metaphysics; in the philosophy of mind, ethics, aesthetics and in the philosophy of religion. This article introduces Dewey’s specific kind of pragmatism in the context of classical American Pragmatism, represented by Peirce and James. We then examine the formation of the core of Dewey’s instrumental pragmatism - his concept of warranted assertibility. The analysis is based on five pragmatic themes - pluralism, anti-foundationalism, fallibilism, the agents of perspective and the communities of inquirers -; one scientific paradigm - Darwinian evolutionism - and one philosophical - Kantian German Idealism. We propose the importance of Dewey’s enduring legacy lies in the fact that his concept of warranted assertibility involves discussions of the relations between philosophy of language and philosophy of conduct, between rationality, discursive intentionality, responsibility and ethics.
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Dolgopolovas, Vladimiras, Valentina Dagienė, Eglė Jasutė, and Tatjana Jevsikova. "Design Science Research for Computational Thinking in Constructionist Education: A Pragmatist Perspective." Problemos 95 (April 26, 2019): 144–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/10.15388/problemos.95.12.
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The article examines the modern computer-based educational environment and the requirements of the possible cognitive interface that enables the learner’s cognitive grounding by incorporating abductive reasoning into the educational process. Although the main emphasis is on cognitive and physiological aspects, the practical tools for enabling computational thinking in a modern constructionist educational environment are discussed. The presented analytical material and developed solutions are aimed at education with computers. However, the proposed solutions can be generalized in order to create a computer-free educational environment. The generalized paradigm here is pragmatism, considered as a philosophical assumption. By designing and creating a pragmatist educational environment, a common way of organizing computational thinking that enables constructionist educational solutions can be found.
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Hesselgrave, David J. "Beyond Pragmatism: Brief Therapy and Christian Counseling." Journal of Psychology and Theology 16, no. 3 (September 1988): 246–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164718801600304.
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The increased attention being given to the potential of brief therapy and short-term counseling underscores the importance of the issue of pragmatism in Christian counseling. In their well-known book Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution (1974), Watzlawick, Weakland and Fisch note the similarity between their four-step paradigm for brief therapy and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. Since original Buddhism is preeminently pragmatic this comparison furnishes the occasion for an examination of pragmatism in general and brief therapy techniques in particular. This examination leads to the conclusion that in spite of the obvious similarities between brief therapy and original Buddhism, there is the profound difference that the latter does concern itself with the root cause of the human dilemma while brief therapy professes no interest in causal factors. The comparison, then, encourages Christian counselors to look beyond pragmatism and, in doing so, to recognize both the potential and the pitfalls inherent in counseling on the brief therapy model.
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Szyjka, Sebastian. "UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH PARADIGMS: TRENDS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 43, no. 1 (June 20, 2012): 110–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/12.43.110.
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This essay offers several insights regarding the principles of qualitative and quantitative methods, defining how they shape the empirical process as well as knowledge acquisition in social science research. A comprehensive discussion includes comparing the assumptions and techniques of each paradigm, as well as a description of their respective strengths and weaknesses in research. These paradigms are examined in terms of past trends in science education research, indicating that over the last several decades a shift in approach from the quantitative to qualitative has occurred. The central thesis of the essay contends that methodological decisions should be based in pragmatism, rather than a pre-existent set of philosophies or beliefs irrespective of context. Implications for research are discussed in terms of the findings of several science education content analysis studies, conveying that research methods often coincide with the collective interest of the masses, policy, educational reform or program developments. Key words: paradigm decisions, qualitative research, quantitative research, science education, trends.
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Stachowiak, Herbert. "Medicine and the paradigm of Neo-pragmatism a contribution to medical decision theory." Theory and Decision 21, no. 2 (September 1986): 189–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00127195.
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Wawrzyniak, Jan R. "The Utilitarian Stigma of Environmental Protection." Conatus 3, no. 1 (January 11, 2019): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/conatus.18368.
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In this paper I want to point out the multifaceted impact of utilitarianism as well as pragmatism, applied as the unified philosophy of environmental protection. Special attention is paid to the utilitarian aspect of Marxism, and a continuous (1988-2018), comprehensive case study from Poland – in the context of European economic realities – serves as an example of social receptionof the utilitarian paradigm in contemporary environmental protection policy.
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Korostenskiene, Julija. "Toward The Humanistic Paradigm In Education: A Case Study." Journal of Education, Society & Multiculturalism 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 215–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jesm-2022-0028.
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Abstract Alongside constructivism, the humanistic approach is a core premise in the Good School Concept (2016), a major document on the educational policy in secondary schools in the Republic of Lithuania. However, the humanistic approach is driven by the psychological, rather than educational, perspective and does not have an educational framework. The present study seeks to explore the theoretical notion of humanism from the educational perspective. We first develop an approach to the humanistic paradigm in education as comprising five other paradigms, viz., instrumental pragmatism, social constructivism, humanism in the narrow sense, postmodernism and care ethics. We then deliver a qualitative case study of a Lithuanian sports and distance learning school, employing Stake’s (1995) triangulation method, thematic analysis by Terry et.al. (2017) and elements of discourse analysis (Fairclough 1995, van Dijk 2008, Wodak and Meyer 2006). The findings of the study summarize the expectations of the participants of the educational process in light of the humanistic model proposed in the work. The proposed framework is hoped to be of interest in the research into humanism in education.
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Heath, Joseph. "A Pragmatist Theory of Convergence." Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 24 (1998): 149–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1998.10717498.
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One of the defining characteristics of pragmatism over the years has been its commitment to the primacy of practical over theoretical rationality. This has often been motivated by doubts about the adequacy of the “representationalist paradigm” that has dominated philosophy of mind and epistemology in the modern period. Thus, many pragmatists have sought to replace the notion of representation with one or another explanatory concept derived from the analysis of action or behaviour. But this strategy has encountered persistent difficulties, and precisely where one might expect. Without some primitive notion of representation, it is difficult to provide an account of the conceptual content of our beliefs, the standards of correctness that govern our practices of inference, or the expectation of convergence that informs scientific inquiry. These difficulties, which pertain to the analysis of meaning, justification, and truth respectively, have done a lot to keep pragmatism more a set of promissory notes than a coherent philosophical program.
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Ghatage, Rohan. "Beyond Understanding." James Baldwin Review 5, no. 1 (September 2019): 73–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.5.
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This essay establishes a philosophical connection between James Baldwin and the philosopher William James by investigating how the pragmatist protocol against “vicious intellectualism” offers Baldwin a key resource for thinking through how anti-black racism might be dismantled. While Richard Wright had earlier denounced pragmatism for privileging experience over knowledge, and thereby offering the black subject no means for redressing America’s constitutive hierarchies, uncovering the current of Jamesian thought that runs through Baldwin’s essays brings into view his attempt to move beyond epistemology as the primary framework for inaugurating a future unburdened by the problem of the color line. Although Baldwin indicts contemporaneous arrangements of knowledge for producing the most dehumanizing forms of racism, he does not simply attempt to rewrite the enervating meanings to which black subjects are given. Articulating a pragmatist sensibility at various stages of his career, Baldwin repeatedly suggests that the imagining and creation of a better world is predicated upon rethinking the normative value accorded to knowledge in the practice of politics. The provocative challenge that Baldwin issues for his reader is to cease the well-established privileging of knowledge, and to instead stage the struggle for freedom within an aesthetic, rather than epistemological, paradigm.
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Berman, Nadav S. "Peculiarly Interesting Disinterestedness." Journal of Jewish Ethics 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 42–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jjewiethi.8.1.0042.
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ABSTRACT This article reconsiders a specific mishnah—Avot 5:16—which praises a disinterested love, while denouncing expressions of interested love. By referring to the alleged “love” of Amnon and Tamar, Avot 5:16 equates sexuality and interestedness with incest and rape. This exegetical choice is surprising, given the pro-natal and “carnal” trajectory of biblical and talmudic traditions, which can be described as proto-pragmatist in this regard. The paper opens by defining pragmatic interestedness vis-à-vis disinterestedness, while reviewing the prevalence of disinterestedness in modern philosophy. Section 2 examines mishnah Avot 5:16 and its advocacy of disinterested ethic, while suggesting its ideational affiliation with Platonic love and with the Christian Agape. Section 3 argues that within normative-laden Jewish tradition, as well as in classical American pragmatism, we find an embodied and integrative philosophical anthropology (or pragmatic interestedness), which deeply challenges the disinterestedness paradigm of Avot 5:16. Section 4 concludes with some reflections on the relevance of this study for the research of Jewish thought and the Humanities.
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Wilson, David Sloan. "Evolution, Complexity, and the Civic Reconstruction of Higher Education." Good Society 30, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/goodsociety.30.1-2.0001.
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Abstract This essay argues that the lack of integration among the academic disciplines is the main limiting factor in universities’ capacities to provide comprehensive solutions in civic life. Civic reconstruction, then, first and foremost requires a unifying theoretical framework for all academic disciplines. Not a future aspiration but already emerging among a sizable community of scholars and scientists across the world, the evolution/complexity paradigm is that unifying theoretical framework. Grounded in complex systems and evolutionary theory and philosophical pragmatism and embedded in surrounding communities, the evolution/complexity paradigm links academic disciplines to civic life, ensures that the fundamental concerns of civic life inform research, scholarship, and teaching, and maximizes the two-way benefits between the university and its surrounding community.
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Yvonne Feilzer, Martina. "Doing Mixed Methods Research Pragmatically: Implications for the Rediscovery of Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm." Journal of Mixed Methods Research 4, no. 1 (October 22, 2009): 6–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1558689809349691.
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Schmiegelow, Henrik, and Michèle Schmiegelow. "How Japan affects the international system." International Organization 44, no. 4 (1990): 553–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300035402.
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To cope with more than incremental change in the international system, the neorealist concept of structure and the neoliberal concept of process must be complemented by a third analytically distinguished element: the concept of action. All three concepts can be used on the systemic level of analysis of international relations theory. Their obvious differentiation is the degree of systemic consolidation, with structure at the highest, action at the lowest, and process at unstable intermediate degrees. Without analyzing prevailing models of action of important units of the international system, it is impossible to predict the possible range of outcomes of processes and structural changes in the international system.This article offers Japan's “strategic pragmatism” as a model of action. The model, representing a functional cut across contending economic doctrines, combines relative fiscal conservatism with “progressive” provision of credit, dynamic capitalism with public policy activism, and critical rationalism with philosophical pragmatism. Japan's strategic pragmatism has not only enabled its government and enterprises to cope with uncertainty and change in their domestic and international environment but has also increased global welfare and changed the balance of strategic components of power in the international system. The spread of this model of action both within and beyond Japan's control points to a paradigm change in economic and international relations theory—that is, to the most pervasive form of systemic consolidation.
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Krstic, Predrag. "Negation and openness: New paradigm or corrective?" Theoria, Beograd 65, no. 4 (2022): 91–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo2204091k.
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The article is based on the belief that there was an epoch-making tendency to turn philosophy towards ?openness?, a tendency which Karl Popper thematizes before and more clearly than others. That departure from, above all, closed philosophical systems, which then have its social implications and political equivalents, the departure from the unholy historical trinity that for him represents, more or less correctly reconstituted, the transferal Plato-Hegel-Marx, connects him, as a rule against his own self-understanding, with such distant thinkers as, for example, Bergson, existentialism and neo-romantic postmodern trends on the one hand, and pragmatism, philosophical anthropology and Adorno?s critical theory of society on the other. Popper?s understanding of ?openness? differs, however, from its contemporary (mis)understandings in the works of, for example, Berlin or Agamben, and to an even greater extent from fashionable ?philosophies of openness? that reduce openness to ?accessibility?. It is based and demonstrated on a very specific ?negativism?, as the methodical approach to scientific research which, in terms of the vision of society, persistently strives to provide resistance to suffering, evil, misfortune, without prescribing the opposite. The openness of the Open Society understood in this way, insofar as it refuses even to be installed in a positively profiled representation, is a recognizable contribution to a philosophical tradition or a philosophical mentality, which remains a permanent antidote to any unquestioned anthropo-political confinement and any projection of historical inevitabilitiy.
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Худяков, S. Khudyakov, Гарнов, and Andrey Garnov. "Russia and the EU: About the Features of Pragmatism." Economics of the Firm 5, no. 2 (June 10, 2016): 50–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/21645.
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The relationship of the European Union and Russia as historically close and not
having an alternative is considered based on the analysis of various treaties,
agreements and programs between the EU and the Russian Federation. It is
shown that their potential has not yet been using a fully and is being
implemented in the interests our nations and citizens. Importance for Russia
partnership with the European Union was once again confirmed after the
presidential elections in Russia. Guidance documents and Decrees of the
Russian President and the Government of the Russian Federation, aimed at
creating the most effective forms of cooperation and integration in Europe were
considered. Issues stabilization of financial systems and the modernization of
the economyhave been discussed.
Despite the intervention of politics in economic relations between Russia and
the EU, the impossibility of preserving the old paradigm of «strategic
partnership», there is the prospect of restarting relations based on respect for
the interests of both parties and mutually beneficial cooperation.
The paper investigates how perceptions of each other all over the Europe can be
improved using both application of legal instruments and effects of traditional
research and development activity in different humanitarian and educational
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Cuihong, Cai, and Dai Liting. "Evolution of Internet Governance in China: Actors and Paradigms." China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 07, no. 01 (January 2021): 79–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2377740021500020.
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China’s Internet governance is not immutable, nor is it dominated by the government, as portrayed by Western scholars. Based on an analysis of Beijing’s Internet governance policies and practices, this paper focuses on the evolution of China’s Internet governance from the non-governmental stage through the government control stage to the multi-actor coordination stage. In terms of governance paradigm, Beijing’s Internet governance is transitioning from one-way management to multi-dimensional governance, from offline management to online and offline integration, and from “prior control” to “panoramic governance.” In terms of governance system, Beijing’s Internet governance has evolved from an ad hoc pattern through problem-solving to a strategic planning paradigm. Internet governance in China has demonstrated three features, namely, pragmatism, state centralism, and preemption. These characteristics have paved the way for the rapid development of China’s Internet but also present many challenges.
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Carr, Adrian, Rita Durant, and Alexis Downs. "Emergent strategy development, abduction, and pragmatism: New lessons for corporations." Human Systems Management 23, no. 2 (June 3, 2004): 79–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-2004-23203.
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This paper proceeds from the widespread assumption – apparently, a truism – that the longevity of corporations is very much beholden to the success in their processes of strategic planning and the manner in which they learn from, and adapt to, those processes. The predominant strategic paradigm used in corporations, that of the rational planning school, assumes that language is transparent and time is linear. Such assumptions don't hold up in a complex world. Emergent strategy [8,50,63] has the potential to address the current challenges of organizations by shifting the language and talk about strategizing. Rather than talk about the challenges faced by top managers [14,25], emergent strategizing, for example, talks of “communicative interaction” and “focusing attention on what [is] going on now” [64, p. 158]. Mintzberg's disdain for the divination techniques of the Delphi Oracle [51, p. 238] notwithstanding, we suggest that characteristics of the Delphic Oracle [52] mirror many of those of both emergence and strategy and, therefore, may offer insight into the effective development of emergent strategies at lower and middle levels of the organization. Our method for understanding emergence is abduction, as developed by Charles Franklin Peirce and the pragmatists. A playful reinterpretation of the Delphic Oracle can provide a way to imagine the roles of organizational actors in strategic emergence.
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Wolf, Susan M. "Shifting Paradigms in Bioethics and Health Law: The Rise of a New Pragmatism." American Journal of Law & Medicine 20, no. 4 (1994): 395–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0098858800006821.
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Neither bioethics nor health law is old as an established discipline. Modern bioethics dates from the late 1960s or early 1970s. Health law as a domain characterized by its own casebooks, courses, and specialists arguably began somewhat earlier. While each has far older precursors, the two fields have seen a modern resurgence in the last thirty years or so. Yet each in these three decades has been dominated by a certain method or paradigm. In bioethics that has come to be known as “principlism, ” deductive reasoning from a limited set of middle-level ethical principles, albeit with some reciprocal attention to the implications of the case at hand for those principles. No comparable term has emerged in health law, and the field has arguably been less enamored of philosophical abstraction. But the pattern has often been similar: the creation of middle-level rules (on informed consent, surrogate decision-making, advance directives and so on) and then their downward application with insufficient attention to the clinical context, the specific characteristics of the disputants (such as insurance status, race or ethnicity, and gender), and whether the rules will actually work in medical settings.
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Jackson, Michael C. "Bogdanov, Pragmatism, and the Future of Systems Thinking and Cybernetics." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 10 (2022): 204–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2022-10-204-207.
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The paper considers general system theory, cybernetics, and other systems approaches and argues that later systems thinking and cybernetics (systems/cybernetics) can be seen as a part of the same tradition of thought. There is a prima facie case, therefore, the philosophy of Bogdanov and the Pragmatists can bring unity to the systems movement. Further, it can equip systems thinkers to participate more fully in the major intellectual debates of today. The paper shows the resonance of Bogdanov’s ideas with the basic philosophical foundations for the formation and development of systems thinking and cybernetics. Wiener, usually seen as representative of first-order cybernetics, reaffirmed the importance of Bogdanov’s concept of the biregulator. In terms of second-order cybernetics, there is a similarity between Bogdanov’s thinking and “constructivism”. Bogdanov’s work is also associated with the concepts of autopoiesis and self-organization. Lepskiy’s proposed paradigm of third-order cybernetics, with its emphasis on social values in a self-developing environment, is in tune with the writings of Bogdanov and Dewey. Bogdanov, in his Tectology aimed to demonstrate how the most complicated organizational questions faced by humankind could be answered. The paper concludes that the self-conscious embrace of that philosophical tradition, together with its own methodologies and models, can help of the cybernetic movement turn the vague aspirations into the reality of a better future on Earth.
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Avramović, Dragutin, and Ilija Jovanov. "Relativization of justice through rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias as paradigm." Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta, Novi Sad 54, no. 1 (2020): 245–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrpfns54-23956.
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Through analysis of the works of Plato, particularly his dialogue Gorgia, the authors attempt to perceive prospective of rhetoric as the art of persuasion which could relativize truth and justice. The authors firstly try to solve a preliminary issue about qualification of participants in the dialogue as sophists or as rhetors. After examination of different attitudes on that issue in the current theory, the authors take stand that, at least in Gorgia, Plato's Socrates is combating with rhetors (Gorgias, Pollus and Callicles), and not with sophists. Zone of accordance between Socrates and rhetors is, without any doubt, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion, but they do not agree on the outcomes to which that persuasion leads. The tendency to achieve absolute truth (justice), knowledge, is the goal of the philosophers (as Socrates states), which contradicts to the chief aim of the rhetors - a belief or creating a conviction of the truth (justice). The authors also draw attention that Socrates is all the time aware of all the weaknesses of philosophy which, contrary to rhetoric, could not handle real life problems due to the lack of pragmatism. The authors underline that those who are undoubtedly considered as sophists (like Hippias and Antiphon) as their starting principle place the idea of innate equality of people, while those who are predominantly rhetors (as Callicles and Trasimach) start from the concept of natural inequality of people and uphold natural right of the stronger. In that way rhetoric appears as an art which leads to accomplishing the natural right of the stronger. Finally, having in mind examples from antiquity, the authors take position of value relativism. They find that rhetoric stays morally neutral even today and that it has great potential to morally justify (or only to show as just) any desired outcome.
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Stone, Robert, and Liu Binyan. "Speaking to the foreign audience: Chinese foreign policy concerns as expressed in China Daily, January 1989–June 1993." Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands) 53, no. 1-2 (February 1994): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001654929405300104.
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This paper examines the foreign policy priorities and concerns of the People's Republic of China as expressed by that nation's official international, English language publication, China Daily. The paper argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the official Chinese press can be a useful tool in assessing Chinese foreign policy priorities as result of its propaganda function. Within this paradigm, it finds that China's primary foreign policy priorities are sovereignty and territorial integrity and that China considers itself primarily a regional rather than a global power. It concludes that China's foreign policy is driven by pragmatism rather than ideology because of China's domestic project of economic development.
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Venneri, Eleonora. "Reflective Relationality in Social Investigation: Theoretical Considerations for Research Practice." Journal of Sociological Research 11, no. 2 (March 28, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsr.v11i2.16360.
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This paper offers a theoretical reflection on the epistemological and methodological reasons listing reflexivity among the main practical issues of social investigation. Inspired by the situational logic of the constructivist paradigm, the paper’s analysis is limited to the preliminary stages propaedeutic to the operativeness of research, in an attempt to argue the insurmountable condition of contingency and circularity of scientific knowledge and of the procedures themselves which need to be problematised and ‘adjusted’ to specific situations. Furthermore, starting from a number of assumptions on the implicit constituents of methodological pragmatism, the paper attempts to illustrate its peculiarities with regard to the abductive logic of construction of appropriate indicators for the issues under investigation.
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Yapijakis, Christos, Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, and George P. Chrousos. "Philosophical Management of Stress based on Science and Epicurean Pragmatism: A Pilot Study." Conatus 7, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 229–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/cjp.28077.
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In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we created and implemented from November 2020 to February 2021 a monthly educational pilot program of philosophical management of stress based on Science, Humanism and Epicurean Pragmatism, which was offered to employees of 26 municipalities in the Prefecture of Attica, Greece. The program named “Philosophical Distress Management Operation System” (Philo.Di.M.O.S.) is novel and unique in its kind, as it combines a certain Greek philosophical tradition (Epicurean) that concurs with modern scientific knowledge. The program was designed to be implemented in a period of crisis; therefore, it used a fast-paced, easy to learn and practice philosophical approach to stress management, based on cognitive psychotherapy. The philosophical approach to stress management has the advantage that it can be offered to most people, regardless of age and educational level. The pilot program was effective in achieving its objectives, shown by statistical comparisons of the trainees’ responses to anonymous questionnaires before and after the month-long training. The successful Philo.Di.M.O.S. program, thus, based on a solid scientific and philosophical basis, offers a paradigm of stress management during crises and could be useful in Greece and internationally.
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Barker, Charles, and Gawie De Villiers. "A philosophical basis for the holistic study of landscape development in Geomorphology." Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie 27, no. 3 (September 16, 2008): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/satnt.v27i3.89.
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The development of Geomorphology from two former major disciplines (Geography and Geology),makes it difficult for practitioners to accept a single major meta-paradigm as is the case with other earth sciences. It is also clear from current developments in the discipline, that the move away from the traditional qualitative research in micro-scale environments left a methodological gap in investigations into larger (meso-scale) phenomena. In this article, paradigms and science are examined with special reference to Geography as one of the parental sciences of Geomorphology (a view which is largely held in South Africa). After an elucidation of a meta-paradigm for Geomorphology, this meta-paradigm is then discussed in greater detail. Critical issues such as time and space and the way in which they are treated in Geomorphology are considered. Five social paradigms (functionalism, positivism, pragmatism, realism and the general systems theory or holism) used in Geomorphology are explained in as far as they have been applied to the discipline in the past. These are then linked to philosophical concepts and research approaches in landscape development in particular. The historical evolution of landscape development studies and principles of landscape development such as quantitative methods, antagonism, stability, equilibrium, catena’s, directedness, tectonics, and environmental variables provide the foundation from which the authors formulate a philosophical basis, “systemic realism”, for the integration of process and historic-genetic studies in Geomorphology. Several criteria are given for testing the proposed methodology, based on the components from which the approach was formulated. Results from a case study done on the Modder River catchment in the central Free State are compared with the suggested approach. Firstly, a conceptual model of the catchment is discussed. The identification of possible causal processes and environmental conditions is made from the conceptual model, previous studies and the spatial distribution of land forms and geological features in the catchment. Finally, some light is shed on the possible future development of the landscape. It is the authors’ contention that systemic realism forms a sound basis for future research in landscape development and, from there, provides a guideline to resource management.
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Ten, Yulia, and Ivan Trifonov. "New paradigm of social development in the context of digital economy." SHS Web of Conferences 72 (2019): 01021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20197201021.
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The relevance of the research is connected to the fact that in the context of the coming era of the industrial revolution 4.0, the globalization of the economy is the irreversible process that it involves more and more countries, regions and peoples. The authors guess that the digital economy is one of the consequences of the globalization of the world economy. The key idea consists in the suggestion that the digital economy constructs a basis for shaping new type of global human civilization. The goal of the study is the interdisciplinary analysis of the impacts of the digital economy on changing the paradigm of social development. One of the important results of the research is the thesis that the increasing the influence of the digital technologies on the social and economic life of people are changing model of thinking and behavior of contemporary peoples. The authors come to the conclusion that in the space of the digital economy the information and communication technologies contribute to break the traditional value system of society. The authors note that such values as information, mobility, speed, sociability, comfort, time saving, quality of services-begin to dominate the consciousness and behavior of a person in the context of digitalization of socio-economic life. It is revealed that these values are included in the field of the philosophical concept of pragmatism. These values are focused on obtaining mainly material benefits. The authors substantiate the need to develop the academic discussion about the risk of leveling traditional spiritual values, which for centuries were formed the meaning and value of human existence in society and nature.
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Kishore, Surekha, and Ankur Joshi. "EBM: Methodical and Moral Dilemma." Indian Journal of Community Health 29, no. 2 (June 30, 2017): 132–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2017.v29i02.001.
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“Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.” ? Richard Dawkins.
This statement by Dawkins inherits the essence of Evidence Based Medicine (EMB) which is relatively a new paradigm of clinical practice and inherently associated with the quest of lifelong-learning. EBM stands on three fundamental pillars- systematical appraisal of literature blended with expertise opinion and preferences(values) of patients for achieving optimization in decision making for a patient. All the three factors are assumed to act in coherence and not in dominance /isolation in an ideal scenario. However, as idealism is an optimistic illusion we have to accept the pragmatism in the perspective of current practices and operational strategies in EBM. This editorial is an attempt to explore and generate an insight as the consequence of the so –called realistic approach.
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Corais, Filipa, Miguel Bandeira, Cecília Silva, and Luís Bragança. "Between the Unstoppable and the Feasible: The Lucid Pragmatism of Transition Processes for Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Literature Review." Future Transportation 2, no. 1 (January 29, 2022): 86–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp2010006.
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This article presents a literature review of Transition Experiments applied to the Sustainable Urban Mobility context from a critical and operative point of view. The moment of transformation that we are living through determines concerns about the decarbonization and compliance with the 2050 Targets and imposes a paradigm shift towards sustainable urban mobility. In this regard, the necessary physical change will have to be accompanied by a socio–cultural transition, of which the challenge implies the construction of a collective ideal, shared by the population and the main stakeholders, leading to the opening of new political spaces and a change, also in terms of governance.
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Tabatabaei, Seyed Rahman, Parivash Jafari, and Akhtar Jamali. "Dimensions and components of quality in in-service training in the army of the Islamic Republic of Iran." LAPLAGE EM REVISTA 7, Extra-A (May 6, 2021): 311–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24115/s2446-622020217extra-a807p.311-321.
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This research is of descriptive-survey type. In terms of paradigm, it is pragmatism, in terms of approach is qualitative with the theme analysis strategy and in terms of purpose is practical. The data of this study were collected through semi-structured interviews with 13 experts and commanders in late 2020. The statistical population of this research was all experts, commanders and employees of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of education. In this research, to determine the dimensions and components of quality of in-service training, the opinions of experts and commanders related to this field were used. 6 dimensions and components were identified, respectively the dimensions of the program - content, approaches and methods of training, training space, facilities and Training equipment, schedule, transfer of training - implementation of the learned.
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Cruickshank, Justin. "Solidarity, critique and techno-science: Evaluating Rorty’s pragmatism, Freire’s critical pedagogy and Vattimo’s philosophical hermeneutics." Human Affairs 30, no. 4 (October 27, 2020): 577–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2020-0051.
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AbstractThe critique of metaphysics can often entail a critique of liberalism. Rorty sought a revolutionary paradigm shift in philosophy and the broader humanities, by linking the rejection of metaphysics to a justification for liberal democracy and reformism. He believed that the recognition of socio-historical contingency concerning interpretations of fundamental values and of truth, combined with a humanities education, would create a sense of solidarity that would motivate reforms. Freire argues that a dialogic form of education is as important as the humanities’ content. For Freire, people liberated by a critical education based on dialogue rather than a passive reception of information, can develop a radical critique of capitalism. Vattimo argues that while Heidegger saw techno-science as being the final phase in metaphysical domination, the contemporary development of information and communications technology creates a ‘Babel-like’ pluralism that undermines the ‘violence’ of metaphysic’s totalising thought. This can allow for the development of a post-metaphysical ‘weak communism’ that improves social justice. Rorty and Freire help to show that it is education, rather than technological developments, that can motivate a post-metaphysical politics of solidarity, and Vattimo and Freire are correct to argue that replacing reformism with radical critique is needed for social justice, although Vattimo’s weak communism only provides limited social justice.
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Tarnopolsky, Oleg. "PRINCIPLED PRAGMATISM, OR WELL-GROUNDED ECLECTICISM: A NEW PARADIGM IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT UKRAINIAN TERTIARY SCHOOLS?" Advanced Education 5, no. 10 (October 24, 2018): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.133270.
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