In this portion we look at specific current issues. I argue that contemporary law is moving toward a post-positivist integration of natural right and positive law. In these final chapters I explore ...
The Bottle
Peter Colbourne tells us a tale of lost philosophers. Three philosophers of science – a positivist, a post-modernist and a relativist – were on their way to a conference aboard a small plane. Because ...
The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences
This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanations. Features of particular interest include the ...
Interpretivism Vs Interpretivism
To fulfill accuracy in this research, the main strategy that is used is the mixed methods, which lies under the post-positivist philosophy. This strategy is mainly the result of the combination of the ...
Paul Humphreys
The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences Paul Humphreys This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality ...
Difference Between Positivism And Interpretivism
The belief about the way in which data about a phenomenon should be gathered, analyzed and used is known as Research Philosophy. In Positivism approach, reality and data is observed from an objective ...
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy
Originally published in 1958 this study discusses tacit knowledge and its influence in many fields from theology to artificial intelligence. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
A Pandemic and a Pandemic Vaccine. Primary care perspectives.
Transcripts were thematically analysed from a post-positivist perspective. Free-text responses, regarding intention to accept the 2009 pandemic vaccine, provided by practice nurses and general ...
2 Power, politics and ethics in studying organisations
The dominant paradigm in management and organisation studies is based on a positivist ontology. This paradigm advocates that knowledge should be produced using the same standards and methods as the ...