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It is argued that rather than a well defined F-Twist, Milton Friedman's 'Methodology of positive economics' offers an F-Mix: a pool of ambiguous and inconsistent ingredients that can be used for putting together a number of different methodological positions. This concerns issues such as the...
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Enlightenment. Indeed, science undertakes a double program of Truth and Progress that is analysed in this text in the case of input …
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The forty-year friendship between the author and Kenneth Boulding was cemented by three affinities. (1) an intense common interest in the system-theoretic approach to the philosophy of science, especially its “organismic” direction; (2) shared feeling that in its development the scientific...
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Exposition and defense of postmodernism in regards to epistemology and language in economics. Centers on truth versus … tools and truth versus story while emphasizing social constructivism, methodological pluralism, and multiplicity of truth …. Affirms quest for confident knowledge but emphasizes limitations with regard to results understood as truth. Defends and puts …
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France in 1983 and 1984, giving the concept of parrhêsia a different connotation, namely, truth telling. Thus, parrhêsia … democracy and truth in the form of the relationship between philosophy and politics. Philosophy is to tell the truth, but not … the truth of the political game, but to tell the truth in relation to the political game. So, there is no identity between …
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France in 1983 and 1984, giving the concept of parrhêsia a different connotation, namely, truth telling. Thus, parrhêsia … between democracy and truth in the form of the relationship between philosophy and politics. Philosophy is to tell the truth …, but not the truth of the political game, but to tell the truth in relation to the political game. So, there is no identity …
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The 'rules vs. principles' debate reappearing in the accounting literature has parallels in many disciplines and thematic links to many more. The purpose of this paper is to consider some of these links and to suggest an explanatory taxonomy based on the 'open question argument' drawn from...
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Social epistemology is a set of attempts to assign a philosophical meaning to sociological studies of cognitive processes within their social context. These attempts are being made through competition of philosophical interpretations. The choice of interpretation is governed by the desire to...
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