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Managerial actions using historical values for tackling hyper‐competitive environments: The case of Toyota

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study provides a causal explanation concerning how managerial actions using historical values contribute to dynamic capabilities, or sustaining competitive advantage in changing environments. Based on historical methods that consist mainly of hermeneutics, contextualization, and source criticism, it analyzes sources and ...
Katsuki Aoki
wiley   +1 more source

Limiting logical pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper I argue that pluralism at the level of logical systems requires a certain monism at the meta-logical level, and so, in a sense, there cannot be pluralism all the way down.
Finn, Suki
core  

Epistemic Closure in Folk Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We report the results of four empirical studies designed to investigate the extent to which an epistemic closure principle for knowledge is reflected in folk epistemology.
Beebe, James R., Monaghan, Jake
core   +1 more source

Finding Minimum‐Cost Explanations for Predictions Made by Tree Ensembles

open access: yesSoftware: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ability to reliably explain why a machine learning model arrives at a particular prediction is crucial when used as decision support by human operators of critical systems. The provided explanations must be provably correct, and preferably without redundant information, called minimal explanations.
John Törnblom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Logicism, Possibilism, and the Logic of Kantian Actualism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this extended critical discussion of 'Kant's Modal Metaphysics' by Nicholas Stang (OUP 2016), I focus on one central issue from the first chapter of the book: Stang’s account of Kant’s doctrine that existence is not a real predicate.
Stephenson, Andrew
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Inference, Perception, and Recognition: Kaśmīr Śaivism and the Problem of Other Minds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper will explore competing intuitions behind the problem of other minds. On the one hand, consciousness is strictly a self-manifest, first-person phenomenon: subjectivity is in each case one’s own. On the other hand, it is obvious, on the basis of
STOLL, Joshua
core   +1 more source

“Many Buds Blooming”: Lived Experience and Insights From Native American Graduate Students

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native American graduate students have a unique experience in higher education from their peers and from Native undergraduate students. This article highlights the challenges and triumphs of 12 Native American graduate students, focusing on their unique cultural perspectives and systemic obstacles they encounter in graduate education.
Cori Bazemore‐James   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counterfactuals, indicative conditionals, and negation under uncertainty: Are there cross-cultural differences? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we study selected argument forms involving counterfactuals and indicative conditionals under uncertainty. We selected argument forms to explore whether people with an Eastern cultural background reason differently about conditionals ...
Pfeifer, Niki, Yama, Hiroshi
core   +1 more source

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