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Common sense, science and scepticism: A historical introduction to the theory of knowledge

History of European Ideas, 1994
(1994). Common sense, science and scepticism: A historical introduction to the theory of knowledge. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 610-611.
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Elegy and Theory: Is Historical and Critical Knowledge Possible?

Modern Language Quarterly, 1994
A propos de l'elegie, l'A. pose la question du savoir historique et critique : les approches positivistes et critiques de l'histoire litteraire, comme la theorie des genres de Todorov liee a la theorie des actes de paroles sont considerees tour a tour. Parce qu'elles renvoient a la codification esthetique d'un acte de parole lie a la mort, la reception
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Pragmatism as a Theory of Historical Knowledge: John Dewey on the Nature of Historical Inquiry

The American Historical Review, 1959
WITHIN American academic circles pragmatism is passe. Lecture halls that once reverberated with words such as "experimentalism" and "experience"} are now filled with "essence" and "existence." Perhaps we are all the wiser for it, because no one would want to hear the same words forever, not even "essence" and "existence." Historians, however, have a ...
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Management's knowledge filter: entrepreneurship theory and the historic conceptual evolution of opportunism in management studies

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2021
PurposeThis study aims to argue that opportunism is central to management thought and illustrate its evolution into a central element of the entrepreneurship theory. The authors show that many criticisms of opportunism tend to conflate the concept with other theoretic traditions.Design/methodology/approachThe authors trace foundational works by Taylor,
Jeffrey Muldoon   +3 more
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Historical Knowledge and the Theory of Social Change

2017
This chapter is devoted to a discussion of J.S. Mill’s interest in historical knowledge, his ideas about its nature and roles, and his aspiration to form a science of history whose objective was to discover the laws of social change. Without giving serious consideration to the views on history he formed while writing several historical essays in the ...
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Enthralled with Modernity: The Historical Context of Knowledge and Theory Development in Public Administration

Public Administration Review, 1992
What impact has the "culture of modernity" had on the field of public administration? Guy B. Adams contends that the American cultural preoccupation with modernity has shaped the study of puhlic administration into an ahistorical and atemporal field that stresses technical rationality and has limited capacity to address critical questions facing ...
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Conceptual Cognitive Organs: Toward an Historical-Materialist Theory of Scientific Knowledge

Philosophia, 2013
Scientific concepts and conceptual systems (theories) are particular forms of higher mental activity. They are cognitive organs that provide the ability of systematic cognition of phenomena, which are not available to the grasp of ordinary sense organs. They are tools of scientific “groping” of phenomena.
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Using a Historical Controversy to Teach Critical Thinking, the Meaning of “Theory”, and the Status of Scientific Knowledge

Journal of Geoscience Education, 2009
It is important that students understand the “open-ended” nature of scientific knowledge and the correct relationship between facts and theory. One way this can be taught is to examine a past controversy in which the interpretation of facts was contested.
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Locke's Theory of Knowledge and its Historical Relations

The American Historical Review, 1961
Caroline Robbins   +4 more
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