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Implementation Science Communications, 2021 Background Realist approaches and Normalization Process Theory (NPT) have both gained significant traction in implementation research over the past 10 years.
Sonia Michelle Dalkin +3 more
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Charles Peirce's limit concept of truth [PDF]
, 2014 This entry explores Charles Peirce's account of truth in terms of the end or ‘limit’ of inquiry. This account is distinct from – and arguably more objectivist than – views of truth found in other pragmatists such as James and Rorty.
Legg, Catherine
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Can “realist” randomised controlled trials be genuinely realist? [PDF]
Trials, 2016 In this paper, we respond to a paper by Jamal and colleagues published in Trials in October 2015 and take an opportunity to continue the much-needed debate about what applied scientific realism is. The paper by Jamal et al. is useful because it exposes the challenges of combining a realist evaluation approach (as developed by Pawson and Tilley) with ...
Van Belle, Sara +6 more
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Development of quantum perspectives in modern physics [PDF]
, 2009 Introductory undergraduate courses in classical physics stress a perspective that can be characterized as realist; from this perspective, all physical properties of a classical system can be simultaneously specified and thus determined at all future ...
A. diSessa +15 more
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Making implementation science more real
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022 Implementation science in healthcare aims to understand how to get evidence into practice. Once this is achieved in one setting, it becomes increasingly difficult to replicate elsewhere.
Mitchell N. Sarkies +5 more
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What's the matter with realism? [PDF]
, 1990 International relations, as an academic discipline, is not known for its strength in the area of theory. It has no immediate equivalent to the rich contrasts of perspective generated in sociology by the legacy of Max Weber, Marx and Durkheim—a lack so ...
Justin Rosenberg +14 more
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Aspects in Dual‐Aspect Monism and Panpsychism: A Rejoinder to Benovsky [PDF]
, 2019 Neutral monism aims at solving the hard problem of consciousness by positing entities that are neither mental nor physical. Benovsky has recently argued for the slightly different account that, rather than being neutral, natural entities are both mental ...
Baker +17 more
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Loopholes in Bell Inequality Tests of Local Realism
, 2014 Bell inequalities are intended to show that local realist theories cannot describe the world. A local realist theory is one where physical properties are defined prior to and independent of measurement, and no physical influence can propagate faster than
Larsson, Jan-Åke
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Relativism and our warrant for scientific theories [PDF]
, 2004 We depend upon the community for justified belief in scientific theory. This dependence can suggest that our individual belief in scientific theory is justified because the community believes it to be justified.
Faulkner, P.
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Health Services and Delivery Research, 2017 Background: Many of the problems confronting policy- and decision-makers, evaluators and researchers today are complex, as are the interventions designed to tackle them.
Geoff Wong +5 more
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