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The Status of Reflection in Virtue Epistemology [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter claims that the main normative thesis of Sosa (that the ultimately desirable status for performances in general is the full aptness) can be subject of the objection of overintellectualisation of epistemic processes. It is proposed a way to safeguard Sosa’s perspective from this objection: to replace the Normative Thesis (NT), expressing ...
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Unleashing the value of a “scientific approach” to entrepreneurship: Building an empirical research agenda

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary In this manuscript, we argue that the Entrepreneurs‐as‐Scientists (E‐a‐S) research program requires a fundamental shift from predominantly conceptual development toward an empirical agenda to achieve its normative goal: developing a scalable algorithm that improves entrepreneurial learning and value creation.
Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Thomaz Teodorovicz   +2 more
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Personal Narrative and Epistemology

Revista de Filosofía Universidad Iberoamericana
In this essay the author proposes that epistemology as a normative discipline finds its ground and direction in the virtue of epistemic responsibility of the epistemic agent. the life-narrative of the person provides the context far the understanding of
Dalibor Renić
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From hypothesis testing toward inference to the best explanation: A PEEBI testimonial structure for abductive studies in strategy

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Though scholars employ abduction, there is no agreed‐upon structure to reporting their findings. Moreover, the traditional hypo‐deductive reasoning structure does not align with the epistemology of abduction. We propose an abductive testimonial structure, termed PEEBI, which consists of five sections in which the authors take ...
Sandeep Devanatha Pillai, Brent Goldfarb, David A. Kirsch, Seojin Kim, Evan Starr   +4 more
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Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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Identification of Influencing Factors on Proenvironmental Behaviour and Construction of a Causal Loop Diagram

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses the limitations of reductionist approaches to citizens' proenvironmental behaviour (PEB) by adopting a systems thinking perspective. Using qualitative system dynamics, it develops a causal loop diagram for proenvironmental behaviour (CLD‐PEB) that conceptualizes PEB as a dynamic system generated through interacting ...
Doyeon Ko, Sun‐Jin Yun, Tae‐Hoon Moon   +2 more
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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
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Exploring the history of occupational therapy's development in South Africa to reveal the flaws in our knowledge base

South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2011
This article explores the origins of occupational therapy in South Africa and how its birth, at the end of the Second World War, in a post-colonial era, with an emerging apartheid government, gave rise to an epistemology that was flawed.
Robin Joubert
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The Power, and Limitations, of Virtue Epistemology

, 2013
Virtue epistemologists argue for the centrality of our cognitive virtues⎯our epistemic powers⎯to epistemological theorising. As we explain, this approach has tremendous potential for casting light on a number of important questions within epistemology.
Kallestrup, J, Pritchard, D
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