Critical Realism
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Settecentocinquant’anni fa san Tommaso d’Aquino saliva alla gloria del Cielo. Egli ha insegna che la sacra doctrina è più che una scienza pratica, essendo una scienza speculativa, sebbene tenga conto anche delle realtà che si collegano... more
The study investigated principals' supervisory techniques for combating corruption and the attainment of quality school governance. Two null hypotheses were formulated. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. Census... more
The commentaries provided by Haig; Derksen and Morawski; and Trafimow vary considerably in how they address critical realism and its implications for replication. Haig's preference for Kaidesoja's "naturalised" version of critical realism... more
Les mobilisations sociales autour des questions environnementales et de developpement (QED) caracterisent les societes humaines contemporaines. Ce type de mobilisations constitue un tournant dans la vie politique a l’âge de... more
Conference Presentation on the 9th Internationa Conference on Catholic Social Thought and Business Education, Prosperity, Poverty and Purpose of Business Rediscovering Integral Human Development in the Catholic Social Tradition De La... more
Portugali's proposal to unify urban theory based on Bohm's theory of quantum phenomena is discussed. The propositions of complexity theory and phenomenology are compared, and it is argued that their ontologies and epistemologies cannot be... more
This paper presents a model of language processing where word segmentation is an integral part of sentence analysis. We show that the use of a parser can enable us to achieve the best ambiguity resolution in word segmentation. The lexical... more
Social Sciences are intimately associated with a number of philosophies. Sociology itself emerged from Positivism .The main debate in the social sciences is between naturalism and non naturalistic or anti naturalistic philosophies of the... more
This article explores some of the possible links between community psychology and critical realism, a relatively new approach to the philosophy of science that has received little attention from community psychologists. Critical realism... more
This article explores the role of the International Court of Justice (hereafter ICJ) in the relations between Iran and the United States (hereafter U.S.), with reference to the last disputes between the two countries over the 1955 Treaty... more
Dynamic Transcendental Dialectics: A Framework for Multidimensional Liberation This treatise introduces Dynamic Transcendental Dialectics, a comprehensive framework that redefines liberation as a fluid, multidimensional process rather... more
In Pragmatic Humanism: On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge, Marcus Morgan positions sociology not as a science of society, but as a discipline of humanity. Rather than resurrect a problematic, classical conception of... more
Natural resources have been always a controversial issue. Also, the most special kind of natural resources which has caused the most of disputes and issues in recent years has been hydrocarbon resources. Recently one of the most... more
The demand for more doctoral education puts pressure on universities to increase the number of academics with doctoral degrees who can supervise the next generation of researchers. The Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF,... more
Advances in screening technology have been made in tandem with the aging population and increasing atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence. While several randomized controlled trials demonstrate the efficacy of AF screening, less evidence has... more
In this text focused on thinking about the global future, four challenges are proposed to work simultaneously, progressively, and incrementally to make the leap from the overdiagnosed climate outlook and the well-known postponing... more
*Tradução para fins exclusivamente acadêmicos*Translation exclusively for academic purposes* Tradução minha do texto "On Truth and Lie in the Object-Oriented Sense" de Graham Harman. Resumo do autor: Este artigo começa com um... more
Die Auseinandersetzung damit, ob moralphilosophische Begründung für gesellschaftliches Handeln nötig oder gar möglich sei, ist nicht neu. Dennoch handelt es sich hierbei um ein akademisch immer noch umkämpftes und gesellschaftlich immer... more
Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common... more
Despite emerging interest in mixing experimental and qualitative methods, a gap exists in integrating qualitative vignettes and experimental design. We present a novel mixed methods design, the qualitative vignette experiment, defined as... more
Syftet med denna uppsats ar att, utifran debattsartiklar i Dagens Nyheter under januari – juli 2009, undersoka vilken social position personer som, av tidningens ledarredaktion, benamns ”flyktingar ...
なぜ近代知は様々な支配性、すなわち色々な物事を抹消し犠牲にするほどの力を持っているのか? 近代知の支配性を超克する可能性はあるのか? その超克のためには、どのような課題に対峙しなければならないのか?本稿は、まず 「近代知」... more