The abstract structure of inquiry - the process of acquiring and changing beliefs about the world - is the focus of this book which takes the position that the "pragmatic" rather than the "linguistic" approach better solves the philosophical problems about the nature of mental representation, and better accounts for the phenomena of thought and speech. It discusses propositions...(展开全部)

The abstract structure of inquiry - the process of acquiring and changing beliefs about the world - is the focus of this book which takes the position that the "pragmatic" rather than the "linguistic" approach better solves the philosophical problems about the nature of mental representation, and better accounts for the phenomena of thought and speech. It discusses propositions...(展开全部)

作者:（美）Bill Torbert（比尔·托伯特，William R Torbert）等 译者:邝耀均 比尔·托伯特是波士顿学院卡罗尔商学院的管理学教授，也曾担任过研究生院院长和组织转型专业的博士项目负责人。他为吉列、普华永道、沃尔沃、乐高积木、Pilgrim Health Care、Danforth 基金会和美国国家安全局等组织或机构提供过咨询服务。他的著作包括《Learning from Experience》和《Managing the Corporate Dream》。 http://www.williamrtorbert.com/

In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed critical case studies of Lewisa s foundationalism; Davidsona s and Bonjoura s coherentism; Poppera s a epistemology without a knowing subjecta ; Quinea s naturalism; Goldmana s reliabil...(展开全部)

Instructors: Please click here to request a review copy of this title for adoption consideration.Desk copies are available by calling 1-800-818-7243.Is qualitative research in crisis? In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martin Hammersley argues that the move away from natural science as a model for social inquiry involves a rejection of key principles that are essential for any ...(展开全部)

D.瑾·克兰迪宁，加拿大阿尔伯塔大学教授，叙事探究的创始学者之一。她已独自或与他人合作撰写了10本专著，其中四本是她与麦克·康纳利一起合作的。2006年，她与七位原来的学生合著出版了《谱写多样化的身份：师生生活交织的叙事探究》，该书基于对城市学校教师和学生的多年研究而写成，获得了“2006年度美国教育研究协会叙事研究特别兴趣组杰出著作奖”和“2007年度美国教育研究协会课程研究组(B组)杰出著作奖”。2007年，克兰迪宁教授主编了《叙事探究手册：绘制一张方法论之地图》（该书由Sage出版）。她最近的著作《课程建构的诸多地点》（2011年出版）再次获得了“2012年度美国教育研究协会叙事研究特别兴趣组杰出著作奖”。

Salience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic. Whether it bothers you that the picture on your wall is wonky, whose advice you should take, whether you notice the homeless person at your feet as you squeeze your way down Oxford Street: these are all a function of salience. Salience is clearly of significance for a broad range of ph...(展开全部)

Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic phenomena (most importantly: knowledge and understanding) as well as their value and the extent to which we posses...(展开全部)

How is it possible that you are—simultaneously—cells, atoms, a body, quarks, a component in an ecological network, a moment in the thermodynamic dispersal of the sun, and an element in the gravitational whirl of galaxies? In this way, we routinely transform reality into things already outside direct human experience, things we hardly comprehend even as we speak of DNA, climate ...(展开全部)

The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus. Reprint.