I contrast two approaches to the interpretation of generics such as ‘ravens are black:’ majority-based views, on which they are about what is the case most of the time, and inquiry-based views, on which they are about a feature we focus on in inquiry—an inductive target. I argue that while majority-based views are preferable based on the most basic data about generics, only inquiry-based views ...

BACKGROUND Despite extensive evidence on the magnitude of intimate partner violence (IPV) as a public health problem worldwide, insubstantial progress has been made in the development and implementation of sufficiently comprehensive health services. This study aimed to implement, evaluate and adapt a published protocol for the screening and management of IPV and to recommend a model of care tha...

This paper gives a practical account of a recent 18-month long action inquiry project, in which the author facilitated (and co-inquired with) a mixed group of police managers with the intention of improving our own leadership practices. Six phases of the inquiry are identified—doing the groundwork, getting the group together, creating a safe environment, sustaining the inquiry, accounting for t...

Through an exploratory case study, this research sought to determine the applicability of Community Inquiry in K–12 setting. There are gaps leverage support for blended learning and flexible options benefit Filipino youth school-leavers under Alternative Delivery Mode Philippine system. This study was driven by following questions: How is cognitive presence manifested interactions? In what ways...

I propose the next steps in the neuropragmatic approach to philosophy that has been advocated by Solymosi and Shook (2013). My focus is the initial process of inquiry implicit in addressing philosophical questions of cognition and mind by utilizing the tools of neuroscientific research. I combine John Dewey’s pattern of inquiry with Charles Peirce’s three forms of inference in order to outline ...

This is the last in a series of four volumes emanating from this project. The project was designed to experiment with methods for promoting thoughtful consideration within a police agency of community problems by focusing on these problems and on the police response to them. Volume I in the series describes the overall concept of the problem-oriented approach to improving police service. Volume...

Citizen Inquiry forms a new method of informal science learning and aims to enable the engagement of citizens in online scientific investigations. Citizen Inquiry combines aspects from Citizen Science and Inquiry-based learning and is implemented through a community of practice where people having a shared interest interact and exchange knowledge and methods supported and guided by online syste...

Emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, a school’s teacher-leaders draw on an Interactional Ethnographic Approach to co-construct inquiry community of Professionals Developing called Depth Study (DOS). The study examines three premises that undergird DOS: Making Visible Invisible through Perspective, Culture-in-the-Making, and Over-Time Nature Change: Periphery Center. Through analysis Telling Cas...