During the fall 2001 semester 15 first-year undergraduates were interviewed about their informationseeking behavior. Undergraduates completed a short-answer questionnaire, the Measure of Epistemological Reflection, measuring their epistemological beliefs and searched the Web and an online public access catalog using tasks from the Reflective Judgment Interview that assessed their reflective jud...

we show a lot of respect for science today. to back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. it seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. we can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. nonetheless, epistemological jus...

By a ‘completion’ on a 2-category K we mean here an idempotent pseudomonad on K . We are particularly interested in pseudomonads that arise from KZdoctrines. Motivated by a question of Lawvere, we compare the Cauchy completion [23], defined in the setting of V-Cat for V a symmetric monoidal closed category, with the Grothendieck completion [7], defined in the setting of S-Indexed Cat for S a to...

There is a continuing discussion on methodological pluralism in IS research. Several claims have been made both for and against methodological pluralism. The debate focuses mainly on discussing the relationship between research methods and IS research paradigms, especially positivism and interpretivism. Also, the literature analyzes the epistemological assumptions of research paradigms, but pay...

for e-Book ONLY!) Researchers usually work and evolve in the scientific frameworks in which they were trained, without questioning their epistemological foundations. However, this may be required when researchers coming from different disciplines and paradigms try to work together on the same object of study. This chapter reflects on epistemological encounters in a five-year project of multidis...