BACKGROUND Because no single person or group holds knowledge about all aspects of research, mechanisms are needed to support knowledge exchange and engagement. Expertise in the research setting necessarily includes scientific and methodological expertise, but also expertise gained through the experience of participating in research and/or being a recipient of research outcomes (as a patient or ...

The prevailing notion that the problem of essential indexicals must be solved through the theory of meaning of attitude ascriptions is incorrect. Well-known attempts to solve the problem along those lines, e.g., the proposals of lewis (1979) and Perry (1979), have rested on the overly optimistic assumption that there is no limit in principle to the access one may have to the contents of someone...

Two decades ago inquiry into narrative played but a minor role in scholarly deliberation; the relationship between narrative analysis and historiography was little explored; the term "narrative" had scarcely entered the vocabulary of psychological science. Today the study of narrative concatenates throughout the humanities and the social sciences, and the problems raised by such analyses for ou...

This chapter provides me with an opportunity to reflect on the concept that has constituted the leitmotif of my academic writing: the concept of profession. This has been linked throughout with my two other main interests. One is the nature of the school as an organization, and particularly the relationship between teacher autonomy and bureaucratic control. The other is the leadership and manag...

Michael Bergmann (2006) has argued that an internalistic view of justification faces a dilemma. Assuming as internalism does that to have a justified belief, subjects must be aware of the justifiers of the belief and of their relevance to the truth of the belief, Bergmann notes that one is either aware of this relevance conceptually or not. But, says Bergmann, if the required awareness is conce...

Since this issue is devoted to the interaction between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical practice, I would like to begin with an introductory reflection on this topic, before I enter the specifics of my contribution. In the past thirty years there has been a marked shift in philosophy of mathematics, due to the appearance of research on aspects of mathematics that were previously ignor...

Bernard Harcourt's latest book is bold, brave, and too short. It bold in its ambition to return critical theory praxis, action, changing the world instead of interpreting it. Harcourt urges theorists stop infighting over epistemological issues focus on what important—for needs changing, as he makes abundantly clear. The brave because it does precisely argues should do: sketches theory's history...

This article explores the epistemological consequences for the sociology of religion of the reflexive turn that has swept social science in the last two decades. Building on similar reflexivities in the writings of Charles Sanders Peirce and H. Richard Niebuhr, it argues that social science, like religion, is grounded in practical faith. A communal enterprise, social science can never justify i...

Amedeo Giorgi has asserted that the two key procedures that make psychological research genuinely phenomenological are: 1) the epochés: and 2) the intuition of essence. Giorgi’s insistence on this point is reviewed and the often-misunderstood method of grasping essences is explored. Attention is given to Husserl’s ideas about free imaginative variation and the procedures of eidetic analysis. Ex...

The phrase “science and religion” has become widely used to denote a particular area of academic discussion. However, both key terms are seriously problematic. There have been huge historical changes in what meant by them, as Peter Harrison among others pointed out (Harrison 2015). is also good deal cultural variation “science” “religion.” We will here consider variations these two crucial term...