This essay is concerned about how to evaluate positive theories on Latin American development. Its content is nested in a broader discussion on theoretical decay and theoretical progress by using Imre Lakatos’ approach of sophisticated falsificationism. The main argument states that theory driven research on Latin American development provides further evidence to the assumption that methodologi...

A critique of the 2005 Cochrane review of randomized controlled trials comparing home-like versus hospital settings for birth ( Hodnett, Downe, Edwards, & Walsh, 2005 ) has focused debate on methodological challenges of meta-analysis. Criticism centered on criteria used to assess studies for inclusion and quality of the underlying studies, particularly whether they defi ned and controlled the t...

This thesis attempts to justify a normative role for methodology by sketching a pragmatic way out of the dichotomy between two major strands in economic methodology: empiricism and postmodernism. It is important to understand that my thesis is about methodology and this means that I do not add another recipe with prescriptions as to how economics needs to change in order to become a " better " ...

As ever more data becomes available to work with, the use of digital tools within humanities and social sciences is becoming increasingly common. These are often imported from other institutional contexts were originally developed for purposes. They may harbour concepts techniques that stand in tension with traditions sciences. Moreover, there many easy-to-use collection, processing analysis re...

This paper considers objections to Popper's views on scientific method. It is argued that criticism of Popper's views, developed by Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lakatos, are not too damaging, although they do require that Popper's views be modified somewhat. It is argued that a much more serious criticism is that Popper has failed to provide us with any reason for holding that the methodological rules...

The goal of this paper is methodological. It offers a comprehensive mapping of the theoretical positions on the ethical criticism of art, correcting omissions and inadequacies in the conceptual framework adopted in the current debate. Three principles are recommended as general guidelines: ethical amenability, basic value pluralism, and relativity to ethical dimension. Hence a taxonomy distingu...

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Advocacy of ‘methodological individualism’ is a widespread, especially among economists. However, the term is rarely defined with adequate precision and some crucial ambiguities are explored in this article. Among these is the commonplace ambivalence over whether explanations should be in terms of individuals alone, or in terms of individuals plus relations between them. It is shown that a grea...