Heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’ or ‘paradigm warriors’. But should an advocate of pluralism be a pluralist himself? Though this assertion sounds like a truism, I argue against it. More specifically, this paper clarifies the notion of pluralism by introducing an often neglected but crucial distinct...

Growing interest in qualitative research methods and methodological pluralism in psychology since the 1990s is placed in the historical contexts of long-standing philosophical and scientific rationales and the more recent ‘‘qualitative revolution’’ in other social sciences that began in the 1970s. An examination of areas in which qualitative methods have become most strongly established—applied...

One major focus of recent value‐pluralist literature has been the question of what normative consequences follow from pluralism. This essay critically examines three arguments that attempt to show that either liberalism or a bounded modus vivendi is the state of affairs that pluralism makes morally preferable. All three arguments are shown to encounter the same fundamental problem—once we have ...

Does religious pluralism decrease religious participation or increase it? Secularization theorists claim the former, while religious economies proponents claim the latter, and each side has used estimated pluralism-participation correlations to support its argument. Using a formal game theoretic model, this article shows how religious market forces and regulations generate plausible pluralism-p...

OBJECTIVES There are concerns that medical pluralism may delay patients' progression through the HIV cascade-of-care. However, the pathways of impact through which medical pluralism influence the care of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in African settings remain unclear. We sought to establish the manifestation of medical pluralism among PLHIV, and explore mechanisms through which medical plural...

One of the most pressing dilemmas of the moment concerns pluralism and the issue of justification: how does one defend a commitment to any particular position? The fear is that pluralism undercuts our ability to justify our moral and political views, and thereby leads to relativism. As I argue here, Isaiah Berlin provides an exemplary argument concerning the ties between pluralism and liberalis...

Abstract “Actionability” is a key concept in precision oncology. Its precise definition, however, remains contested. This paper undertakes philosophical analysis of “actionability” to aid conceptual clarification. We map distinct concepts actionability, arguing that each best understood as contextually objective category articulated mitigate risk “conceptual slippage.” defend “interactive plura...

Scientific progress depends upon precise, reliable communication between scientists. In a recent article published in this journal, West et al. (2007) attempt to make sense of the semantic confusion that plagues the study of social behaviour from an evolutionary perspective. Although I laud their purpose and agree with some of their points, I think that their article does not yet achieve a genu...

1. Introduction: Simple Reduction and Beyond Traditional and New Wave models of reduction in science have not lacked for ambition. Philosophers have presented single models to account for the full range of interesting intertheoretic relations, for scientific progress, and for the unity of science (Nagel, 1961; Oppenheim and Putnam, 1958). Early critics attacked the logical empiricists' proposal...