Where have we been and where are we going? Three types of answers will be discussed: consistent progress, oscillations and discontinuities. Moore’s Law provides a convincing demonstration of consistent progress, when it applies. Speech recognition error rates are declining by 10× per decade; speech coding rates are declining by 2× per decade. Unfortunately, fields do not always move in consiste...

The increasing influence of socio-organizational issues in information systems poses serious challenges to the applicability of most traditional research approaches, since the mechanisms from which they derive their rigor and validity become more and more unrealistic in the new contexts. Indeed, traditional problem decomposition, standardization of procedures, and rigorous quantitative measurem...

Among political theorists there is a dispute over the status of ideal theory [see, for instance, Pennington (2011), Tomasi (2012)]. Ideal theory is characterized by its reliance on abstract arguments and thought experiments concerning questions such as: What is justice? or What rights do we owe each other? As such, ideal theory will always have a place in philosophy departments. However, recent...

The article is devoted to the inquiry of a specific conception law, emerging from an attempt comprehend sociolegal order through lens epistemology critical rationalism. Taking as example works Friedrich Hayek, one leading theorists who applied critical-rationalist study society, we describe key tenets this epistemology, well its implications for social science. According our hypothesis, can prod...

1753760. I1. See generally HAYEK, sources cited supra note 7; see also FRIEDRICH VON HAYEK, THE ROAD TO SERFDOM (1944); FRIEDRICH VON HAYEK, THE CONSTITUTION OF LIBERTY (1960). 12. See generally MICHAEL OAKESHOTT, RATIONALISM IN POLITICS AND OTHER ESSAYS

According to rationalism regarding the psychology of moral judgment, people’s moral judgments are generally the result of a process of reasoning that relies on moral principles or rules. By contrast, intuitionist models of moral judgment hold that people generally come to have moral judgments about particular cases on the basis of gut-level, emotion-driven intuition, and do so without reliance ...

During the Scientific Revolution one important gauge of the quality of reformed natural philosophical knowledge was its ability to produce a more effective medical practice. Indeed, it was sometimes thought that philosophers who pretended to possess new and more potent philosophical knowledge might display that possession in personal health and longevity. Rene Descartes repeatedly wrote that a ...

About ten years ago, after fellowships and clinical experience in a community setting, I had my first experience as a ward attending in a university hospital. We were working with cardiac patients, and I was struck by the common treatment each patient received. No matter what the symptoms, patients received an exercise treadmill, an echocardiogram, and were put on a calcium channel blocker. Thi...