Since the seventies, it has been customary to assume that intentionality is independent of consciousness. Recently, a number of philosophers have rejected this assumption, claiming that intentionality is closely tied to consciousness, inasmuch as non-conscious intentionality in some sense depends upon conscious intentionality. Within this alternative framework, the question arises of how to acc...

In this essay, we argue that being relevant to practice must imply a concern with influencing future IS practices. Discussions of IS research relevance, however, are rarely explicit about how research is meant to shape the future. Drawing on Feenberg’s (2002) critical theory of technology and his concepts of primary-secondary instrumentalization and potentialities, we consider how IS research a...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the methodological and theoretical assumptions of interpretive research as proposed by Erickson (1986), based on the premises that Blumer (1969) posed for symbolic interactionism. A specific example of a conceptual framework for studying the major theoretical constructs identified in distance education research will be presented. Although this framework...

This research explores how marketing strategies have been changed to adapt the impactful challenges of pandemic and economic recession in Botswana's Consumer Goods (FMCG) business landscape. The adopted an interpretivism philosophical model, inductive approach, mono-method wherein qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions. findings provided subs...

since iranian society is passing from the traditional identity to the modern identity, the present study, using social interpretivism, studies the challenges that youth deal with in everyday life in terms of identity. using the qualitative and the interview technique, we have tried to achieve a grounded theory.  based on theoretical sampling and the standard of theorical saturation, 28 young pe...

Dependability (also known as consistency) is one of four criteria in rigor and trustworthiness qualitative research. In this article, the process establishing consistency discussed through lenses constructivism interpretivism, observed social reality viewed epistemologically counter-intuitive. Two strategies were used to establish consistency. First, method, source, data triangulation conducted...

This research offers a new perspective by reframing the positivist-interpretive debate as a distinction between the functional outcomes of research: explanation and understanding. Based on an older and well-established literature in philosophy, this distinction can reinvigorate important differences in research outcomes that have been lost. Understanding or “subjective meaning” is connected to ...

ABSTRACTThis study aims to investigate the dominance of research with paradigm positivism in accounting, especially related internal function audit. The dominant accounting date is positivist paradigm. In audit, all things are not only seen from facts that on surface and concluded directly existing data, but also must understand meaning contained it. Therefore, it necessary have another contrad...

Double dissociations between perceivable colors and physical properties of colored objects have led many philosophers to endorse relationalist accounts color. I argue that there are analogous double attitudes belief—the beliefs people attribute each other in everyday life—and intrinsic cognitive states some scientists posit as cogs systems—pitched at every level psychological explanation. These...