The quality of knowledge organization in information retrieval systems determines the quality of information intellectual accessibility. To provide quality means to use theoretically justified methods for knowledge organization. The objective of the present article is, on the basis of semantic theories and epistemological positions (empiricism, rationalism, idealism, psychological subjectivism,...

This paper analyses IT innovation diffusion within communities joined through electronic networks. Emphasis is laid on qualitative system dynamics, as a methodology of structure and behaviour, in order to understand successful IT innovation. The focal point of interest is the adoption-diffusion continuum, from prior use to post-adoptive behaviour, analysed and modelled by means of “adaptive str...

The radical subjectivism of the Austrian school of economics is a special case of Dewey’s ways of knowing. Austrian economists adopted an Aristotelian deductive approach to economic issues such as social behavior and exchange. In Dewey’s contrasting view, the scientist commends new, alternative ways of knowing to the scientific community, offering more profound insight or more efficacious pract...

Most management researchers pause at the threshold of objective right and wrong. Their hesitation is understandable. Values imply a “subjective,” personal dimension, one that can invite religious and moral interference in research. The dominant epistemological camps of positivism and subjectivism in management stumble over the notion of moral objectivity. Empirical research can study values in ...

Underlying orthodox evidence theory is a number of epistemological assumptions about the ability of reason to deliver true descriptions which accurately describe and correspond to the ‘real’ world. Drawing extensively on both traditional philosophical and contemporary, particularly postmodernist, scepticism this article provides a detailed critique of realist epistemological assumptions about r...

This paper has three main objectives: (a) Discuss the formal analogy between some important symmetry-invariance arguments used in physics, probability and statistics. Specifically, we will focus on Noether’s theorem in physics, the maximum entropy principle in probability theory, and de Finetti-type theorems in Bayesian statistics; (b) Discuss the epistemological and ontological implications of...

this paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the tesol. postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the tesol theoretically in some ways. the elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...

Abstract I offer a new reconstruction of Hegel's criticism Kant's idealism. Kant held that we impose categorial form on experience, while sensation provides its matter. Hegel argues the matter receive cannot guide our imposition it. Contra recent interpretations, argument does not depend conceptualist account perception or view categories as empirically conditioned. His objection is that, given...