"Pragmatism" here refers to a school of philosophical thought American pragmatism and not to that shortsighted, allegedly "practical-minded" attitude towards the world that is a major obstacle to environmentally responsible behavior in our time. 1 The insight behind "environmental pragmatism" is that American pragmatism is a philosophy of environments. Although the founders of pragmatism rarely...

There is a growing interest in pragmatism within organisational and informational studies. Pragmatism has been seen as a viable alternative to positivism and anti-positivism. This paper explores the meanings of pragmatism in terms of implications for how to conduct research on information systems. Its main source of inspiration is the American philosophy of pragmatism. The paper describes the n...

There is a growing interest in pragmatism within organisational and informational studies. Pragmatism has been seen as a viable alternative to positivism and anti-positivism. This paper explores the meanings of pragmatism in terms of implications for how to conduct research on information systems. Its main source of inspiration is the American philosophy of pragmatism. The paper describes the n...

Abstract Scientism has recently experienced a resurgence of interest in philosophy. One version scientism often defended is ontological scientism—the view that any kind or property not mentioned the theories science only subordinate, secondary reality. It worth noting dominant tradition history philosophy science—classical American pragmatism—undertook decades critical engagement with contempor...

The Jamesian notion of the ‘stream of consciousness’is closely related to the epochal theory of time. It also stems from an attempt to resolve the old aporia contained in Zeno’s paradoxes. Time flows like a‘river’ or a ‘stream,’ but still it grows by ‘drops’ or ‘buds.’ These basic units of time are whole and indivisible, but they do not ‘crack’ or ‘divide’reality. Other process philosophies als...

Value judgments are meaningless. This thesis was one of the notorious tenets of Carnap’s mature logical empiricism. Less well known is the fact that in the Aufbau values were considered as philosophically respectable entities that could be constituted f rom value experiences. About 1930, however, values were banished to the realm of meaningless metaphysics, and Carnap came to endorse a strict e...

Randomized field experiments, which in the United States has been proposed as the gold standard of educational research, (National Research Council, 2002) is dismissed by some critics as ―positivistic‖. Although this dismissal over identifies positivism with a specific research method, the larger point is accurate: the ―gold standard‖ is often insensitive to local situations and human value and...