[Xmca-l] Re: What is science?: Where to start doctoral students?

[Edward Wall]

      Some interesting beginning thinking (and otherwise) about this sort of thing is found in Dewey’s Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and some latter writings attempting to do some unpacking: Burke’s Dewey’s New Logic and an edited volume (Burke and others): Dewey’s Logical Theory. Further must reads, I think, is the work of Popper, Quine, and Bachelard and more recently Kitcher. As I write I am realize that I am forgetting Foucault, Comte, Heelan, and Husserl (I am, by the way, trying not to mention those already suggested) and, of course, Aristotle. Mathematics plays a strange role in all this; for example the work of Jacob Klein. 

        Then there is Harding, Fiumara, and Medin & Bang (Who’s Aking) - which was discussed on this listserve. 

       I should mention that many of those I listed disagreed with many of those I listed. 

Ed Wall

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor Frankl




> On Oct 31, 2018, at  12:05 PM, Beth Ferholt <bferholt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm starting to take the role of advisor on doctoral dissertations and wonder how best to begin to discuss "what is science?" with students who will need to respond concisely when asked about the rigor and reliability of their formative intervention, narrative and/or autobiographical studies.
> 
> I'm looking for an overview or paper that does more than argue the value of one approach -- something to start them off thinking about the issues, not immerse them in one perspective quite yet.
> 
> If not an overview then maybe a paper that contextualizes "rigor" and "reliability". 
> 
> Obviously this is an endless topic but do some people reading XMCA have some favorite papers that they give to their advisees or use when they teach a methods class?
> 
> Thanks!
> Beth
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