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Making a consultancy slideshow 'rock solid': a study of pragmatic efficacy
Bourgoin, Alaric; Muniesa, Fabian - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2012
Examines the pragmatic efficacy of a the diagrammatic presentation of managerial problems in a consultancy slideshow through an ethnographic analysis of a consultancy mission, and discusses findings in the light of a pragmatist approach.
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Frank Knight and pragmatism
Hands, D. Wade - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 13 (2006) 4, pp. 571-605
ideas were consistent with those of American pragmatism. Substantive textual evidence can be found to support almost any … context than it does about the broader relationship between his philosophical position and pragmatism. Knight was opposed to … the social control pragmatism of his day, but at the same time his general philosophical position has much in common with …
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The Empirical Semantics Approach to Communication Structure Learning and Usage: Individualistic Vs. Systemic Views
Nickles, Matthias; Rovatsos, Michael; Schmitt, Marco; … - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10 (2007) 1, pp. 5-5
In open systems of artificial agents, the meaning of communication in part emerges from ongoing interaction processes. In this paper, we present the empirical semantics approach to inductive derivation of communication semantics that can be used to derive this emergent semantics of communication...
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Rising India’s Pakistan Problem
Cohen, Stephen P.; Sandhu, Rohan S. - In: International Studies 47 (2010) 2-4, pp. 413-433
This article identifies the persistent India–Pakistan rivalry as a paired minority conflict and argues that, as the predominant actor, India needs to shed its historical complexes and engage Pakistan proactively. By transcending its traditional reluctance, fears and prejudices, India must...
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Assessing India at the United Nations in the Changing Context
Murthy, C.S.R. - In: International Studies 47 (2010) 2-4, pp. 205-223
The United Nations (UN) has been a useful instrument for India not only in pursuing its foreign policy goals effectively, but also for the progressive and peaceful transformation of the global political system. The changing priorities of the country’s political leadership, the challenge...
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The grammar of political obligation
Fossen, Thomas - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 13 (2014) 3, pp. 215-236
This essay presents a new way of conceptualizing the problem of political obligation. On the traditional ‘normativist’ framing of the issue, the primary task for theory is to secure the content and justification of political obligations, providing practically applicable moral...
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On pragmatist institutional economics
Yefimov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
). Commons used the pragmatism as a model of human behaviour and as a method of research. The paper discusses the pragmatist …
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Pragmatic Objectivity
Marsonet, Michele - In: Academicus International Scientific Journal (2014) 9, pp. 43-54
Nicholas Rescher writes that “objectivity is not something we infer from the data; it is something we must presuppose. It is something that we postulate or presume from the very outset of our dealings with people’s claims about the world’s facts”. Such definition is just the opposite of...
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Pragmatism and Science
Marsonet, Michele - In: Academicus International Scientific Journal (2013) 8, pp. 101-109
Logical empiricism gave rise to a powerful paradigm and it took some decades to overthrow it, even though it should be judged respectfully since, after all, philosophy of science and logic as we know them stemmed from that ground. The basic assumptions on which the paradigm of the “received...
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The Limits of Pragmatism in Institutional Change
Karlson, Nils - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
Modern politics in Western democracies is to a large extent characterized by political pragmatism, a position where … paper argues that there are limits to pragmatism in “welfare-enhancing” institutional change. Pragmatism cannot deal with … pragmatism”. …
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