-
-
...i agree enthusiastically with both the detailed discussion of the conceptual development and the analysis of the principles involved. i admire the lucid breakdown of the basic processual elements of learning...in nature. i also share the anguish for the resistance encountered and for the obstinate repetition of the same errors. the author's linguistic elegance makes...
-
...been handicapped by four conceptual fallacies and nine operational flaws. the fallacies are related to the subject matter, disciplinary focus, terms of reference...and too narrow in their subject matter. each fallacy is fundamental; the flaws, taken together, have been fatal for the area studies programmes in india. the article ends with seven suggestions...
-
...in all cases. several other fallacies keep us from scrutinizing the work itself. the evocative fallacy assumes that the meaning of a work is...whatever a work causes in the beholder has its standard of correctness in the work itself. a third fallacy will be my subject matter. this fallacy says that in order to...
-
...a more fundamental criticism of fallacy theory, a criticism pertaining to the lack of intelligibility of this theory. the charge of unintelligibility against fallacy theory derives from a similar...routinely to analyse one informal fallacy, the fallacy of petitio principii. specifically, i argue that the significance of this charge lies...
-
...subject‐matter knowledge and understanding over the past 20–30 years up to the present time. the shift from a process orientation...available evidence points irrefutably to the advantages of enhanced subject matter knowledge on the part of teachers. it is argued that the case for teachers’ subject knowledge can be overstated, including...
-
...has lain dormant. only in the 1970's, notably in the work of hamblin, barth and krabbe, rescher, hintikka, and grice, did the subject re-appear in analytical philosophy...included is a classification of the main types of dia- logue that, it is argued, should be the central subject matter of the field. the central problem of dialogue theory...
-
...legitimate argument. thus we have the formal fallacies, those having to do with violations of the known, and clear-cut, rules...required and, by contrast with the well-charted regions of deduction, the realm of the fallacies is terra incognita. no matter how diligently aristotle, or jones...
-
...estimation and distribution. since then the problem of statistical model specification has received scant attention in the statistics literature. the paper traces the history of statistical model specification...statistical model specification has been the delineation of the appropriate role for substantive subject matter information. the pr approach demarcates the interrelated but complemenatry roles of...
Published in 2006.
-
...fair globalization needs to address the processes that produce and reproduce global poverty. in this essay i argue that the ethical aspects of global poverty...to redefine their scope and subject matter. this, in turn, has consequences for the ways in which globalization is treated and, in particular, for the emergent field of globalization studies...