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A Critique of the Philosophical Underpinnings

Seth Oppong · University of Botswana: Gaborone, South-East District, …
The progress of the social science disciplines depends on conducting relevant research. However, research methodology adopted and choices made during the course of the research project are underpinned by varying ontological, epistemological and axiological positions that may be known or unknown to t…
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Pragmatic Objectivity

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
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 objectivity …
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Pragmatism and Science

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
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 view” re…

Pikëpamjet sintaksore të Spiro Floqit

Linditë Rugova
Spiro Floqi solli në shqipen një frymë gjysmëstrukturaliste dhe gjysmësemantike të studimeve sintaksore, sidomos në punimet e tij të fundit të viteve 70-të, ndonëse jo plotësisht të liruara nga fryma e logjikës dhe e tradicionalizmit që atëbotë dominonte në studimet gramatikore në përgjithësi. Idetë…
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Social sciences, scientific research, higher education and social developments - An Albanian inside of dialectics and structured scientific research, in social sciences

Nada Kallçiu, Edmond Rapti · Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana, Alban…
The social sciences have inherited a not so clear relationship with the social politics throughout the history. At the first moment the concept of social sciences came into use in the 19th century the first organizations that were promoting them were not located in the universities. They were locate…
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When the biology, pedagogy and teaching standards come together

Adanela Musaraj · Faculty of Professional Studies, Medicine Department Un…
Every day, scientific knowledge is growing exponentially and either researcher, nor students have the ability to keep up with literature. On the other hand, new generations of students have different views of information access from that of their older professors and no longer need to depend on prof…
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A Limited View of Realism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In the paper we argue that no neat border line between ontology and epistemology can be drawn. This is due to the fact that the separation between factual and conceptual is rather fuzzy, and the world is characterized by a sort of ontological opacity which makes the construction of any absolute onto…