Abstract New Public Management (NPM) can be classified within the naturalist philosophy of science. I introduce naturalist philosophers that laid out the framework for NPM including Bacon, Galileo…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Abstract Naturalistic modes of research are interpretive for several reasons. Scientific observation is theory-laden (Yanow and Schwartz-Shea 2006). Facts are both theory- and value- laden (Goulding…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The excessive number of legal restrictions enacted by our Congress and an assortment of federal agencies has resulted in a general disregard of those rules.| Boundary Stone
Safety is a mono-disciplinary endeavour, anchored to the philosophies of Rationalism, Positivism and Behaviourism. If you seek out knowledge from this industry, that’s the methodology that generates all that follows. The method that follows has been the same in safety since 1931. These dominant philosophies result in the weird outcome of engineers and behaviourists sprouting […]| SafetyRisk.net