Notes on Pragmatism and Scientific Realism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9730846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cleo H Cherryholmes (Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 13-17 |
| Publication date | 1992-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x021006013 |
| OpenAlex | W2132390259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 16 |
Research (1991) is informative for the overview it provides of scientific realism. At the outset House tells the reader that he will forgo comparisons between scientific realism and interpretivism, pragmatism, and critical theory in order to focus on its [scientific realism's] introduction and explication (p. 2). At the end he poses the question: How does scientific realism compare with perspectives such as interpretivism, pragmatism, and critical theory? (p. 9). A note of response is not the place to pursue such comparisons in detail, but a few comments, perhaps, may provide the basis for beginning such comparisons, in this case between pragmatism and scientific realism. Pragmatism and scientific realism share a number of assumptions about science, language, and the world. Both are also opposed to positivism/empiricism. Given their areas of agreement as well as some common opponents, it is surprising that these two schools of thought end up so far apart. The following comments profile a few of their affinities as well as a few dramatic differences that divide them
Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Empiricism · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Explication · Logical positivism · Philosophical realism · Philosophy of science · Positivism · Pragmatism · Realism · Scientific realism · Scientific theory · Sociology · Engineering · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
Introdução e condução dos métodos mistos de pesquisa em educação física
Grounded Theory
Mixed methods research designs in counseling psychology.
Kurt Lewin and the Origins of Action Research
Investigating Teachers' Assessment Practices
Contemporary Paradigms for Research Related to Women's Mental Health
Beyond the Tipping Point
Telling a Compelling Story
Some reflections on Mitchell’s pragmatist variant of scientific realism
Empowering Current and Future Educators
Philosophical foundations of mixed methods research
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice
An investigation into courage in Social Care Work Education
Social work students’ perceptions of their readiness for practice and to practise
Emotions for Artists
The challenge of change
A mixed methods approach for the integration of urban design and economic evaluation
Self-help and help-seeking for communication disability in Ghana
Pragmatism (or Realism) in Research
Strengthening internal quality assurance processes
Perceptions of environmental compensation in different scientific fields
Communities of Practice
Mixed-methods research in interpreting studies
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences
Pragmatic evaluation of transdisciplinary research on gender equity in the New Zealand public service
Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Health Coaching as a New Diabetes Management Approach for the People with Type 2 Diabetes in Saudi Arabia
Development of the Australian Dominant Drug Discourses Scale
Methods for studying family visitors in art museums
The Police Opioid Seizure Temporal Risk (PosteR) model of increased exposure to fatal overdose
The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning
Published
Facilitating advance care planning with ethnically diverse groups of frail, low-income elders in the USA
An iconic approach for representing climate change
Do you see what I see?” Reading a different classroom scene
The multiple roles of N.L. Gage in the creation of educational effectiveness fields
Feminist Research Methods
The role of work experience and individual beliefs in police officers' perceptions of date rape
The Value of Mixing It Up
Social Work Education and the Marketisation of UK Universities
From urban ecology to urban enquiry
Epistemology and reading
Cartesian Anxiety, Linguistic Communism, and Reading Texts
Beyond Methodolatry
More Notes on Pragmatism
Realism, Deweyan Pragmatism, and Educational Research
Unpacking a Liturgical Framing of Desire for the Purposes of Educational Research
Beyond the mines
Understanding student satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Towards Action and Power
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,59 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |