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		The essay closes with a brief discussion of the implications of a postpositivist approach for both a socially relevant policy curriculum and a democratic practice of policy inquiry.
		The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of a postpositivist epistemology for the practice of policy analysis.
		The postpositivist objective is not to reject the scientific project altogether, but to recognize the need to properly understand what we are doing when we engage in any form of research.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /tps/e-print/PETER.htm (8012 words)

	Young: "Postpositivist Realism and the Return of the Same . . ."
		Postpositivists tend to down play the issue of ideology and abstract the issue of the cognitive, as Mohanty does with his notion of "epistemic privilege," a notion that is very is problematic.
		For the postpositivists, it is an immanent logic-it develops from experience of the subject-and this excludes a (theoretical) outside to examine the experiential claims.
		Macdonald's essay highlights a central tension in postpositivist theory between a focus on cultural specificity and the epistemic location of the oppressed and a desire for moral universalism, a tension excerbated by her nationalism.
	clogic.eserver.org /2002/young.html (6638 words)

	Paula M. L. Moya: "Introduction: Reclaiming Identity"
		But postpositivist realists are not naive empiricists; they do not hope to flip the poststructuralist critique on its head and return to an uncritical belief in the possibility of theoretically-unmediated knowledge.
		Postpositivist realists assert both that (1) all observation and knowledge are theory-mediated and that (2) a theory-mediated objective knowledge is both possible and desirable.
		She argues that a postpositivist realist account of knowledge (with its corresponding accounts of objectivity, experience, and error) provides a way of resolving some of these problems by transforming error into an important component of the evaluation of theory-dependent knowledges.
	clogic.eserver.org /3-1&2/moya.html (8769 words)

	Postpositivist Scientific Philosophy: Mediating Convergences - Page 1
		Insights from Dewey, Popper, and Rescher suggest a broad-based postpositivist philosophy mediating critical space between positivism and constructivism based upon the quest for truth as a regulative ideal within a fallibilistic scientific epistemology.
		A critical issue in adult literacy education illustrates the viability of postpositivist research design as applicable especially to the social sciences.
		The object here is less to draw out the subtle distinctions and potential points of conflict between Dewey, Popper, and Rescher, than to highlight some of the ways in which the collective impact of their work contributes toward the shaping of a postpositivist temper.
	www.nald.ca /fulltext/George/post/01.htm (467 words)

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		Postpositivist critiques include postmodernist, postcolonial and feminist approaches, which differ from both realism and liberalism in their epistemological and ontological premises.
		Social Constructivism is considered by many postpositivists as being positivist as the focus of analysis is the state (at the ignorance of other factors such as ethnicity, class, race or gender); and considered by many positivists as postpositivist, as it forgoes many positivist assumptions.
		Postpositivist (or reflectivist) theories of IR attempt to integrate a larger variety of security concerns.
	www.countryiworld.com /wiki-Critical_international_relations_theory (1368 words)

	Nonlinear Science and the Postpositivist Researcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I was attempting to connect my interests in chaos and complexity theory (nonlinear science) and postmodern and poststructural theory/practice (postpositivist research).
		It is frequently said that we are in a time of shifting paradigms, perhaps even a “postparadigmatic diaspora.” For at least the last few hundred years, the dominant Western paradigm has been grounded in the principals of linear science resulting in both amazing technological invention and widespread human suffering.
		Postpositivist researchers have been among those attempting to explore alternatives to this paradigm in the hopes of creating a better world, even when questioning the very idea of progress.
	www.culturalresearch.org /nonpost (202 words)

	Postpositivism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		century philosophy congruent with the postpositivist temper: pragmatic functionalism via the experientially premised epistemology of Dewey, Popper’s critical rationalism, and a coherence theory of critical reasoning, articulated by contemporary philosopher Nicholas Rescher (2001).
		The commonalities between Dewey and Popper along with the depth of the probing of their scientific philosophies, alone, make their work of considerable importance in contributing to the development of a postpositivist science.
		Popper was an unabashed idealist (that is, a “metaphysical realist”) in the faith he placed in humans to acquire knowledge about the world through logical reasoning, critical experimentation, and bold conjectures.
	www.the-rathouse.com /Postpositivism.htm (13818 words)

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