Theory of inquiry

Author(s):  
Christoph Kelp
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1939 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Nathanson
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Author(s):  
Tuan M. Nguyen ◽  
Huy V. Vo

The paper explores, in a semiotics approach, the natures and the relationships between the category of information and its relatives that are data and knowledge. The resultant process model makes clear both the evolutionary natures and the triadic relation among the information categories. In addition, drawn on Peirce’s theory of inquiry which stresses the role of community along the inquiring process, a central thesis of the paper is the pragmatic model of information formulation in the information systems field.



Author(s):  
Leonard J. Waks

While John Dewey wrote relatively little about higher education, he had a well-developed and largely unexplored conception of the university, grounded in his three- stage account of thought or inquiry as developed in Studies in Logical Theory and further developed in Logic: Theory of Inquiry. The first stage is antecedent to inquiry proper, residing in the situations of living that evoke thought. The second is inquiry proper, where data or immediate materials are subjected to systematic thought to yield judgment. The third is the moment after thought has considered its data and reached its result and brought it forth in situations of living as transformed by this new element. This final stage, is the “objective of thought” but lies outside of the context of inquiry proper. This chapter, building on the Dewey corpus, explains that conception, with close attention to university-based research, teaching, and service.



Design Issues ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Dixon

This article draws an alignment between John Dewey's Pragmatism and design inquiry or, particularly, research which incorporates design practice. Three core components of Dewey's philosophy are described—namely, his theory of inquiry, his theory of communication, and his metaphysics—all of which are seen to interlink to form a unique approach to knowledge. From this, a number of key features of the approach are set out. When held in combination, it is argued that these features hold the potential to enrich the epistemological basis of design inquiry.



Author(s):  
F. Thomas Burke

Both Dewey and Russell were Hegelians in their early careers. Acquaintance with Hegel left permanent deposits in their respective thinking about logic. Russell’s atomistic logicism aspired to achieve a foundationalist unity characteristic of his Tiergarten Programme. Dewey’s instrumentalism was rooted in an inside-out inversion and naturalization of Hegel’s dialectical schematism, replacing Hegel’s grand sweep of human history with a down-to-earth pattern of inquiry. Russell’s structuralist approach to deductive logic greatly influenced the development of mathematical logic and linguistics in the twentieth century, some highpoints of which are surveyed here. Dewey’s functionalist approach to logic as a normative theory of inquiry had little influence on this development. Dewey viewed logic more broadly as a study of how abductive, deductive, and inductive forms of inference best work together in the course of inquiry. This approach is spelled out, addressing points of consistency and conflict with contemporary mainstream views of logic.







1959 ◽  
Vol 56 (21) ◽  
pp. 826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Kaufmann
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