Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism

The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or displaced in the field of management and organization studies, resulting in forms of analysis that are empirically, but not fully critically, realist. This evaluation prompts reflection on the question of whether, how and with what implications epistemological relativism might be recast at the heart of critical realist studies of management and organization

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to revise beliefs in KD45 Kripke structures* Jean-MarcTallon*- Jean-Christophe Vergnaud* Shmuel Zamir * **

ABSTRACT.We address the issue of belief revision in a multi-agent setting. We represent agents' beliefs in a semantic manner, through a Kripke structure, and model a communication process by which agents communicate their beliefs to one another. We define a revision rule that can be applied even when agents have contradictory beliefs. We study its properties and show that agents need not agree after communicating their beliefs. We finally address the dynamics of revision and show that the order of communication may affect the resulting belief structure. KEYWORDS:belief revision, KD45, Kripke structure. 1

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A new and efficient heuristic for scheduling projects with resource restrictions and multiple execution modes

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