Popper, positivism, and practice research: a response to Munro.

Journal of Social Work Education | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

 
   Beware lest any spoil you through philosophy ... (Colossians, 2:8)

IT WAS REINFORCING to see a distinguished trans-Atlantic colleague such as Eileen Munro take the time to critically evaluate the set of papers Tomi Gomory and I published in this journal. Both Gomory and Munro take extensive issue with the assertion that outcome studies can provide evidence that a particular theory is true (reasoning via induction), and instead favorably invoke Popper's approach labeled falsificationism as a more robust approach to uncovering nature's theoretical truths. I have ...

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