English | 2021 | ISBN: 1523092629 | 173 pages | True PDF | 9.15 MB
This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relationships vital for tackling global systemic challenges and developing adaptive, innovative organizations-over 200,000 copies sold and translated into seventeen languages!

Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry By Anthony M. Graziano, Michael L. Raulin
2012 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0205907695 | PDF | 88 MB
Explores the entire range of research methodologies in psychology. This comprehensive text uses a carefully constructed programmatic approach to introduce topics and systematically build on earlier presentations. Research Methods emphasizes research concepts, as well as specific, technical research strategies, to help students develop an understanding of the underlying rational-empirical processes of science and gain specific research skills. The authors provide clearly written explanations of concepts and numerous examples drawn from all areas of psychology to enable students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the research process. The 8th edition includes an extensive integrated Web site (http://www.mikeraulin.com/graziano8e/) with a variety of resources for students. Learning Goals Upon completing this book readers will be able to: Understand the concepts of research design Develop research skills based on a knowledge of appropriate research design Develop a sensitivity to ethical issues in research and the skills necessary to address these issues Understand basic statistical concepts Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205900925 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205900923.

Perry Zurn, "Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry"
English | ISBN: 1517907195 | 2021 | 303 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity

Christopher Cowie, "The Repugnant Conclusion: A Philosophical Inquiry "
English | ISBN: 1138605441 | 2019 | 124 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intuitive. It implies that we can improve the world by trading quality of life for quantity of lives. Can it be defended?

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What is self-inquiry (vichara)? Many of us have heard of this practice but may not have received a lot of instruction on how to do it. In this program, Parayoga founder Rod Stryker shares several approaches you can take to self-inquiry, and then outlines one very specific approach in detail. This approach to practice is designed to help you unearth a fundamental desire that is specific to you. A desire that, when fulfilled, can lead to more clarity, happiness, and personal growth. After getting to the root of your desire, you'll also learn how to develop a strategic plan for fulfilling it going forward.

James G. Lennox, "Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms"
English | ISBN: 0521193974 | 2021 | 348 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the nature of scientific knowledge. How then do his philosophical reflections on scientific knowledge impact his actual scientific inquiries? In this book James Lennox sets out to answer this question. He argues that Aristotle has a richly normative view of scientific inquiry, and that those norms are of two kinds: a general, question-guided framework applicable to all scientific inquiries, and domain-specific norms reflecting differences in the target of inquiry and in the means of observation available to researchers. To see these norms of inquiry in action, the second half of this book examines Aristotle's investigations of animals, the soul, material compounds, the motions of heavenly bodies, and respiration.

Wing-Chung Ho, "Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience: An Epistemological Critique "
English | ISBN: 1138478903 | 2019 | 218 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho posits that writing is epistemologically prior to the researcher's fieldwork experience in the production of ethnographic knowledge. This stance is developed using the theories of hermeneutics put forward by Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer who both consider that once a text is produced, its meaning is dissociated from the intention of the author. The second question is: what is the putative object that the ethnographer writes about? Ho argues that "lived experience" (Erlebnis) offers such an ethnographic object. Since the lived experience that an ethnographer experiences during fieldwork cannot be studied directly, further theorizations of lived experience are necessary. Ho underscores both the non-discursivity and transcendence of lived experience in the lifeworld, and the way power is clandestinely imbued in everyday life in shaping subjectivity and practice. This theorization brings together Alfred Schutz's lifeworld theory and Michel Foucault's power/knowledge nexus. The result is a general theory of experience that is pertinent for ethnographic inquiries.

International Handbook of Inquiry and Learning
by Ravit Golan Duncan
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1138922595 | 399 pages | True PDF | 5.02 MB

Inquiry-Driven Innovation
by Dawes-Duraisingh, Liz; Sachdeva, Andrea Rose;, Andrea Sachdeva
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1119675359 | 267 pages | True (PDF EPUB) | 34.19 MB

Socrates Mystagogos: Initiation Into Inquiry By Don Adams
2016 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1472484835 | PDF | 2 MB
For Socrates, philosophy is not like Christian conversion from error to truth, but rather it is like the pagan process whereby a young man is initiated into cult mysteries by a more experienced man - the mystagogos - who prepares him and leads him to the sacred precinct. In Greek cult religion, the mystagogos prepared the initiate for the esoteric mysteries revealed by the hierophant. Socrates treats traditional wisdom with scepticism, and this makes him appear ridiculous or dangerous in the eyes of cultural conservatives. Nevertheless, his scepticism is not radical: custom is not something on which we must turn our backs if we are to pursue the truth. Socrates assumes an epistemology and employs a method by which he induces his companions to begin the critical and self-critical process of philosophical inquiry, not ignoring conventional wisdom, but thinking through and reinterpreting it as they make constructive progress towards the truth. He provides conclusive and convincing arguments in support of controversial answers to some of the most important moral questions he poses.