Epistemology means ‘study of knowledge.’ It is concerned with the mind’s relation to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And if we…
Category: Research philosophy
Ontology
Ontology in business research deals with the nature of reality. One of the longest standing ontological questions in philosophy concerns the existence, or otherwise, of God or at least some sense of…
Axiology
Axiology primarily refers to the ‘aims’ of the research. Axiology is the study of value or, more adequately, theory on the nature of value. In simple terms, axiology focuses on what do…
Positivism, Post-Positivism and Pragmatism
Philosophy, from the Greek ‘love of wisdom’ is difficult to define since it does not possess a specific object of inquiry. In a broad sense, philosophy is concerned with fundamental problems that…