A New Mind for Policy Analysis: Toward a Post-Newtonian and Postpositivist Epistemology and MethodologyMorcol argues that the objectivist and deterministic assumptions of mainstream policy analysis, which are based on the Newtonian/positivist worldview or mind-set, should be transcended. After demonstrating that the favored methods of mainstream policy analysis are based on Newtonian ontological and positivist epistemological assumptions and that the connections between these two are intimately and historically related, he critically assesses and highlights the contributions of quantum mechanics, complexity theory, and cognitive science to a new mind-set in scientific knowledge, a post-Newtonian and postpositivist mind-set. |
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THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NEWTONIAN | 55 |
POSTPOSITIVIST CRITIQUE AND ASSUMPTIONS | 79 |
THE PAST AND PRESENT OF POSTPOSITIVIST | 93 |
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