Table of Contents

• Chapter One Introduction: A Postpositivist Option
  • Abstract
• Chapter Two Dewey's Functional Theory of Inquiry
  • Logical Forms Accrue in and Through Inquiry
  • Situations as Field of Analysis
  • Pattern of Inquiry
  • Judgments of Practice
• Chapter Three Popper's Critical Rationalism
  • Conjecture and Refutation
    • Balanced Reading Theory
    • Versimilitude
  • Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
• Chapter Four Rescher`s Coherence Theory of Critical Reasoning
  • Narrative Coherence and Its Grounds
  • Resolving Conflicts and Making Subtle Distinctions
  • A Network Model
• Chapter Five Summary Arguments and Reflections
  • The Problem Situation
  • Supportive Hypotheses and Related Statements
  • The Postpositivist Temper
• References