Stephen Toulmin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Toulmin is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1384-6671
Title
Beyond Theory: Changing organizations through participation
Edited by Stephen Toulmin and Bjørn Gustavsen
Action Research is one of the most practical and down-to-earth ways of doing research into working life. Beyond Theory draws on examples and actual cases to discuss action research within the framework of the modern, and postmodern, theory of science debate. While action research has been much… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 2] 1996. viii, 233 pp.
2000 Preface Using the Lamp instead of Looking into the Mirror: Women and men in discussion about the relationship between men and women in the work place, Ljungberg van Beinum, Ingrid, pp. vii–x | Preface
2000 Be Reasonable, not Certain Concepts and Transformation 5:2, pp. 151–163 | Article
Ever since the 17th century, European thinkers have valued ‘rationality’ at the expense of ‘reasonableness’: the current crisis about postmodernity is one by-product of that obsession. Yet, from garden design and literature to electrical theory and development economics, it can be helpful to… read more
1997 The Ambiguities of Globalization Concepts and Transformation 2:3, pp. 269–278 | Article
In the industrialized countries, notably of Europe, the 1990s have seen a systematic erosion of the social protections that the liberal democracies carefully built, as a matter of policy, in the years after the World War II: the protections we know collectively as 'the Welfare State'. This change… read more
1996 Is Action Research Really 'Research1? Concepts and Transformation 1:1, pp. 51–61 | Article
The case of Action Research drives a wedge between two opposite views of research methodology: an 'exclusive ' (Platonic/theoretical) one which insists that only objective and quantitative inquiries (as in physics) are genuine scientific research, and an 'inclusive ' (Aristotelian/practical) one… read more
1996 12. Concluding Methodological Reflections: Élitism and democracy among the sciences Beyond Theory: Changing organizations through participation, Toulmin, Stephen and Bjørn Gustavsen (eds.), pp. 203–226 | Chapter