RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY

Research Philosophy and Innovations In Aviation Industry





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Research Philosophy and Innovations in Aviation Industry

Definition of the term Research Philosphy

The philosophical effort to understand human emotion begins through introspective investigation as awareness of emotion's impact on experience grows. As part of the human condition, an agent's first hand experience is confined by the boundaries of their person i.e., the agent's physical and mental isolation entails certain epistemic boundaries which the agent cannot escape. Each agent has the unique experience of perceiving his or her emotional responses, but sympathetic and empathetic experiences provide a window into other agents' affective experience. However, there is disagreement within the social sciences regarding how best to explain the existence of affective experiences like sympathy and empathy, and how to conceptualize the range of emotional experiences had by humans (Bunge, 1963, 73).

On one hand, evolutionary psychology understands emotions as being derived from a universal set of evolved hardware that is common to all humans. In this way, emotion is construed as an attribute of human experience that can involve non-cognitive and/or cognitive processes that are developed over millennia through the process of evolution. On the other hand, social constructionist theories of emotion focus on the unique social dimensions of affective experience and hold that a full understanding of humans' affective experiences requires an account of the social influences which establish and influence the development and experience of an agent's emotions. These culturally conditioned features are conceived as being localized to an agent's culture and thus social constructionist accounts of emotion can be contrasted with evolutionary psychologists' universal conception of human emotion because social constructionism finds affective experience to be structured by the unique affective ecology of one's culture. Therefore, this is the overall definition of research philosophy for any topic (Danermark, 2002, 56).

Two main ontological perspectives of objectivism and subjectivism

The reference to objectivism and subjectivism, can be interpreted as two analytical moments: objectivist at first, in which the researcher reconstructs the structure of relationships that are independent of consciousness and the will of the agents and a second step, which attempts to capture representations, perceptions and experiences of the protagonists of the practice. According to the researcher known as Saunders et al in 2008 took two logical steps in sociological analysis that would allow more possibilities to explain and understand social reality. However, by not taking into account the representations, perceptions, the experience, it can not account for the sense of social game, which is explained by the dialectical relationship between these objective regularities embodied in structures, institutions and so on and those same realities incorporated individuals (Harland, 1987, 118).

As a personal reflection, many people find that objectivism and subjectivism are partial views, since the former can only apprehend the objective sense of the practices, and second only lived in the same sense, and none of them can grasp the practicality, or the sense of the social game. By way of conclusion, people could point out that social reality aims ...