Title

On Getting Hit By Traffic Coming In Both Directions: A Response To Dr Karen Devine'S 'Epistemology Matters'

Keywords

epistemology; ontology; postmodernism

Abstract

This reply to Dr Karen Devine restates my claim, originally published in International Politics, that our epistemological assumptions do not affect our substantive (or ontological) claims about international relations (IR) as much as we commonly think. Even if we restrict ourselves purely to deconstructing the arguments others have made, and to analyzing the discourses of IR, it is very difficult in practice to be genuinely postmodernist in a way that makes a real difference to empirical research. We always end up saying that reality is the way it is, no matter how hard we try to hedge it around with disclaimers of various sorts. © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Publication Date

3-1-2013

Publication Title

International Politics

Volume

50

Issue

2

Number of Pages

303-308

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2013.3

Socpus ID

84875359403 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84875359403

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