Sheila Dow's concept of dualism: clarification, criticism and development |
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Authors: | Mearman Andrew |
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Institution: | * University of the West of England, Bristol |
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Abstract: | This paper analyses Dow's concept of dualism and decomposesit into eight categories, one not explicitly identified by Dow.It is argued that Dow's original definition is underdevelopedand thereby lacking practical relevance. The paper presentsa development of Dow's definition, which allows her to attackthe splitting of polar categories. This significantly increasesthe relevance of Dow's definition of dualism and buttressesher criticisms of the mainstream. The paper also identifiesheuristic dualism in Dow's work. A distinctioncan be made between Dow's heuristic dualism, whichis strictly an intermediate step in an argument, and the mainstreamuse of fixed dualistic categories. |
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Keywords: | Dualism Realism Methodology Open-systems Post-Keynesianism |
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