%0 Conference Paper %1 Tedre:2013:EAE:2526968.2526979 %A Tedre, Matti %A Pajunen, John %B Proceedings of the 13th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research %C New York, NY, USA %D 2013 %I ACM %K cs epistemology ontology %P 97--104 %R 10.1145/2526968.2526979 %T An Easy Approach to Epistemology and Ontology in Computing Theses %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2526968.2526979 %X In many research fields---notably social sciences but also in those fields where design, experiment-based science, and social sciences are mixed---researchers must often describe their epistemological and ontological commitments in research reports. The research literature describes those commitments in various ways, often grouped under research paradigms such as positivism, post-positivism, and constructivism, and described as "world views." This paper presents the bare bones of the ontological and epistemological questions in scientific practice. Ontologically speaking, subject matters can be mind-dependent or mind-independent. Epistemologically speaking, elements of research may be more or less open to interpretation. This paper introduces a simplified approach to standard research terminology for computing and engineering students by offering a rough-and-ready way for resolving ontological and epistemological questions. %@ 978-1-4503-2482-3

@inproceedings{Tedre:2013:EAE:2526968.2526979, abstract = {In many research fields---notably social sciences but also in those fields where design, experiment-based science, and social sciences are mixed---researchers must often describe their epistemological and ontological commitments in research reports. The research literature describes those commitments in various ways, often grouped under research paradigms such as positivism, post-positivism, and constructivism, and described as "world views." This paper presents the bare bones of the ontological and epistemological questions in scientific practice. Ontologically speaking, subject matters can be mind-dependent or mind-independent. Epistemologically speaking, elements of research may be more or less open to interpretation. This paper introduces a simplified approach to standard research terminology for computing and engineering students by offering a rough-and-ready way for resolving ontological and epistemological questions.}, acmid = {2526979}, added-at = {2014-08-25T08:44:45.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Tedre, Matti and Pajunen, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/229e90e2cac7dcd6e26071404d467150d/ji}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research}, description = {An easy approach to epistemology and ontology in computing theses}, doi = {10.1145/2526968.2526979}, interhash = {327360d87f8045ff9cb5786d123a474f}, intrahash = {29e90e2cac7dcd6e26071404d467150d}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2482-3}, keywords = {cs epistemology ontology}, location = {Koli, Finland}, numpages = {8}, pages = {97--104}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {Koli Calling '13}, timestamp = {2014-08-25T08:44:45.000+0200}, title = {An Easy Approach to Epistemology and Ontology in Computing Theses}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2526968.2526979}, year = 2013 }