Seminar on Contributing to Theory Progress
Since 2010, I have been teaching a doctoral seminar on theory development, reasoning, argumentation, scientific writing, and publication. Given that these are general topics relevant to all researchers no matter what their research interest and approach, I have for several years wanted to offer the seminar to the general public, but haven't found a way to do it. Thanks to Ibrat Djabbarov and the New Scholars Network, I am now introducing an online version of this seminar, available as a public service, free of charge, to anyone who is interested. A video introduction to the seminar can be found here and the syllabus here.
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The seminar consists of five inter-dependent sessions dedicated to the following questions:
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(1) How do I make a scholarly contribution?
You can access the recorded lecture here and my follow-up reflection on the relevance of the concept of truth here.
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(2) How do I reason?
April 26 @ 4 p.m. CET
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You can access the recorded lecture here. In the follow-up reflection, I explored in more detail the diversity of abductive reasoning and why it is crucial not to confound induction and abduction.
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(3) How do I structure my argument?
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(4) How is my argument evaluated?
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(5) In what ways can I seek to be relevant?
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The live sessions will be held on Zoom (click on the dates above to register; once you have registered, you will have access to the Zoom session).
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The sessions are 90 minutes each and consist of a 45-60 minute lecture, followed by discussion.
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A recorded version of the lecture part of the session will be made available on YouTube, courtesy of the New Scholars Network. The links to the recordings will be added to this page as soon as the recordings become available.
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If you have any questions, I'm only an email away at Mikko.Ketokivi (at) ie.edu.
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