Intuition and Ineffability: Tacit Knowledge and Engineering Design

Navigating Complex Decision-making: A Study of Filipino Education Deans' Perceptions on Strategic Decision-making

“…The analysis revealed that participants with prior experience as deans in various colleges perceive SDMP as an intuitive and tacit skill, especially in making quick decisions that solely rest on their discretion. According to decision-making literature (Brock, 2015;Young, 2018), intuition tends to play a major role in decision-making, particularly when decision-makers are not compelled to involve others. Although there is scant empirical research on intuition in strategic decision-making, this study adds to the growing body of research on this topic.…”

Invited Lecture: Notions of 'Theory' and their Practical Consequences in the Discipline of Software 'Engineering' (including Information Systems Design)

“…Thus, a peculiar mixture of pre-scientific crafts and scientifically attested techniques is essential in all 'technology', as well as also in the practices of scientifically supported medical healing (Bamm, 1956, chpt. 5), in spite of any epistemic progress in the underlying auxiliary sciences (Arageorgis & Baltas, 1989, p. 215): for comparison consider the well-known notion of tacit knowledge (Polanyi, 2009) and those forms of engineering 'intuition' which stubbornly resist the 'codification' and formalization (Young, 2018) that would be needed for the formulation of solid theories. A formal-logical analysis of this gap reveals differences between nomological statements (scientific), nomopragmatic statements (technological) and engineering rules (technical): their logical implication relation is only uni-directional, not bi-directional (Bunge, 1998b, pp.…”