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- Title
Practical Judgment, Narrative Experience and Wicked Problems.
- Authors
Thiele, Leslie Paul; Young, Marshall
- Abstract
Practical judgment can be developed from a wide variety of life experiences upon one condition: the experiences in question are made meaningful through stories. By placing lived experience in narrative form one gains a flexible guide for action. Calculative analysis may usefully supplement, but cannot supplant, narrative knowledge for the decision-maker grappling with the ‘wicked problems’ of social and political life. There is no obvious, or perhaps even feasible, way to determine what constitutes the kind of story that will improve practical judgment and allow for better decisions. It is less the content of stories that requires attention than the process of narrative inquiry, interaction and understanding.
- Subjects
PRACTICAL judgment; DECISION making &; psychology; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); NARRATIVE theology; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Theoria: A Journal of Social & Political Theory, 2016, Vol 63, Issue 148, p35
- ISSN
0040-5817
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/th.2016.6314803