Philosophy of Science

!!! This is a Group Essay where I am only required to answer one of three questions as my group members cover the others = roughly 200 words!!!


The following are instructions for the entire essay which you do not have to write, you only have to write the Introduction to the essay and cover the first question.

Instruction: Write an essay of maximally 600 words (excluding the bibliographical list of references) in which you critically analyze the academic article Bol & Smith (2011) from the perspective of philosophy of science. Bol, J. C., & Smith, S. D. (2011). Spillover effects in subjective performance evaluation: Bias and the asymmetric influence of controllability. The Accounting Review, 86(4), 12131230. To guide you in deciding what you ought to discuss in your essay, we provide a list of questions that your essay should answer. Your answers to these questions will jointly make up the backbone argument of your essay. However, please note that we expect you to write a wellstructured essay rather than just providing answers to these questions. You should also stay within the 600word limit and, therefore, carefully choose what to say and what not to say. Originality is appreciated, but arguments must be sensible and to the point!  Here are the three questions that your essay should answer (only the first required for you): 1. Which logic is used in the development of scientific knowledge in this paper? deductive or inductive? Please justify.

In addition to the paper that we provide you in the text above (available in CanvasAssignment as an interactive document), you may also search and use insights from sources found by yourself. Although this may earn you additional credits, you should explicitly refer to all sources used in your essay!

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