Ad-Hoc Theory as Design

Almost any design can be made to work but some designs are more enabling than others. We seek to establish designs that can be elaborated at a sustained tempo for months or years.

Piaget was the first to explore a kind of epistemological relativism in which multiple ways of knowing are acknowledged and examined nonjudgmentally, yet with a philosopher's analytic rigor. Since Piaget, the territory has been widely colonized by those who write about women's ways of knowing, Afrocentric ways of knowing and even the computer's ways of knowing. post