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Wilber's ‘Broad Science’: A Cure for Postmodernism?

2004· article· en· W2056502054 on OpenAlexaff
Charles Westheafer

Bibliographic record

VenueAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicCounseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
Canadian institutionsGolder Associates (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPostmodernismSociologyProject commissioningPower (physics)EpistemologyConstructionismSocial constructionismPsychoanalysisPublishingSocial sciencePsychologyPhilosophyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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This paper will argue that postmodernism has gone too far in suggesting that all of reality is socially constructed. The result is a return to pre‐modern thought, where observation and verifiability are discredited. Wilber's model of Broad Science is used as a means of maintaining the insights of Social Constructionism while avoiding the extremes of postmodernism. His Four‐Quadrant model of Broad Science offers a means to integrate all therapies into a coherent framework, thus avoiding many of the power struggles that have been characteristic of family therapy's history.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.026
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.031
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.139

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0260.031
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.100
Scholarly communication0.0100.026
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0080.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.350
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2004
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