The day as it goes by..

Trying to find something constructive that was part of the day. I had the opportunity to attend the mock pre-thesis defense of one of the guys from our FPM programme and I am starting to realize that more than the content/outcome of your pre-thesis work is your ability to justify the methodology of your research. May be I am too new to understand and conclude that it's quite ironical.

What I am starting to realize already is that you must be very strong in your research fundamentals and this gives a real upper edge in justifying your work and marketing you work. If you are looking to do a Ph.D from MDI come prepared with the state of mind that you'll be doing hardcore studies in Research methodologies and importantly the philosophy of the way the knowledge is to be created. After all an FPM program is knowledge creation exercise.

The Scientific Way

Apologies for not posting yesterday. The reason is simple. In everyone's life there are some days known as wasted and yesterday was one of those days for me. Let's not get into wasting time on something that's already categorized as wasted.

As I mentioned in my posts "An encounter with the World of Philosophy", I am into the world of philosophies which leads to knowledge creation. We start with questioning what is science? I'd like to take some excerpts and try bringing myself closer to what is scientific way? Scientific way is specific aspects.

First, every attempt that claims to be scientific is based on explicit relationship between ideas and empirical observation and an attempt to be relevant to reality. Second, using a scientific approach necessarily means a conscious application of reasonably clear formulated rules. Third, using a scientific approach means that the scientist acknowledges that every member of society has a a legitimate right to protections form the public scrutiny of his or her private life.

Being a scientist and creating knowledge

It is not necessary for you to be a scientist in order to create knowledge or being a part of process of knowledge creation. A key difference between knowledge created by the scientific method compared with any other method (say as a consultant or any other kind of investigator) is that some kinds of studies do not present their methods and result for the public and critical scrutiny by other creators of knowledge. Both these ways of creating knowledge can be treated as Methodology for Creating Business Knowledge.

"Practiced" and "Reconstructed" Logic

Practiced logic is the path that researchers/consultants/investigators follow de facto.Reconstructed logic is presentation of this path.

An Encounter with the World of Philosophy..

I carefully chose the word encounter. I could have used the word rendezvous but for someone like me a rendezvous with the world of Philosophy is no less than an encounter. I mean a guy who's never been away from the objectives of science and technology is suddenly asked to get into the subjective ocean of philosophy.

It's not that I've never come close to reading philosophy and it's subset psychology. For that matter I've read a bit of Freud. But something like Penis envy is a new phrase. Let me just scrape something from wikipedia on penis envy.

"Penis envy in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to the supposed reaction of a girl during her psychosexual development to the realization that she does not have a penis. Freud considered this realization a defining moment in the development of gender and sexual identity for women. According to Freud, the parallel reaction in boys to the realization that girls do not have a penis is Castration anxiety.

In contemporary culture, the term is sometimes used inexactly or metaphorically to refer to the idea that adult women wish they had a penis, or to refer to anxieties between men about the size of their genitals."

I might be sounding crazy as to why I am having this unimportant discussion on penis envy. The reason is because I am still trying to understand what psychology is. Contextually it's been said that Psychology is the Mother of All Sciences. However, physicist believe that psychologists have physics envy. Physics Envy; now this is what brought me into discussing penis envy. Anyways before I confuse myself and/or my readers with all the hoopla about the philosophical essence of psychology, I'll move into putting down the flavor of my first day of class at MDI.

The class was about the "Philosophy & Methodologies of Creating Knowledge" popularly known as PMCK. I must say my first stint with Professor Rajen Gupta has created a very strong impression about the class of the man and his eternal quest for being an assimilator (knowledge assimilation). And after having the privilege of hearing him the quote “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” has a sense of completeness.