From the series ‘60/60 the best of SPCh’ (48) [60 most interesting publications from 60 years of SPCh]
2025-12-18
Juan Palbo Stegmann: How realism promotes better social outcomes than empiricism and subjective idealism [Studia Philosophiae Christianae 55(2019)3, pp. 105–123].
DESCRIPTION: Juan Pablo Stegmann holds two doctorates and two master's degrees, a bachelor's degree, and two postgraduate degrees (in economics, finance, business strategy, and engineering). He has held senior positions at leading international companies such as Citibank, Bank of America, N. M. Rothschild (UK), and Telefonica. He has also worked with leading consulting firms such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting, A. T. Kearney, and Booz Allen. He is the author of several books and articles and teaches a wide range of courses at the master's and bachelor's levels: strategic management, management, integrated business management, entrepreneurship, organizational theory and behavior, business fundamentals, international business, intercultural communication, cultural environment in global business, business consulting, business ethics, economics, international economics, financial management, strategic resource management, and quantitative methods. He is affiliated with the University of Maryland. The article proposes a conceptual model that promotes interdisciplinary and critical thinking by combining three main philosophical traditions that influence contemporary thinking — British empiricism, continental subjective idealism, and realism — with their epistemological foundations and in combination with modern social disciplines: ethics, social responsibility, and political economy. Based on statistical analysis, the article shows which of the three epistemologies yields better social results. “The classification of thinkers, disciplines, theories, ideas, and values under each epistemology is complex because in many cases we do not rely on one single epistemology: philosophical ideas are not always classifiable as purely empiricist or subjective idealist or realist. In many cases, they are not exclusively grounded in a single philosophical tradition” (p. 122).
Table of contents: 1. The conceptual model. 2. The impact of social disciplines according to their epistemologies. 3. The independent variables of the statistical analysis: cultural values. 4. The dependent variables of the statistical analyses: social outcomes. 5. Statistical analysis based on Data Mining (Machine Learning). 6. Conclusions.
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