Perspective—Making Doubt Generative: Rethinking the Role of Doubt in the Research Process
呼吁学术界重视怀疑在理论构建中的积极作用，基于皮尔士的溯因推理，提出三条策略原则，并批评当前过度强调验证而忽视发现过程，主张拓宽方法论概念。
In this paper, we want to shift the attention of our scholarly community to the living condition of doubt and its underappreciated significance for the theorizing process. Drawing on Peirce's notion of abduction, we articulate the relationship between doubt and belief in the everyday imaginative work central to theorizing, and establish the role played by doubt as abduction's engine in these efforts. We propose three strategic principles for engaging and using doubt in the research process. In concluding, we explore our field's overemphasis on validation to the exclusion of discovery processes and to the detriment of excellence in theorizing. We call for a broadening of our notions of “methodology” to incorporate discovery processes and to begin their explication.