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A cognitive science analysis of the Quaker Business Method: is how it works why it works?
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posted on 2023-06-07, 08:26 authored by Peter ChengPeter ChengThe Quaker Business Method (QBM) has been in development for over 300 years. Quakers believe that the QBM is an effective means for making decisions. This paper develops a tripartite theoretical framework to analyze the QBM in order to examine its efficacy, both in terms of the quality of its processes and the morality of its decisions. The framework encompasses: (1) a decomposition of the QBM as a set of tools; (2) a selection of theories and models from cognitive science that explain how humans think; (3) a set of relational models that can be used to objectively judge the morality of different forms of human behavioural interactions. Overall, it appears that QBM tools may counter the deficits in natural human abilities to reason and solve problems, and that they may promote decision making practices that are moral and that the resulting decisions, themselves, may be moral.
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Quaker Studies JournalISSN
2397-1770Publisher
Liverpool University PressExternal DOI
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2Volume
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271-297Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2019-08-07First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-12-10First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-08-06Usage metrics
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