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Gallagher, Shaun. Hermeneutics and Education. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992.
No full textIntroduces educators to hermeneutic inquiry and shows the relation of conservative, critical, and radical hermeneutics to education
Gesture following deafferentation: a phenomenologically informed experimental study
No full textEmpirical studies of gesture in a subject who has lost proprioception and the sense of touch from the neck down show that specific aspects of gesture remain normal despite abnormal motor processes for instrumental movement. The experiments suggest that gesture, as a linguistic phenomenon, is not reducible to instrumental movement. They also support and extend claims made by Merleau-Ponty concerning the relationship between language and cognition. Gesture, as language, contributes to the accomplishment of though
Behavioral, neuroimaging and phenomenological evidence of the minimal-bodily self.
No full textThe quest to understand the nature of the “self” has been a fundamental goal of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science for centuries. Numerous definitions have been proposed, each attempting to elucidate what the self is in slightly different contexts. One of the most acknowledged models, in contemporary psychological and neuroscientific studies, defines the influential distinction between the narrative-cognitive dimension of the self and the bodily-affective dimension. In our systematic review, we provide an overview of the evidences gathered on the nature of the minimal-bodily self. We used the PRISMA method, which yielded over 208 experimental clinical and non-clinical articles between the phenomenological, behavioral, and neuroscientific domains. Neurocognitive, psychological, psychiatric and contemplative studies were consequently gathered and analyze. Such effort allowed us to frame the problem of the self in a new, exhaustive, and multidisciplinary manner. Our results highlight the role of emotion in the emergence of the bodily self, specify whether the self can be framed as a neural, functional organization of the brain, and addresses the issue of whether the bodily self can be defined as graded in nature, or an all-or-none phenomenon. Lastly, we draw conclusions regarding the nature of bodily self and posit some outstanding questions regarding the future inquiry of this fascinating field of research
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Oxford Handbook of the Self
No full textResearch on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook of the Self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areas. In philosophy and some areas of cognitive science, the emphasis on embodied cognition has fostered a renewed interest in rethinking personal identity, mind-body dualism, and overly Cartesian conceptions of self. Poststructuralist deconstructions of traditional metaphysical conceptions of subjectivity have led to debates about whether there are any grounds (moral if not metaphysical) for reconstructing the notion of self. Questions about whether selves actually exist or have an illusory status have been raised from perspectives as diverse as neuroscience, Buddhism, and narrative theory. With respect to self-agency, similar questions arise in experimental psychology. In addition, advances in developmental psychology have pushed to the forefront questions about the ontogenetic origin of self-experience, while studies of psychopathology suggest that concepts like self and agency are central to explaining important aspects of pathological experience. These and other issues motivate questions about how we understand, not only "the self", but also how we understand ourselves in social and cultural contexts
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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