Life forms in the thinking of the long eighteenth century.Keith Michael Baker &Jenna M. Gibbs (eds.) -2016 - Toronto: Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.detailsFor many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic "Enlightenment project." Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a broader and more varied understanding of eighteenth-century conceptions of nature. Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world that responds to Reill's work. The ten essays (...) included in the collection analyse the place of historicism, vitalism, and esotericism in the eighteenth century--three strands of thought rarely connected, but all of which are central to Reill's innovative work. Working across national and regional boundaries, they engage not only French and English but also Italian, Swiss, and German writers. (shrink)
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Music Training, and the Ability of Musicians to Harmonize, Are Associated With Enhanced Planning and Problem-Solving.Jenna L. Winston,Barbara M. Jazwinski,David M. Corey &Paul J. Colombo -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.detailsMusic training is associated with enhanced executive function but little is known about the extent to which harmonic aspects of musical training are associated with components of executive function. In the current study, an array of cognitive tests associated with one or more components of executive function, was administered to young adult musicians and non-musicians. To investigate how harmonic aspects of musical training relate to executive function, a test of the ability to compose a four-part harmony was developed and administered (...) to musicians. We tested the working hypothesis that musicians would outperform non-musicians on measures of executive function, and that among musicians, the ability to harmonize would correlate positively with measures of executive function. Results indicate that musicians outperformed non-musicians on the Tower of London task, a measure of planning and problem-solving. Group differences were not detected on tasks more selective for inhibitory control, conflict resolution, or working memory. Among musicians, scores on the harmony assessment were positively correlated with performance of the Tower of London task. Taken together, the current results support a strong relationship between musicianship and planning and problem solving abilities, and indicate that the ability to harmonize is associated with components of executive function contributing to planning and problem solving. (shrink)
Introduction: “The Need for Repose”.Jeffrey M. Perl,Mita Choudhury,LesleyChamberlain,Andrea R. Jain &Jeffrey J. Kripal -2009 -Common Knowledge 15 (2):157-163.detailsThis essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called “Apology for Quietism.” This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude of quietists, there is such a thing at all. Dealing first with the “activist” Susan Sontag's attraction to the “quietist” Simone Weil, it then concentrates on the “activist” William Empson's attraction to the Buddha and to Buddhist quietism, with special reference to Empson's lost manuscript Asymmetry in Buddha Faces (and to (...) Sharon Cameron's work on the topic in her book Impersonality). The author, who is also editor of the journal, argues against the effort of some contributors to substitute new terms for quietism and emphasizes instead what he calls (quoting Sontag) “the need for repose.”. (shrink)
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Perceptions of Confidentiality Violations Among Psychologists.Mitchell M. Handelsman,Stacey M. Potts &Jenna Goesling -2000 -Ethics and Behavior 10 (4):363-374.detailsThis study explored psychologists' perceptions of confidentiality violations. One hundred ninety-five psychologists answered questionnaires about a vignette regarding a male therapist accused of violating the confidentiality of a female client. The vignette varied on the following variables: Confidential information was conveyed to either an insurance company or another client, the therapist's account of the violation included either an excuse or a justification, and scapegoating was included or not included in the account. The insurance condition and excuse condition produced more lenient (...) judgments of the violation. However, excuses elicited more negative judgments of the therapist. Scapegoating generally elicited more negative judgments. Differences in the recipient of confidential information and the accounts given for violations have an impact on psychologists' perceptions of confidentiality violations. (shrink)
Young People Who Meaningfully Improve Are More Likely to Mutually Agree to End Treatment.Julian Edbrooke-Childs,Luís Costa da Silva,Anja Čuš,Shaun Liverpool,Catarina Pinheiro Mota,Giada Pietrabissa,Thomas Bardsley,Celia M. D. Sales,Randi Ulberg,Jenna Jacob &Nuno Ferreira -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.detailsObjective: Symptom improvement is often examined as an indicator of a good outcome of accessing mental health services. However, there is little evidence of whether symptom improvement is associated with other indicators of a good outcome, such as a mutual agreement to end treatment. The aim of this study was to examine whether young people accessing mental health services who meaningfully improved were more likely to mutually agree to end treatment.Methods: Multilevel multinomial regression analysis controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, and (...) referral source was conducted on N = 8,995 episodes of care [Female = 5,469, 61%; meanAge = 13.66 years] using anonymised administrative data from young people's mental health services.Results: Compared to young people with no change in mental health difficulties, those showing positive meaningful changes in mental health difficulties were less likely to have case closure due to non-mutual agreement. Similarly, they were less likely to transfer or end treatment for other reasons than by case closure due to mutual agreement.Conclusion: The findings suggest that young people accessing mental health services whose symptoms meaningfully improve are more likely to mutually agree to end treatment, adding to the evidence that symptom improvement may be appropriate to examine as an indicator of a good outcome of accessing mental health services. (shrink)
There’s something else I haven’t told you.KerryChamberlain -2015 -Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 58 (1):30-30.detailsThere’s something else I haven’t told you, it might be important... I don’t know. Really. It’s probably nothing, it’s probably trivial, it won’t mean anything I’m sure. But it has been troubling me quite a bit... well, not a lot, but a bit, you know. I suppose I should have mentioned it earlier, but somehow....
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths.Alice H. Eagly,Janie Harden Fritz,Tamara L. Burke,Ned S. Laff,Erin L. Payseur,Diane A. Forbes Berthoud,Sheri A. Whalen,Amy C. Branam,Nathalie Duval-Couetil,Rebecca L. Dohrman,Jenna Stephenson,Melissa Wood Alemá,Jennifer A. Malkowski,Cara Jacocks,Tracey Quigley Holden &Sandra L. French (eds.) -2011 - Lexington Books.detailsCommunicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, weaves the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection about women's leadership development in academic, organizational, and political contexts. This work claims a space for women's leadership studies and acknowledges the paradigmatic shift from discussing women's leadership using the glass ceiling to what Eagly and Carli identify as the labyrinth of (...) leadership. (shrink)
(1 other version)Nietzsche on Tragedy.M. S. Silk &J. P. Stern -1981 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Edited by J. P. Stern.detailsThe first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy, this important volume by M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern examines the work in detail: its place in Nietzsche's philosophical career; its value as an account of ancient Greek culture; its place in the history of German ideas, and its value as a theory of tragedy and music. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by LesleyChamberlain, illuminating its (...) enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this accessible study has been revived for a new generation of readers. (shrink)
On being logical: Journal of philosophical studies.J. L. Stocks -1926 -Philosophy 1 (3):279-291.detailsIt is difficult for a philosopher to contemplate with equanimity the fate which is overtaking, if it has not already overtaken, the word logical. “Logical” is one of a trio of words selected by the Greeks to represent the three main departments of philosophy; and of this trio the other two members, the words “ethical” and “physical,” have at least remained respectable; and to be called “philosophical” is almost a compliment. But to be logical is apparently, at least in England, (...) to enter on very questionable courses: it is to class yourself with every reckless extremist, with the latest and wildest ism in art, politics, and literature, with Russians and Frenchmen and the “Latin mind.” No less a person than H.M. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on no less an occasion than an Assembly of the League of Nations, has lately proclaimed proudly to the gathered nations that lack of logic is the special virtue and privilege of the British Empire. The “lesser breeds with in the law” heard no doubt and trembled, wondering how they could ever compete with a Power to which the laws of thought themselves were mere expediencies. Thus it appears, if Sir AustenChamberlain is right, that to be logical is to fall into a human weakness or vice, and that this weakness or vice is fortunately commoner outside than inside the British Empire. (shrink)
Działalność parlamentarna i sejmikowa Marcjana Ścibora Chełmskiego.Marcin Sokalski -2021 -Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum 25 (1):71-98.detailsThe paper describes the state and local parliamentary activity of Marcjan Ścibor Chełmski, one of the most interesting parliamentarians in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 17th century. The text is based on archival research including the Parliament manuscript diaries, private correspondence describing the debates; published sources: instructions, parliamentary resolutions, memoirs; and studies of the history of parliamentarism, on top of the functioning of the political elite and the circulation of information. M.S. Chełmski came from a family with a strong tradition (...) of public service settled in the Krakow province. He began his career as a parliamentarian by being elected to the Sejm in 1613, and later sat in the Parliaments of: 1616, 1618, 1619, 1620, 1621, 1625, 1626/I, 1626/II, 1629/I, 1629/II, 1631, 1632, 1633, 1634, 1635, 1637/I, 1637/II and 1638. He was one of the MPs who usually had a strong presence in the Chamber of Deputies. During the debates he addressed the issues of noble freedom in the spirit hostile to absolutum dominium, economic issues, procedural issues, and religious freedom. The collected source material confirms Chełmski’s great public activity in Lesser Poland and the evolution of his political stance at the Sejm from an oppositionist during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa to a moderate supporter of the royal court. Sources indicate that Chełmski had a reputation as an esteemed legal expert. He held the dignity of Marshal of the Crown Tribunal. For over 30 years he was one of the most active participants of the local parliament life in the Krakow province. The evolution of Chełmski’s political stance during the reign of Władysław IV Vasa resulted in his nomination for a prestigious office of theChamberlain of Krakow. (shrink)
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Malikīyah (muntakhab-i Akhlāq-i Jalālī bih nām-i Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Bābar).Bahrām ibn Ḥaydar Mihmāndār -2016 - Bun: Muʼassasah-ʼi Ibn Sīnā. Edited by Muḥammad Karīmī Zanjānīʹaṣl, Āzādah Karbāsiyān & Muḥammad ibn Asʻad Dawwānī.detailsDawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513; Akhlāq-i Jalālī ; Islamic ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Solomon’s Argument on Hidden Variables in Quantum Theory.M. A. B. Whitaker -2007 -Foundations of Physics 37 (6):989-997.detailsJ. Solomon [Journal de Physique 4, 34 (1933)] produced an argument of great generality claiming to demonstrate the impossibility of hidden variables in quantum theory, an argument which M. Jammer [The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics(Wiley, New York, 1974)] said raised a number of questions. For the first time, this argument is discussed, a simple hidden variable model violating the argument is analysed in detail, and the error in the proof is located.
Christian Spirituality and Mysticism in the Encyclopedia of Religion: GRACE M. JANTZEN.Grace M. Jantzen -1988 -Religious Studies 24 (1):57-64.detailsThe great increase of interest in the study of spirituality and mysticism is reflected in the large number of articles that the Encyclopedia of Religion devotes to various aspects of this topic. As one would expect, there are long entries for ‘Mysticism’ and ‘Christian Spirituality’ and ‘Religious Experience’. In addition to these broad categories, attention is given to more specific aspects of spirituality such as ‘Asceticism’, ‘Silence’, ‘Prayer’, ‘Meditation’, and so on. This is complemented by entries on many of the (...) spiritual giants of the Christian tradition, both ancient and modern. I shall begin by discussing these articles on individuals, and go on to examine the more general articles later in the review. I shall suggest that, despite many merits, both sorts of entry display an editorial policy about which serious questions must be raised. (shrink)
A Ninth-Century Commentary on Phocas.M. Esposito -1919 -Classical Quarterly 13 (3-4):166-.detailsOne of the most learned and prolific writers of the ninth century was Remigius of Auxerre . In addition to lengthy expositions of several books of the Bible, he wrote Commentaries on Donatus, Priscian, Eutyches, Beda, the Disticha Catonis, Sedulius, Martianus Capella, Boethius, and Phocas.
The Sickness unto Death and Discourses.M. Jamie Ferreira -2008-10-17 - In Steven Nadler,Kierkegaard. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 148–168.detailsThis chapter contains sections titled: The Sickness unto Death Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays further reading.
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Author's Response: Constructivism as Possibility?M. Füllsack -2013 -Constructivist Foundations 9 (1):23-25.detailsUpshot: Does constructivism need to assert its validity or is it more appropriate to assume its possibility, discuss its consequences and try to deliver arguments that show it is a viable epistemology?
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Constructivism and Computation: Can Computer-Based Modeling Add to the Case for Constructivism?M. Füllsack -2013 -Constructivist Foundations 9 (1):7-16.detailsProblem: Is constructivism contradicted by the reductionist determinism inherent in digital computation? Method: Review of examples from dynamical systems sciences, agent-based modeling and artificial intelligence. Results: Recent scientific insights seem to give reason to consider constructivism in line with what computation is adding to our knowledge of interacting dynamics and the functioning of our brains. Implications: Constructivism is not necessarily contradictory to digital computation, in particular to computer-based modeling and simulation. Constructivist content: When viewed through the lens of computation, in (...) many of its aspects constructivism seems in line with what currently is held to be valid in science. (shrink)
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