Cognitive Apprenticeship and the Supervision of Science and Engineering Research Assistants.Michelle Anne Maher,Joanna Gilmore &David Feldon -2013 -Journal of Research Practice 9 (2):Article M5 (proof).detailsWe explore and critically reflect on the process of science and engineering research assistant skill development both within laboratory-based research teams and, when no team is present, within the faculty supervisor-research assistant interactions. Using a performance-based measure of research skill development, we identify research assistants who, over the course of an academic year of service as a researcher, markedly developed, modestly developed, or failed to develop their research skills. Interviews with these research assistants and their faculty supervisors, seen through the (...) lens of cognitive apprenticeship, provide insight into this variation. We found that within the contours of supervisory relationships and research teams, research skill development is indelibly shaped, for better or worse, by supervisor influence and abundant trial-and-error. (shrink)
Centering Patients, Revealing Structures: The Health Humanities Portrait Approach.Sandy Sufian,Michael Blackie,JoannaMichel &Rebecca Garden -2020 -Journal of Medical Humanities 41 (4):459-479.detailsThis paper introduces an innovative curricular approach—the Health Humanities Portrait Approach —and its pedagogical tool—the Health Humanities Portrait. Both enable health professions learners to examine pressing social issues that shape, and are shaped by, experiences of health and illness. The Portrait Approach is grounded in a set of “critical portraiture” principles that foster humanities-driven analytical skills. The HHP’s architecture is distinctively framed around a pressing social theme and utilizes a first-person narrative and scholarship to explore how the dimensions of the (...) personal and the structural are mutually constituted. We argue that when creator-educators adopt the Portrait Approach and its critical portraiture principles to design and teach the HHP, they enable learners to become proficient in synthesizing and analyzing—with both depth and breadth—the human and social dimensions of patients’ lives. This inventive curricular intervention provides a needed contribution to health professions education in that it utilizes health humanities methodologies to elucidate the multiple aspects of health, illness, disability, and healthcare. (shrink)
OnMichel Serres.Joanna Hodge -2024 -Angelaki 29 (4):137-146.detailsThis piece offers a response toMichel Serres’s Relire le relié (Citation2019) by way of a series of interruptions, which release unexpected meanings from the trinitarianism of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It considers the problematics of translating the title into English as Religion: Rereading What is Bound Together (2021), and connects the discussion back to themes from two earlier texts, The Parasite (Citation1980) and the conversations with Bruno Latour, Éclaircissements (Citation1992), as well as to a modalization of interference (...) in Serres’s Hermès II (Citation1972). This series of interruptions and interferences consider the hybrid, pagan, and Christian nature of Serres’s religious inheritance and legacy. Understated, and awaiting discovery, is a connection between Hestia and Aphrodite, and between the woman caught in adultery, whom a crowd of learned men seek to stone, with whom the text opens, and Mary, the mother of God. (shrink)
Michel Onfray’s concept of new ethics.Joanna Skurzak -2022 -Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 12 (1-2):13-20.detailsA new form of ethics suggested by the Francophone philosopher M. Onfray concerns, first of all, the resignation from faith in a transcendent God, which is substituted with an undefined sacrum in immanence. This new form of ethics is, today, becoming a popular alternative to religious ethics. However, traditional, and new ethics should not be treated as separate sets, as they do not necessarily compete with each other. Systems of spiritual development related to specific denominations will always provide inspiration even (...) for atheists’ ethics. The latter can indicate that, apart from religion, there is also a spirituality that can develop in a person. Nihilism is not the only alternative to religion, as sometimes the defenders of the old religious order try to show. (shrink)
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The 2015 Baltimore Protests: Human Capital and the War on Drugs.Joanna Crosby -2018 -Foucault Studies 24:34-57.detailsIn order to show how whatMichel Foucault described as Chicago School neoliberalism in The Birth of Biopolitics devalues human life while masking that devaluation, I examine the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, and the following civil unrest. Through an exploration of the concept of human capital, I argue that this concept, while seeming to answer a question regarding labor in economics, exacerbates the devaluation of human life in the U.S. generally and in the case of (...) Freddie Gray more specifically. Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics lectures illustrates why the devaluation of life has gone largely unrecognized. As the concept of human capital, along with other ‘market values,’ proliferated beyond the realm of economics into daily life, human beings have come to be characterized as ‘enterprise units.’ I will argue that the prosecution of the War on Drugs provides a paradigmatic case of characterizing human beings as enterprise units, some useful and others surplus, looking to Baltimore to provide concrete examples. (shrink)
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Foucault, the subject and the research interview: a critique of methods.Joanna K. Fadyl &David A. Nicholls -2013 -Nursing Inquiry 20 (1):23-29.detailsFADYL JK and NICHOLLS DA. Nursing Inquiry 2013; 20: 23–29 Foucault, the subject and the research interview: a critique of methodsResearch interviews are a widely used method in qualitative health research and have been adapted to suit a range of methodologies. Just as it is valuable that new approaches are explored, it is also important to continue to examine their appropriate use. In this article, we question the suitability of research interviews for ‘history of the present’ studies informed by the (...) work ofMichel Foucault – a form of qualitative research that is being increasingly employed in the analysis of healthcare systems and processes. We argue that several aspects of research interviewing produce philosophical and methodological complications that can interfere with achieving the aims of the analysis in this type of study. The article comprises an introduction to these tensions and examination of them in relation to key aspects of a Foucauldian philosophical position, and discussion of where this might position researchers when it comes to designing a study. (shrink)
Marian Zdziechowski and Leo Tolstoy: on true Christianity and Polish patriotism.Joanna Piotrowska -forthcoming -Studies in East European Thought:1-16.detailsBuilding on the cultural transfer theory ofMichel Espagne and Michael Werner, the paper examines the history of Marian Zdziechowski’s interactions with Leo Tolstoy. Its starting point is their correspondence of the 1890s, and the endpoint – Zdziechowski’s magnum opus Pessimism, Romanticism and the Bases of Christianity (1915). The main emphasis lies on two microhistories of cultural transfer with opposing vectors, represented in the relations between these two figures. The first, revolving around the publication of Zdziechowski’s essay Religious and (...) Political Ideals of Polish Society, is dedicated to the attempts of Zdziechowski, a young Polish intellectual, to secure a place in the field of Russian intellectual culture with the help of Tolstoy, one of its leading figures. The second concentrates on Tolstoy’s letter to Zdziechowski, which the latter used as a preface to a separate publication of his essay. Aiming to communicate the idea that Tolstoy was no enemy for the Poles to the Polish audience, Zdziechowski thus responded to the critical reaction to Tolstoy in the Polish press of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the end, the figure of Zdziechowski as a mediator between cultural fields proves to be of high value for further studies of processes and mechanisms of cultural transfer. (shrink)
Adorno and Phenomenology.Joanna Hodge -2019 -Philosophy Today 63 (2):403-425.detailsAdorno develops critiques in parallel of the phenomenologies of G. W. F. Hegel and of Edmund Husserl. While respecting their differences, he rehearses conjoined objections to their accounts of philosophy, and of progress, of history, and of nature. Critical of Hegel’s idealist dialectics, and of Husserl’s transcendental idealism, Adorno also in his readings of their texts reveals a textual materiality of their philosophical enquiries, which provides material evidence in support of his critique. This essay seeks to reveal the dynamic of (...) this process, and show certain parallels with results supplied in the phenomenological enquiries ofMichel Henry, and in the deconstructions of Jacques Derrida. If an epoch may still be captured in the concept, then the negative dialectical conceptuality developed by Adorno must capture a condition common to that epoch, and, in part, shared by other such thinkers. (shrink)
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Provocations and Improvisations Concerning Reality: The Encounters of Jacques Derrida and Jean Luc-Nancy.Joanna Hodge -2014 -Derrida Today 7 (1):79-101.detailsThis essay responds to the Nancean account of presentation, evoked in the opening citation, in order to trace out in Nancy's enquiries a disruption of Husserlian presentation, and a re-thinking of materiality on the edge of classical phenomenology. It stages a non-encounter between the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and of Jacques Derrida in relation to a third term, the Lacanian conception of the ‘real’. Thereby it can be shown how these writings touch on each other, in response to phenomenology and (...) to psychoanalytical theory, but do not engage. All the same, the claim to be made is that the writings of Nancy and Derrida converge in forming a third option, alongside the secularised phenomenologies of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty and the Christian phenomenologies of Jean-Luc Marion andMichel Henry, by marking up the event of Lacan's reformulation of Freud's psychoanalytical theorising. (shrink)
John Coltrane, la Musique Sans Raison: Esquisses d'Une Philosophie Imaginaire, Essai Pour Une Phénoménologie du Jazz.Michel Arcens -2012 - Alter Ego.detailsDe quoi s'agit-il donc dans ces pages ? De rien moins que de " comprendre ", au sens premier, Coltrane et sa musique et, à travers celui-ci et celle-là (c'est tout un, Arcens le démontre), d'atteindre à l'ipséité même du jazz. Vaste programme pour lequel l'auteur mobilise écrivains, poètes, philosophes - singulièrementMichel Henry et sa phénoménologie. Tant il est vrai, assure-t-il, qu'" une philosophie esthétique, une philosophie tout entière fondée sur l'esthétique est, au fond d'elle déjà, une phénoménologie. (...) " C'est aussi un voyage auquelMichel Arcens convie son lecteur... et qui n'est pas de tout repos. II se mérite. II est de l'ordre du pèlerinage, semé d'aspérités, d'apories contournées avec une maîtrise confondante. Mais la clarté nouménale, dans le sens husserlien du terme, sur laquelle il débouche, vaut qu'on l'entreprenne et le mène à son terme. Impossible, après la lecture de ce livre, d'écouter John Coltrane (ou n'importe quel autre musicien de jazz) avec les oreilles d'antan. (shrink)
Binswanger et l'analyse existentielle.Michel Foucault -2021 - [Paris]: Seuil. Edited by Elisabetta Basso & François Ewald.detailsIntroduction -- ch. 1. Le cas Ellen West -- ch. 2. L'espace -- ch. 3. Le temps -- ch. 4. L'experience d'autrui -- ch. 5. L'anthropologie existentielle.
Éducation et (post)vérité: l'épreuve des faits.Michel Fabre -2019 - Paris: Hermann.detailsLa 4e de couverture indique : "Notre conception de l'éducation est liée à l'idée de vérité. Ce rapport à la vérité s'avère toutefois problématique aujourd'hui : érosion de l'autorité des institutions, sources plurielles et concurrentes d'informations, voire avènement d'une ère de "post-vérité". Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là? Quelle est la part de responsabilité des doctrines philosophiques dans cette crise de la factualité? Comment la problématique de la factualité se décline-t-elle à partir de débats philosophiques contemporains (Russell et Dewey, Rorty et (...) Habermas, Bouveresse et Foucault, Latour et la revue du Mauss, Butler et Nussbaum)? Quels sont les enjeux politiques et éducatifs de cette crise de la vérité factuelle? Comment, dans ce contexte, penser la formation à l'esprit critique? L'École peut-elle retrouver une normativité épistémologique à partir de la notion d'enquête?". (shrink)
Café Spinoza.Michel Juffé -2017 - Lormont: Le Bord de l'eau.detailsCe livre, composé de douze épisodes, qui peuvent être lus chacun pour soi, a été conçu – et en bonne partie « test頻 en groupe – pour aider le lecteur à entrer dans le cercle des amis de Spinoza.
Jalons sur la route de Simone Weil.Michel Thiout -1959 - [Paris]:details1. La recherche de la vérité chez Simone Weil.--2. Essai de bibliographie des écrits de Simone Weil.
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Anarchie, gnose et sagesse: essai typologique et utopique.Michel Weber -2021 - [Louvain-la-Neuve]: Les Éditions Chromatika.detailsMettre en faisceau, dans un même argument, anarchie, gnose et sagesse pourra sembler peu académique. On trouvera ici des raisons de penser qu'il n'en est rien: une communauté de vues s'atteste non seulement historiquement, mais aussi conceptuellement. En un mot, elle se nomme volonté d'authenticité, qui est exigence d'autonomie. Il faut donc faire prévaloir l'autorité sur le pouvoir, la connaissance sur la foi, et la vie sur la mort."--Page 4 of cover.
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Platon: l'amour du savoir.Michel Narcy (ed.) -2001 - Paris: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF.details" Savoir " n'est que l'une des variantes de la traduction du grec Sophia, et " l'amour du savoir ", l'une des façons de traduire le terme forgé, dit-on, dans le milieu socratique, philosophia. Faire entendre dans Sophia " savoir " plutôt que " sagesse ", c'est orienter cette présentation de Platon vers les aspects épistémologiques de sa philosophie, plutôt que sur son versant politique et éthique. Qu'est-ce donc que le savoir pour Socrate ou, à travers le Socrate des dialogues, (...) pour Platon? On retiendra pour significatif de la recherche contemporaine que l'ensemble des contributions qui forment ce volume examinent la question à partir de la République. La République, puis la trilogie Théétète, Sophiste, Politique, et enfin le Parménide : voilà le corpus sur lequel on interroge ici Platon. (shrink)
Le postanarchisme expliqué à ma grand-mère: le principe de Gulliver.Michel Onfray -2012 - Paris: Éditions Galilée.detailsL'anarchisme a ses dévots incapables de penser sans le secours du catéchisme fabriqué par l'historiographie dominante du militantisme. Si l'on veut l'envisager en dehors des clous, il faut moins croire la légende que découvrir l'histoire de ce formidable mouvement dans l'histoire. Afin de construire l'anarchie dans les actes et lui donner son actualité, allons au-delà du catéchisme à l'aide d'une théorie contemporaine: le postanarchisme. Cette expression recouvre toute pensée qui conserve un certain nombre des idéaux de l'anarchisme classique, mais les (...) dépasse au profit d'une pensée libertaire contemporaine. Chacun connaît le géant Gulliver et personne n'ignore l'existence des lilliputiens. Si le géant peut être immobilisé au sol, ça n'est pas par le pouvoir macrologique d'un seul, mais par la multiplication micrologique des petits liens. L'addition de petites forces constitue une formidable puissance politique libertaire. Je nomme cette logique "Principe de Gulliver". La révolution ne se fera plus par le haut, dans la violence, avec le sang et la terreur, imposée par le bras armé d'une avant-garde sans foi ni loi, mais par le bas, de façon immanente, contractuelle, pragmatique, pacifique. L'ouvrage s'ouvre sur un "Autoportrait au drapeau noir" qui est une autobiographie sous le signe de l'anarchisme. (shrink)
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