Touching an elephant in a dark room: philosophical, psychological, and literary perspectives on dementia

Some Perspectives on Counterfactuals: Philosophical, Psychological and Computational

Counterfactual assertions about non-actual states of affairs have long fascinated and perplexed both philosophers and psychologists. In recent years, theorists in both fields have attacked the problem of counterfactuals with significant success. In this study, relevant advances in philosophy and psychology are compared and contrasted. Despite their differing aims and methodologies, the problems...

On Encoded Lexical Meaning : Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

The past few years have seen quite a bit of speculation over relevance theorists’ commitment to Fodorian semantics as a means to account for the notion of encoded lexical meaning that they put forth in their framework. In this paper, I take on the issue, arguing that this view of lexical semantics compromises Relevance Theory’s aim of psychological plausibility, since it effectively binds it wi...

a dot in the dark room psychological analysis of the short stories the dark room by sadeq hedayat and a dot on the map by sait faik abasıyanık

iran and turkey witnessed deep and broad social changes in an effort to modernization in the first half of 20th century. the social changes had wide-ranging consequences, including personal and psychological effects. the purpose of this paper is a psychoanalytic study of two short stories written by two prominent iranian and turkish writers, sadeq hedayat (1903-1951) and sait faik abasıyanık (1...

Barriers to qualitative dementia research: the elephant in the room.

As our population is aging, the global prevalence of dementia is rising. Recent extensive reviews of the dementia literature highlight a clear need for additional qualitative research to address the experiences of people with dementia and their carers. To date, the vast majority of published dementia research is quantitative in nature and, perhaps not surprisingly, attracts the bulk of governme...

Elephant in the Room