The internalization of public stigma by persons with serious mental illnesses may lead to self-stigma, which harms self-esteem, self-efficacy, and empowerment. Previous research has evaluated a hierarchical model that distinguishes among stereotype awareness, agreement, application to self, and harm to self with the 40-item Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (SSMIS). This study addressed SSMIS...

This paper explores the implications of the incompressibility of complex systems for the analysis and modelling of such systems. In particular, a provisional epistemology will be developed that attempts to remain faithful to the limitations derived from this aspect of complexity science. We will argue that such an investigation of complex systems highlights the relevance of paradigmatic plurali...

AM MOST GRATEFUL to J. Linn Mackey (2002) for his thoughtful commentary on my article. He is correct in arguing that intuition deserves a more prominent place in a discussion of how to do interdisciplinary research. I welcome the opportunity to correct this oversight on my part. However, Mackey draws what I believe to be a false dichotomy between " rule-driven " and " intuitive " research; I wi...

depuis les années 1990, une nouvelle visée critique est venue enrichir la liste déjà riche des perspectives de recherches appliquées à la littérature. aux investigations de type historique, textuelle, sociologique, etc. est venue s’ajouter une tendance critique aux contours encore indéfinis, mais dont la volonté première est de valoriser le rapport parfois apparent, souvent implicite, entre la ...

J^ D rawing attention to the Kantian aesthetic that underpins Benoit Mandelbrot's [1] argument for 'an art for the sake of science' does not represent a sufficiently critical engagement of fractal geometry's entry into visual discourse (an entry made largely transparent by the suggestion that art acts as a handmaiden to science). Merely pointing to the extent of this aesthetic debt leaves the n...

Lorch 2003, as quoted by International Symposium (2007), suggests that the focus of the construction industry has been on the ‘know-how’ rather than the ‘knowwhy’. This bias towards the ‘know-how’ may be the cause for construction’s deficiency in theories (Koskela and Howard 2002a, b). It is argued that in construction “there is a generalized failure to explore the behavioural, environmental an...

From a praxeological point of view, subjects are constituted in the accomplishment of practices. Thus, on this view, critique can be conceived as a specific transformative practice of extant practices. It intervenes in and disrupts the current workings of practices in order to divert, re-synchronize, or even stop them. Therefore, moments of pause, deviance, and reconfiguration lend themselves t...

In part one of the Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant wrote that “the judgment of taste . . . is not a cognitive judgment, and so not logical, but is aesthetic [1].” While the condition of aesthetic discernment has long been the subject of philosophical discourse, the role of the arbiters of that judgment has more often been assumed than questioned. The art historian, critic, connoisseur, and ...

Do participatory art forms and relational aesthetics constitute a background for the growingly interactive culture of today? Do they express the same ideals or are they different ideologies? Why is modern and contemporary culture so concerned with the spectator, be it the art lover, TV audiences, or internet users? Why, in spite of their different scopes, are media (art included) so interested ...