In this paper, we revisit Donald Schön’s scholarly work on “handling uncertainty”, suggesting that in order to cope reasonably well with uncertainty, practitioners should be encouraged to take a reflective existential stance, aimed to explore their own tacit personal style (i.e., theories-in-use). They should (i) recall and reflect on their theories-in-use to bear on the phenomenon, (ii) metaph...

Active integrity constraints (AICs) are a useful formalism to express and policies restore consistency in databases violating them. However, AICs do not allow users different kinds of commonly arising practice, such as foreign keys. In this paper, we propose existential active (EAICs), powerful extension that allows us wide range used ontological systems. We investigate properties EAICs. Specif...

This paper presents a series of three studies describing how reading literature promotes empathy and moral outcomes. We add contrasts to this field empirical study: (a) an explanatory interpretative form narrative engagement (Integrative Comprehension) is contrasted with expressive explicative aesthetic (Expressive Enactment); (b) interpretive cognitive perspective-taking (a component Integrati...

In this paper we delineate the conditions and features of what call an existential philosophy history in relation to customary trends field history. We do by circumscribing a transgenerational temporality our entanglement ethical relations with temporal others ask us as responsive selves explicating attitude need have when trying responsibly respond other vulnerable beings historical world life.