Reviewed by: Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic by Robert J. Dostal Carlo DaVia DOSTAL, Dialectic. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2022. ix + 297 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $34.95 Reading this book is like getting a lively tour of the Portland Building (1120 Southwest 5th Ave., Portland, Oregon) from seasoned critic. The landmark municipal building, althou...

Why Even a Liberal Can Justify Limited Paternalistic Intervention in Anorexia Nervosa Jennifer Hawkins (bio) Most (but not all) adult persons with anorexia satisfy the existing criteria widely used to assess decision-making capacity, meaning that incapacity typically cannot be justify coercive intervention. After rejecting two other approaches justification, Professor Radden concludes it is mos...

review and analysis of ¬ the relationship of human kind beings as being deployed in the world, and the question of how human kind understand the universe, is a fundamental question that martin heidegger investigated in his philosophical work, “being and time”, and he attempted to open the secret of livingness of human beings. based on his philosophies, the man, as a being who is trying to under...

This book is a strong dissonance in a loud chorus of neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who promise that, after yet another few years, one more large-scale project, one more combined effort of EEG, MEG, fMRI, and PET experts, one more imaging technology, the mystery of mind and consciousness, of feelings and thoughts, will finally be solved (or dissolved).Then the dualism of mind ...

The problem of Psychology's Two Cultures" is described by Kimble (August 1984). who found evidence for the existence of "scientific" andY "humanistic" cultures within the profession, measured b' individual responses on a number of questions designed to force choices between various methods of apl*oach. This division, like that between Snow's (1964) "two cultures." the sciences and the humanitie...

If you were to scan the critiques of modern medicine offered by various thinkers, you would glean their despair over the declining societal consciousness. This concert of painful perspective is a pointer to the overall decline in social and medical ethics, neurosurgery not excluded. This piece is an attempt at keeping the gentle flame of neurosurgical ethics burning steady and bright, against t...

Instructionism refers to educational practices that are teacher-focused, skill-based, productoriented, non-interactive, and highly prescribed. Constructivism refers to educational practices that are student-focused, meaning-based, process-oriented, interactive, and responsive to student interest. There is disagreement regarding which curricular orientation best serves the educational needs of c...

The concept of information landscapes has been a constant theme in the development of interactive multimedia packages. For the interface and access to this information to be effective and efficient, consideration must be given to the cognitive load placed on the user. Improvement in learning outcomes can be supported by allowing students to focus on metacognitive processes as a component of per...

Inductive logic admits a variety of semantics (Haenni et al., 2011, Part 1). This paper develops semantics based on the norms of Bayesian epistemology (Williamson, 2010, Chapter 7). §1 introduces the semantics and then, in §2, the paper explores methods for drawing inferences in the resulting logic and compares the methods of this paper with the methods of Barnett and Paris (2008). §3 then eval...