The author carried out a theoretical analysis of culture in the context activity dimension. Attention is focused on cultural understanding essential content categories — artistic space; activity; creativity as an act creation; artist separate selfsufficient individual process birth and embodiment work. functions are explained from point view form human activity, way being world, its self-affirm...

The philosophy of Martin Buber as a philosopher of dialogue is well known to philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology. His thoughts and how they have been applied to human counseling and psychotherapy are however, less well known. This article presents an overview of some of the modern and postmodern therapists and analysts who have drawn from his philosophy important ...

In constructing a distinctive polemic, postmodern architecture presented itself as a reaction to the modem movement, embodying both its negation and transcendence. In the ongoing debate over the definition of postmodernity as a cultural condition, the position of negation continues to come under severe criticism. This thesis attempts to understand constituents of the ideological discourse of po...

ene Descarte, a French philosopher advocated that mind and body were two separate entities. During the time of Renaissance, when the world was formulating biological revolution, heavy emphasis was placed on how body works. Unfortunately many tended to neglect, deny and underestimate the effects of the psyche on body. In the 19 century before Sigmund Freud, medicine was epitomized by the contrib...

Jean-Pierre Changeux is France's most famous neuroscientist. Though less well known in the United States, he has directed a famous laboratory at the Pasteur Institute for more than thirty years, taught as a professor at the Collège de France, and written a number of works exploring "the neurobiology of meaning." Aside from his own books, Changeux has published two wide-ranging dialogues about m...

This paper claims that theories from the French-speaking world have an influence on current thinking in IS research, including at the American and at the international levels. French theories are first defined and classified in 10 trends that correspond to 10 main authors. The frequency of their quotation is then measured in American and international conference in IS and in MISQ. The result is...

Deliverables 7.14a and 7.14b seek to detect in which way the new type of profiling that is the subject of FIDIS work package 7 – machine profiling based on data mining techniques – is different from previous ways of profiling, and how this relates to the construction of our identity. The concepts of idem and ipse, coined by the French philosopher Ricoeur, are used to look into the issue of huma...

Dualism – The human brain and mind are separate. Known formally as Cartesian Dualism after it’s originator, the 17th century French philosopher René Descartes. Physical matter, including the body and brain, behaves according to the laws of nature, and is thus suitable for scientific investigation. The human mind (soul, self, or spirit), which controls human behavior, lacks physical substance--a...