Although the birthdate of an experimental psychology can be argued, Wilhelm Wundts assumption of paternity cannot. It was Wundt in 1874 who marked out the "new domain of science" and who made the break with -self-observation by insisting that "all accurate observation implies . . . that the observed object is independent of the observer." The psychical processes had to be properly controlled in...

The author argues that virtue ethics offers a potentially fruitful framework for approaching Catholic social thought. A virtue-based approach provides a means of connecting a Catholic understanding of social justice to issues of personal morality and moral formation. Three overlapping virtues are proposed as foundational to this approach: solidarity, compassion, and hospitality. The cultivation...

BACKGROUND Dementia is generally characterized by cognitive impairment that can be accompanied by psychotic symptoms; for example, visual hallucinations are a core feature of dementia with Lewy bodies, and delusions are often seen in Alzheimer's disease. However, for behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), studies on the broad spectrum of psychotic symptoms are still lacking. The...

This is a philosophical analysis of commonly held notions and concepts about thinking and mind. The empirically derived notions are inadequate and insufficient for a deeper understanding of thought itself, but this prephilosophical understanding of thinking leads to a more refined and profound distinction of different forms of thought and their prominent common features of aspectuality and rela...

Social media are said to offer seemingly endless ways of connecting with people in a variety of online spaces. The mediated form that such communication takes has re-opened many theoretical debates regarding the status of relationships that are organized and managed online. In this paper we seek to explore these issues through the lens of topological thinking, and particularly through the work ...