SENSATION AND PERCEPTION provided the starting points for modern research into our mental processes. In the early nineteenth century the French philosopher Auguste Comte argued that the study of behavior should become a branch of the biological sciences and that the laws governing the mind should be derived from objective observation. Comte's new philosophy, which he called positivism, was infl...

I present scholarship on Cézanne’s artistic process by George Hamilton, Meyer Schapiro and Joyce Medina in order to analyze his reconstitution of Space (as occurring in Time) in several paintings of his late period: “Le Bay from L’Estaque (1886), “Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan” (1885),and “Mont SainteVictoire” (1904). I argue that the ingenuity of Cézanne’s artistic representation of Space “...

Voltaire (1694-1778), the French philosopher said: “There are many ways to waste own time: Doing nothing, doing the wrong thing, doing the good thing at the wrong time” (own translation). The situation is quite different if the time is robbed by someone else or even by a professional mistake. There is a clear evidence that researchers on metallic iron (Fe0 termed as zero-valent iron) for water ...

Morphic Computing is based on Field Theory [14-16] and more specifically Morphic Fields. Morphic Fields were first introduced by [18] from his hypothesis of formative causation that made use of the older notion of Morphogenetic Fields. [18] developed his famous theory, Morphic Resonance, on the basis of the work by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Morphic Computingis based on Field Theory and ...

In examining the postmodern turn in counseling and its implications for school counseling practice, it is suggested that in postmodern approaches, there is a change in the use of the narrative metaphor, a shift from the therapeutic focus on problems to solutions, and a reinterpretation of the meanings of the core counseling values that sustain the client-counselor therapeutic relationship. An i...

Although childbirth is fundamentally involved with the issue of women's bodies, it is also involved with such social values as politics, economics, medicine, and other phenomena characteristic of a particular time and culture. In this article I divide Japanese society and childbirth into pre-modern, modern, and postmodern phases, with special emphasis on the postmodern phase. I use the word "po...

like volter, french salient author, al- jahiz is a philosopher literate; namely, literary dimension of his personality predominates over his philosophical character. like other great literati and writer of the world, he was a master in all sciences and knowledge of his age including philosophy, speech, politics, and a verity of customs, beliefs and religions and in some of them he was skillful ...

Drawing on the concept of “literary interference” developed by pioneer polysystem theory, Itamar Even-Zohar, and expanded other scholars, as well various interpretations intertextuality, this article compares two twentieth century thinkers: French writer, philosopher, literary theorist Maurice Blanchot Romanian-born essayist philosopher Emil (E. M.) Cioran. The uses Even-Zohar’s notion “channel...