Purpose The paper offers a dynamic theory of leadership development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines selected leadership literature through the lens of theory building blocks. It identifies the role of the ideal goal in leadership and its importance in developing the psychological aspect of leadership. Findings – The paper posits that leadership is a developmental process, whic...

It is not the intention of this paper to outline my research project per se, as this has been discussed in past papers (see Hawkins, 2007a, 2007b, 2007c). This paper highlights the argument for the importance of making explicit and connecting one’s own personal beliefs and understandings (theories) with one’s research. The intention of this paper is to address Patti Lather’s concerns and examin...

Modern interest in the problem of human free will is largely centered on artificial intellect and transhumanism concepts. However, within a physicalist framework, contrast with medieval thought, this issue not considered to belong area metaphysics. The article describes historical features Eastern Western approaches problem. between ancient worldview Christian standpoint discussed, as well comp...

The article considers the universal-cultural structure of one dialogues Н. Skovoroda – «The grateful Erodius» with a focus on universals culture, namely, alimentary worldview code. analytical separation this code from its close interweaving categories ultimate bases (life, death, immortality) and other codes showed that, in addition to describing specifics nutrition main character work, Erodius...

Robert Brodrick Boston College 
 This paper advances the claim that the perceived rift between theology and scientific cosmology is not merely due to the advances of modern science but also to particular philosophical and theological developments in the realms of epistemology and the social imaginary. In light of this perspective, the author suggests that the recent work done regarding scientif...

The article examines the problem of comparing basic premises philosophy postmodernism and religious worldview, in particular, Christian doctrine. heuristic potential concept “kenosis” is revealed works Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo as applied to interpretation history simultaneously context doctrine postmodernism. In doctrine, kenosis means “exhaustion” God His voluntary descent into world...

CoInDiVinE is a tool for parallel distributed model checking of interactions among components in hierarchical component-based systems. The tool extends the DiVinE framework with a new input language (component-interaction automata) and a property specification logic (CI-LTL). As the language differs from the input language of DiVinE, our tool employs a new state space generation algorithm that ...