This article argues that Vygotsky’s choice of word meaning as the basic unit of analysis for cultural psychology connects him to a German psycholinguistic tradition—exemplified in the work of G. W. F. Hegel and J. G. Herder—distinct from the Marxist tradition. While later commentators criticize Vygotsky’s reliance on word meaning, arguing that it cannot explain the formation of consciousness, t...

This paper considers Thomas Beddoes’s role in disseminating German psychological ideas in Britain. It describes the German tradition as inaugurated by Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–93) and considers the chief differences between this tradition and the English one stemming from David Hartley. It is suggested that Beddoes found strong support for his convictions about human interiority in writings by...

Background and aim: Grounded theory has taken some different theoretical perspectives since its creation in 1967 by Barney Glaser. Considering that applying grounded theory partly depends on an awareness of its philosophical perspectives, gaining knowledge about these various perspectives is required for health care professionals who are interested in studying the social processes. This review ...

We investigate the fundamental relationship between philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of nature, arguing for a position in which latter encompasses former. Two traditions are set against each other, one is natural aesthetics, whose covering Idealism, other defended this article, with general program comprehensive nature as its theory. Our approach philosophical, operating within framework...

We aim to present Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (1772-1801) as a precursor of ecological thought, observing how he values nature in his result constant attempt overcome Fichtean dualism by means poetry, through the study natural sciences and also Plotinus’ philosophy. observe that Novalis tries, with partial success, modify Philosophy, evolving from subjective idealism fashion towards sync...

After more than a century of its development, philosophers working in the analytic tradition have recently begun to consider its history as an object of philosophical investigation. This development, particularly significant in the context of a tradition of inquiry that has often conceived of its own problems as ahistorical, is salutary in that it offers to show what, within the tradition, rema...

In this paper I pursue the question whether transcendental explanation in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre should be regarded as ontologically committed. It is natural to assume that transcendental explanation in the Wissenschaftslehre should be construed non-ontologically: Schulze's criticisms of Kantian philosophy and Jacobi's objection to philosophical justification supply Fichte with motives for...

When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

This paper considers Thomas Beddoes's role in disseminating German psychological ideas in Britain. It describes the German tradition as inaugurated by Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-93) and considers the chief differences between this tradition and the English one stemming from David Hartley. It is suggested that Beddoes found strong support for his convictions about human interiority in writings by...

For me, as for most of the readers of TRADITION, abortion on . demand is prohibited because halakhah says so; and that's that.. Thus a philosophical argument on abortion, as presented by Dr. Brody, * Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, is primarily of philosophical interest and without practical implications for Our own lives. In fact, however~. this is not so. Should w...