To tackle the evolution challenges of adaptive systems, this paper argues on the necessity of hermeneutic approaches that help to avoid too early elimination of design alternatives. This visionary paper proposes the Hermeneutics Framework, which computationally integrates a design rationale management system, an auto-adaptive control system and a reflective and modular event-driven language run...

the present study is an attempt to investigate the concept of game according to gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and its implications in the acquisition of consciousness/understanding as educational concepts. a descriptive, conceptual and comparative analysis methodology has been applied to meet this goal. the results proved that applying gadamer’s game theory, and its follow-up(subsequent)...

Abstract The work done so far on the understanding of mathematical (proof) texts focuses mostly logical and heuristical aspects; a proof text is considered to be understood when reader able justify inferential steps occurring in it, defend it against objections, give an account “main ideas”, transfer idea other contexts etc. (see, e.g., Avigad philosophy practice, Oxford University Press, Oxfor...

This qualitative study focused on proxemic feelings and feelings of detachment and ambiguity among professors-nurses concerning their experiences. This study aimed to reveal the meanings of sensibility held by being-professor-nurse in teaching and learning to be and do nursing. The theoretical-philosophical support is based on Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenological approach and the hermen...

In his seminal work, Truth and Method, the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer distinguishes between three types of what he calls the experience of the 'Thou'. In this paper, Gadamer's analysis of this experience is explained in terms of his philosophical hermeneutics and brought to bear upon the patient-professional relationship. It is argued that while Gadamer's analysis implies fruitful in...

The short story is a condensed and modified version of a novel of ideas that will be part of my dissertation. The protagonist, an experimental particle physicist, is sent on a mission to recover a hidden notebook supposedly belonging to Schrödinger (a ‘what-if’ fictive element) that will reveal how the latter had discovered the way for quantum behaviour to be inserted into the macroscopic world...