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The Discursive Ontology of the Social World
Rom HarréRom Harré’s seminal work in the social sciencesSocial sciences is both of an epistemological and an ontological nature. At the...
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Africa’s Knowledge Archives, Black Consciousness and Reimagining Community Psychology
In this chapter, we argue that the quest for decolonised community psychologies must necessarily engage with multiple knowledge archives. We draw on...
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Antiquity
This essay presents conceptualisations of the Possible as they were developed in “(Classical) Antiquity.” This period is defined as encompassing the...
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Antiquity
This essay presents conceptualisations of the Possible as they were developed in “(Classical) Antiquity.” This period is defined as encompassing the...
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Philosophical ELT: Critical Study of the Conceptual Presuppositions Within the Field
Philosophy, in its technical sense, includes the critical study of both conceptual and methodological presuppositions of human practices. It means...
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The Individual Moments of Dialectic
This chapter introduces the reader to Bhaskar’s four moments of dialectic (1993) – the foundation of an ontological dialectic of capital importance...
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How Might One Live? A Social Theory of Human Motivated Behavior
This study aimed at inspecting problems surrounding the concept of motivation, discovering the ontological reasons behind them, providing a...
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From Meaning to Purpose: Finding the Heart of a Living Logotherapy
The author presents his experiences in comparing three theories of spiritual psychology in his dissertation. Since then, he has worked to resolve...
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Epilogue by Michael M.J. Fischer: Hauntology’s Genesis, Catacoustics, and Future Shadows
Hauntology has gone through three major historical formations indexed by dreamwork, electronic music, and algorithmic simulacra. Rahimi introduces...
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Psychological Science within a Three-Dimensional Ontology
The present paper outlines the nature of a three-dimensional ontology and the place of psychological science within this ontology, in a way that is...
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An Ontology of Human Flourishing: Economic Development and Epistemologies of Faith, Hope, and Love
This chapter demonstrates that the presence of poverty, and its associated pathologies, is of concern to all humankind whose innate desire is to seek...
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Higher order affordances
Affordances are opportunities for action for a given animal (or animals) in a given environment or situation. The concept of affordance has been...
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The Aesthetics of African Participatory Music Making Through the Eyes of Utu: An Alternative Approach to Music Education
The theorisation of music and music making in most African Indigenous Communities has for a long time been the prerogative of anthropological and...
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White matter dysfunction in psychiatric disorders is associated with neurotransmitter and genetic profiles
Functional changes of white matter are largely unexplored in patients with psychiatric disorders. This study examined white matter dysfunctions...
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The Five Pillars of Learning
The chapter utilizes Delors’ adapted “five pillars of learning,” Charles Taylor’s “super-nova reality,” and Jurgen Habermas’s “integrative knowledge”...
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Essay on Fascist Subjectivity
After making the distinction between fascist politics and fascist subjectivity, it is argued that the latter depends on specific content that has...
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Heterologous Dimension of the Other Sociality in the Cognitive Space of Uncertainty
Contemporary society is presented as a model of other sociality demanding extraordinary methods of research in the cognitive space of uncertainty....
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Compositionality Versus Computability: Topology of Cognitive Computations
In the preceding chapters, we discussed a new topological model of cognition and its employment in deconstructing several cognitive functionalities....
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Past and Present Research Methodologies in India
This paper elucidates the historical development of research methodology in psychology. The goals of this essay are to elucidate: (a) the adoption of...