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Inner Conflict of Personality in the Paradigm of Existential-Phenomenological Ontology
This article analyzes the problem of internal personality conflicts from the the standpoint of existential-phenomenological ontology. The article...
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What Is Called “Process Thought”: A Transdisciplinary Process Ontology for Psychosocial Studies
Transdisciplinary in nature, psychosocial work has drawn on a range of theoretical inspirations. This contribution builds on prior theoretical work... -
New Work: How Important Is the Orientation of Meaning? Reflections on the Basis of Frankl’s Dimensional Ontology
New work leads to a different view of the relationship between companies and human being, which is becoming increasingly important in the context of... -
What Is Called “Process Thought”: A Transdisciplinary Process Ontology for Psychosocial Studies
Transdisciplinary in nature, psychosocial work has drawn on a range of theoretical inspirations. This contribution builds on prior theoretical work... -
The Relationship Between Ethics and Ontology in Researching Suicide
Extant research in the field of qualitative methodologies argues that researching sensitive topics is valuable, because it provides an opportunity... -
The Relation Between Psychology and the Other Parts of Metaphysics: Ontology, Cosmology, and Theology
Psychology, be it empirical or rational, forms part of metaphysics. Ontology, cosmology, and theology are the other parts of metaphysics, according... -
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What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good?
I present an ontology of criteria for evaluating theory to answer the titular question from the perspective of a scientist practitioner. Set inside a...
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A Spacetime Ontology Compatible with Quantum Mechanics
The ontology proposed in this paper is aimed at demonstrating that it is possible to understand the counter-intuitive predictions of quantum...
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Unveiling the tapestry of teacher belief research: tracing the present and forging the future through bibliometric analysis
Research on teacher beliefs has gained significant attention from scholars, resulting in a vast body of literature. To understand the current trends,...
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Nature, Nurture, and the Noëtic: Addressing Flawed Assumptions of Galton’s Paradigm
The author presents a brief background on Galton’s theory of nature vs. nurture. Though this theory has been widely accepted for decades, three... -
Spirit As a Separate Dimension of Human Nature: Relevance to Psychotherapy
The way we conceptualize and understand the human spirit has a direct bearing on how we design research and how we provide clinical interventions for...
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Working with Leaders and Teachers to Grow Place Responsiveness
This chapter documents how the place-responsive pedagogy of Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre (PEEC) emerged across 40 years inspired by the... -
Discourse Ontology Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan
This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian... -
World-Making
This piece is written as a method of inquiry (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2008). Writing as method implies an ontology of becoming through writing in... -
An Ontology from Discourse
In this chapter, Tombras brings Heidegger vis-à-vis Lacan and argues for a conceptual bridging between the two. He presents this as an ontology from... -
Rediscovering the Dynamic of Self-gift and Reciprocity from a Place of Vulnerability
For Aristotle, happiness (eudaimonia) would constitute the end of all human action, whether contemplative, practical, or moral. In such a... -
Striving to Be Pono (Balanced, Equitable, and Hopeful): Conceptualizing an Indigenous Writing Process from a Native Hawaiian Cultural Perspective
Community-based and culturally grounded research, led by Indigenous scholars, is critical for the prevention and intervention of health risks such as...