Phenomenology

Cartesian Dualism and the Union of Mind and Body ABSTRACT: Cartesian dualism and the union of mind and body are often understood as conceptions that contradict each other. Diachronic interpretations maintain that Descartes was first a dualist (in the Meditations) and later on developed his stance on the union of mind and body (Passions). Some authors find here a problem without solution. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, some interpretations have been developed intending to give a positive

Introduction Family has long been treated as the basic unit in Chinese society. Traditional marital customs still play a pivotal role in people’s common life, especially in their own marriage practices. The majority of Chinese people follow the basic ancient marital principle: a man or woman should get married upon coming of age. In contemporary Chinese society, when young people coming to the age of marriage, parents, realities and other significant others usually push them to take their heterosexual

SCHOLARLY DESCRIPTION OF CARING CONCEPT OR CARING CONCEPT Jean Watson’s theory has been a pioneer on new and old developments of holistic nursing that guide students, faculty, and practicing nurses with breakthroughs related to expanding consciousness research, notions of internationality, energetic healing, and new views of body, as well as spirituality through compassionate human service. Nursing is a privileged profession to understand the contrast between different societies and individuals

Border Blues: The Dilemma of Illegal Immigration By: Farai Chideya I. Research Question: Immigration is a rapid growing issue for the United States. For a long time people from other countries have been coming here to look for bigger and better things for themselves, as well as for their families. This article digs to the core of the issue, illegal immigration. Chideya wanted to know three things: 1) What is the reality behind the perceptions of Mexican Americans, 2) How do the residents of

1981. Dr. Raporport was born in 1933 also a graduate from Harvard Medical School. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Rapoport's laboratory investigates the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders in children, including Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In this book, one boy spends six hours a day washing himself-

Phenomenology, as the study of structures of subjective experiences and consciousness, finds itself in the persistent struggle to claim its rightful place in contemporary research. (Hok-Eng Tan, Flavours of Thought.) It proposes to be our brains method to access food-related experience. Our cities are ‘peppered’ with noticeable food outlets often intentionally geared towards being expedience rather than an experience. This phi¬losophy to eating is often embedded into design of space. Un¬comfortable

Introduction Chesney et al. (2009) provides a phenomenological analysis of the negative behavior inside one virtual world through a series of observations and focus groups with users. The following is an analysis of this article using the CASP rubric. Relevance of the Research Goal The goal of the research is made clear in the introduction section. The author’s state that three-dimensional environments will become a means of information access on the internet. Furthermore, the authors continue

existence of the world investigated by the sciences. This idea is best clarified in contrast with positions that deny it. For instance, it is denied by any position that falls under the traditional heading of ‘idealism’, including some forms of phenomenology, according to which there is no world external to and thus independent of the mind. This sort of idealism, though historically important, is rarely encountered in contemporary philosophy of science, however. Semantically, realism is committed to

body further allows it to act as a storage for the reflected images, narratives and, practices of the collective. However, Preciado in his “Becoming” pursuit states, “I am my own guinea for an experiment,” (139) which poses questions about the phenomenology of the body: How is his body composed? How can it transform itself? Can it exist without the “political appliance par excellence, a public-private space of surveillance and activation?” Clearly, a body belongs to a place, but these places are socially

HolgateG 2010-10-06 20:23:53 -------------------------------------------- MigrationConfirmed set by HolgateG Qualitative Research THE READER’S COMPANION WORKSHEET Article Title: Author(s): TITLE Topic of interestYes ❏ Method of interest Yes ❏ Population of interest Yes ❏ No ❏ No ❏ No ❏ Maybe ❏ Maybe ❏ Maybe ❏ ABSTRACT Results usefulYes ❏No ❏Maybe ❏ INTRODUCTION Why is the study being done (i.e., the problem, concern, issue)? What is the purpose of the study or the question(s)