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How are we to understand digital objects? How are we to relate ‘cyberspace’ to physical space? This chapter attempts to provide a set of theoretical tools to understand ‘spaces’ of online interaction and what happens within them without... more
The central focus of this paper is the notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable. The paper... more
We propose that the universe is nonlocal and that the appropriate worldview for this understanding is nonlocal realism. Currently the worldview of local realism guides and frames the understanding and interpretations of science. Local... more
Hermeneutics and historical consciousness: An appraisal of the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Post-modern theology is highly suspicious of social theory and its secular origins. After all, the founder who gave us the word “sociology” also coined the term “positivism.” An alternative strategy is that of Bernard Lonergan, a... more
ABSTRACT The Effect of Technology on the Psychology of Death and Dying: An Empirical Phenomenological Study by Dana F. Hodgdon This study explored the lived experience of death in the hospital intensive care unit (ICU) from the... more
Long-term pain is a common comorbidity for people with acquired brain injury. This chapter explores what it is like to live with those two conditions, focusing on the meaning for the individual. The meaning of pain plays a part in... more
Wittgenstein’s Investigations proposed an egalitarian view about language games, emphasizing their plurality (“language has no downtown”). Uses of words depend on the game one is playing, and may change when playing another. Furthermore,... more
Umberto Eco’s The Open Work deals with the making of art. Open work has two constituents: a) multiplicity of meanings and the participation of audience. Artists generate the work of art allowing the audience to fabricate numerous... more
Meaninglessness is one of the biggest threats of our era. Meaninglessness is not only one of the possible symptoms of depression; meaninglessness as such is a complex experience which can be identified at a micro-dimensional felt sensed... more
Capitolo del volume "Italia civile. Associazionismo, partecipazione e politica" a cura di Biorcio T. e Vitale T.
ABSTRACT India has emerged as a global hub for IT industry with the segment having undergone rapid transformation and a phase of accelerated growth. Despite the recent downturn, the IT sector in India has managed to secure a double digit... more
This paper examines the complex interplay between phrasal prosody, syntax, and meaning in English and Spanish, and explores its implication for second language acquisition (SLA). We present L2 data from L1 Spanish/L2 English learners... more
Reading notes on Pitcher's paper. Not for publication.
This paper offers a summary of a doctoral research that investigated the production of meaning in autobiographical performance in dramatherapy, and how it can be described as emerging from the relational and embodied encounter between... more
Meaning in life is generally not considered to be one of the most central aspects of person-centered and experiential therapies. However, Carl Rogers described how clients found purpose in life by going through a process that helped them... more
The article proposes a typology of meaninglessness based on the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce: meaningless as indecipherable; as incomprehensible; and as uncanny. Each type is exemplified with reference to anecdotic semiotic experience... more
In this paper we associate the three concepts of lan-guage, thinking, and meaning with Fuzzy Sets and Sys-tems and Fuzzy Logic. We present some developments in 20th century history of science and of humanities that show deep links between... more
Appear as Chapter One in C. Hanson, Ed. In Search of Self: Exploring Undergraduate Identity Development. (New Directions for Higher Education Series) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014.
מאמר זה מציע מודל שעל פיו חינוך צריך לשרת צרכים הישרדותיים מן העבר האחד, אבל גם כמיהה למשמעות מן העבר השני. לצורך כך חינוך צריך להכיל "איים של חיפוש משמעות". פדגוגיה מתבוננת היא דרך אחת לעשות זאת.
Suffering is not something merely to be coped with; it holds important transformative power. Yet, it is important that suffering is not idealized or viewed as something that is, in itself, good. While suffering is not something to be... more
The meaning of the meaning – logical-rational and holistic-spiritual approach In my paper I compare logical-rational to holistic-spiritual approach to what constitutes the meaning of an expression or text and how they are formed. The... more
In this survey article, I focus on whether 2D semantics can fully capture the epistemic and semantic phenomena that seem central to individuating meanings. After outlining the motivations for 2D semantics as a response to externalist... more
""From the OUP Catalog: * Ambitious original study of a fascinating aspect of human nature * The most serious and systematic account of the notion of self-expression in thirty years * Blends approaches from experimental psychology,... more
If language is the highest application of the mimetic faculty, what is the shortest? With Walter Benjamin as a guide, this Flash paper corresponds with glitchy animated GIFs and kitschy net cultures. How do GIF images mean? and where can... more
This chapter examines in depth under what conditions linguistic meaning can be the object of an empirical science. Possible answers, from the point of view of semantics, are given to questions about the proper object of theories of... more