Encyclopedia - Phenomenology: Encyclopedia - Phenomenology
Phenomenology is a current in philosophy that takes the intuitive experience of phenomena (what presents itself to us in conscious experi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phenomenology: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenomenology - Realist Phenomenology
After Husserl's publication of the Ideen in 1913, many phenomenologists took a critical stance towards his new theories. Especially the m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phenomenology: Parapsychology Dictionary On Phenomenology
Phenomenology: An approach to research that aims to describe and clarify a person's own experience and understanding of an event or p...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhist Philosophy
Buddhist philosophy is the branch of Eastern philosophy based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha (c. 563 BC - c. 483 BC). Buddhist philos...   » Read the article

Article - Dharma
Dharma (Sanskrit, roughly law or way) is the way of the higher Truths. Dharma forms the basis for philosophies, beliefs and practices ori...   » Read the article

Article - Science And Religion: You Are The Father And Son Of God  
Knowledge is divided between phenomenology, science of the changeable and ontology, science of the unchangeable. Ontology is the realm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phenomenology: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenomenology - Existential Phenomenology
Existential phenomenology differs from transcendental phenomenology by its rejection of the transcendental ego. Merleau-Ponty objects to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contemporary Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Contemporary Philosophy
The term contemporary philosopher refers not just to figures who are alive, but also those who passed away within the past three decades,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia - Reality
Reality in everyday usage means "everything that exists." The term "Reality," in its most liberal sense, includes everything that is, whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Buddhist Philosophy
Buddhist philosophy is the branch of Eastern philosophy based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha (c. 563 BC - c. 483 BC). Buddhist philos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unobservables: Encyclopedia - Unobservables
Unobservables are entities whose existence, nature, properties, qualities or relations are not observable. In the philosophy of science t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dharma: Encyclopedia - Dharma
Dharma (Sanskrit, roughly law or way) is the way of the higher Truths. Beings that live in harmony with Dharma proceed more quickly towar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia - Person
Person, in the classic sense, refers to a living human being. However, in philosophy, there has been debate over the precise meaning and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Schütz: Encyclopedia - Alfred Schütz
Alfred Schütz (1899-1959, aka Alfred Schutz) was a philosopher and sociologist. He was born in Austria and studied law in Vienna, but mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology
In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by qu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Tilley: Encyclopedia - Christopher Tilley
Christopher Y. Tilley is a British archaeologist and a leading proponent of post-processual archaeology. Tilley's major works on theoreti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brentano: Encyclopedia - Brentano
There are some famous people named Brentano or von Brentano: August Brentano, bookseller Bernard von Brentano, novelist Christian Brenta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Insight: Encyclopedia - Insight
Insight is: the act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively; Power of acute observation and deduct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bacteriocin: Encyclopedia - Bacteriocin
Bacteriocins are proteinaceous toxins produced by bacteria to inhibit the growth of similar bacterial strain(s). They are phenomenologica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adolf Reinach: Encyclopedia - Adolf Reinach
Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach (December 23, 1883, Mainz, Germany - November 16, 1917, Diksmuide, Belgium), German philosopher, phenomeno...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Stumpf: Encyclopedia - Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 - 25 December 1936) was a philosopher and psychologist. He studied with Franz Brentano and Rudolf Hermann Lotz...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phenomenology: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Phenomenology
phenomenology Study of psychism by contemporary philosophy including awareness in experience and a construction as it appears in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Thermodynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Thermodynamics - Phenomenological Thermodynamics
History of thermodynamics - Gas laws. Years of discovery: Boyle's law (1662) Charles's law was first published by Joseph Louis Gay-Lus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edmund Husserl: Encyclopedia Ii - Edmund Husserl - Life And Works
Edmund Husserl - Husserl's studies and early works. Husserl initially studied mathematics at the universities of Leipzig (1876) and Ber...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sociology Of Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Sociology Of Knowledge - Schools
Sociology of knowledge - Karl Mannheim. The German political philosophers Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentiell: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentiell - Definition
"Dasein always understands itself in terms of its existence, in terms of its possibility to be itself or not be itself. Dasein has either...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Reality, World Views, And Theories Of Reality
A common colloquial usage would have "reality" mean "perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward reality," as in "My reality is not your r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Reality World Views And Theories Of Reality
A common colloquial usage would have "reality" mean "perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward reality," as in "My reality is not your r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Fact
A fact or factual entity is a phenomenon that is perceived as an elemental principle. It is rarely one that could be subject to personal ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Axiom
Axioms are self-evident realities, the existence of which is accepted as given and on which further conceptions are generated. The facts ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Truth
When two or more individuals agree upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event, a consensus about an event and its exper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentiell: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentiell - English Etymology
Technically, Heidegger did not coin the exact term "existentiell". The common German word "existenziell" is usually translated into Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - What Reality Might Not Be
"Reality," the concept, is contrasted with a wide variety of other concepts, largely depending upon the intellectual discipline. It can h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Philosophical Views Of Reality
Philosophy addresses two different aspects of the topic of reality: the nature of reality itself, and the relationship between the mind (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophy Of Mind Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophy Of Mind Hegel - Mind Subjective
Philosophy of Mind Hegel - Anthropology. The Soul. Philosophy of Mind Hegel - Phenomenology of Mind. Consciousness. Philosophy of Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reality: Encyclopedia Ii - Reality - Simple Reality
In the simplest sense, our reality consists of our four-dimensional world: height, width, depth and time. What happens when we lose one o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Studies - Components Of Religious Studies
Religious studies scholars approach the subject across many contexts and disciplines. Depending on what aspect of religion is to be studi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maurice Merleau-ponty: Encyclopedia Ii - Maurice Merleau-ponty - Contemporary Influence
Merleau-Ponty's work has become classic, in the sense that it is read today in different disciplines, with very different effects. Mauri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Philosophy - Introduction
Samkhya Nyaya Vaisheshika Yoga Purva Mimamsa Advaita Vedanta Vishishtadvaita Dvaita Carvaka Jain Buddhist Logic From its inception, Bud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Studies - Intellectual Foundation And Background
Before religious studies became a field in its own right, several key intellectual figures explored religion from a variety of perspectiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michel Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - Michel Henry - Some Quotes From Michel Henry
Michel Henry - On Affectivity. "Affectivity has ever accomplished its work when the world rises." (The essence of the manifestation, �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperreality: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperreality - Significance Of Hyperreality
Hyperreality is significant as a paradigm to explain the American cultural condition. Consumerism, because of its reliance on sign exchan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maurice Merleau-ponty: Encyclopedia Ii - Maurice Merleau-ponty - Thematic Overview Of His Works
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - The primacy of perception. From the time of writing Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception, Merl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Studies - History Of Religious Studies
Interest in the general study of religion dates back to at least Hecataeus of Miletus (ca. 550 BCE – ca. 476 BCE) and Herodotus (ca. 48...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maurice Merleau-ponty: Encyclopedia Ii - Maurice Merleau-ponty - Work
In his Phenomenology of Perception (first published in French in 1945), Merleau-Ponty developed the concept of the "body-subject" as an a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Philosophy - Philosophical Areas Addressed In Buddhism
Buddhist philosophy - Epistemology. Decisive in distinguishing Buddhism from what is commonly called Hinduism is the issue of epistemol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Buddhist Philosophy - Historical Development Of Buddhist Philosophy
Buddhist philosophy - Early development. The philosophical outlook of Earliest Buddhism was primarily negative, in the sense that it fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Introducing Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology. Nigel Benson Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books. Description...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michel Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - Michel Henry - The Life And The Work Of Michel Henry
Michel Henry - Biography. Michel Henry lived in French Indochina until he was 7 years old. Following the death of his father, who was a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperreality: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperreality - Introduction
Hyperrealism is a symptom of postmodern culture. Hyperreality does not "exist" or "not exist." It is simply a way of describing the infor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Dharma - Meanings And Origins Of The Word Dharma
The word Dharma (Sanskrit; "धर्म" in the Devanagari script) or dhamma (Pali) is used in most or all philosophies and religions of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michel Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - Michel Henry - Bibliography Of Michel Henry
Michel Henry - Philosophical Works. L’Essence de la manifestation (1963) Philosophie et Phénoménologie du corps (1965) Marx: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Dharma - In Buddhism
In East Asia, the word for Dharma is 法, pronounced fǎ in Mandarin and hō in Japanese. Dharma - The teachings of the Buddha. For pra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hyperreality: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperreality - The Birth Of A Hyperreality
Consumer objects have a sign exchange value, which means that they indicate something about the owner in the context of a social system (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Dharma - In Jainism
Dharma is natural. Jain Acharya Samantabhadra writes: "Vatthu sahavo dhammo" the dharma is the nature of an object. It is the nature of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy
List of publications in psychology - The Interpretation of Dreams. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900. Online version D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Dharma - Dharma In Hinduism
Within Indian philosophy "dharma" also means "property" and "dharmin" means "property-bearer". In a Sanskrit sentence like "zabdo 'nityaH...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Personality
List of publications in psychology - A Theory of Human Motivation. Abraham Maslow Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. (1943) Online ver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Behaviorism
List of publications in psychology - Psychology as the behaviorist views it. John B. Watson Psychological Review, 20, pp. 158-177. Onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michel Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - Michel Henry - Consequences Of His Philosophy
Michel Henry - On the Problems of Society. Michel Henry wrote an important work on Marx, whom he considers, paradoxically, as one of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Gestalt Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement. Max Wertheimer Experimental Studies of the Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michel Henry: Encyclopedia Ii - Michel Henry - Description Of Selected Titles
Michel Henry - On the Problems of Society. La barbarie (Babarity): The culture, which is the self-development of the life, is threaten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Cognitive Psychology
Description: Importance: ... See also:List of publications in psychology, List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Clinical Psychology
Description: This publication was the foundation of the classification systems used in today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Educational Psychology
Cronbach, Lee J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12, 671-684. Gordon, Kate. (1905). Wherein ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Social Psychology
Classic Readings on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations * Allport, G.W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. New York: Doubleday. Descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Responsibility Assumption: Encyclopedia Ii - Responsibility Assumption - Variations In Degree Of Personal Responsibility Postulated
The main variable within various interpretations of the responsibility assumption doctrine is the degree to which the individual is consi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Thermodynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Thermodynamics - Entropy And The Second Law
Even though he was working with the caloric theory, Sadi Carnot in 1824 suggested that some of the caloric available for generating usefu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Are All Persons Human?
Firstly, there is the simple and traditional view that the common usage is the correct one: that "person" does indeed mean "human". Howev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Thermodynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Thermodynamics - Heat Transfer
The phenomenon of heat conduction is immediately grasped in everyday life. In 1701, Sir Isaac Newton published his law of cooling. Howeve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Thermodynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Thermodynamics - Contributions From Antiquity
In the western philosophical tradition, after much debate about the primal element among earlier pre-Socratic philosophers, Empedocles pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Corporations As Persons
See also legal entity (artificial person) and natural person Largely separate from the discussion of "real" persons are considerations re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Thermodynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Thermodynamics - Transition From Alchemy To Chemistry
The theory of phlogiston arose in the 17th century, late in the period of alchemy. Its replacement by caloric theory in the 18th century ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Thermodynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Thermodynamics - Modern Theory
At its origins, thermodynamics was the study of engines. Prior to 1698 and the invention of the Savery Engine, horses were used to power ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Responsibility Assumption: Encyclopedia Ii - Responsibility Assumption - Enfolding Objectivism And The Scientific Method
Responsibility assumption is notable for its ability to fold within its own contours the reservations held toward it by the opposing doct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human-computer Interaction: Encyclopedia Ii - Human-computer Interaction - Aspects And Goals
Human-computer interaction - Interdisciplinary aspects. Combined with computer science and information technology are fields including:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophy Of Mind Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophy Of Mind Hegel - Absolute Mind
Philosophy of Mind Hegel - Art. Philosophy of Mind Hegel - Revealed Religion. Philosophy of Mind Hegel - Philosophy. ... See also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Responsibility Assumption: Encyclopedia Ii - Responsibility Assumption - Logical Difficulties
Logically consistent application of the doctrine, especially the total responsibility version, encounters various logical and philosophic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Responsibility Assumption: Encyclopedia Ii - Responsibility Assumption - Religious And Philosophical Roots And Usage
The est seminars popularized the term "responsibility assumption" in the 1970s, but the doctrine both predates est and is found in a far ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Responsibility Assumption: Encyclopedia Ii - Responsibility Assumption - In Popular Culture
The theme of responsibility assumption appears in several places in popular culture. For example, it appeared in Richard Bach's bestselle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitivism Psychology - Criticisms Of Psychological Cognitivism
Cognitivism has been criticised in a number of ways. Phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers have criticised the positivist approac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitivism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitivism Psychology - Theoretical Approach
Cognitivism has two major components, one methodological, the other theoretical. Methodologically, cognitivism adopts a positivist approa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Personhood Theory
According to Boethius: Person is an individual substance of rational nature. As individual it is material, since matter supplies the pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophy Of Mind Hegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophy Of Mind Hegel - Mind Objective
Philosophy of Mind Hegel - Law. Philosophy of Mind Hegel - The Morality of Conscience. Philosophy of Mind Hegel - The Moral Life Or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Implications Of The Personhood Debate
Personhood theory has become a pivotal issue in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics. While historically most humans did not enjoy fu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Ingarden: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Ingarden - Works
Ingarden was a realist phenomenologist, but did not accept Husserl's transcendental idealism. His training was phenomenological, nonethel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human-computer Interaction: Encyclopedia Ii - Human-computer Interaction - Aspects And Goals
Human-computer interaction - Interdisciplinary aspects. Combined with computer science and information technology are fields including:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Being - Being In Islamic Philosophy
The nature of being has also been debated and explored in Islamic philosophy, notably by Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, and Mulla Sadra.[1] ......   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Possible Criteria For Personhood
The above points seem to indicate that there may be persons that are not human, and there may be humans that are not persons. For these r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Being - Being And Substance In Aristotle
Among the first inquiries into what "being" encompassed was that undertaken by Aristotle. The term "substance" in Aristotle was a precise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Being - Being In Continental Philosophy And Existentialism
Some philosophers deny that the concept of "being" has any meaning at all, since we only define an object's existence by its relation to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phenomenon: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenomenon - Kant's Use Of Phenomenon
Phenomenon has a specialized meaning in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant who contrasted the term 'Phenomenon' with 'Noumenon'. Phenomena c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Being In Itself: Encyclopedia Ii - Being In Itself - Being In Itself For Heidegger
In Heidegger's philosophy being in itself is contrasted with the Being of persons, which he calls Dasein. Dasein is Being that is aware o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology - Principles Of Psychology
Psychology - Mind and brain. Psychology does not necessarily refer to the brain or nervous system and can be framed purely in terms of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Virilio: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Virilio - Background
Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932. After training at the Ecole des Metiers d' Art, Virilio specialised in stained-glass artwork, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethnomethodology: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethnomethodology - History And Influence
The approach was developed by Harold Garfinkel, based on Alfred Schütz's phenomenological reconstruction of Max Weber's verstehen sociol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diffusion Equation: Encyclopedia Ii - Diffusion Equation - Derivation
The diffusion equation can be derived in a straightforward way from the continuity equation, which states that a change in density in any...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phenomenology: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenomenology - Husserl And The Origin Of Phenomenology
Husserl derived many important concepts that are central to phenomenology from the works and lectures of his teachers, the philosophers a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phenomenology: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenomenology - Transcendental Phenomenology After The Ideen 1913
Some years after the publication of the Logical Investigations, Husserl made some key elaborations which led him to the distinction betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phenomenology: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenomenology - Historical Overview Of The Use Of The Term
While the term "phenomenology" was used several times in the history of philosophy before Husserl, modern use ties it more explicitly to ...   » Read the article