Conceptual foundations for opportunistic behavior of university teachers

Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Exploring Conceptual Foundations

Social and behavioral science theories represent a key source of knowledge for social work practice. One core function of social work scholarship is to select, synthesize, and translate this knowledge for specific use within the profession, including research, practice, and social work education. Because these theories have been generated for purposes that are oftentimes loosely related to goal...

Ontological foundations for conceptual modelling

The Foundations of Conceptual Programming

Conceptual Programming is a term meant to convey a similar idea to that of Logic Programming, but at a higher level of representation. Programming with concepts, as presented here, has all the advantages that many knowledge representation schemes have in dealing with declarative knowledge i.e. explicitness, naturalness, expressibility, and transparency. It also gives procedural knowledge these ...

Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

T HE THEORY OF evolution by natural selection has revolutionary implications for understanding the design of the human mind and brain, as Darwin himself was the first to recognize (Darwin, 1859). Indeed, a principled understanding of the network of causation that built the functional architecture of the human species offers the possibility of transforming the study of humanity into a natural sc...

Conceptual Foundations of Qualitative Psychology

psychology of certain ways of thinking which have, relatively recently, led to the emergence of specifically qualitative approaches to psychological matters. For, behind the use of qualitative methods, lies a set of distinct conceptions of the nature of human psychology, and I will outline here some of the sources of these conceptions. There are several different approaches to qualitative psych...