Rector’s Personal Phenomenon: Cultural Mission of Academician Oleg Tymoshenko

Logic Systems and Cross-Cultural Mission

People everywhere value good relationships and logical, effective communication. Yet the way people discuss issues, make decisions, or resolve problems often do not appear logical to an outsider. Even after missionaries and other crosscultural workers have adjusted to differences in body language, developed positive relationships with those they serve, and learned local terminology, they may st...

Personal reflections on the "animal-rights" phenomenon.

REGULAR ARTI CLE Oleg

The paper describes the quantized Hamilton dynamics (QHD) approach that extends classical Hamiltonian dynamics and captures quantum effects, such as zero point energy, tunneling, decoherence, branching, and statespecific dynamics. The approximations are made by closures of the hierarchy of Heisenberg equations for quantum observables with the higher order observables decomposed into products of...

Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Personal Identity

HOwdoes our inherited world of meaning relate to our fundamental experience of ourselves as persons? Is there a core of self-consciousness that is sequestered from the constitutive reach of culture and language? Can we speak of an unmediated basis for personal identity? These are the questions I will explore in this chapter. My method will be analytic, not comparative or ethnographic. Psycholog...

Personal Persistence and Personal Projects: A way of evaluating the intersection of personal and cultural continuity

The overall goal of our contribution to this volume—our own personal project—will be to showcase the ways in which Personal Projects analysis can be used to explore variation in the construction and understanding of the meaning of self. More than that, we mean to use personal projects analysis as a vehicle for examining this variation across both individuals and whole cultures. We realize, of c...