This article relates problem solving to the common approaches of the gestalt-holistic philosophies of systems analysis, risk analysis, and Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Guiding principles developed on the basis of these philosophies provide the foundations for methodological frameworks that build on a plethora of theory, methods, tools, and techniques. Although system...

The majority of live action role-playing games are enacted either within a strictly confined area or in the middle of nowhere, in wilderness. However, there is also a minority of larps that are played in the streets, amongst unsuspecting bystanders. This minority has recently been gaining wider recognition. These pervasive larps are played all around a city, they invade players’ everyday lives,...

PYD AS A DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS 365 THE STUDY OF ADOLESCENCE WITHIN THE RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEM 366 APPROACHES TO PYD AS A DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS 367 RICHARD M. LERNER, JACQUELINE V. LERNER, AND COLLEAGUES AND THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL ←→ CONTEXT RELATIONAL PROCESSES AND PYD 373 PYD AS A PHILOSOPHY OR APPROACH TO YOUTH PROGRAMMING 379 PYD AS INSTANCES OF YOUTH PROGRAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 381...

Safety is typically demonstrated by identifying hazards, mitigating those hazards, and then by showing that the remaining risk is acceptable. This paper begins by setting out some principles for assessing tests of risk acceptability. It then categorises and examines existing methods of testing for risk acceptability against those principles, and finds that they fall short. A new measure of risk...

Technology innovation is not just a result of funds invested in research and development of a firm; it is a culmination of long-standing investments in well-thought-out processes, plans, and strategies. The chapter aims to address these aspects of technological innovations. The innovation process is a unique one, and each firm has a different style of bringing in innovation as per their require...

public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. it is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. for this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...

There is no corporal philosophy at the level of other philosophical subdisciplines. A research line has begun whose ultimate goal to determine whether a somatic can be built. From pragmatist and biopolitical approach, present study investigated why it not been possible develop grounded philosophy. As an answer, “idealist–dualist episteme” described, which encompasses invariants in history ideal...


 In this paper, I identify two major philosophical crises confronting medicine as a global phenomenon. The first crisis is the epistemological of adopting an epistemic attitude, adequate for improving medical knowledge and practice. second ethical crisis, also known “quality-of-care crisis,” arising from traditional patient-physician dyad. acknowledge different proposals put forward in qu...

Responding to the invitation of this special issue Childhood and Philosophy paper considers ethos facilitation in philosophical enquiry with children, spatial-temporal order community enquiry. Within Children movement, there are differences thinking practice on ‘facilitation’ communities enquiry, we suggest that these have profound implications for political agency children. Facilitation can be...

In order to explain how and why talent management can contribute to a firm’s sustained competitive advantage, we need to gain insights into the philosophies about talent that underpin talent management. This article introduces four talent philosophies that vary in their perception of talent as (a) rare (exclusive) or universal (inclusive), and (b) stable or developable: the exclusive/stable; ex...