This is a historical-critical study of the hole argument, concentrating on the interface between historical, philosophical and physical issues. Although it includes a review of its history, its primary aim is a discussion of the contemporary implications of the hole argument for physical theories based on dynamical, background-independent space-time structures. The historical review includes Ei...

The internalization of public stigma by persons with serious mental illnesses may lead to self-stigma, which harms self-esteem, self-efficacy, and empowerment. Previous research has evaluated a hierarchical model that distinguishes among stereotype awareness, agreement, application to self, and harm to self with the 40-item Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (SSMIS). This study addressed SSMIS...

This paper explores the implications of the incompressibility of complex systems for the analysis and modelling of such systems. In particular, a provisional epistemology will be developed that attempts to remain faithful to the limitations derived from this aspect of complexity science. We will argue that such an investigation of complex systems highlights the relevance of paradigmatic plurali...

AM MOST GRATEFUL to J. Linn Mackey (2002) for his thoughtful commentary on my article. He is correct in arguing that intuition deserves a more prominent place in a discussion of how to do interdisciplinary research. I welcome the opportunity to correct this oversight on my part. However, Mackey draws what I believe to be a false dichotomy between " rule-driven " and " intuitive " research; I wi...

depuis les années 1990, une nouvelle visée critique est venue enrichir la liste déjà riche des perspectives de recherches appliquées à la littérature. aux investigations de type historique, textuelle, sociologique, etc. est venue s’ajouter une tendance critique aux contours encore indéfinis, mais dont la volonté première est de valoriser le rapport parfois apparent, souvent implicite, entre la ...

From a praxeological point of view, subjects are constituted in the accomplishment of practices. Thus, on this view, critique can be conceived as a specific transformative practice of extant practices. It intervenes in and disrupts the current workings of practices in order to divert, re-synchronize, or even stop them. Therefore, moments of pause, deviance, and reconfiguration lend themselves t...

in his critique of purge reason, kant insists that the human understanding is only able to know phenomena. however, in critique of practical reason, he proves the objective reality of god, freedom and immortality of soul. at first, the result of the two critiques seems to be at odds with each other, with kant himself calling the problem, the dilemma of philosophy of critiquing. by putting forwa...

Critique resides at the heart of the development, quality, and relevance of nursing science. Nurses prepared at the doctoral level can maximize their contribution to the science of the discipline by learning the skills of critique. Expansion of the discipline's knowledge base increases demands on doctorally-prepared nurses to assess scientific proposals and products, invite critique of their ow...

This paper argues that more critique is required in our nursing journals. I begin by distinguishing between conservative 'old' critique which functions to maintain the status quo in the academic discipline of nursing, and radical 'new' critique which challenges it and pushes at its boundaries. I then identify three reasons why I believe so little radical critique is published in nursing journal...