This paper introduces hermeneutic philosophy and inquiry to postmodern therapists. Hermeneutic inquiry is an approach to research that posits that all understanding is interpretation, and interpretation is constructed in language. It shares a common view of language with postmodern therapies, and therefore is likely to be a congenial and accessible approach to research for postmodern therapists...

e-Government system has been developed in various countries. e-Government system can support the government's performance in serving the public. Because there are many aspects that must be considered, then the eGovernment system development process can be very complex. Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), that is based on soft system thinking, is suitable for use in the eGovernment system developmen...

in the context of comparative and intercultural philosophy the approach and engagement of one philosopher with another, is a very basic issue. with regard to this, i want to narrate farabi’s special engagement with the meno and gorgias dialogues of plato. his engagement can be named hermeneutic dialectical reading-here hermeneutic means the relation of farabi with the meno and gorgias texts and...

Hermeneutics, the art of the interpretation, is applied to brain. The relevance of concepts of hermeneutic processes and hermeneutic devices to brain theory are

A unifying framework, i.e. the brain-mind-computer trichotomy is suggested analyzed by by adopting hermeneutic approach. We argue that brain is a hermeneutic device, and hermeneutics is also necessary to understand situations and other’s minds. Intentional dynamics is a possible method to set this unifying framework. Specifically, computational studies suggest that schizophrenia, as a ”disconne...

It has been argued that psychoanalytic and biological theories cannot be integrated because they rely on different epistemological grounds, namely on hermeneutic versus causal explanations, that are inconsistent with each other. Such inconsistency would seriously question the general possibility of neuropsychoanalytic research. Here, I review three important arguments that have been raised in f...

The quality and success of scholarly work depends in large measure on the quality of the literature review process. This paper advances conceptual understanding of the literature review process and extends earlier guidelines on literature reviews. It proposes a hermeneutic framework that integrates the analysis and interpretation of literature and the search for literature. This hermeneutic fra...

Hermeneutics has been central to the practice of Jung's psychology from the beginning, although he never fully and consistently developed a hermeneutic method of inquiry and the literature addressing this aspect of his psychology is not extensive. In this paper(1) we undertake a critical re-examination of Jung's relationship to hermeneutic thought, based on his explicit references to hermeneut...

In his paper, “Causation in psychoanalysis,” Dr Nikolai Axmacher raises and responds to three arguments that claim that psychoanalytic explanations and causal explanations in the neurological sciences are mutually inconsistent. These arguments, he claims, are raised by many opponents of neuropsychoanalysis, who argue that psychoanalytic explanations, because they are hermeneutic in character, c...