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Autonomies in Interaction: Dimensions of Patient Autonomy and Non-adherence to Treatment
(Frontiers Media, 2019-08-14)
In recent years, several studies have advocated the need to expand the concept of patient autonomy beyond the capacity to deliberate and make decisions regarding a specific medical intervention or treatment (decision-making ...
A genealogical map of the concept of habit
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-07-21)
The notion of information processing has dominated the study of the mind for over six decades. However, before the advent of cognitivism, one of the most prominent theoretical ideas was that of Habit. This is a concept ...
Learning to perceive in the sensor motor approach: Piaget's theory of equilibration interpreted dynamically
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-07-30)
Learning to perceive is faced with a classical paradox: if understanding is required for perception, how can we learn to perceive something new, something we do not yet understand? According to the sensorimotor approach, ...
A Comparative study on the onto-epistemological presuppositions in landscape descriptions of romantics and naturalists
(2015-05-11)
Two facts are noteworthy in standard historiography on the perception and description of nature: (a) Apart from occasional exceptions (Hard 1970), there is no conceptual analysis of the onto-epistemological presuppositions ...
Metaphysics in the Work of Charles Darwin
(Simon Baumgartner, Thimo Heisenberg , Sebastian Krebs, 2013)
It is not hard to see how two visions of nature are intertwined in Darwin’s Journal of Researches: one vision, the province of romantic authors depicting the sentiments awakened by certain landscapes, the other, the domain ...
Romanticism, Alexander von Humboldt and the distinction of “Natur” and “Geist”
(2017-02-28)
Alexander von Humboldt is often considered a decisive figure in establishing clear methodological standards in modern natural sciences. But many people forget that he was a true Romanticist in his descriptions of nature ...
The Deteleologization of Nature: Darwin’s Language in On the Origin of Species
(De Gruyter, 2018)
Although a detailed analysis of Darwin’s lexicon in On the Origin of Species has not been undertaken, critical literature claims that there are lexical signs of a teleological nature in the language used in this work. I ...
Charles Darwin y la Descripción de la Naturaleza
(2015-05-11)
Se detectan dos formas diferentes de descripción en la obra de Darwin
Journal of Researches (1839): una forma estética de percibir el paisaje y una forma
enumerativa. Aquélla correspondería a los comentarios que Darwin ...
In the footstep of Hermes: the meaning of the hermeneutics and symbolism
(A. Murray, J. Roffe, M. Sharpe, 2013)
[EN] The meaning of hermeneutics is not something exclusive to hermeneutics; it is not something the hermeneutical enterprise dominates, masters, or even manages. Rather, hermeneutics must understand itself as an activity ...
Gastronomía y nutrición en Cataluña
(Arán Ediciones, 2019-06)
[ES] Objetivos: la cultura y los hábitos alimentarios de un territorio configuran su gastronomía y determinan el estado nutricional y de salud de su población. Nos planteamos el objetivo de revisar la alimentación, la ...