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Along with a colleague, I am getting a book proposal together for a collection of chapters on health and well being research in custodial settings. The book will focus upon different approaches to...
02 February 2020 8,018 13 View
Does anyone have recommendations for software for analysing the findings of ethnographic data?
03 March 2019 2,864 5 View
What is your understanding of ethnography? What approaches to research does ethnography encompass? How would you define or describe ethnography?
03 March 2019 4,642 11 View
Is there software that has been produced to analyse the resuts of a netnography?
03 March 2019 8,430 3 View
I am conducting research into alternate research methods and approaches for conducting and analysing avian cognition and behavioural research. This does not readily fall into many of the journals...
02 February 2018 9,153 0 View
I am looking for an author to write a chapter on psychometrics and scale development. It is for an edited book on contemporary approaches to consumer psychology. Please contact me if you are...
08 August 2017 1,792 6 View
I am looking for authors to write chapters for a text on quantitative consumer psychology research methods. I have a contract from Routledge for this book and I wondered any of if you are...
05 May 2017 5,481 4 View
I am putting together a book proposal on quantitative approaches to consumer psychology. I am looking for a an author to write a chapter that reviews the research design choices that are available...
03 March 2015 379 17 View
Does anyone know David Oderberg's book: "Classifying Reality"? Oderberg's asks: if reality is classifiable? This question is related intimately to my main area of research, that of using...
02 February 2015 2,700 37 View
I am assembling potential authors for an edited book on contemporary quantitative research in the social sciences. I am looking for an author to write a chapter on data driven quantitative...
01 January 2015 9,826 8 View
I am assembling a special edition on Categories for the well rated, peer reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychology (Philosophical and Theoretical. )Contributions may be of original research or...
01 January 2015 1,379 22 View
I am guest editor for a special edition of the journal Frontiers in Psychology (impact 2.8). I am looking for potential authors for this special edition. The issue will cover psychological aspects...
12 December 2014 6,864 0 View
How can we conceive of an organisation? Organisations may be thought of as unitary monoliths or perhaps more usefully they may be conceived of as being formed by components. What are the...
11 November 2014 5,134 4 View
I am interested to discover if anyone is undertaking research in personal construct theory. There seemed to be a lot of PCT/PCP research ongoing a few years ago but less so these days. I would be...
11 November 2014 2,467 7 View
I am at present assembling a proposal for an edited collection of papers which looks at the formation and use of categories from a psychological and philosophical perspective. I am looking for...
11 November 2014 1,140 2 View
I would be interested to be in contact with anyone who has knowledge of the writing of art critic/historian/theorist Rosalind Krauss.
09 September 2014 9,153 0 View
I am looking for any information about the academic study of parts and wholes and the relationships between parts and parts as well as parts and wholes. I am interested in these entities...
07 July 2014 6,642 50 View
In an article in New Republic, William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to Meaningful Life says that the prestigious private colleges...
07 July 2014 218 0 View
Is anyone aware of the term mereology being used in a more general philosophical or psychological sense to mean parts and wholes?
07 July 2014 3,750 21 View
I am editing a collection of essays on consumer ethnography and I am looking for someone to author a chapter on hypothesis generation in ethnographic research. Is anybody interested?
07 July 2014 5,147 18 View
I am doing some writing in the area of philosophical understandings of perception. Specifically I am interested in how we perceive abstract art. I would be grateful if anyone has any references of...
06 June 2014 7,757 64 View
Given there seem to be many problems facing society, global climate change, over-population, resource depletion, war, famine, political unrest, and many more, in your opinion how can the academy...
05 May 2014 6,757 2 View
The EU has ruled that Europeans have the right to have links on Google removed (at their request) to data that is outdated or irrelevant. Google are disappointed by the ruling. The court said that...
05 May 2014 4,614 2 View
It often seems that academics are characterised as being either mainly involved in teaching OR research. Most of us though have to engage actively in both teaching AND research. I would be...
05 May 2014 7,773 27 View
Is anyone aware of literature that considers what could perhaps be thought of as perceptual mereology? What I mean by this is a parts-whole account of how we perceive and understand our worlds,...
04 April 2014 6,415 11 View
How do we perceive a picture (painting, drawing, photography, etc) as a meaningful whole, a three dimensional reality and not simply as images or sub-parts of images?
04 April 2014 1,042 3 View
I would like to ask a very general question and one to which I have never heard an adequate reply. What is art? What makes art art?
04 April 2014 8,362 5 View
Is anybody aware of research, writing or thinking within psychology that has explicitly considered mereology and ontology? I would be really grateful for any assistance about these forms of...
04 April 2014 3,890 3 View
Can anyone help me find out if there is a community out there that in interested in what may be thought of as a blending of Philosophy and psychology? I need to stress that I am not talking about...
04 April 2014 6,433 30 View
Is anybody aware of research, writing or thinking within sociology that has explicitly considered mereology and ontology? I would be really grateful for any assistance about these forms of...
04 April 2014 8,480 2 View
I am really interested in studies regarding the relationships between parts and wholes. I am especially interested in the way that our perception and understandings of our world is made up of...
04 April 2014 1,371 9 View
Is anybody aware of research, writing or thinking within their academic discipline that has explicitly considered mereology and ontology? I would be really grateful for any assistance about these...
04 April 2014 1,512 0 View
Can anyone recommend any good, in print, sources on mereology?
04 April 2014 2,787 0 View
Does anyone know of writing and scholarship that has viewed ontology as a personal worldview?
04 April 2014 7,398 5 View
Is anyone familiar with Susanna Siegel's writing on visual experiences? I would be interested to hear from anyone who has an opinion on this and any suggestions for other authors I should be...
04 April 2014 7,414 0 View
Stanisław Leśniewski originated the term mereology as the study of part - whole relationships. Does anyone know where this term was first used by him?
04 April 2014 9,096 6 View
Does anybody have any suggestions for what I should read about in connection with case-based decision theory? This is a totally new area to me and any information about the theory would be much...
03 March 2014 3,092 5 View
I would be really grateful if someone could do this in a succinct manner that I, as a non statistician, can easily understand.
03 March 2014 6,141 13 View
Can anyone tell me "simply" how categorisation as an act or process is used in computing? I would be extremely grateful for any comments and also for basic references.
03 March 2014 2,622 6 View
I am interested to know the extent and the manner in which you feel we should include the use of new technologies, online resources, etc., in our teaching and other academic related activities?...
03 March 2014 3,624 22 View
How does this relate to causation in his work?
03 March 2014 6,949 9 View
I have just been reading about Leibniz and I wonder if anyone can help me by telling me where Leibniz said "wholes have only a borrowed reality - borrowed from the reality of their parts". I am...
03 March 2014 4,957 10 View
Can anyone assist me and tell me if they are aware of any advances in multidimensional data analysis in the behavioural sciences?
02 February 2014 1,373 5 View
Does anyone know of literature on, or have an interest in the application of psychological knowledge and principles to different political parties? I am especially interested in psychological...
02 February 2014 3,380 6 View
I would be extremely grateful if anyone can help me identify which philosophers wrote about how we develop preferences? Aristotle identified his 10 categories which structured our understanding...
02 February 2014 8,144 0 View
I am interested in categorisation, category formation and how we use categories in our daily lives: both positively and negatively. Why are other people interested in categories?
02 February 2014 9,070 7 View
Once human beings and animals have learned to categorise things around them, it would seem to me that the next step in cognitive or emotional development is the imposition of preference ordering...
02 February 2014 5,566 3 View
Can anyone explain Piaget's work with categories and how this has been taken forward by later researchers?
02 February 2014 8,387 4 View
Are there pressures within our educational systems that work against the development of academics and thinkers who delve broadly across disciplines in their research and writings? Does...
02 February 2014 4,068 7 View
Human beings seem to have a predisposition to form categories and to categorise the world around tham. This goes back to Aristotle’s writings and probably before, and has been expanded upon since...
02 February 2014 2,342 5 View
I am asking a broad question: does anyone have an interest in what may be called political psychology? If so, can you point me in the right direction for literature on this area?
02 February 2014 6,484 15 View
Do current academic institutions leave room for anymore to be truly eclectic in their academic practice? Very many of us enjoy and find great reward from reading outside of our specialised...
02 February 2014 9,809 50 View
ResearchGate restrict the number of research topic groups that we can ask a question of to five tags. ResearchGate do this for the eminently sound reason that this ensures that any question is...
02 February 2014 7,778 8 View
For many centuries those concerned with human behaviour have identified the process of forming categories of our sensory experiences as being basic to how we experience the world. We do not...
02 February 2014 1,949 98 View
I am trying to develop an understanding of Aristotle's categories and I wondered how his concept of powers relates to his categories? Are powers needed to fully appreciate his categories?
02 February 2014 8,577 25 View
Aristotle devoted much thought and writing to the notion of categories, what they are and how we use them. Other philosophers have also looked at categories. I have a cursory knowledge of Frege,...
02 February 2014 9,403 6 View
I am undertaking research into concern for the natural environment and I wondered if anyone could suggest models of environmental concern that I should investigate? My main interests are concerned...
01 January 2014 2,626 16 View
Is the Klien Group, or Klien Group Four model, developed by Felix Klein, often depicted as a diamond shape or a square with terms that are opposites written at opposing corners of the diagram? I...
01 January 2014 6,966 1 View
A strand of my research is into the links between neuroscience, psychology and fine art in terms of art creation by artists and also in terms of art perception and reception by viewers. I have...
01 January 2014 9,715 92 View
I have today been involved in a discussion on ResearchGate about texting in class. This produced some very interesting interactions. I would like to broaden the question from the disruptiveness /...
01 January 2014 6,772 5 View
Neuroscience has been applied or employed to provide insight in many areas of research and human activity. Does anybody know of any work that falls under the title of environmental or conservation...
01 January 2014 7,782 12 View
As part of recent discussions with a colleague the topics of environmental concern, protection, conservation, assessment, etc., and their relationship to, and understanding through neuroscience...
01 January 2014 9,452 4 View
In the research methods classes I teach students may ask why bother with the small sample size ethnographic type of study that produces data that is prone to error and subjectivity when there is...
01 January 1970 1,369 24 View
t seems to me that it is likely that there is both a human activities and "natural" contribution to climate change. I think we have a moral responsibility for our part in the change and not for...
01 January 1970 3,943 16 View
