Interacting with Objects

Interacting with Objects
Author: Maurice Nevile
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9027269831

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.

Stuff

Stuff
Author: Klaus Ruthenberg
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2008
Genre: Chemistry
ISBN: 3826037049

What It Is to Exist

What It Is to Exist
Author: Patrick Zoll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110980126

One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on existence. The upshot of this part is that the contemporary debate has reached an impasse because none of the considered views is able to formulate a satisfactory answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The second part reconstructs Thomas Aquinas’s view on existence (esse) and argues that it contributes a new perspective which allows us to see why the contemporary debate has reached this impasse. It has come to this point because it has taken a premise for granted which Aquinas’s view rejects, namely, that the existence of an object consists in something’s having a property. A decisive contribution of Aquinas’s theory of esse is that it makes use of the ideas of metaphysical participation and composition. In this way, it can be explained how an object can have esse without being the case that esse is a property of it. This book brings together a reconstruction from the history of philosophy with a systematic study on existence and is therefore relevant for scholars interested in contemporary or medieval theories of existence.

Shape of Things

Shape of Things
Author: Vilém Flusser
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1780232365

This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilém Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary "things" as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Just as formal creativity has produced both weapons of destruction and great works of art, Flusser believed that the shape of things (and the designs behind them) represents both a threat and an opportunity for designers of the future.

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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
Total Pages: 831
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ISBN: 9326193578

Reconceiving Experience

Reconceiving Experience
Author: John T. Kearns
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1996-09-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791430729

Presents a new framework for understanding language, thought, and experience, and for carrying out research.

Philosophy, Obligation and the Law

Philosophy, Obligation and the Law
Author: Piero Tarantino
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351021249

This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the notion of obligation in Bentham’s thought. For Bentham, obligation is a fictitious – namely linguistic – entity, whose import and truth lie in empirical perceptions of pain and pleasure, ‘real’ entities. This work explores Bentham’s fictionalism, and aims to identify the general features that ethical fictitious entities (including obligation) share with other kinds of fictitious entities. The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the ontological and epistemological foundations of Bentham’s distinction between real and fictitious entities; the second part addresses the normative and motivational aspects of moral and legal notions. This book reveals the centrality of the following issues to Bentham’s legal reform: logic, theory of language, physics, metaphysics, metaethics, axiology, moral psychology, the structure of practical reasoning and action with reference to the law.

The Puzzle of Experience

The Puzzle of Experience
Author: J. J. Valberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1992
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780198242918

Explores the puzzle of perceptual experience. In reflecting on our experience we may "reason" about it, or be "open" to it. These reflections generate a contradiction about the object of existence. This book explains why and how the contradiction arises, and considers solutions.

Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research

Epistemology and Metaphysics for Qualitative Research
Author: Tomas Pernecky
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473987709

This clearly written and provocative text outlines the wide range of epistemological and metaphysical pillars of research. In a clear, easy to follow style, the reader is guided through an array of concepts that are defined, explained and made simple. With the aid of helpful examples and case studies, the book challenges the prevailing modes of thinking about qualitative inquiry by showcasing an immense variety of philosophical frameworks. Armed with a strong understanding of this philosophical backbone, students will be able to choose and defend a ‘pick and mix’ of research methods that will uniquely complement their research. Empiricism Rationalism Realism Skepticism Idealism Positivism Post-positivism Idea-ism Hermeneutics Phenomenology Social Ontology Quantum Mechanics Essential reading for new and experienced researchers, this ‘must’ for any social science bookshelf will help unlock a new level of research creativity.

Human Physics

Human Physics
Author: Anon Y. Maas
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2024-07-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1039167047

In introductory physics courses, students learn the basic principles of electromagnetism. What isn’t taught is how this invisible force affects people and the world. Author Anon Y. Maas knows it’s behind more than we may realize: consumerist debt, rising toxicity levels, excessive waste, an immaterial coup d'état in 2020, and so much more. Human Physics explores human phenomena with a physics-focused approach. Starting with the foundations of electromagnetic wave propagation, this revolutionary study shifts the commonly taught scale to one that reflects human elements, whose properties and characteristics aren’t represented in particle physics. Recognizing this deficit, Maas developed language to do so. From there, Maas provides scientific reasoning to show how electromagnetic wave emissions are being broadcast with a potentially global impact. Facilitated by thousands of corporations, this exploitation of wave propagation design is intended to control and manipulate consumers and society, ensnaring them in a loop: consumers go further into debt while corporations get richer. Perpetual activities are then analyzed to expose what Maas calls “intelligent murder.” With escalating crimes, exploits, and chaos, our end seems inevitable. The final chapter illuminates exactly this. Thought-provoking and entirely original, Human Physics bridges the gap between physics, sociology, and psychology. Maas’s insights, filled with tenacity and vigilance, encourage readers to question the world around them—what causes it, how and why. This type of deep investigation may be our very salvation.