Cheng and Gadamer: Daoist Phenomenology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jay Goulding
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Personal Interactions ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer ◽  
East West ◽  
Mcmaster University

Abstract Two immense influences on my work originate from the seminal philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Chung-ying Cheng. My academic career begins with personal interactions with the hermeneutics philosopher Gadamer at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada whose guiding hand shapes my vision around the idea of merging horizons; Cheng enhances this rich and most provocative beginning with a unique East-West phenomenology of onto-generative hermeneutics. Both scholars provide fresh eyes for Martin Heidegger’s engagement with Daoism in what I call Daoist Phenomenology, and the forgotten “o”: the move from the saying of the Da of Da-sein to the waying of Da(o).

scholarly journals Journeying into Academia via Immersion into Qualitative Research: Professor Shaffir as a Master Guide

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Efa E. Etoroma
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Mcmaster University

The choice of a work career is one of the most important events in a person’s life course and typically involves secondary socialization and identification with role models. This paper is concerned with the crucial role of my PhD dissertation supervisor at McMaster University, Dr. Billy Shaffir, in my choice of an academic career. I highlight and celebrate how, through the guidance of Dr. Shaffir, I experienced “immersive socialization” into field research and happily converted from an intended business career to an academic career.  

Values and intergroup perceptions of East Germans and West Germans in 1998 1This research was supported by a grant from the German Research Society (We 1106/3-1).

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-272
Author(s):  
Jörg Doll ◽  
Michael Dick
Keyword(s):  
Research Society ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
The West ◽  
Need For Uniqueness ◽  
German Research ◽  
East German ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
East West

The studies reported here focus on similarities and dissimilarities between the terminal value hierarchies ( Rokeach, 1973 ) ascribed to different groups ( Schwartz & Struch, 1990 ). In Study 1, n = 65 East Germans and n = 110 West Germans mutually assess the respective ingroup and outgroup. In this intra-German comparison the West Germans, with a mean intraindividual correlation of rho = 0.609, perceive a significantly greater East-West similarity between the group-related value hierarchies than the East Germans, with a mean rho = 0.400. Study 2 gives East German subjects either a Swiss (n = 58) or Polish (n = 59) frame of reference in the comparison between the categories German and East German. Whereas the Swiss frame of reference should arouse a need for uniqueness, the Polish frame of reference should arouse a need for similarity. In accordance with expectations, the Swiss frame of reference significantly reduces the correlative similarity between German and East German from a mean rho = 0.703 in a control group (n = 59) to a mean rho = 0.518 in the experimental group. Contrary to expectations, the Polish frame of reference does not lead to an increase in perceived similarity (mean rho = 0.712).

APA Academic Career Workshop Entering the Academic Marketplace: Advice from Experts

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Carr ◽  
Linh Littleford ◽  
Patricia Puccio ◽  
Elizabeth Swenson ◽  
Robert Weis
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career
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