Key Concepts in Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Ferber
Keyword(s):  
German Version ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
International Audience

This book provides an introduction to six key concepts within philosophy: philosophy itself, language, knowledge, truth, being and the good. At the same time, it aims to initiate its readers into the processes of philosophical thinking. The book is addressed to students and lay persons, but also contains new ideas for specialists. It is written in a clear, accessible and engaging style. The German version appeared in eight editions and the second revised and updated English editon has the potential to become a key textbook for an international audience.

scholarly journals Raising the Level of Students' Foreign Communicative Competence in the Field of International Relations on the Material of Ted Talk

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
A. Harchenko
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Bill Gates ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Communicative Approach ◽  
Ted Talks

The specific of the communicative approach is highlighted and its influence on the professional communicative competence of international relations students. The results of the research are described, and it is proved the effectiveness of communicative techniques, improving the level of foreign communicative competence of the students of international relations based on TED talk materials. It is mentioned that the formation of a professional communicative preparation was provided on the different stages of the professional communicative competence approbation of students of international relations. The TED talk video is created from TED presentation (technology, entertainment, design) conferences or important events which took place in the world. TED talks are mostly limited till 18 minutes but there are exceptions. TEDx website's explanation of selection criteria: TED looks for engaging, charismatic speakers whose talks expose new ideas that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to a broad, international audience. The first TED conference was in 1984; the conference has been held annually since 1990. Over the years, presenters of TED talks have included Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bono, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins Mike Rowe, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Vint Cerf. So, the intensive communicative approach in teaching English is of great value and has great retrospect into the future, which allows the real and natural communicative process and approaching to the foreign communicative environment on condition of realization the system of communicative preparation by means of audiovisual resources in educational process, creating the authentic atmosphere.

Global Diversity and Organizational Culture's Impact on Adaptation, Performance, and Innovation

2017 ◽  
pp. 1790-1808
Author(s):  
Doris E. Cross
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Organizational Cultures ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Changing Demographics

Diversity and change are key concepts facing our world. As we enter into the 21st century, organizational leaders recognize the importance of diverse perspectives and adaptation to changes as competitive advantages. Doris E. Cross is an educator and researcher on diversity issues influence on organizational cultures. This chapter identifies factors, such as changing demographics, tumultuous economies, and workforce dynamics, effects on individual perceptions of organizational cultures and performances. Cross considers embracing diversity as a competitive advantage that adds significance to companies' market values globally. To effectively manage market changes, organizational leaders are encouraged to examine the inclusion of diverse perspectives to capture both employees and consumers' loyalty. She contends diverse perceptions in organizational cultures encourage new ideas and innovative approaches to meeting the needs of diverse customers. Changes within organizations are most effective when its adaptation, change, and performance are intricately linked with its advancement.

„Von Kant zu Aristoteles“

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-924
Author(s):  
Carl Antonius Lemke Duque
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Initial Settings ◽  
Further Development

Abstract The paper deals with the philosophical key concepts of Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), elaborating on the initial settings and further development of his philosophy till the middle of the 1930s. Based also on new biographical research, the analysis presents an innovative systematic approach to the influence of German neo-Kantian philosophers on his philosophical thinking, bearing in mind, particularly, the huge impact of German neo-Kantianism in Spain owing to cultural transfers effected by the famous cultural journal Revista de Occidente, which was edited by Ortega y Gasset between 1923 and 1936. As a central working hypothesis, the paper assumes that the development and distribution of Ortega y Gasset’s philosophical key concepts can be understood as a re-semanticised adoption in the light of a transformation process “From Kant to Aristotle”. The investigation uses a combined methodological approach of discourse analysis and cultural transfer studies.

Global Diversity and Organizational Culture's Impact on Adaptation, Performance, and Innovation

2014 ◽  
pp. 82-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris E. Cross
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Organizational Cultures ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Changing Demographics

Diversity and change are key concepts facing our world. As we enter into the 21st century, organizational leaders recognize the importance of diverse perspectives and adaptation to changes as competitive advantages. Doris E. Cross is an educator and researcher on diversity issues influence on organizational cultures. This chapter identifies factors, such as changing demographics, tumultuous economies, and workforce dynamics, effects on individual perceptions of organizational cultures and performances. Cross considers embracing diversity as a competitive advantage that adds significance to companies' market values globally. To effectively manage market changes, organizational leaders are encouraged to examine the inclusion of diverse perspectives to capture both employees and consumers' loyalty. She contends diverse perceptions in organizational cultures encourage new ideas and innovative approaches to meeting the needs of diverse customers. Changes within organizations are most effective when its adaptation, change, and performance are intricately linked with its advancement.

scholarly journals Creativity and Knowledge Sharing in Teams

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Celina Sołek-Borowska
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Management Organization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
General Concern

Despite the wealth of studies related to team creativity, there is a general concern that the field still offers fuzzy indications about how team creativity (TC) can be supported within organizations. Creativity is enacted in the individual, within teams and within networks. Team creativity depends on creative individuals, processes, situations, the culture and the interaction of these factors. A growing number of organizations rely heavily on team creativity to enhance their capacity for generating new ideas. To enable knowledge sharing in teams in order to offer creativity within such a team, members must have access to an arena in which to engage in interpersonal dialogues to share their experiences, suggestions and knowledge with one another. Therefore, the objective of the study is firstly to find out what is understood by creativity of the team in terms of a process and outcome and secondly, to place the knowledge sharing process within the field of team creativity. A literature review was used to gather evidence about the key concepts in the fields of management, organization and creativity.

scholarly journals A bijection for rooted maps on general surfaces (extended abstract)

2015 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings, 27th... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Chapuy ◽  
Maciej Dołęga
Keyword(s):  
Euler Characteristic ◽  
Generating Functions ◽  
General Construction ◽  
Dimensional Manifold ◽  
Combinatorial Interpretation ◽  
Renormalization Factor ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Characteristic 2 ◽  
The Way

International audience We extend the Marcus-Schaeffer bijection between orientable rooted bipartite quadrangulations (equivalently: rooted maps) and orientable labeled one-face maps to the case of all surfaces, orientable or non-orientable. This general construction requires new ideas and is more delicate than the special orientable case, but carries the same information. It thus gives a uniform combinatorial interpretation of the counting exponent $\frac{5(h-1)}{2}$ for both orientable and non-orientable maps of Euler characteristic $2-2h$ and of the algebraicity of their generating functions. It also shows the universality of the renormalization factor $n$<sup>&frac14;</sup> for the metric of maps, on all surfaces: the renormalized profile and radius in a uniform random pointed bipartite quadrangulation of size $n$ on any fixed surface converge in distribution. Finally, it also opens the way to the study of Brownian surfaces for any compact 2-dimensional manifold. Nous étendons la bijection de Marcus et Schaeffer entre quadrangulations biparties orientables (de manière équivalente: cartes enracinées) et cartes à une face étiquetées orientables à toutes les surfaces, orientables ou non. Cette construction générale requiert des idées nouvelles et est plus délicate que dans le cas particulier orientable, mais permet des utilisations similaires. Elle donne donc une interprétation combinatoire uniforme de l’exposant de comptage $\frac{5(h-1)}{2}$ pour les cartes orientables et non-orientables de caractéristique d’Euler $2-2h$, et de l’algébricité des fonctions génératrices. Elle montre l’universalité du facteur de normalisation $n$<sup>&frac14;</sup> pour la métrique des cartes, sur toutes les surfaces: le profil et le rayon d’une quadrangulation enracinée pointée sur une surface fixée converge en distribution. Enfin, elle ouvre à la voie à l’étude des surfaces Browniennes pour toute 2-variété compacte.

Effective Clinical Interviewing

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline T. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Clinical Interviewing ◽  
Client Management

Speech, language, and hearing professionals rely on many individuals to provide information about a client. Management programs, in part, are devised, modified, and evaluated according to responses obtained from the client, family members, educators, and other professional and lay persons who have contact with the client. The speech-language pathologist has the responsibility of obtaining pertinent, complete, unbiased information about clients. This article provides an overview of the essential elements of an interview.

The Hearing Aid Effect in African American and Caucasian Males as Perceived by Female Judges of the Same Race

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Davis ◽  
Rhonda Jackson ◽  
Tina Smith ◽  
William Cooper
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Semantic Differential Scale ◽  
Education Majors ◽  
Female Undergraduate ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Males And Females

Prior studies have proven the existence of the "hearing aid effect" when photographs of Caucasian males and females wearing a body aid, a post-auricular aid (behind-the-ear), or no hearing aid were judged by lay persons and professionals. This study was performed to determine if African American and Caucasian males, judged by female members of their own race, were likely to be judged in a similar manner on the basis of appearance, personality, assertiveness, and achievement. Sixty female undergraduate education majors (30 African American; 30 Caucasian) used a semantic differential scale to rate slides of preteen African American and Caucasian males, with and without hearing aids. The results of this study showed that female African American and Caucasian judges rated males of their respective races differently. The hearing aid effect was predominant among the Caucasian judges across the dimensions of appearance, personality, assertiveness, and achievement. In contrast, the African American judges only exhibited a hearing aid effect on the appearance dimension.

Ethnogeriatrics: Development and Application of the Cohort Analysis Tool

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Melen McBride
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Significant Factors

Ethnogeriatrics is an evolving specialty in geriatric care that focuses on the health and aging issues in the context of culture for older adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This article is an introduction to ethnogeriatrics for healthcare professionals including speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This article focuses on significant factors that contributed to the development of ethnogeriatrics, definitions of some key concepts in ethnogeriatrics, introduces cohort analysis as a teaching and clinical tool, and presents applications for speech-language pathology with recommendations for use of cohort analysis in practice, teaching, and research activities.

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