Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. In An End to Upside Down Thinking, Mark Gober traces his journey -- he explores compelling scientific evi…
The Social Life of ‘Conscience’: Rhetoric, Sacrifice and Community among Israeli Conscientious Objectors analyzes my long term ethnographic fieldwork with conscientious objectors as they realize, and live through, their refusal to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. These consc…
La 4e de couv. indique : "The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. 'The Cambridge handb…
Conscientization and the cultivation of conscience
Social Phenomenology offers an account of collective intentionality informed by the tradition of Husserlian phenomenology. The account argues that if consciousness and intentionality are only intrinsic to individuals, denying collectivism, that it does not follow that one endors…
Social Phenomenology offers an account of collective intentionality informed by the tradition of Husserlian phenomenology. The account argues that if consciousness and intentionality are only intrinsic to individuals, denying collectivism, that it does not follow that one endors…
Social Phenomenology brings together insights from the tradition of phenomenology and recent discussions of collective intentionality. In doing so, it offers a unique account of how consciousness is formative of the social world. That is, how our thinking things to be so can, in…
Social Phenomenology offers an account of collective intentionality informed by the tradition of Husserlian phenomenology. The account argues that if consciousness and intentionality are only intrinsic to individuals, denying collectivism, that it does not follow that one endors…
The dissertation traces a crucial transformation of the early modern Jesuit (and European) approach to conscience. This revolution involved the confrontation between two divergent ethical rules employed by a person confronting a doubtful moral issue: the medieval rule that one s…
Centering a concept that cuts across categories of analysis and experience, “For Conscience' Sake” looks to the notion of the conscience as a new hermeneutic tool for understanding religious belief, ethical reasoning, and political action. The role of individual moral judgment w…
This dissertation explores the ways in which the Christian doctrine of grace and nature is understood and deployed in the works of John Wesley and Thomas Aquinas. Given the extremely broad nature of this topic, we consider principally their mature works on grace and nature: the …