Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

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  • Author: Paul M.W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137483326
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140

This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.


Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

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  • Author: Paul M.W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
  • ISBN: 9781349694563
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.


The Complexity of Bird Behaviour

The Complexity of Bird Behaviour

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  • Author: Paul M. W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030121925
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 231

This book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal behaviour research and the design of research procedures through employing mapping sentences. Using the facet theoretical framework, this book takes a holistic view of bird behaviour. Components of bird behavior are identified and then reassembled to facilitate an understanding of the behaviour in the context of its natural occurrence. This provides new insight on both the parts of the behaviour and how these interact as a whole. The multi-faceted approach to designing, evaluating and understanding bird behavior presented offers a template that is adaptable for investigating a wide variety of avian species and different forms of behaviour. Behavioural biologists, animal and comparative psychologists, other natural and behavioural scientists, as well as students of these disciplines will find this book to be an interesting and enlightening read.


The Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art

The Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art

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  • Author: Paul M.W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319484524
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 95

This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence and partial order mereology to model perceptual structure. It reviews the writing of philosophers such as Paul Crowther and art theorists such as Krauss to establish the need for this research. The ontological model established Paul Crowther is used to guide an interactive account of his ontology in the interpretations of the perceptual process of three-dimensional abstract art to allow the formulation of a more comprehensive philosophical account. The book uniquely combines structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to artistic perception and understanding with a conceptual structure from facet theory, which is clarified with the help of a mapping sentence and partial order mereology.


Declarative Mapping Sentences in Qualitative Research

Declarative Mapping Sentences in Qualitative Research

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  • Author: Paul M. W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351013971
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 110

In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinnings, and proposes the "declarative mapping sentence" as an instrument and approach to qualitative scholarship. With a helpful glossary and a range of illustrative tables, Hackett takes the reader through a straightforward introduction to mapping sentences and their construction, before discussing declarative mapping sentences and possible future research directions. This innovative direction for social research provides a flexible structure for research domain, and it allows qualitative research results to be uniformly sorted. Declarative Mapping Sentences in Qualitative Research will be essential reading for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of qualitative psychology and psychological methods, as well as philosophical psychology and social science research methods.


An Introduction to Using Mapping Sentences

An Introduction to Using Mapping Sentences

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  • Author: Paul M. W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030785823
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 117

This book acts as an introductory guide to understanding and using the mapping sentence as a tool in social science and humanities research. The book fills the need for a concise text that simply instructs how and when to use a mapping sentence and provides practical examples. Mapping sentences are a major research component and tool of facet theory. The book begins by covering the background to mapping sentence, including the philosophy and theory underpinning it. The following chapter discuss what mapping sentence is, what different kinds of mapping sentences exist, and knowing when and which to use it in a given situation. The book then moves into describing how to write a mapping sentence and how to analyse the information gained from mapping sentence research. It ends with a consideration of the future developments of mapping sentences and their applications across the social sciences and humanities, including in particular psychology, marketing, behavioural biology, art and health.


Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence

Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence

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  • Author: Paul M.W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030661997
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

This book is the second edition of Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application (2014). It consolidates the qualitative and quantitative research positions of facet theory and delves deeper into their qualitative application in psychology, social and the behavioural sciences and in the humanities. In their traditional quantitative guise, facet theory and its mapping sentence incorporate multi-dimensional statistics. They are also a way of thinking systematically and thoroughly about the world. The book is particularly concerned with the development of the declarative mapping sentence as a tool and an approach to qualitative research. The evolution of the facet theory approach is presented along with many examples of its use in a wide variety of research domains. Since the first edition, the major advance in facet theory has been the formalization of the use of the declarative mapping sentence and this is given a prominent position in the new edition. The book will be compelling reading for students at all levels and for academics and research professionals from the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences.


Art and Embodiment

Art and Embodiment

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  • Author: Paul Crowther
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199244973
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

Arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generality and completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of humanity's basic relation to the world, Crowther proposes an ecological definition of art.


Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research

Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research

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  • Author: Paul M. W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000263983
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 644

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the chapters offer a holistic view of ethnography within medical contexts. This edited volume is organized around major methodological themes, such as ethics, interviews, narrative analysis and mixed methods. Through the use of case studies, it illustrates how methodological considerations for ethnographic healthcare research are distinct from those in other fields. It has detailed content on the methodological facets of undertaking ethnography for prospective researchers to help them to conduct research in both an ethical and safe manner. It also highlights important issues such as the role of the researcher as the key research instrument, exploring how one’s social behaviours enable the researcher to ‘get closer’ to his/her participants and thus uncover original phenomena. Furthermore, it invites critical discussion of applied methodological strategies within the global academic community by pushing forward the use of ethnography to enhance the body of knowledge in the field. The book offers an original guide for advanced students, prospective ethnographers, and healthcare professionals aiming to utilize this methodological approach.


Using Declarative Mapping Sentences in Psychological Research

Using Declarative Mapping Sentences in Psychological Research

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  • Author: Paul M.W. Hackett
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100060196X
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 94

Using facet theory and Hackett’s pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction. Using a comparative approach to the development of female roles in Western science fiction films and television, the authors illustrate how the DMS is formulated and used to analyse the psychological and behavioral profiles of female characters. By maintaining the common structure of the DMS across films while adapting its content for each female role, the text demonstrates the flexibility of the DMS in providing a structure for varied research domains, enabling results to be uniformly compared, contrasted and classified. This insightful and thought-provoking volume will appeal to researchers, academics and educators interested in psychological methods and statistics, qualitative research in gender identity, and research methods more generally. Those especially interested in behavioural psychology, gender and cinema, and science fiction will also benefit from this volume.