Consciousness-Raising Groups in the 1970's

Based on a 1974 nationwide survey, this paper describes the characteristics of 1, 669 women in consciousness-raising (CR) groups. Most women in the survey are white, middle- and upper-middle class women who joined their first CR group during the 1970's. They learned about CR groups primarily from women friends and joined a group with friends or through a women's organization. Sixty-five percent of the women considered themselves to be members of the women's movement prior to their joining a CR group. Most women identified themselves as liberal (58%) or radical (21%). Women's primary reason for joining a CR group was to learn from, share with, and gain support from other women; they joined to examine personal issues within the context of their common social roles. Sharing experiences and feelings as women was the most salient group process. Women in this survey were highly satisfied with their CR group experience and encouraged other women to join a CR group.     

NIELS BOHR AND THE MYSTICISM OF NATURE

Some authors have described Niels Rohr as “never being open to anything transcendental.” Wolfgang Pauli, on the other hand, spent many years trying to persuade Bohr to admit to a kind of’ mysticism. This study offers support to Pauli's claims. First, a distinction between what is vague on the one hand, and what is necessarily circular on the other, clarifies the work of Bohr. This discussion leads to comments on Bohr's attitude towards the mutuality of spirit and matter and of reason and mysticism. Finally, some reflections are made about the relevance of Bohr's covert transcendental philosophy for theological endeavors.     

Factor indeterminacy in the 1930's and the 1970's some interesting parallels

The issue of factor indeterminacy, and its meaning and significance for factor analysis, has been the subject of considerable debate in recent years. Interestingly, the identical issue was discussed widely in the literature of the late 1920's and early 1930's, but this early discussion was somehow lost or forgotten during the development and popularization of multiple factor analysis. There are strong parallels between the arguments in the early literature, and those which have appeared in recent papers. Here I review the history of this early literature, briefly survey the more recent work, and discuss these parallels where they are especially illuminating.Support by the NRC (Grant No. A4640) and the University of British Columbia (UBC Humanities and Social Sciences Grant 26-9508) is gratefully acknowledged.     

EXPLORING OLD AND NEW PATHS IN THEODICY

Christopher Southgate's work raises questions about God, evolution, and suffering. In this article, I begin by contributing an alternative to Southgate's “only way” argument and by offering a third option in speculations about the nature of nonhuman animals in heaven. The second half of the article starts with Southgate's approach of evolutionary theodicy as “an adventure in theology” and proposes a new path branching off his work. “Compassionate theodicy” is a reworking of the method and audience of traditional theodicy in the hope that it might become something that could offer theological resources to those who suffer.     

THE CHALLENGE TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE 1980s

Robert W. Gibson MD, is interviewed concerning the potential impact of restricted funding for mental health services in the 1980s, particularly as this applies to the practice of occupational therapy. Topics covered include the decreasing length of inpatient hospitalization; the possibility of a shifting emphasis lo the treatmcnt of the severely and chronically ill; increasing utilization of rehabilitative services; and suggestions to facilitate greater interprofessional collaboration. Thc establishment of measurable outcomes for continued or improved reimbursement of occupational therapy services is stressed, and the potential for multiprofession group practices as a cost-effective approach to reduced business and industry health care costs is suggested.     

关联效应中对情绪诱词的错误再认的实验研究

采用DRM范式,考察了在汉字单字词语音关联和形声关联条件下对具有情绪色彩的关键诱词的错误再认情况,结果表明:(1)汉字中存在着语音和字形关联,但是语音关联下的对诱词的错误再认率很低。(2)语音关联、形声关联条件下,尽管学习阶段没有出现带有情绪色彩的词,被试仍然对情绪诱词都产生了显著的错误再认。(3)形声关联下对关键诱词的错误再认近于语音关联的两倍,可见概括性的强度影响错误记忆的大小。     

HOW TO DEFEAT BELIEF IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD

Abstract:  I defend the view that there is a privileged class of propositions – that there is an external world, among other such 'hinge propositions'– that possess a special epistemic status: justified belief in these propositions is not defeated unless one has sufficient reason to believe their negation. Two arguments are given for this conclusion. Finally, three proposals are offered as morals of the preceding story: first, our justification for hinge propositions must be understood as defeatable, second, antiskeptics must explain our knowledge in the face of 'actual world' skepticism (like dreaming skepticism) as much as in the face of the usual sort (like brain-in-vat skepticism), and, finally, our justification for hinge propositions is basic (i.e. non-inferential).     

向四个现代化进军中的工程心理学

向四个现代化进军,是一次新长征。要迅速改变我国落后的现状,跃进到世界先进的行列,就必须战胜数不尽的艰难险阻。我们要用“万水千山只等闲”的气概,攀高峰,越难关。当我想到祖国未来的灿烂图景时,心中就不只是欢乐,更意识到我们责任的重大和时间的紧迫。新长征意味着一系列的变化,会给工程心理学提出一系列的新要求。既要照     

小学生比较能力发展特点的研究

在教学过程中,比較起着重要的作用。因为要使学生正确认識每一个事物,正确理解每一个科学概念,就需要了解各个事物的本貭,而要正确认識事物的本貭,不但需要找出事物的共同点,也要找出事物的不同点。毛主席曾指出:“对于物貭的每一种运动形式,必須注意它和其他各种运动形式的共同点。但是尤其重要的,成为我們认識事物的基础的东西,则是必須注意它的特殊点,就是說,注意它和其他运动形式的貭的区别。只有注     

交叉于康德主义、现象学及新经验主义路径的先天、客观性和判断:向朱利奥·普雷蒂致敬

作者认为,意大利哲学家朱利奥·普雷蒂认识论思想的一个难能可贵的方面在于它汇集了来自诸多不同哲学思潮的主题,尤其关注康德主义、现象学和逻辑经验主义之间的相互关联。他对逻辑经验主义与康德主义之间所形成的多重关系进行了广泛的探究,对逻辑经验主义与现象学之间的关系程度进行了探究,阐明了贯穿于鲁道夫·卡尔纳普思想中的现象学要素,评价了石里克对胡塞尔的批判在其知识概念的创制中所产生的作用,进而在胡塞尔现象学与逻辑经验主义之间探寻一种理论综合的路径。作者以先天、客观性和判断作为线索,讨论了康德主义、现象学和新经验主义这些传统的历史异同,以及通过综合这些长期以来被视为不可调和的理论进路来构建客观性理论的可能性,最后指出对现象学、康德传统、新经验主义以及后实证主义进行综合或整合,从而确立一种以可能将真理的形式价值和真理的历史维度接合起来的客观性观念为轴心的科学和知识理论。