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James Giles (born 1958) is a Canadian philosopher and psychologist.He has written about the philosophy of perception, [1] personal identity and the self, [2] mindfulness, [3] Buddhist [4] and Taoist philosophy, [5] and has published theories of the evolution of human hairlessness, [6] the nature of sexual desire, [7] sexual attraction, [8] and gender. [9]
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For Foucault, an épistémè is the guiding unconsciousness of subjectivity within a given epoch – subjective parameters which form an historical a priori. [5]: xxii He uses the term épistémè (French pronunciation:) in his The Order of Things, in a specialized sense to mean the historical, non-temporal, a priori knowledge that grounds truth and discourses, thus representing the condition ...
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James Giles may refer to: James Giles (porcelain decorator) (1718–1780) James Giles (painter) (1801–1870), Scottish painter; James Giles (politician), Australian politician; James Giles (philosopher) (born 1958), Canadian philosopher and psychologist; James Bascom Giles (1900–1993), American politician; James LeRoy Giles (1863–1946 ...
Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. Gibson began her career at Smith College as an instructor in 1932, publishing her first works on research conducted as an undergraduate student.
In La société de déception (2006) he analyzes the concept of disappointment following the work of Jacques Lacan that desire creates a vacuum and can never be filled. In L'écran global. Culture-médias et cinéma à l'âge hypermoderne (2007) he analyses a "second modern revolution" declaring the end of post-modernism, arguing that paradoxes ...
James (Jim) Andrew Secord (born 18 March 1953) is an American-born historian of science. He was a professor (now retired) of history and philosophy of science within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge , [ 1 ] and a fellow of Christ's College . [ 2 ]