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Living With Copd Through The Eyes Of Veterans And Their Spouses Residing In Ontario, Erisa Deda
Living With Copd Through The Eyes Of Veterans And Their Spouses Residing In Ontario, Erisa Deda
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is characterized by the progressive decline of lung function. Despite being twice more likely to develop COPD, very little focus has been placed on understanding the impact of this disease on veterans and/or their spouses who have it. The aim of this hermeneutical phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of Canadian veterans and/or their spouses with COPD. In addition to their knowledge and experience with the information and services provided to them. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews were used to reveal themes. The themes included: I don’t feel so good; having to stop …
A New Framework For Enactivism: Understanding The Enactive Body Through Structural Flexibility And Merleau-Ponty’S Ontology Of Flesh, John Jenkinson
A New Framework For Enactivism: Understanding The Enactive Body Through Structural Flexibility And Merleau-Ponty’S Ontology Of Flesh, John Jenkinson
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The enactive approach to cognition and consciousness offers a valuable alternative to the standard approaches dominant in the sciences of mind. As an embodied account, enactivism incorporates theoretical perspectives on the body from phenomenology, cognitive science, and biology, which provides a unique interpretation of embodiment with critical insight into the embodied nature of cognition and consciousness. Nonetheless, I argue that several revisions are required to make enactivism viable within the context of the sciences of mind. The enactive account of subjectivity is problematic, in light of arguments developed in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s later texts, because it is implicitly dualistic. I demonstrate …