...Recently, psychologists have started to distinguish between three kinds of experience of meaning. Drawing on philosophical as well as empirical literature, the author of this chapter argues that the experience of one’s own life making sense involves a sense of narrative...

... ipseity concern subjectivity Alzheimer’s disease brain cognitive decline aging dementia decision making domain hysteria discourse discursive psychiatry making sense voice meaning and contingency conversion disorder dementia Discursive psychology is interested in the way that human beings...

... of what is valuable emerge from practices of interpreting conflicting information. It also discusses the notion of ‘acting sensibly’ and contrasts this with a decision style known as ‘making sense’. When traders are managing their positions, meanings emerge from — rather than guide — market practices...

... that only reasons can make sense of intentional action) and claims to be defended (like the claim that the possibility of normative powers depends on our possession of normative interests, or the claim that deontic phenomena can have value for their own sake). The structure of the book is outlined...

...This chapter explores how children make sense of their world through the development and refinement of ‘working theories’. Working theories are a key item for young learners, and are emphasized in the New Zealand early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki. Children’s working theories...

... sense When we understand something, we are able to make sense of it. It could be some particular event that was puzzling, and is now clear. As in: “Why is he in such a good mood?” “Because he just received a job interview.” Or: “Why is the traffic moving so slowly?” “Because a tire is being changed...

... binge drinking body mass index BMI Norris P Respect Agenda Williams D ‘new public health’ consumption choice making sense liberal societies self-indulgence self-restraint governance socially normative behaviours Health is essential to individual, social and economic wellbeing...

... and Brennan. Like Walwicz, Stewart explicitly identified as avant-garde, as a participant in the avant-garde tradition, and continues to work in various groups like Machine for Making Sense, across experimental music and experimental poetry scenes. Stewart is as avant-garde poets always were and perhaps...

... these efforts nearly always fail. It reveals that most explanatory accounts that attempt to “make sense” of the “fickleness” of the market are not intended to eliminate ambiguities and paradoxes, but rather to calm and conciliate us. Most routines function in a similar way. While these various teachings clearly...