William E Smythe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Smythe |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Smythe |
| SIGNATURE | SMYTHE W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1906 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Divine Voice, or the Psychology of Faith
In this engaging and highly readable book, Jungian analyst Michael Gellert takes the reader on a guided tour of God’s “inner journey,” as manifest in the principal texts of the three Abrahamic trad
Jungian dialogism and the problem of depth
Notions of dialogical inquiry and of the dialogical self have become increasingly influential in contemporary psychology in response to the limitations of the traditional view of monologically encapsulated and radically disengaged consciousness. Conceptions of self and inquiry as intrinsically embedded in and constituted by our shared life with others seem to do better justice to the richly interconnected character of contemporary life. At the sa…
Evolutionary ethics by way of Aristotle
Science and persons
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ)
Hermeneutics of continuity
This paper theorizes how ancient literature can be used to inspire contemporary psychological understanding. We articulate a critical presentism that reads ancient literature symbolically without losing sight of important differences of meaning over time. Although ancient literature may inspire understanding of our present-day concerns, historical text cannot be used to explain contemporary understandings without charges of naïve presentism. A he…
The hermeneutic background of C. G. Jung
Hermeneutics has been central to the practice of Jung's psychology from the beginning, although he never fully and consistently developed a hermeneutic method of inquiry and the literature addressing this aspect of his psychology is not extensive. In this paper(1) we undertake a critical re-examination of Jung's relationship to hermeneutic thought, based on his explicit references to hermeneutics in the Collected Works and his theoretical develop…
On the Psychology of ‘As If’
This paper explores the role that fiction in the broad sense might play in psychology, as a tool both for theoretical understanding and for individual self-understanding. Using Hans Vaihinger’s Philosophy of ‘As If’ as a point of departure, I attempt to show that theoretical understanding and personal meaning making in psychology are based in fundamental ways on fictions, that is, on imaginative or counter-factual constructions that we operate on…
Between Numbers and Notions
When psychologists apply mathematical machinery to psychological ideas, that machinery imposes certain requirements in the linkage of numbers and notions. These impose choices driven by the mathematics and not the psychology. These decisions, forced by the mathematics, induce theoretical issues in the psychology. Attempting a theory-neutral approach to research in psychology, where commitments in response to the options are made unknowingly, thus…
The Formal and Mental Structures of Semiotic Processes
The formal and psychological requirements of semiosis or sign action is discussed. It is shown that, at the formal level, systems of signs are best accounted for in terms of Peirce's semiotic triad of sign, object and interpretant, as well as his view that systems of signs are generative and recursive. The importance of the distinction between sign and representamen, as well as that between the dynamic and immediate objects in the semiotic triad,…
The Signs We Live by
In our introduction to this special issue on semiotics and psychology, we outline the background and motivation for this project, preview the main themes addressed by the seven contributions, and draw some conclusions about the mutual relevance of psychology and semiotics for each other. Our motives for undertaking this special issue were basically three-fold. First, we were curious, given the recent decline of traditional approaches to cognitive…
Cognition in Narrative Worlds
Conceptions of Interpretation in Cognitive Theories of Representation
This paper examines some conceptions of semantic interpretation that have come out of cognitive theories of mental representation. Fundamental to the cognitivist perspective of classical computational theories is a conception of mental representation based on self-contained systems of formal symbols which require separate principles of interpretation to fix their semantics. A number of specific proposals about interpretation developed in connecti…
The Conquest of Arid America
Elementary Grammar of the Gumbáiŋgar Language Corrigenda
Elementary Grammar of the Gumbáiŋgar Language (North Coast, N.S.W.)
Constructive Democracy
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ)
The hermeneutic background of C. G. Jung
Hermeneutics has been central to the practice of Jung's psychology from the beginning, although he never fully and consistently developed a hermeneutic method of inquiry and the literature addressing this aspect of his psychology is not extensive. In this paper(1) we undertake a critical re-examination of Jung's relationship to hermeneutic thought, based on his explicit references to hermeneutics in the Collected Works and his theoretical develop…
Constructive Democracy
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb
Constructive Democracy
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb
Elementary Grammar of the Gumbáiŋgar Language (North Coast, N.S.W.)
Elementary Grammar of the Gumbáiŋgar Language Corrigenda
The Conquest of Arid America
Conceptions of Interpretation in Cognitive Theories of Representation
This paper examines some conceptions of semantic interpretation that have come out of cognitive theories of mental representation. Fundamental to the cognitivist perspective of classical computational theories is a conception of mental representation based on self-contained systems of formal symbols which require separate principles of interpretation to fix their semantics. A number of specific proposals about interpretation developed in connecti…
Cognition in Narrative Worlds
The Formal and Mental Structures of Semiotic Processes
The formal and psychological requirements of semiosis or sign action is discussed. It is shown that, at the formal level, systems of signs are best accounted for in terms of Peirce's semiotic triad of sign, object and interpretant, as well as his view that systems of signs are generative and recursive. The importance of the distinction between sign and representamen, as well as that between the dynamic and immediate objects in the semiotic triad,…
The Signs We Live by
In our introduction to this special issue on semiotics and psychology, we outline the background and motivation for this project, preview the main themes addressed by the seven contributions, and draw some conclusions about the mutual relevance of psychology and semiotics for each other. Our motives for undertaking this special issue were basically three-fold. First, we were curious, given the recent decline of traditional approaches to cognitive…
Between Numbers and Notions
When psychologists apply mathematical machinery to psychological ideas, that machinery imposes certain requirements in the linkage of numbers and notions. These impose choices driven by the mathematics and not the psychology. These decisions, forced by the mathematics, induce theoretical issues in the psychology. Attempting a theory-neutral approach to research in psychology, where commitments in response to the options are made unknowingly, thus…
On the Psychology of ‘As If’
This paper explores the role that fiction in the broad sense might play in psychology, as a tool both for theoretical understanding and for individual self-understanding. Using Hans Vaihinger’s Philosophy of ‘As If’ as a point of departure, I attempt to show that theoretical understanding and personal meaning making in psychology are based in fundamental ways on fictions, that is, on imaginative or counter-factual constructions that we operate on…
Hermeneutics of continuity
This paper theorizes how ancient literature can be used to inspire contemporary psychological understanding. We articulate a critical presentism that reads ancient literature symbolically without losing sight of important differences of meaning over time. Although ancient literature may inspire understanding of our present-day concerns, historical text cannot be used to explain contemporary understandings without charges of naïve presentism. A he…
The hermeneutic background of C. G. Jung
Hermeneutics has been central to the practice of Jung's psychology from the beginning, although he never fully and consistently developed a hermeneutic method of inquiry and the literature addressing this aspect of his psychology is not extensive. In this paper(1) we undertake a critical re-examination of Jung's relationship to hermeneutic thought, based on his explicit references to hermeneutics in the Collected Works and his theoretical develop…
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ)
Science and persons
Evolutionary ethics by way of Aristotle
Jungian dialogism and the problem of depth
Notions of dialogical inquiry and of the dialogical self have become increasingly influential in contemporary psychology in response to the limitations of the traditional view of monologically encapsulated and radically disengaged consciousness. Conceptions of self and inquiry as intrinsically embedded in and constituted by our shared life with others seem to do better justice to the richly interconnected character of contemporary life. At the sa…
A Divine Voice, or the Psychology of Faith
In this engaging and highly readable book, Jungian analyst Michael Gellert takes the reader on a guided tour of God’s “inner journey,” as manifest in the principal texts of the three Abrahamic trad
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)