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Functional Collaboration
James Duffy
Nov 12, 2022
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
One Wild and Precious Life
James Duffy
Mar 16, 2022
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Editor’s Introduction
James Duffy
Dec 10, 2020
This is the second volume of dialectic exercises implementing a specific three-step procedure. The eleven individuals who participated in these exercises, like those who did the exercises published in volume 13, consented to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Editor's Introduction
James Duffy
Nov 12, 2022
There are four parts to this introduction: (i) an overview of the problem that concerned Lonergan for more than thirty years; (ii) a summary of some attempts to implement the “doubling” idea in the last 50 years; (iii) some...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
An Exploration of the Relationships Between Different Reading Strategies and IELTS Test Performance
This study explores which types of IELTS Academic Reading strategies are used, and the impact of these strategies on test outcomes. The study was a quantitative research, using descriptive-correlational design based on data...
Published by: IGI Global
Method, Bold Spirits, and "Some Third Way"
James Duffy
Jun 12, 2015
On the first two pages of Method in Theology, Lonergan briefly distinguishes those who conceive method more of an art than a science; those “bolder spirits” who select the most successful science, study its procedures, formulate...
Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Methodology method, functional collaboration, progress and decline, Cosmopolis
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
“MacIntyre and Lonergan” Revisited
James Duffy
Feb 24, 2020
In the fall of 1999, I drafted two essays for the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA), which took place in St. Paul, Minnesota during the first week of November 1999. The essay that I...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Frequently Cited Works
James Gerard Duffy
Jun 23, 2022
The list of frequently cited works of McShane and Lonergan provides full references for works cited in footnotes throughout the 24 essays.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Editors' Introduction
We provide this introduction as a brief attempt at supplying a wider context for the essays in the tribute volume. We intend it only as a kind of invitation to begin the climb toward what Phil called “expectational reading and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Editor's Introduction
In his 2001 “Introduction: The Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis,” Mike Shute recounted how the journal came about and what its aim would be. The idea for the journal emerged from a series of conferences in Nova Scotia, Canada...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Editor's Preface
James Duffy
May 22, 2020
What did Lonergan have in mind while laying out the structure of dialectic? Could the procedure be at the heart of mediating “between a cultural matrix and the significance and role of religion in that matrix”? This volume...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Moving Towards JMDA Volume 14
Philip McShane
Dec 10, 2020
I note at this get-go that I am writing to those who are participating in the scramble for new controls of meaning that is to be this volume. Perhaps it, and its pressures towards the effective engineering, will reach others....
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Assembling the Meaning of Probability
My positioning focuses on the meaning of a single word, probability. As in the prior exercise,1 my tasks are to (i) make explicit, to talk about, that which I am capable of talking about; (ii) to identify that which I am not...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Heuristic Notions of Space and Time
For a variety of reasons attention is now directed to the notions of space and time. Not only are these notions puzzling and so interesting, but they throw considerable light on the precise nature of abstraction, they provide a...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Assembling Lonergan’s Heart
This series of Assembly essays seeks to make a beginning on the structured dialectic task specified so compactly by Lonergan in section 5 of Chapter 10 of Method in Theology. I discussed how the series might be developed at the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Effective Dialectical Analysis
The common description of science as ‘an organized body of knowledge’ possesses more than merely metaphorical significance. Like any self-organizing body—be it a tadpole, a giraffe fetus, an animal species, or humanity in its...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh
Liam O Ruairc
Dec 14, 2022
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland