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Memories of and Gratitude for Philip McShane
William Zanardi
Mar 16, 2022
William J. Zanardi is Professor Emeritus at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Over the last thirty plus years, the works of Bernard Lonergan and Philip McShane have greatly influenced his teaching and writing. As one of...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Bernard Lonergan’s Puzzling Comment About the Vis Cogitativa
William Zanardi
Sep 17, 2018
This essay is a demonstration of the first functional specialty, Research. As I understand it, the principle aim of the specialty is to assemble materials relevant to understanding some puzzling issue. The short text from...
Methodology, Functional Research, Philosophical Psychology vis cogitativa, superego, binding problem
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of Philip McShane, The Future
William Zanardi
Feb 24, 2020
An audience for this book will be graduate students, faculty and independent scholars who have ever complained that their academic disciplines “can’t go on like this.” But diagnosing existing deficits and inventing remedies are...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Early Forms of Apprehension and Moral Evaluation
William Zanardi
Sep 17, 2018
The following essay is an exercise in doing the second functional specialty, Interpretation, in relation to research materials from my essay, “Lonergan’s Puzzling Comment about the Vis Cogitativa.”1 Section I briefly reviews the...
Methodology, Functional Research, Philosophical Psychology Lonergan, moral development, genealogy of morals, vis cogitativa, binding problem
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Functional Specialization And the Education of Liberty
William J. Zanardi
Oct 20, 2010
This article locates Lonergan’s call for a new political economy within a larger project, the “education of liberty,” one aim of which is to have large numbers of producers and consumers voluntarily and ...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Diagnosing Economic Realisms
William J. Zanardi
Oct 20, 2010
In response to the previous article and its invitation to functional collaboration, this essay identifies two competing versions of economic realism and uses the functional specialty dialectic to diagnose the origins of these...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Raising Expectations
William J. Zanardi
Sep 16, 2018
Making sense is the topic of this essay, and it is tackled in a series of sublating contexts. It begins with reflections on the context of a simple family business that makes sense and that calls for its members to continue to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Ontological Structure of the Hermeneutic Circle
In his recent review of a book by Fred Lawrence, Jeremy Wilkins remarked that the author left undeveloped his claim that Lonergan’s functional specialties “thematize the ontological structure of the hermeneutic circle.” Why, he...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Assembling the Science of Interpretation
“Interpretation is to be scientific.” Those five words of Lonergan weave beautifully into my proposed sublation of Chapter 17 of Insight in the context of an effective engineering of progress that would gently blossom into the...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of Philip McShane, Interpretation from A to Z
William Zanardi
May 22, 2020
A subtitle for this book could have read “A Revolution Betrayed.” The author begins by criticizing conventional ways of reading and interpreting the works of Bernard Lonergan, ways that remain at the level of common-sense...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
What Are Your Expectations in Doing Comparative Interpretation?
William J. Zanardi
Feb 24, 2020
This essay is an extended invitation to reflect on what you expect comparative interpretation to accomplish.1 Its purpose is to challenge your understanding and practice in comparing different viewpoints on some common issue. Do...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
THE COMPLETE INUTTITUT VOCABULARY COLLECTED BY WILLIAM RICHARDSON CA.1765-1771
Marianne P. Stopp
Apr 24, 2014
William Richardson is known to researchers of Labrador history for his account of a 1771 voyage along the coast of southern Labrador. A re-examination of the Richardson material at the University of Toronto Libraries revealed a...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of William Pinar, Moving Images of Eternity
Bryan Heystee
Apr 22, 2021
William Pinar’s 2019 book Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critiqueof Time, Teaching, and Technology presents a much-needed and welcomeaddition to scholarship on one of Canada’s most significant philosophers....
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
Characteristics of Successful Securities Crowdfunding Campaigns in the United States
Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) enacted by the U.S. Congress enables a new crowdfunding source of investment capital for entrepreneurs and a new opportunity for all investors (Regulation CF)....
Published by: IGI Global
Infants, Toddlers, and Technology in Early Childhood Settings
This chapter addresses how early childhood professionals can implement technology in early childhood settings with infants and toddlers. Early childhood educators face complex expectations to ensure children learn and develop...
Educational Technologies Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
The Relationship of Classroom Behavior and Income Inequality to Literacy in Early Childhood
This chapter addresses the association between nurturing prosocial classroom behavior in young children, literacy, and income inequality. Literacy will be explored as it relates to social competence in the classroom as...
Culture & Population Studies Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
The Relationship of Classroom Behavior and Income Inequality to Literacy in Early Childhood
This chapter addresses the association between nurturing prosocial classroom behavior in young children, literacy, and income inequality. Literacy will be explored as it relates to social competence in the classroom as...
Educational Technologies Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
THE DICTIONARY OF NEWFOUNDLAND ENGLISH
Jeff A. Webb
Jan 09, 2014
IN THE FALL OF 1982 the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (DNE) arrived in bookshops. It was the culmination of about 30 years of effort on the part of George Story, William Kirwin and John Widdowson, and was the greatest...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Infants, Toddlers, and Technology in Early Childhood Settings
This chapter addresses how early childhood professionals can implement technology in early childhood settings with infants and toddlers. Early childhood educators face complex expectations to ensure children learn and develop...
Published by: IGI Global
Pronunciation Keys in Dictionaries of Place-names
William Kirwin
Jul 30, 2013
Place-names are part of the vocabulary of speakers of English as well as an important category of proper nouns in print. Like the rest of the lexicon of English, place-names, spoken or written, have had a long history of change...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Building Resilient, Smart Communities in a Post-COVID Era
The COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly throughout the world in early 2020. Beyond the substantial health impacts, the crisis has served as a catalyst for a dramatic shift in working practices, a greater reliance on technology, and...
Published by: IGI Global
Exxon Valdez Incident
John D Halley
Apr 09, 2013
The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker owned by the ExxonMobil Shipping Company, which gained its infamy after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling more than 11 million galleons (approximately 258,000 barrels) of crude...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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