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2Dans sa violente charge contre la Révolution française, Edmund Burke avait élevé le débat politique à un niveau philosophique. Son argument le plus profond consistait à reprocher aux révolutionnaires de pécher par apriorisme, en cherchant à déduire, comme des géomètres, une nouvelle constitution à partir des principes abstraits énoncés dans la Déclaration des droits de l’homme. Reprise par les disciples allemands de Burke, cette critique de la méthode adoptée par la Constituante tirait des postu…Read more
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14We understand the workings of the human body as a series of interdependent physiological relationships: muscle interacts with bone as the heart responds to hormones secreted by the brain, all the way down to the inner workings of every cell. To make an organism function, no one component can work alone. In light of this, why is it that the accepted understanding that the physical phenomenon of the mind is attributed only to the brain? In The Embodied Mind, internationally renowned psychiatrist D…Read more
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28The Process of Ethical Decision-Making: Experts vs NovicesJournal of Academic Ethics 13 (1): 45-60. 2015.As one approach to examining the way ethical decisions are made, we asked experts and novices to review a set of scenarios that depict some important ethical tensions in research. The method employed was “protocol analysis,” a talk-aloud technique pioneered by cognitive scientists for the analysis of expert performance. The participants were asked to verbalize their normally unexpressed thought processes as they responded to the scenarios, and to make recommendations for courses of action. We fo…Read more
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48Middle school student and parent perceptions of parental involvement: unravelling the associations with school achievement and wellbeingEducational Studies 46 (4): 404-421. 2019.Parents play an important part in adolescents’ life and significantly contribute to youngsters’ academic success. However, parents’ and students’ perceptions regarding parental involvement may diff...
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7Determinants of self-regulated learning practices in elementary education: a multilevel approachTandf: Educational Studies 1-23. forthcoming..
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2In the female reproductive tract, mammalian sperm undergo a regulated sequence of prefusion changes that "prime" sperm for fertilization. Among the least understood of these complex processes are the molecular mechanisms that underlie sperm guidance by environmental chemical cues. A "hard-wired" Ca2+ signaling strategy that orchestrates specific motility patterns according to given functional requirements is an emerging concept for regulation of sperm swimming behavior. The molecular players inv…Read more
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1A Modern History of German Criminal LawImprint: Springer. 2014.Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, sometimes called continental law. So far this dialogue appears to have been dominated by the former. Whil…Read more
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The daimon and the choice of life in Plotinus' thoughtIn Luc Brisson, Seamus O'Neill & Andrei Timotin (eds.), Neoplatonic Demons and Angels, Brill. 2018.
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6Schein und Zeit: Martin Heidegger und Carlo Michelstaedter: auf den Spuren einer EnteignungMatthes & Seitz Berlin. 2019.
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4La kairologie, telle que la cerne Thomas Vercruysse, est une attitude de pensée qui privilégie la circonstance plutôt que l'essence, la métamorphose plutôt que la substance. Ce livre montre comment la saisie de la circonstance et de ses chances réclame la labilité de la métamorphose : saisir l'occasion, profiter des circonstances, c'est ne pas rater une seule occasion de se métamorphoser, de suivre l'air du temps que l'on respire, qui nous modifie et que l'on modifie. La kairologie pour…Read more
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3Inside Modernism: Relativity Theory, Cubism, NarrativeYale University Press. 1999.In this book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. Mook encompass physics, the visual arts and literature in a thought-provoking analysis of the period from the 1880s to World War II. Uncovering common structures and values underlying each of these disparate fields, the authors define Modernism and its historical location between nineteenth-century intellectual conventions that preceded it and the Postmod…Read more
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3The Legacy of Trump’s Judicial AppointmentsCatholic Social Science Review 26 117-123. 2021.It is too early to know if the judicial appointments of President Donald J. Trump will be an enduring legacy of his presidency because the Biden-Harris administration may have several opportunities to roll back his achievements. Still, Trump’s election in 2016 stymied the Left’s hope of a progressive Supreme Court. Trump has remodeled the Supreme Court into an originalist court. His Supreme Court appointments – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett – have defended religious liberty claims repeatedly. …Read more
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75No Evidence for a Decrease in Physical Activity Among Swiss Office Workers During COVID-19: A Longitudinal StudyFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.PurposeThe COVID-19 lockdown interrupted normal daily activities, which may have led to an increase in sedentary behavior. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of physical activity among Swiss office workers.MethodsOffice workers from two Swiss organizations, aged 18–65 years, were included. Baseline data from January 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic became effective in Switzerland were compared with follow-up data during the lockdown phase i…Read more
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81A Longitudinal Study on Generalized Anxiety Among University Students During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in SwitzerlandFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.ObjectiveThe COVID-19 pandemic and government measures implemented to counter the spread of the infection may be a major stressor affecting the psychological health of university students. This study aimed to explore how anxiety symptoms changed during the pandemic.Methods676 students at Zurich University of Applied Sciences participated in the first and second survey waves. Anxiety symptoms were assessed using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-Scale-7. Risk and protective factors were examined.R…Read more
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13Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Practice: Between Imaginaries of Collective Experimentation and Entrenched Academic Value OrdersScience, Technology, and Human Values 41 (4): 732-761. 2016.Over the past decades, we have witnessed calls for greater transdisciplinary engagement between scientific and societal actors to develop more robust answers to complex societal challenges. Although there seems to be agreement that these approaches might nurture innovations of a new kind, we know little regarding the research practices, their potential, and the limitations. To fill this gap, this article investigates a funding scheme in the area of transdisciplinary sustainability research. It o…Read more
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5R. R. Reno, The Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West (review)Catholic Social Science Review 25 257-259. 2020.Steven D. Smith persuasively shows that paganism and Christianity are in a culture war that spans two thousand years. Throughout his book, he shows that Christianity is the exceptional religion in three ways. First, Christianity is more authentically open to philosophy than paganism. Second, Christianity does not sacralize the State. Third, Christianity provides a more fulfilling understanding of sexual ethics. Despite the exceptionalism of Christianity, it is currently facing a significant chal…Read more
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5Our study explores the relationships between psychological and driving-related personality traits, fluid intelligence and cognitive abilities for drivers whose driving licence has been revoked due to intoxicated driving (alcohol and/or drugs). We were able to show that highly significant impacts on cognitive functions derive from the participants’ age and fluid intelligence. In addition, driving-related personality traits such as emotional instability, a sense of responsibility and self-control …Read more
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86Daily Use of Energy Management Strategies and Occupational Well-being: The Moderating Role of Job DemandsFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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22Individuation and the Organization in Complex Living Ecosystem: Recursive Integration and Self-assertion by Holon-LymphocytesActa Biotheoretica 68 (1): 171-199. 2019.Individuation and organization in complex living multi-level ecosystem occurs as dynamical processes from early ontogeny. The notion of living “holon” displaying dynamic self-assertion and integration is used here to explain the ecosystems dynamic processes. The update of the living holon state according to the continuous change of the dynamic system allows for its viability. This is interpreted as adaptation, selection and organization by the human that observes the system a posteriori from its…Read more
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11In Defense of Catholic FusionismCatholic Social Science Review 24 11-18. 2019.Patrick Deneen’s criticisms of liberalism are both penetrating and persuasive. Yet, Deneen does not adequately address liberalism’s strongest arguments. Deneen’s concept of “liberalism” is problematic because it minimizes the significant distinctions between classical liberalism and progressivism. Certain principles of classical liberalism, such as the free market and an increased awareness of human beings as rights-bearing individuals, are compatible with the Catholic faith. Progressivism, on t…Read more
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9Coding Ethical Decision-Making in ResearchScience and Engineering Ethics 23 (1): 121-146. 2017.This paper presents methods and challenges attendant on the use of protocol analysis to develop a model of heuristic processing applied to research ethics. Participants are exposed to ethically complex scenarios and asked to verbalize their thoughts as they formulate a requested decision. The model identifies functional parts of the decision-making task: interpretation, retrieval, judgment and editing and seeks to reliably code participant verbalizations to those tasks as well as to a set of cog…Read more
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10On the Immortality of MindsIn Leonard A. Kennedy (ed.), Renaissance Philosophy: New Translations: Lorenzo Valla , Paul Cortese , Cajetan , Tiberio Baccilieri , Juan Luis Vives , Peter Ramus, De Gruyter. pp. 41-54. 1973.
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25From Continuous to Discrete via V&V BarScience and Philosophy 6 (2): 37-44. 2018.The ‘continuous’ and the ‘discrete’ in nature and in science live and fight forever. The questionnaires and the Lickert scales are indispensable and widely used tools in social sciences research. Vougiouklis & Vougiouklis bar is a new tool introduced as an alternative to Lickert scales. We believe that such an alternative might offer some solutions to problems that crop up during the fight between continuous and discrete. Nevertheless, the greatest contribution of the V&V bar is that it offers t…Read more
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3Questionnaires with the ‘bar’ in social sciencesScience and Philosophy 3 (2): 47-58. 2015.Vougiouklis & Vougiouklis have proposed the replacement of Likert scales, usually used in questionnaires, with a bar. With this proposal a discrete situation is replaced by a fuzzy one. There are identified certain advantages concerning the use of the bar as compared to that of a scale during both the stages of filling-in as well as processing a questionnaire. The main advantage is the fact that it is much quicker to fill in and much easier to explain to participants. The bar provides the potent…Read more
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1Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Thomistic Making of a Doctrine of GodNova et Vetera 12 (4). 2014.
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14Stefan Vogt: Subalterne Positionierungen. Der deutsche Zionismus im Feld des Nationalismus in Deutschland 1890-1933, Göttingen: Wallstein 2016, 496 S (review)Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 69 (3): 303-305. 2017.