Concepts of a culturally guided philosophy of science : contributions from philosophy, medicine, and science of psychotherapy

From the beginning, Constructive Realism has been a culturally orientated philosophy of science by the introduction of the concept of lifeworld. This book brings together contributions from the field of philosophy, Chinese medicine and the science of psychotherapy. The authors discuss the relation of Constructive Realism and culture or rather the concept of science under the aspect of cultural dependency. Since the beginning of the new century the manifold research on Chinese Medicine offered concrete examples for a cultural dependency of science. Thereby, the book shows the rare or even uniqu. Read more... Cover Preface Table of Contents Fengli Lan & Friedrich G. Wallner: The Concept of Health in Chinese Culture: The Playing of A Piece of Mild, Smooth Symphony in the Nature Fengli Lan & Friedrich G. Wallner: Etymology-based Understanding of the Concept of Disease in Chinese Culture: "Lack of Ease" and Pictorial Thinking Fengli Lan & Friedrich G. Wallner: The Origin of Bian Zheng or Pattern Identification in Chinese Medicine: Dialectics since 1955 Fengli Lan & Friedrich G. Wallner: The Nomenclature, Cultural Connotations and Translation of Disease Names in Chinese Medicine Fengli Lan & Friedrich G. Wallner: Disease, Symptoms and Pattern: The Foundations for Individualized Treatment in Chinese MedicinePan Gui-juan: "Cultural consciousness" and the basic theory of TCM research Kurt Greiner: Psycho-Text-Puzzle: Theoriendiskursives Spielverfahren für die Psychotherapiewissenschaft Kurt Greiner: Psycho-Bild-Prozess (PBP): Imaginationsförderndes Reflexionsinstrumentarium für die Psychotherapiewissenschaft Kurt Greiner: Was ist Psychoanalytische Forschung? Eine zeitgemäße Antwort wissenschafts-theoretischer Art Nicole Holzenthal de Cimadevilla: Die Kultur -- ein KonstruktJosé A. López Cerezo & José Luis Luján: A Philosophical Approach to the Nature of Risk Michael Franck: Verfremdung der Verfremdung. Die Verfremdung Brechts und des Konstruktiven Realismus im Vergleich Andreas Schulz: Radikaler Konstruktivismus und Konstruktiver Realismus On the Authors / Über die Autoren From the beginning, Constructive Realism has been a culturally orientated philosophy of science by the introduction of the concept of lifeworld. This book brings together contributions from the field of philosophy, Chinese medicine and the science of psychotherapy. The authors discuss the relation of Constructive Realism and culture or rather the concept of science under the aspect of cultural dependency. Since the beginning of the new century the manifold research on Chinese Medicine offered concrete examples for a cultural dependency of science. Thereby, the book shows the rare or even unique situation that philosophy became concrete. The authors discuss concepts of health and disease in Chinese medicine, new interpretative techniques in psychotherapy, concepts of culture and the notion of risk, Brecht's and Wallner's Verfremdung and Wallner's Constructive Realism compared to Glasersfeld's Radical Constructivism. The book shows the rare situation of philosophy becoming concrete.