Academic Publications
Published 11 Jan 2024 as Towards Locating the Validatable Foundations of Life Themes … and how we communicate
in Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
written by Jeremy Horne PhD
People wanting to know who they are and whether or why their life’s activities do not match what they feel look to “personality tests”. However, a test, with its “correct” or “incorrect” responses fail to reveal one’s core values, or ethos. Over the millennia, four valued virtue ethics systems have emerged, and one or more, a combination of them, or a synthesis of them all may be the one that accomplish the goal of the “personality “test”. This article, by settling on a paradigm case, places Authentic Systems under the microscope to see if it fulfills the central goal of identifying one’s value system that is the source of their life theme, or pattern of behavior. 57 Pages
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Published 12 Aug 2024 as A Framework for Personal Identity Location: The Structural Foundation of Values
in Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
written by Jeremy Horne PhD
Philosophers and psychologists now can join hands with neuroanatomists to solve the vexing problem of personal identity. Personal identity can be located in a person, described specifically, is stable, and is deeply structured (genetically and even mathematically). Current psychological methods lack sufficient specificity and material validation. The ethos-ethics-morality triad is shaped according to identity integrity, along with its internalization (virtue), resulting in a life theme that feeds behavior norms to the person. A person knowing these things can better manage her/his conflicts in individual and social environments. The Voris method is a paradigm identity probe. 39 pages
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Published 10 Dec 2024 as A Framework for Personal Identity Location – A Wholistic View
in Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
written by Jeremy Horne PhD
Identity location occurs by reductionism (such as neurocorrelation and DNA) or wholism (qualitative methods like phenomenology). Regardless, philosophy underpins finding and characterizing one’s identity. Metaphysical barriers prevent “absolute” discovery, and we are forced to bootstrap (as do logicians and mathematicians), using ontology and epistemology to support our quests. Previous articles explained the Cartesian (reductionist/quantitative) method (one being neurogeometry), so the balance is achieved here by qualitative means, exemplified by Russell W. Belk, Donald Brown, and, overall, phenomenology. 49 Pages
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