The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ferrari, Michel. (Editor), Weststrate, Nic M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Educational Psychology.; Philosophy of Education.; Educational Philosophy.
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The rich and diverse contributions to this volume span a wide variety of disciplines, from psychology and philosophy to neuroscience, by some of the most influential scholars in the emerging science of personal wisdom. As such, it is a collection of essential readings and the first publication to in...

Table of Contents:

• Preface, Michel Ferrari & Nic M. Weststrate
• Part I: Person-based Wisdom
• Chapter 1. The Need to Distinguish Personal from General Wisdom: A Short History and Empirical Evidence, Ursula M. Staudinger
• Chapter 2. Relevance, Meaning and the Cognitive Science of Wisdom, John Vervaeke & Leo Ferraro
• Chapter 3. Personal Wisdom in the Balance, Robert J. Sternberg
• Chapter 4. The MORE Life Experience Model: A Theory of the Development of Wisdom, Judith Glück & Susan Bluck
• Chapter 5. Neurobiological Basis of Personal Wisdom, Jeff D. Sanders & Dilip V. Jeste
• Part II: Wisdom in everyday, real-life contexts
• Chapter 6. From Persons to Positive Influences: Exploring Wisdom in Real-life Contexts, Shih-ying Yang
• Chapter 7. Stories of Wisdom to Live By: Developing Wisdom in a Narrative Mode, Michel Ferrari, Nic M. Weststrate, & Anda Petro
• Chapter 8. Religion, Spirituality, and Personal Wisdom: A Tale of Two Types, Paul Wink & Michele Dillon
• Chapter 9. Social Interpretation of Wisdom, Ricca Edmondson
• Part III: Self-transcendent wisdom
• Chapter 10. The Transpersonal in Personal Wisdom, Michael R. Levenson & Carolyn M. Aldwin
• Chapter 11. The Grinch Who Stole Wisdom, Eleanor Rosch
• Chapter 12. Wisdom of the East and West: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective, Masami Takahashi
• Chapter 13. The Paradoxical Nature of Personal Wisdom and its Relationship to Human Development in the Cognitive, Reflective and Affective Domains, Monika Ardelt, W. Andrew Achenbaum & Hunhui Oh
• Part IV: The transformative potential of wisdom inquiry
• Chapter 14. Wisdom: Object of Study or Basic Aim of Inquiry?, Nicholas Maxwell
• Conclusion, Michel Ferrari & Nic M. Weststrate.