| Becoming research versus Being research? Philosophical positions in science?
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1. If the duration of now depends on how we conceive of the passage of time, then Becoming philosophers Heraclitus, William James and Henri Bergson experience a duration of now different from Being philosophers Plotinus, Parmenides, and disciples of the Eleatic School.
2. Science is dominated by a Becoming perspective, with its emphasis on chronos as its time–objective time. Correlational study, Prospective study, Retrospective study, Longitudinal study, all relate to events occurring within a Becoming or chronos flow of time. Laboratory and field experiments commonly examine the impact of an event or intervention on some outcome, and thus also operate within a Becoming perspective. Daniel N. Stern (in The Present Moment, 2004) is an advocate of the Being perspective and kairos–subjective time. Stern points out that “contemporary psychology has been comfortable with chronos as its time concept and use it productively. For instance, if one is interested in notions of before and after, the estimation of time intervals, the temporal limits of perceiving simultaneity or continuity, most studies of memory, or even how narratives and the real world is constructed in the mind, there is no need for a present moment that is any thicker than a point, no need for subjective units of time, and certainly no need for present moments that unfold with characteristic time contours.” (p. 137).
Stern’s mother-infant dyad research, in contrast, required a thicker present moment, a present moment that unfolds with uncharacteristic time contours.
3. My question is: Does anyone have a definition of (or further information about) Becoming research versus Being research? Any information about these philosophical perspectives as they relate to Science and research? Want to discuss it?
Thanks!
Billy
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