Concepts

Epilogue: Subjectivity and Strategy

To study strategy is not merely to study how people make plans or pursue objectives. It is to investigate how subjects act, think, and develop through their engagement with the world—and how, through that engagement, they continually participate in shaping the lives they lead.

Developmental Strategy: Revisiting the “Strategy” Theme from the GO Theory Perspective

GO Theory now contains a rich ecosystem of meta-frameworks. To revisit the “strategy” theme, I do not need all of them. I select three lenses, each offering a distinct perspective on strategy as a developmental phenomenon.

[Creative Note] The Concept Dynamics of Confucian Allusions

After the collection was finished, I kept thinking about it. Then I realized that I already had a tool for looking at it: the Concept Dynamics framework.

后记:儒家典故的概念动力学

我通常在编辑书稿和文集之后,会写概要、前言、后记和附录。关于书稿文集的正文内容由概要负责,而整个项目带来的一些副产品(by-product)则表达在后面三种文章中。这篇前言带出的副产品,其实是如何把概念动力学框架应用分析和思考 [文化典故] 的情境框架。[儒家典故]是一个测试案例。

SDP: Revisiting the "Situation" Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective

Viewed through SLM's own vocabulary, "situation" in every one of these debates functions as a unit of analysis, never a unit of synthesis...

Leeway: The Ecological Total of Supportances

Once understood as a bridge concept naming the convergence of Weave-points, Living Coordinates, and Thematic Spaces, it now names something more fundamental: the ecological total of all available supportances in a person's social-material environment.

[Creative Note] The Notion of Developmental Functionalism

This post is a reflective conceptual note on the notion of Developmental Functionalism, tracing how it emerged from my ongoing work on developmental concepts and theoretical frameworks, particularly developmental episode.

SDP: Revisiting the "Belief" Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective

This paper focuses on the Self-Life-Mind (SLM) model. First, we explore how the SLM schema approaches the "belief" issue. Second, we review how the SLM schema operates as a meta-framework, providing the structural principle that ...

SDP: Revisiting the “Self” Issue from the Self-Life-Mind Perspective

Building on the Self-Life-Mind (SLM) schema, this paper proposes a solution that maintains Self, Life, and Mind as analytically distinguishable but ontologically inseparable aspects of an indivisible whole.

Weave: A Model of the Actor

As the intermediate layer between the Activity as Project Engagement model and the Life-History Topology model, the Weave-the-Life framework plays a significant role in the Life-as-Activity approach.