Paul M W Hackett
Emerson College, Communication Studies, Faculty Member
- Endicott College, Van Loan School of Graduate and Professional Studies, Faculty MemberUniversity of Oxford, Philosophy, Department Memberadd
- Aristotle's Commentators, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Facet Theory (Louis Guttman), Facet Theory, Mereology, Ontology, and 14 moreCategorization, Category Theory, middle category Likert scale, Categorial feature, Perception, Visual perception, Perceptual Mapping, Fine Art, Psychology of art, Psychology of Film Perception /Psychology of Visual Art /, Perception of Art, Metaphysics, Aristotle, and Ethnographyedit
- Paul Hackett is active both as a lecturer and researcher. His research and teaching are both rooted in the category-b... morePaul Hackett is active both as a lecturer and researcher. His research and teaching are both rooted in the category-based system for understanding complex human behaviour known as facet theory. His interest in ontological categories has expanded from facet theory, to mapping sentences and then to metaphysics and ontology in a more general sense. He has published books and papers in this area and during 2015-16, he will be a visiting academic in the philosophy department at Oxford University where he will be conducting research into structural ontologies.
Paul Hackett has held positions at Birmingham University, Cardiff University and Worcester University in the United Kingdom and Tufts University in the United States. He has a wide background in the humanities and social sciences (psychology, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, fine art) where his work has been focused by through a facet theory mereology. While at Birmingham University Business School, Paul developed his interested in the consumer research theory and psychological/behavioral explanations of consumer behavior. His research interests also include facet theoretical approaches to research especially as this applies to consumer psychology research, situated consumer behavior and store design along with consumer behavior and measurement of that behavior in a variety of settings.
Hackett has published numerous books, chapters, and journal articles in the area at the intersection of research methodology, psychology and philosophy. His books include: Conservation and the Consumer: Understanding Environmental Concern, Routledge 2006), Fine Art and Perceptual Neuroscience: Field of Vision and the Painted Grid, Explorations in Cognitive Psychology Series, Psychology Press (2013), and Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application, Palgrave McMillan (2014). He is at present completing an edited book on qualitative consumer research: Qualitative Research Methods in Consumer Psychology: Ethnography and Culture, Routledge (Summer 2015) and with Jessica Schwarzenbach a book entitled: The Ph.D. in Fine Art, (Routledge, Summer 2015). He is involved in several other writing projects (see below for details).
His research and writing has appeared in many prestigious journals, including Psychometrika, International Review of Retail, Distribution, and Consumer Research; Environment and Behavior; the British Journal of Management; Multivariate Behavior Research, and others. Dr. Hackett is a chartered psychologist also an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, a fellow of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institution and a member of the Facet Theory Association.
A practicing artist, his mixed media paintings draw heavily on neuroscience to depict the physiological and psychological basis of visual perception, have been exhibited in England, Wales, Scotland, Iceland, and the US.
BOOKS
1995
Conservation and the Consumer: Understanding Environmental Concern. London: Routledge Publishers
2006
Gridworks 2005. Liskard: Diggory Press.
2009
Field of Vision, Lochmaddy: Taigh Chearsabagh Museum and Art Centre, Scottish Arts Council.
2013
Fine Art and Perceptual Neuroscience: Field of Vision and the Painted Grid,
Explorations in Cognitive Psychology Series, Psychology Press.
2014
Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and
Application, Palgrave McMillan Publishers.
2015
Schwarzenbach, J.B., & Hackett, P.M.W. The Ph.D. in Fine Art, (Contracted book for Routledge, Publishers, Summer 2015)
2015
Qualitative Research Methods in Consumer Psychology: Ethnography and
Culture, Routledge Publishers (Contracted book, publication Summer 2015)
2016
The Psychology of Abstract Art: Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension, (contracted book for Palgrave McMillan, publication 2015 - 16)
2016
Perceiving Art Space: a Mapping Sentence Mereology, Springer Briefs in Philosophy. (contracted book for Springer, publication 2015 - 16)
2017
Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide, New York: Springer, (contracted book for Springer, publication Spring/Summer 2017)
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
1995
Associate Fellow British Psychological Association
2009
Fellow Massachusetts Psychological Association
2011
Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute
2015
Visitin Academic, Department of Philosophy, Oxford University, England.edit
The authors present a flexible framework for the understanding of international student mobility. The framework is in the form of a mapping sentence, which has been found to be useful to assist in the understanding of areas of complex... more
The authors present a flexible framework for the understanding of international student mobility. The
framework is in the form of a mapping sentence, which has been found to be useful to assist in the understanding
of areas of complex human behavior. The second author has previously proposed a mapping
sentence for understanding international students’ issues in general. The present mapping sentence
adapts this framework and suggests a series of important dimensions along which international students’
mobility issues can be understood. The proposed mapping sentence in this chapter does not offer data or
results from empirical research. Rather, the mapping sentence is suggested as a theoretical interpretative
device that may be used to bring order and insight to extant and future research in this area. The mapping
sentence constitutes a guide for researchers to design consistent flexible research tools to address
international student veridical mobility experiences.
framework is in the form of a mapping sentence, which has been found to be useful to assist in the understanding
of areas of complex human behavior. The second author has previously proposed a mapping
sentence for understanding international students’ issues in general. The present mapping sentence
adapts this framework and suggests a series of important dimensions along which international students’
mobility issues can be understood. The proposed mapping sentence in this chapter does not offer data or
results from empirical research. Rather, the mapping sentence is suggested as a theoretical interpretative
device that may be used to bring order and insight to extant and future research in this area. The mapping
sentence constitutes a guide for researchers to design consistent flexible research tools to address
international student veridical mobility experiences.
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When behavior is interpreted in a reliable manner (i.e., robustly across different situations and times) its explained meaning may be seen to possess hermeneutic consistency. In this essay I present an evaluation of the hermeneutic... more
When behavior is interpreted in a reliable manner (i.e., robustly across different situations and times) its explained meaning may be seen to possess hermeneutic consistency. In this essay I present an evaluation of the hermeneutic consistency that I propose may be present when the research tool known as the mapping sentence is used to create generic structural ontologies. I also claim that theoretical and empirical validity is a likely result of employing the mapping sentence in research design and interpretation. These claims are non-contentious within the realm of quantitative psychological and behavioral research. However, I extend the scope of both facet theory based research and claims for its structural utility, reliability and validity to philosophical and qualitative investigations. I assert that the hermeneutic consistency of a structural ontology is a product of a structural representation's ontological components and the mereological relationships between these ontological sub-units: the mapping sentence seminally allows for the depiction of such structure.
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When behavior is interpreted in a reliable manner (i.e., robustly across different situations and times) its explained meaning may be seen to possess hermeneutic consistency. In this essay I present an evaluation of the hermeneutic... more
When behavior is interpreted in a reliable manner (i.e., robustly across different situations and times) its explained meaning may be seen to possess hermeneutic consistency. In this essay I present an evaluation of the hermeneutic consistency that I propose may be present when the research tool known as the mapping sentence is used to create generic structural ontologies. I also claim that theoretical and empirical validity is a likely result of employing the mapping sentence in research design and interpretation. These claims are non-contentious within the realm of quantitative psychological and behavioral research. However, I extend the scope of both facet theory based research and claims for its structural utility, reliability and validity to philosophical and qualitative investigations. I assert that the hermeneutic consistency of a structural ontology is a product of a structural representation's ontological components and the mereological relationships between these ontological sub-units: the mapping sentence seminally allows for the depiction of such structure.
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Page 1. SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY, 1992, 20(3), 143-148. © Society for Personality Research (Inc.) THE UNDERSTANDING OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN PAUL MW HACKETT University of Birmingham ...
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Page 1. 1 Consumers' perceptions of micro-retail location: wayfinding and cognitive mapping in planned and organic shopping environments Gordon R. Foxall and Paul MW Hackett Abstract In order to increase understanding... more
Page 1. 1 Consumers' perceptions of micro-retail location: wayfinding and cognitive mapping in planned and organic shopping environments Gordon R. Foxall and Paul MW Hackett Abstract In order to increase understanding ...
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Page 1. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 28 (I), 41-61 Copyright O 1993, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. A Multivariate Descriptive Model of Motivation for Orthodontic Treatment Paul MW Hackett Department of General Practice University... more
Page 1. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 28 (I), 41-61 Copyright O 1993, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. A Multivariate Descriptive Model of Motivation for Orthodontic Treatment Paul MW Hackett Department of General Practice University of Wales ...