Interdisciplinary Resources on GEM

This bibliography lists chapters of books and articles that might be of help in applying the Generalized Empirical Method (GEM) to the specific disciplines and scholarly areas.

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GEM and the Natural Sciences 

• Budenholzer, Frank. A review of Insight in Chemistry by William J. Danaher. Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 9 (March 1991): 63 –69.*
• Budenholzer, Frank. "Reflections on the Concept of Emergence." Third International Lonergan Workshop. Mainz, Germany, January 2-7, 2006. Revised version: December 28, 2006.
• Byrne, Patrick H. "Insight and the Retrieval of Nature." Lonergan Workshop 8 (1990): 1-59.* 
• Byrne, Patrick H. "Mystery and Modern Mathematics." Lonergan Workshop 7 (1988): 1-33.*  
• Byrne, Patrick H. "Research: An Illustration from Galileo Studies." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 20, no. 1 (2002): 21-32.*
• Byrne, Patrick H. "Quaestio Disputata: Evolution, Randomness, and Divine Purpose: A Reply to Cardinal Schonborn." Theological Studies 67 (2006): 653 –665.
• Byrne, Patrick H. "Theology, Modern Science and Verification." Lonergan Workshop 10 (1994): 1-47.*
• Eduardo Perez, S.J. "The Structure of Christian Prayer and its Integration with the Sciences." Lonergan Workshop 9 (1993): 145-193.*
• Frezza, Stephen, et al. "A Knowledge-Basis for Engineering Design," in Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE'14), Madrid, Spain, October 2014, 158-165. To download proceedings, go to http://fie2020.org/. The article starts on page 158 (page 281 of the PDF).
• Haught, John F. "Darwin's Nagging Doubt: What Thomas Nagel Could Learn from Theology." Commonweal. October 11, 2013. 
• King, Thomas M. "Scientific Research as Adoration: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881 –1955)." In The Way 44, no. 3 (2005): 21 - 34.  

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GEM and the Human Sciences  

• Burley, Peter. "Lonergan, Economics, and Moral Theology." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 15, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 51 – 56.*
• Clark, R. Michael. "Byway of the Cross: The Early Lonergan and Political Order." Lonergan Workshop 12: 27 - 44.*
• Cooley, Larry. "B.F. Skinners' Radical Behaviorist Theory of the Cognitive Dimension of Consciousness: A Lonerganian Critique." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 6: 107 – 137.*
• Cooley, Larry. "Hayes' Radical Behaviorist Explanation of the Cognitive Dimension of Consciousness: A Lonerganian Critique." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 7: 18 –30.*
• Ewens, Thomas. "Lonergan and Gagnepain: The Human Sciences in Question." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 15, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 57 –90.*
• Fasching, Darrell J. "Theology and Public Policy: Method in the Work of Segundo, Ellul and Doran." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 5 (1986): 41 - 91.*  
• Giddy, Patrick. "The African University and the Social Sciences: The Contribution of Lonergan's Epistemological Theory." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 14, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 133 –154.*
• Hoyt-O'Connor, Paul. "Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Work of Nations: Lonergan and Reich on the Global Economy." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 17, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 111 –132.*
• Klein, Dennis. "Concepts of Culture: Lonergan and the Anthropologists." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 9 (1991): 23-43.*
• Kidder, Paul. "The Future of American Cities." Lonergan Workshop 17 (2002): 125 –142.*
• Maguire, John F. A review of Price Markups and Moral Decline: A Review of An Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics by Charles K. Wilber and Kenneth P. Jameson. Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 3, no. 1 (1985): 49 - 57.*
• Oslington, Paul. "Lonergan's Reception Among Economists: Tale of a Dead Fish and an Agenda for Future Work." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 2, no. 1 (2011): 67 –78. (Accessed through Professor Paul Oslington's profile at Alphacruis College.)
• Matustik, Martin J. "Democratic Multicultures and Cosmopolis: Beyond the Aporias of the Politics of Identity and Difference."Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 63 –90.*
• McCarthy, Michael. "Early Christianity and the Public Realm: Troeltsch's Distinctions of Gospel, Kingdom, and World." Lonergan Workshop 13: 115 –126.*
• McGrath, Tom, SJ. "Foundations, the Subject of Psychology, and Science." Lonergan Workshop 16 (2000): 139 –152.*
• McEvenue, Sean. "Scholarship's Impenetrable Wall." Lonergan Workshop 16 (2000): 121-138.*
• Melchin, Kenneth. "What is Democracy, Anyway? A Discussion between Lonergan and Rawls." Lonergan Workshop 15 (1999): 99 –116.*
• Moore, Sebastian, OSB. "A Word for Sexual Desire: " Lonergan Workshop 18 (2005): 203 –224.*
• Miner, Robert. "Collingwood and Lonergan on Historical Knowledge." Lonergan Workshop 19 (2006): 197 –210.*
• Nordquest, David A. "Cosmopolis: Bourget's and Lonergan's." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 11, no. 1 (1993): 37 –50.*
• Shute, Michael. "Economic Analysis within Redemptive Praxis: An Achievement of Lonergan's Third Decade." Lonergan Workshop 14 (1998): 243-264.*

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GEM and the Humanities  

• Dunne, Tad. "What Do I Do When I Paint?" Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 16, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 103 –132.*
• Foshay, Toby. "Bernard Lonergan and James Joyce: Literature as De-Conversion" Lonergan Workshop 6 (1986), 109 - 126.*
• Hughes, Glenn. "Gerard Manley Hopkins and Lonergan's Notion of Elemental Meaning." Lonergan Workshop 19 (2006): 107 – 136.*
• Hughes, Glenn. "Image, Symbol, Cosmopolis: Art and the Critical Role of Culture." Lonergan Workshop 11 (1995): 1 – 20.* 
• Hughes, Glenn and Sebastian Moore. "Hamlet and the Affective Roots of Decision." Lonergan Workshop 7 (1988): 179 - 202.* 
• Kidder, Paul. "Modern Architecture and Ignatian Vision." Lonergan Workshop 15 (1999): 13 - 25.*
• Kidder, Paul. "Still Life and Landscape: The Sacred in Secular Attire." Lonergan Workshop 11 (1995): 21 - 34.*
• Lewis, Robert. "Limits, the Illimitable, and the Disciplined Imagination: George Eliot's Middlemarch." Lonergan Workshop 13 (1997): 95 - 114.*
• Liddy, Richard. "What Bernard Lonergan Learned from Suzanne K. Langer." Lonergan Workshop 11 (1995): 53 – 90.*
• Melchin, Kenneth. "History, Ethics, and Emergent Probability." Lonergan Workshop Journal 7 (1998): 269 - 295.*
• Meynell, Hugo. "How Right Plato Was." Lonergan Workshop 8 (1990): 149 - 163.*
• Meynell, Hugo. "Literary Theory-What is to be Done?" Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 14, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 201 – 216.*
• Moore, Sebastian. "What God Has Joined and Man Has Put Asunder." Lonergan Workshop 17 (2002): 163 –174.* 
• Monson, Paul G. "The Cosmopolis of Elfland: Bernard Lonergan on G. K. Chesterton." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 3, no. 1 (2012): 37 –62. 
• Murnion, William. "Method in the Arts and Sciences." Lonergan Workshop 16 (2000): 173 - 198.*
• Rule, Philip C., S.J. "Another Thing Needful: Reason, Feeling, and Imagination in 19^th Century Literature." Lonergan Workshop 11 (1995): 165 - 178.*

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GEM, Religion and Theology 

• Cassidy, Richard J. "The Conversions of Paul in Light of Lonergan's Theory of Conversion." Lonergan Workshop 17 (2002): 67 –84.*
• Clemenzia, Alessandro. "A Lonergonian Reading of St. Augustine's Conversion (Conf. VIII, 12. 28-29)." 
• Dadosky, John D., ed. Meaning and History in Systematic Theology: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Doran, SJ. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2009.
• Hampson, Peter. "Theology and Psychology." In Christianity and the Disciplines: The Transformation of the University, edited by Oliver Crisp.London/ New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2012.
• Hefling, Charles C., Jr. "Redemption and Intellectual Conversion: Notes on Lonergan's 'Christology Today'." Lonergan Workshop 5 (1985): 219 –262.*
• Murray, John Courtney. "Is it Basket Weaving?: The Question of Christianity and Human Values." in We hold these truths : Catholic reflections on the American proposition, p. 175 - 196. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1960. 
• Parsons, Talcott. "The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion: A Chapter in the History of Modern Social Science." In The Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in the Social Sciences, 220. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
• Riley, Philip Boo. "Religious Studies Methodology: Bernard Lonergan's Contribution." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall 1994): 239 –250.*

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GEM and Business  

• Coghlan, David. "Action Learning: The Philosophy and Methodology of Practical Knowing." In Action Learning in Practice, fourth edition, edited by Mike Pedler. Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing, 2011.
• Coghlan, David. "Action Research: Exploring Perspectives on a Philosophy of Practical Knowing." The Academy of Management Annals 5, no. 1 (2011): 53-87.
• Coghlan, David. "Seeking Common Ground in the Diversity and Diffusion of Action Research and Collaborative Management Research Action Modalities: Toward a General Empirical Method." Organizational Change and Development 18 (2010): 149-181. 
• Coghlan, David. "Understanding Insight in the Context of Q." In Action Learning: Research and Practice 9, no. 3 (November 2012): 247 - 258.
• Benefiel, Margaret. "The second half of the journey: Spiritual leadership for organizational transformation." The Leadership Quarterly 16, no. 5 (October 2005): 723-747.

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GEM and Communications    

• Anderson, Bruce. "Current Views on Legal Reasoning: The Problem of Communication." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 15, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 151 –168.*
• Lawrence, Frederick. "Lonergan's Foundations for Constitutive Communication." Lonergan Workshop 10 (1994): 229 - 301.*
• Meynell, Hugo. "A Pseudo-Problem of Communication and Understanding." Lonergan Workshop Journal 6 (1986): 175 - 193.*
• Rose-Wiles, Lisa and Melissa A. Hofmann. "Still Desperately Seeking Citations: Undergraduate Research in the Age of Web-Scale Discovery." Journal of Library Administration, 53 (2013): 147-166.

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GEM, Diplomacy and International Relations  

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GEM and Health and Medical Sciences

• Bedolla, Miguel. "Process Medical Ethics: A Contribution Towards an Adequate Lonergan Position." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 15, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 21 – 28.*
• Belair, Jean. "The Contribution of the Nurse to the Human Good." Lonergan Workshop 14 (1998): 1 – 58.*
• Doucet, Hubert, Jean-Marc Larouche, and Kenneth R. Melchin. Ethical Deliberation in Multiprofessional Health Care Teams. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001.
• Faraci, Robert. "Fostering Active Learning Among Student Occupational Therapists Using Lonergan's Generalized Empirical Method." Handouts for GMOT 6510/OFTY 4510 Psychosocial Studies and Group Process I. Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Seton Hall University. 
• Faraci, et al. "Developing Authenticity in Reflective Practice in Occupational Therapy Students." 
• Gerrie, James B. A review of Eyes of the Heart: Knowing the Good in the Euthanasia Debate by William F. Sullivan. Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 2, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 227. 
• Glendon, Mary Ann. "Comparative Law as Shock Treatment." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 11, no. 2 (1993): 137 –154.*
• Hoyt-O'Connor, Paul. "Virtue and the Practice of Medicine." 20th World Conference of Philosophy: Bioethics and Medical Ethics. Boston, Massachusetts, August 10-15, 1998.
• Kane, Anne. "Lonergan's philosophy as grounding for cross-disciplinary research." Nursing Philosophy 15, no. 2 (April 2014): 125-137.
• Luby, Robert. "Method in Medicine for the Age of Syndromes and Genomes." In Lonergan Workshop 23: Ongoing Collaboration in the Year of St. Paul, edited by Fred Lawrence, 245-275. Boston, MA: Boston College, 2009.
• Perry, Donna J. "Self-transcendence: Lonergan's key to integration of nursing theory, research, and practice." Nursing Philosophy 5, no. 1 (April 2004): 67-74.
• Yerxa, Elizabeth June. "1966 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture: Authentic Occupational Therapy." The American Journal of Occupational Therapy 21, no. 1 (Jan - Feb 1967): 1-9. 

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GEM and Education   

• Coghlan, David and Anne Graham Cagney. "'Multisensory Holistic Immersion': A Method of Insider Inquiry Skills as a Threshold Concept." Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education 5 (March 2013). 
• Frezza, Stephen, et al. "Applying a knowledge-generation epistemological approach to computer science and software engineering education," in Proceedings of the 120th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 23-26, 2013.
• Garcia, Kenneth N. "'Reversing the Secularist Drift': John Courtney Murray and the Telos of Catholic Higher Education." In Theological Studies 73, no. 4 (2012), 890 -908.
• Gilbert, Christopher. "A Lonerganian Critique of the Pragmatic Method of Education." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 11: 199 –214.*
• Grigg, Lance M. "Reconstructing Foundations: An Insight-based Approach to Constructivism and Constructionism in Educational Theory and Practice." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 1, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 125 –138.  
• Kalscheur, Gregory A. "A Response to Kenneth Garcia: Healthy Secularity and the Task of a Catholic University." In Theological Studies 73, no. 4 (2012), 924 - 934.
• Kelly, Anthony. "Lonergan and the University: "The Conversation That We Are" (Hölderin)." (Australian Catholic University). 
• Luzuriaga, Susana. "Assessing the Understanding of Mission Among Faculty, Staff, and Administrators." 
• Miller, Jerome. "The University As an Open Space for Grace: Reflections on an Experience at Seton Hall." In "Proceedings of the Center of Catholic Studies Divine Madness and Intellectual Life: Exercises in Appreciation," Salisbury State University and Center for Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University, 1999.
• Marroum, Renata-Maria. "The Role of Insight in Science Education: An Introduction to the Cognitional Theory of Bernard Lonergan." Science &Education 13, no. 6 (2004): 519 –540.
• Matthews, William. "Intellectual Conversion and Science Education." Lonergan Workshop 5 (1985), 115 - 144.*
• Murray, John Courtney. "Towards a Christian Humanism: Aspects of the Theology of Education." In A Philosophical Symposium on American Catholic Education, edited by H. Guthrie and G. Walsh. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 106 – 15. Presented at the 17th Annual Convention of the Jesuit Philosophical Association of the Eastern States, September 4 – 6, 1940.
• Murray, John Courtney. "Reversing the Secularist Drift." Thought 24 (March 1949): 36–46.
• Piscitelli, Emil. "The Fundamental Attitudes of the Liberally Educated Person: Foundational Dialectics." Lonergan Workshop 5 (1985), 289 - 342.*
• Sullivan, William F. and John Heng. "Moral Education for Health Care Professionals." In The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin,edited by John J. Liptay and David S. Liptay, 172-182. 
• Wallbank, Phyllis. "Reflections on the Future of Education in Light of Montessori and Lonergan." Lonergan Workshop 15 (1999): 173 - 183.

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GEM and Law  

• Brown, Patrick. "Functional Specialization and the Methodical Division of Labor in Legal Studies." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 2, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 45 –66.  
• Glendon, Mary Ann. "Comparative Law as Shock Treatment." Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 11 (1993): 137 –154.*
• Glendon, Mary Ann. "Knowledge Makes a Noisy Entrance: The Struggle for Self-Appropriation in Law." Lonergan Workshop 10 (1994): 119-144.*

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GEM and Engineering

• Frezza, Stephen and David Nordquest. "Engineering Insight: The Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan Applied to Engineering," in John Heywood, (Ed) Philosophical and Educational Perspectives in Engineering and Technological Literacy, Vol. 2, June 2015, pp. 17-28.

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\* Available through Lonergan Resource's "Journals" webpage.