Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence

Paul M.W. Hackett is a professor at the University of Suffolk, UK and has published widely on facet theory in books and articles. He has PhDs in psychology and in art and has held academic positions at Durham, Cambridge, Oxford and Birmingham in the UK and at Tufts Universities and Emerson College in the US. Hackett developed the declarative mapping sentence as an approach to qualitative and philosophically oriented research.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Ontological Categorisation and Mereology.- 3. Facet Theory and Thinking about Human Behaviour.- 4. The Declarative Mapping Sentence and Qualitative Facet Theory Research.- 5. Facet Theory Research Into Avian Cognition and Behaviour.- 6. Final Thoughts and Other Aspects of the Facet Theory Approach.