Paul Hackett

My writing is concerned with the process of asking questions about how we experience and form our sense of reality. My research interests have led me to further develop my research and writing into theoretical aspects of measurement resulting in me teaching several forms of quantitative and qualitative research classes. The questions I have asked have included theoretical explorations that enquire into how we undertake asking questions. I have also conducted research and written about the articulation of questions that have addressed several areas of human and avian behaviour.

My main research interest and area of publication is facet theory and I have seminally developed the facet theoretical research orientation into qualitative as well as quantitative forms of data. I have also extended facet theoretical approaches and mapping sentence research into the discipline of philosophy and within the humanities. My education is both as an environmental psychologist and as a fine artist and these feed into my eclectic appreciation for attempting to understand the experience of being human and has led me to study areas such as cognition, fine art and religious experience.

The ontological and mereological structure of our understanding of many life areas resides centrally within my interests. My research has made particular reference to environmental attitudes and behaviours, as well as the above-mentioned areas within the social sciences and humanities. My psychometric background constitutes the underpinning for my research and I have applied the rigour of quantified approaches to my philosophical and qualitative writing.