METAPHORS IN LEIBNIZ`S PHILOSOPHY
... ocean metaphor, as this chapter demonstrates, plays a significant role in Leibniz's conceptualization of the problems, goals and reforms he proposes in these domains. But, beyond epistemology, it is also involved in Leibniz's conceptualization of some central concepts of his metaphysics. A 'connecti ...
... ocean metaphor, as this chapter demonstrates, plays a significant role in Leibniz's conceptualization of the problems, goals and reforms he proposes in these domains. But, beyond epistemology, it is also involved in Leibniz's conceptualization of some central concepts of his metaphysics. A 'connecti ...
University of Groningen Rethinking the culture-economy
... As conceptual classifications are determined by practical utility and cultural significance (Anglin 1995), they are subject to change. Concepts are subjective and changing tools to deal with a complex world. There are evolutionary paths from manual skills to the concepts in (of) language(s) (Arbib & ...
... As conceptual classifications are determined by practical utility and cultural significance (Anglin 1995), they are subject to change. Concepts are subjective and changing tools to deal with a complex world. There are evolutionary paths from manual skills to the concepts in (of) language(s) (Arbib & ...
Consequentialist Models
... Descartes: (Discourse on Method, pt.V) – God has better things to do than make paperclip chains. – instead God created the Universe as a self-organizing system and turned it loose The Rich Get Richer::Self-Organizing Inequality and Agent-Based Modeling………..…CSSI Workshop .…. June 13, 2005….10 ...
... Descartes: (Discourse on Method, pt.V) – God has better things to do than make paperclip chains. – instead God created the Universe as a self-organizing system and turned it loose The Rich Get Richer::Self-Organizing Inequality and Agent-Based Modeling………..…CSSI Workshop .…. June 13, 2005….10 ...
Learning Where (Not) To Cache: A Cognitive Model for Corvids
... learning, use of visual landmarks, future planning, and social cognition, among other things (de Kort et al., 2006). Usually, in these experiments, the birds are presented with a discrete set of cache sites to choose from, a number of visual landmarks, the presence or absence of a conspecific, and v ...
... learning, use of visual landmarks, future planning, and social cognition, among other things (de Kort et al., 2006). Usually, in these experiments, the birds are presented with a discrete set of cache sites to choose from, a number of visual landmarks, the presence or absence of a conspecific, and v ...
Enriching the Blend
... brings a number of questions to the fore, including: • What is a musical concept? • What constitutes structural blending in music and how does it relate to / differ from cross-domain blending and mapping? • What can blending theory tell us about music not only as top-down formalized structure but as ...
... brings a number of questions to the fore, including: • What is a musical concept? • What constitutes structural blending in music and how does it relate to / differ from cross-domain blending and mapping? • What can blending theory tell us about music not only as top-down formalized structure but as ...
Enriching the Blend: Creative Extensions to Conceptual Blending in
... brings a number of questions to the fore, including: What is a musical concept? What constitutes structural blending in music and how does it relate to / differ from cross-domain blending and mapping? What can blending theory tell us about music not only as top-down formalized structure but as ...
... brings a number of questions to the fore, including: What is a musical concept? What constitutes structural blending in music and how does it relate to / differ from cross-domain blending and mapping? What can blending theory tell us about music not only as top-down formalized structure but as ...
Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and
... models of natural systems is impossible” (Oreskes et al. 2004, 641). More than ten years after the publication of this article, refutations abound in the literature. In a widely accessed lecture on the internet,2 Tetsuji Iseda, a philosopher and former research assistant of Frederick Suppe3, confron ...
... models of natural systems is impossible” (Oreskes et al. 2004, 641). More than ten years after the publication of this article, refutations abound in the literature. In a widely accessed lecture on the internet,2 Tetsuji Iseda, a philosopher and former research assistant of Frederick Suppe3, confron ...
1 - Philsci
... of the world, there is very little constraint on the legitimate, completely general properties we can dream up while the true causal processes in nature, the true laws of nature, the true counterfactual dependencies in nature, all have to do with natural kinds; these kinds are picked out by what ...
... of the world, there is very little constraint on the legitimate, completely general properties we can dream up while the true causal processes in nature, the true laws of nature, the true counterfactual dependencies in nature, all have to do with natural kinds; these kinds are picked out by what ...
Paper titles and abstracts Dan Arnold: "Perception and the
... prima facie justification, and any account of the content of experience must be such as to explain how that can be the case. McDowell urges that this can be the case only if "distinctively human experience is actualization of conceptual capacities in sensory consciousness" (2007: 348). So "mindednes ...
... prima facie justification, and any account of the content of experience must be such as to explain how that can be the case. McDowell urges that this can be the case only if "distinctively human experience is actualization of conceptual capacities in sensory consciousness" (2007: 348). So "mindednes ...
Challenges in Computational Modeling of Affective Processes
... model-driven empirical evaluations can be used to compare predictions coming from the model’s performance on a task with human subject behavior on the same task [3], [11]. However, there are no commonly agreed upon protocols for evaluation, nor do benchmark scenarios for testing appropriate emotiona ...
... model-driven empirical evaluations can be used to compare predictions coming from the model’s performance on a task with human subject behavior on the same task [3], [11]. However, there are no commonly agreed upon protocols for evaluation, nor do benchmark scenarios for testing appropriate emotiona ...
Relevance, Realism and Rigour:
... place and can be revised over time, then the ways in which other individuals behave will affect the consequences to you of your own behaviour. Moreover, the amount of information about other agents and their rules of behaviour grows without limit. Unless individuals all have sufficient computational ...
... place and can be revised over time, then the ways in which other individuals behave will affect the consequences to you of your own behaviour. Moreover, the amount of information about other agents and their rules of behaviour grows without limit. Unless individuals all have sufficient computational ...
Formal Models in Studying Collective Action and Social Movements
... phenomena. We have the daunting task of speaking to two very different audiences: those comfortable with mathematics who want to develop mathematical models relevant to social movements, and those uncomfortable with mathematics who want to learn helpful things about movements from the mathematics-ba ...
... phenomena. We have the daunting task of speaking to two very different audiences: those comfortable with mathematics who want to develop mathematical models relevant to social movements, and those uncomfortable with mathematics who want to learn helpful things about movements from the mathematics-ba ...
Dimensions of Scalability in Cognitive Models
... simulate all cognitive processes in full detail • They are labor intensive to specify all aspects of cognitive performance (knowledge, strategies) • They are specialized to a given task in a way that makes them difficult to compose and reuse • They usually focus on single-agent cognition ...
... simulate all cognitive processes in full detail • They are labor intensive to specify all aspects of cognitive performance (knowledge, strategies) • They are specialized to a given task in a way that makes them difficult to compose and reuse • They usually focus on single-agent cognition ...
agent-based computational economics
... of the environment- Rules-Agent (ERA) scheme, is that it keeps both the environment (which models the context by means of rules and general data) and the agents (with their private data) at different conceptual levels. To simplify the code, agents should communicate directly, but always through the ...
... of the environment- Rules-Agent (ERA) scheme, is that it keeps both the environment (which models the context by means of rules and general data) and the agents (with their private data) at different conceptual levels. To simplify the code, agents should communicate directly, but always through the ...
What is a Mental Model? - Computer Science
... The accuracy and complexity of the model depends on the task or usage scenario A relatively simple mental model of an automobile is needed for driving A complex and accurate mental model of an automobile is necessary to repair or build one ...
... The accuracy and complexity of the model depends on the task or usage scenario A relatively simple mental model of an automobile is needed for driving A complex and accurate mental model of an automobile is necessary to repair or build one ...
EmergentSemanticsBerkeleyMay2_2010
... ‘discover’ the unity of plants and animals as living things with many shared properties only around the age of 10. • She suggested that the coalescence of the concept of living thing depends on learning about diverse aspects of plants and animals including – Nature of life sustaining processes – Wha ...
... ‘discover’ the unity of plants and animals as living things with many shared properties only around the age of 10. • She suggested that the coalescence of the concept of living thing depends on learning about diverse aspects of plants and animals including – Nature of life sustaining processes – Wha ...
Modeling 101. Different Types of Models Designed for Different Uses
... Agent-based models (ABMs) are also dynamic models that simulate the behavior of a system over time. However, they take a bottom-up, or individual-level, approach, specifying the rules that govern the behavior of individuals and allowing the overall behavior of the system to emerge from the interacti ...
... Agent-based models (ABMs) are also dynamic models that simulate the behavior of a system over time. However, they take a bottom-up, or individual-level, approach, specifying the rules that govern the behavior of individuals and allowing the overall behavior of the system to emerge from the interacti ...
Theoretical Basis for this Curriculum
... Smith (1971) and Goodman (1967) helped to integrate the field of cognitive psychology into the field of reading, with the top-down approach that defined reading as thinking—an active, constructive process. This more reader-centered model drew on Bartlett's schema theory (1932) which defined the sche ...
... Smith (1971) and Goodman (1967) helped to integrate the field of cognitive psychology into the field of reading, with the top-down approach that defined reading as thinking—an active, constructive process. This more reader-centered model drew on Bartlett's schema theory (1932) which defined the sche ...