3. Geography and GIS
... account for the hidden structures involved in creating what is recorded by the senses – the theories must be consistent with the outcomes of those hidden processes. The ‘law of gravity’ exemplifies this. Gravity cannot be observed: all that can be recorded is behaviour which is consistent with its a ...
... account for the hidden structures involved in creating what is recorded by the senses – the theories must be consistent with the outcomes of those hidden processes. The ‘law of gravity’ exemplifies this. Gravity cannot be observed: all that can be recorded is behaviour which is consistent with its a ...
26 Writing it up, writing it down: being reflexive in accounts of
... That we drive research projects with our values. histories and interests is central to the of any interpretation in the social sciences. including consumer research (Bristor and Fischer. 1993; Firat and Venkatesh. 1995; Thompson. 1997). Researchers create the text. As researchers we also assume that ...
... That we drive research projects with our values. histories and interests is central to the of any interpretation in the social sciences. including consumer research (Bristor and Fischer. 1993; Firat and Venkatesh. 1995; Thompson. 1997). Researchers create the text. As researchers we also assume that ...
Response to my critics
... knowledge” of “mere matter” which has been, supposedly, overthrown by quantum physics, relativity theory and other “holistic” sciences (a grab bag which includes everything from Gaia theory, discredited vitalistic theories of biology, parapsychology and spiritual theories of evolution to deep ecolog ...
... knowledge” of “mere matter” which has been, supposedly, overthrown by quantum physics, relativity theory and other “holistic” sciences (a grab bag which includes everything from Gaia theory, discredited vitalistic theories of biology, parapsychology and spiritual theories of evolution to deep ecolog ...
Text, Introductory Sociology 1301 (all classes) File
... many not mentioned, philosophers, and their ideas of a science called “sociology.” Psychology was already an established discipline in the French university system, but sociology was not being taught. Durkheim felt strongly that sociology would be an important science in explaining human behavior. T ...
... many not mentioned, philosophers, and their ideas of a science called “sociology.” Psychology was already an established discipline in the French university system, but sociology was not being taught. Durkheim felt strongly that sociology would be an important science in explaining human behavior. T ...
Thinking Across Perspectives and Disciplines
... public) of a concentration of patents in private hands. (Until 2001, almost all patents in this area were held by private biotechnology companies.) Intertwined in these ways, insights emerging from different fields then inform their proposed policy recommendations, framed in federal legislative lang ...
... public) of a concentration of patents in private hands. (Until 2001, almost all patents in this area were held by private biotechnology companies.) Intertwined in these ways, insights emerging from different fields then inform their proposed policy recommendations, framed in federal legislative lang ...
- Philsci-Archive
... It was an exciting time and place to be doing history and philosophy of science (HPS). London felt like the HPS capital of the world. HPS seemed to be a fledgling academic discipline, having associated with it all the excitement, freshness, high aspirations and optimism of a new discipline. There wa ...
... It was an exciting time and place to be doing history and philosophy of science (HPS). London felt like the HPS capital of the world. HPS seemed to be a fledgling academic discipline, having associated with it all the excitement, freshness, high aspirations and optimism of a new discipline. There wa ...
From Artificial Neural Networks to Emotion Machines with Marvin
... power. In other words: What is computable by a Turing Machine is computable also by a Register Machine, and vice versa. The registers have infinite capacity each, but for performing the computation, only the question whether a register is empty or not is important! So, the Register Machine seems to ...
... power. In other words: What is computable by a Turing Machine is computable also by a Register Machine, and vice versa. The registers have infinite capacity each, but for performing the computation, only the question whether a register is empty or not is important! So, the Register Machine seems to ...
Animal and Machine Consciousness
... If we think of the question of “bat consciousness” as the subjectively engaged world (which includes the self) as experienced by a bat with its particular body, senses, and brain, and, perhaps, mind, then we are ready to turn to today’s topic, animal and machine consciousness. Once again I follow th ...
... If we think of the question of “bat consciousness” as the subjectively engaged world (which includes the self) as experienced by a bat with its particular body, senses, and brain, and, perhaps, mind, then we are ready to turn to today’s topic, animal and machine consciousness. Once again I follow th ...
subjective beings with mental states
... In the 2nd person perspective, the other person is viewed as a subject rather than an object, as someone who has mental states. This perspective is less well established in psychological science though it is well-known in clinical psychology. ...
... In the 2nd person perspective, the other person is viewed as a subject rather than an object, as someone who has mental states. This perspective is less well established in psychological science though it is well-known in clinical psychology. ...
June 2010 - McPherson Eye Research Institute
... was “pulled” toward locations tested on other trials. Reported in the April issue of Cognition (“The role of experience in location estimation: Target distributions shift location memory biases”), study results advance our understanding of how people integrate multiple sources of information when in ...
... was “pulled” toward locations tested on other trials. Reported in the April issue of Cognition (“The role of experience in location estimation: Target distributions shift location memory biases”), study results advance our understanding of how people integrate multiple sources of information when in ...
Computational Media and New Literacies—The
... others, holds an essential magic of literacy: we can install some aspects of our thinking in stable, reproducible, manipulable, and transportable physical form. These external forms become in a very real sense part of our thinking, remembering, and communicating. In concert with our minds, they let ...
... others, holds an essential magic of literacy: we can install some aspects of our thinking in stable, reproducible, manipulable, and transportable physical form. These external forms become in a very real sense part of our thinking, remembering, and communicating. In concert with our minds, they let ...
American Social Science: The Irrelevance of Pragmatism
... A persistent assumption of disciplinary histories of the social sciences is the idea that each of the main branches of today’s social sciences reflects at least reasonably firm strata of the social world. There is, thus, a “natural” division of labor that was finally realized with the maturation of ...
... A persistent assumption of disciplinary histories of the social sciences is the idea that each of the main branches of today’s social sciences reflects at least reasonably firm strata of the social world. There is, thus, a “natural” division of labor that was finally realized with the maturation of ...
Complexity Turn
... measurable lengths to be moved along, forwards and backwards. Objects are viewed as being contained within such boundaries of absolute time and space (Coveney, 2000; Coveney and Highfield, 1990). In the 20th century, the sciences dismantled such notions and prepared the way for the complexity turn ( ...
... measurable lengths to be moved along, forwards and backwards. Objects are viewed as being contained within such boundaries of absolute time and space (Coveney, 2000; Coveney and Highfield, 1990). In the 20th century, the sciences dismantled such notions and prepared the way for the complexity turn ( ...
Towards a hermeneutic method interpretive research
... for example, Klein and Lyytinen, 1985; Nissen, 1985; Rathswohl, 1991) there is a marked trend within the field of IS to gravitate towards a phenomenological hermeneutic perspective informed by the philosophies of Heidegger and Gadamer (see, for example, Lee, 1993, 1994; Myers, 1995; Butler and Fitzg ...
... for example, Klein and Lyytinen, 1985; Nissen, 1985; Rathswohl, 1991) there is a marked trend within the field of IS to gravitate towards a phenomenological hermeneutic perspective informed by the philosophies of Heidegger and Gadamer (see, for example, Lee, 1993, 1994; Myers, 1995; Butler and Fitzg ...
Fine Motor Skills - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... considerable freedom and spontaneity in choosing activities. Critics claim that this approach neglects children’s social development and the development of imagination. Montessori emphasizes independence and cognitive development and deemphasizes verbal interaction between the teacher and children ...
... considerable freedom and spontaneity in choosing activities. Critics claim that this approach neglects children’s social development and the development of imagination. Montessori emphasizes independence and cognitive development and deemphasizes verbal interaction between the teacher and children ...
john mingers - Kent Academic Repository
... their parts or components. Rather, the parts are related together in such a way that the whole has behaviours or, more generally, properties that are distinct from, and irreducible to, the properties of the parts. This is often expressed in the phrase, possibly due to Aristotle, that the whole is mo ...
... their parts or components. Rather, the parts are related together in such a way that the whole has behaviours or, more generally, properties that are distinct from, and irreducible to, the properties of the parts. This is often expressed in the phrase, possibly due to Aristotle, that the whole is mo ...
22 - Lewis-Clark State College
... History 101 is part the General Education Core at LCSC because it teaches skills/concepts valuable for all majors. Here is what the LCSC catalog says your Gen Ed courses are designed to do. "General education is intended to nurture the development of literate, well-informed graduates who are compete ...
... History 101 is part the General Education Core at LCSC because it teaches skills/concepts valuable for all majors. Here is what the LCSC catalog says your Gen Ed courses are designed to do. "General education is intended to nurture the development of literate, well-informed graduates who are compete ...
... systems throughout the world. “Science mediates our cultural experience. It increasingly defines what it is to be a person, through genetics, medicine and information technology. Its values get embodied and naturalized in concepts, techniques, research priorities, gadgets and advertising” (Science ...
Wrinkles, Wormholes, and Hamlet
... or sports which involve the development of mental and bodily skills” (175). Exercise builds muscle as the body sheds sweat. If performance is exercise, what is excreted and what is built? According to the OED, the verb form of “exercise” comes from the latin exercere, “to set in motion; to give play ...
... or sports which involve the development of mental and bodily skills” (175). Exercise builds muscle as the body sheds sweat. If performance is exercise, what is excreted and what is built? According to the OED, the verb form of “exercise” comes from the latin exercere, “to set in motion; to give play ...
- Philsci
... of political apathy: the problems of humanity seem so immense, so remorseless, so utterly beyond human control, and each one of us, a mere individual, seems wholly impotent before the juggernaut of history. The new global economy can seem like a monster out of control, we human beings having to adap ...
... of political apathy: the problems of humanity seem so immense, so remorseless, so utterly beyond human control, and each one of us, a mere individual, seems wholly impotent before the juggernaut of history. The new global economy can seem like a monster out of control, we human beings having to adap ...
Mundane
... actions, to make computational responses a better fit for the actions in which users are engaged; and they look for opportunities to tie computational and physical activities together in such a way that a computer withdraws into the activity, so that users engage directly with the tasks at hand and ...
... actions, to make computational responses a better fit for the actions in which users are engaged; and they look for opportunities to tie computational and physical activities together in such a way that a computer withdraws into the activity, so that users engage directly with the tasks at hand and ...
Fundamentals of Knowledge Organization1
... and databases. LIS is not primarily focused on constructing algorithms, but on informing people about documents. LIS is supposed to be more open to different views, more reflective and meta-oriented and demonstrate gaps and uncertainties in knowledge to users. This is very different from making, for ...
... and databases. LIS is not primarily focused on constructing algorithms, but on informing people about documents. LIS is supposed to be more open to different views, more reflective and meta-oriented and demonstrate gaps and uncertainties in knowledge to users. This is very different from making, for ...
From knowledge to wisdom: the need for an
... There is the sustained and profound injustice of immense differences of wealth across the globe, the industrially advanced first world of North America, Europe and elsewhere experiencing unprecedented wealth while hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of poverty in the developing world, ...
... There is the sustained and profound injustice of immense differences of wealth across the globe, the industrially advanced first world of North America, Europe and elsewhere experiencing unprecedented wealth while hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of poverty in the developing world, ...
Simulation second edition
... mainly as a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal computers. The field has also been much influenced by developments in the theory of cellular automata (from physics and mathematics) and in computer science (distributed artificial intelligence and agent technology). These have p ...
... mainly as a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal computers. The field has also been much influenced by developments in the theory of cellular automata (from physics and mathematics) and in computer science (distributed artificial intelligence and agent technology). These have p ...