From Knowledge to Wisdom - Society for Research into Higher
... 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, with human beings having to adapt their lives to its demands, rather than gaining support from i ...
... 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, with human beings having to adapt their lives to its demands, rather than gaining support from i ...
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 ...
Embedding Values Into Autonomous Intelligent Systems
... that build the systems. Increasingly, autonomous systems will encounter situations that their designers cannot anticipate, and will require algorithmic procedures to select the better of two or more possible courses of action. Some of the existing experimental approaches to building moral machines a ...
... that build the systems. Increasingly, autonomous systems will encounter situations that their designers cannot anticipate, and will require algorithmic procedures to select the better of two or more possible courses of action. Some of the existing experimental approaches to building moral machines a ...
AVID/College Board
... Learn about issues facing the educational system and solutions for closing the achievement gap and promoting college readiness. Understand the structures of the AVID College Readiness System from elementary to postsecondary. Learn how to accelerate educational access and equity by utilizing ri ...
... Learn about issues facing the educational system and solutions for closing the achievement gap and promoting college readiness. Understand the structures of the AVID College Readiness System from elementary to postsecondary. Learn how to accelerate educational access and equity by utilizing ri ...
Sample chapter - Centre for Research in Social Simulation
... 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 ...
Word - Semiosis Evolution Energy
... 2. Whereas Peirce does not pick the distinction of syntagmatic and paradigmatic regularities – especially with respect to textual units above the level of argumentative structures – as a central topic of his sign philosophy, this distinction, which parallels the distinction of text system and langua ...
... 2. Whereas Peirce does not pick the distinction of syntagmatic and paradigmatic regularities – especially with respect to textual units above the level of argumentative structures – as a central topic of his sign philosophy, this distinction, which parallels the distinction of text system and langua ...
echo4
... Through appropriate adjustments, an outcome is then arrived at whereby the agent becomes active when called upon to act only in a range of contexts where the performance has been found to be successful in the past, and is inhibited otherwise, implying that in general agents will behave in the desire ...
... Through appropriate adjustments, an outcome is then arrived at whereby the agent becomes active when called upon to act only in a range of contexts where the performance has been found to be successful in the past, and is inhibited otherwise, implying that in general agents will behave in the desire ...
Psychology Lecture
... PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE/LAB PAIRS Psychology majors are required to complete an upper-level lab course prior to graduation. The following lists the available upper-level lab courses and the required prerequisite classes for enrollment into the lab. None of the labs are offered during summer. PLEASE NOTE: ...
... PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE/LAB PAIRS Psychology majors are required to complete an upper-level lab course prior to graduation. The following lists the available upper-level lab courses and the required prerequisite classes for enrollment into the lab. None of the labs are offered during summer. PLEASE NOTE: ...
ON PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: CAN IT BE A SCIENCE?
... subject of inquiry to manageable units, that is, to define and describe units of useful data, and second, once a sufficiency of information is in place, generalizing further about related categories of data or even about expectations of what will be found in the future” (Bates and Fratkin, 2003, p 3 ...
... subject of inquiry to manageable units, that is, to define and describe units of useful data, and second, once a sufficiency of information is in place, generalizing further about related categories of data or even about expectations of what will be found in the future” (Bates and Fratkin, 2003, p 3 ...
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... Finally, social simulation could help to test policy scenarios to maximise the efficacy and efficiency of various peer review schemes under specific circumstances and for everyone involved. For instance, it is reasonable to suppose that journal editors, authors and reviewers have conflicting interests. ...
... Finally, social simulation could help to test policy scenarios to maximise the efficacy and efficiency of various peer review schemes under specific circumstances and for everyone involved. For instance, it is reasonable to suppose that journal editors, authors and reviewers have conflicting interests. ...
Forbidden Knowledge: Public Controversy and the Production of
... importance, as they serve as a tool that working scientists use to justify, construct, and hide their acceptance of forbidden knowledge. As a result, the precise contents of forbidden knowledge are fluid, fuzzy, essentially contested, specialty specific, locally created, and enforced. KEY WORDS: knowl ...
... importance, as they serve as a tool that working scientists use to justify, construct, and hide their acceptance of forbidden knowledge. As a result, the precise contents of forbidden knowledge are fluid, fuzzy, essentially contested, specialty specific, locally created, and enforced. KEY WORDS: knowl ...
Please click here for the Cognitive Futures conference programme
... effect. In the case of ‘neuroaesthetics’, however, it seems as if an unreflected, even commonsensical concept of aesthetics, divorced from/void of its historical dimension, had become hostage to the neurosciences. The latest development in the fusion of aesthetics and neuroscience not only opens a w ...
... effect. In the case of ‘neuroaesthetics’, however, it seems as if an unreflected, even commonsensical concept of aesthetics, divorced from/void of its historical dimension, had become hostage to the neurosciences. The latest development in the fusion of aesthetics and neuroscience not only opens a w ...
Introduction to Sociology SSC-105-OA
... familiar. It should help us understand our experience in a more critical way, and, therefore, to use that experience more effectively. As an introduction to the discipline of Sociology, this course is organized as a skills as well as a survey class. That is, in addition to acquainting you with the b ...
... familiar. It should help us understand our experience in a more critical way, and, therefore, to use that experience more effectively. As an introduction to the discipline of Sociology, this course is organized as a skills as well as a survey class. That is, in addition to acquainting you with the b ...
Social-ecological systems as epistemic objects
... epoch, the so-called Anthropocene. The various participants in the discourse on human/nature interactions have, moreover, all tried to translate their general convictions into goal-oriented research activities. We find here a broad spectrum of authors employing a wide variety of related concepts. Re ...
... epoch, the so-called Anthropocene. The various participants in the discourse on human/nature interactions have, moreover, all tried to translate their general convictions into goal-oriented research activities. We find here a broad spectrum of authors employing a wide variety of related concepts. Re ...
Cognition - Castle Wood School
... Children with learning difficulties have a smaller working memory than typically developing children. They can hold fewer words, numbers, ideas in their heads at any one time and thus we must be very careful not to overload them. Although working memory is smaller, recent research on the brain shows ...
... Children with learning difficulties have a smaller working memory than typically developing children. They can hold fewer words, numbers, ideas in their heads at any one time and thus we must be very careful not to overload them. Although working memory is smaller, recent research on the brain shows ...
The Epistemology and Methodology of Exploratory Social Science
... alone human behavior, might not follow any laws. We might detect causal mechanisms, but we have no guarantee that history unfolds according to causes. Independent variables are mind constructs and not independent in reality. Dependent variables are in reality dependent on much more than the independ ...
... alone human behavior, might not follow any laws. We might detect causal mechanisms, but we have no guarantee that history unfolds according to causes. Independent variables are mind constructs and not independent in reality. Dependent variables are in reality dependent on much more than the independ ...
Chapter 13: Between Science and Ethics
... early modern Europe was transformed into the natural sciences (e.g. physical, biological), the social sciences (e.g. behavioural, psychological), and the humanities (e.g. history, philosophy) of today. The ultimate goal was the determinative prediction of all natural and human phenomena, a grand the ...
... early modern Europe was transformed into the natural sciences (e.g. physical, biological), the social sciences (e.g. behavioural, psychological), and the humanities (e.g. history, philosophy) of today. The ultimate goal was the determinative prediction of all natural and human phenomena, a grand the ...
Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization
... Epistemology is how we know. In KO we make implicit epistemic statements about knowledge of concepts, acts (such as representation), entities, and systems. In so doing, we create knowledge, and our epistemic stance dictates what kind of knowledge that is. Some common names of epistemic stances are: ...
... Epistemology is how we know. In KO we make implicit epistemic statements about knowledge of concepts, acts (such as representation), entities, and systems. In so doing, we create knowledge, and our epistemic stance dictates what kind of knowledge that is. Some common names of epistemic stances are: ...
1996TuringIntro
... question of whether machines can think in very much the same spirit as Turing, and is equally robust in the treatment of “romantic” objections. His argument is two-pronged: on the one hand, he describes a considerable body of evidence, much of it garnered from his own research, that indicates the wa ...
... question of whether machines can think in very much the same spirit as Turing, and is equally robust in the treatment of “romantic” objections. His argument is two-pronged: on the one hand, he describes a considerable body of evidence, much of it garnered from his own research, that indicates the wa ...
Dimensions of Scalability in Cognitive Models
... • Complete validation against canonical model set; currently in beta testing; full release planned for spring 2011 • Possible collaboration with AFRL Mesa on implementation of finite-state-based systems • Potential use in other projects (Minds Eye, Robotics CTA) • Allow optional parallelism where ne ...
... • Complete validation against canonical model set; currently in beta testing; full release planned for spring 2011 • Possible collaboration with AFRL Mesa on implementation of finite-state-based systems • Potential use in other projects (Minds Eye, Robotics CTA) • Allow optional parallelism where ne ...
NCEPTS Tricks of the Trade How to Think about Your
... esoteric knowledge, state licensing, and so on) but clearly "didn't fir," Plumbing used to be good for this bit of theoretical skullduggery. Plumbers have the attributes included in standard definitions of a profession: an esoteric body of knowledge (try fixing your own drains), long years of traini ...
... esoteric knowledge, state licensing, and so on) but clearly "didn't fir," Plumbing used to be good for this bit of theoretical skullduggery. Plumbers have the attributes included in standard definitions of a profession: an esoteric body of knowledge (try fixing your own drains), long years of traini ...
a Critical Reconsideration of the Ethos and autonomy of Science
... As a field becomes more cognitively institutionalized, that is, its scientific problems and procedures clarified by the community through practice, members become more committed to the scientific ethos and less beholden to extrascientific commitments. Thus while the ethos/autonomy relationship can a ...
... As a field becomes more cognitively institutionalized, that is, its scientific problems and procedures clarified by the community through practice, members become more committed to the scientific ethos and less beholden to extrascientific commitments. Thus while the ethos/autonomy relationship can a ...
THE HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE CRISIS OF INFORMATION
... (Fitzgerald, 1996; Westrup, 1993). The second aspect of the gap between theory and practice comes from the tendency of researchers to overgeneralise by extrapolating from limited material, which may therefore lead to contradictions between the conclusions of research and the real world situation. On ...
... (Fitzgerald, 1996; Westrup, 1993). The second aspect of the gap between theory and practice comes from the tendency of researchers to overgeneralise by extrapolating from limited material, which may therefore lead to contradictions between the conclusions of research and the real world situation. On ...
IF YOU`RE THINKING OF LIVING IN STS / A Guide
... This paper grew out of a workshop at the School for American Research, which had produced the Writing Culture volume a decade earlier. So there was some expectation that the seminar might help to define what an anthropology of science and technology could be, especially in distinction from and in co ...
... This paper grew out of a workshop at the School for American Research, which had produced the Writing Culture volume a decade earlier. So there was some expectation that the seminar might help to define what an anthropology of science and technology could be, especially in distinction from and in co ...