A randomised controlled trial of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines (IICARus).Ezgi Tanriver-Ayder,Laura J. Gray,Sarah K. McCann,Ian M. Devonshire,Leigh O’Connor,Zeinab Ammar,Sarah Corke,Mahmoud Warda,Evandro Araújo De-Souza,Paolo Roncon,Edward Christopher,Ryan Cheyne,Daniel Baker,Emily Wheater,Marco Cascella,Savannah A. Lynn,Emmanuel Charbonney,Kamil Laban,Cilene Lino de Oliveira,Julija Baginskaite,Joanne Storey,David Ewart Henshall,Ahmed Nazzal,Privjyot Jheeta,Arianna Rinaldi,Teja Gregorc,Anthony Shek,Jennifer Freymann,Natasha A. Karp,Terence J. Quinn,Victor Jones,Kimberley Elaine Wever,Klara Zsofia Gerlei,Mona Hosh,Victoria Hohendorf,Monica Dingwall,Timm Konold,Katrina Blazek,Sarah Antar,Daniel-Cosmin Marcu,Alexandra Bannach-Brown,Paula Grill,Zsanett Bahor,Gillian L. Currie,Fala Cramond,Rosie Moreland,Chris Sena,Jing Liao,Michelle Dohm,Gina Alvino,AlejandraClark,Gavin Morrison,Catriona MacCallum,Cadi Irvine,Philip Bath,David Howells,Malcolm R. Macleod,Kaitlyn Hair &Emily S. Sena -2019 -Research Integrity and Peer Review 4 (1).detailsBackgroundThe ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines are widely endorsed but compliance is limited. We sought to determine whether journal-requested completion of an ARRIVE checklist improves full compliance with the guidelines.MethodsIn a randomised controlled trial, manuscripts reporting in vivo animal research submitted to PLOS ONE (March–June 2015) were randomly allocated to either requested completion of an ARRIVE checklist or current standard practice. Authors, academic editors, and peer reviewers were blinded to group allocation. Trained reviewers performed outcome adjudication (...) in duplicate by assessing manuscripts against an operationalised version of the ARRIVE guidelines that consists 108 items. Our primary outcome was the between-group differences in the proportion of manuscripts meeting all ARRIVE guideline checklist subitems.ResultsWe randomised 1689 manuscripts (control: n = 844, intervention: n = 845), of which 1269 were sent for peer review and 762 (control: n = 340; intervention: n = 332) accepted for publication. No manuscript in either group achieved full compliance with the ARRIVE checklist. Details of animal husbandry (ARRIVE subitem 9b) was the only subitem to show improvements in reporting, with the proportion of compliant manuscripts rising from 52.1 to 74.1% (X2 = 34.0, df = 1, p = 2.1 × 10−7) in the control and intervention groups, respectively.ConclusionsThese results suggest that altering the editorial process to include requests for a completed ARRIVE checklist is not enough to improve compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines. Other approaches, such as more stringent editorial policies or a targeted approach on key quality items, may promote improvements in reporting. (shrink)
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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again.AndyClark -1981 - MIT Press.detailsIn treating cognition as problem solving, AndyClark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide...
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence.AndyClark -2003 - Oxford University Press. Edited by Alberto Peruzzi.detailsIn Natural-Born Cyborgs,Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural ...
(1 other version)Sensory Qualities.AustenClark -1992 - Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.detailsDrawing on work in psychophysics, psychometrics, and sensory neurophysiology,Clark analyzes the character and defends the integrity of psychophysical explanations of qualitative facts, arguing that the structure of such explanations is sound and potentially successful.
Memento’s revenge: The extended mind, extended.AndyClark -2010 - In Richard Menary,The Extended Mind. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. pp. 43--66.detailsIn the movie, Memento, the hero, Leonard, suffers from a form of anterograde amnesia that results in an inability to lay down new memories. Nonetheless, he sets out on a quest to find his wife’s killer, aided by the use of notes, annotated polaroids, and (for the most important pieces of information obtained) body tattoos. Using these resources he attempts to build up a stock of new beliefs and to thus piece together the puzzle of his wife’s death. At one (...) point in the movie, a character exasperated by Leonard’s lack of biological recall, shouts. (shrink)
Language, embodiment, and the cognitive niche.AndyClark -2006 -Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10 (8):370-374.detailsEmbodied agents use bodily actions and environmental interventions to make the world a better place to think in. Where does language fit into this emerging picture of the embodied, ecologically efficient agent? One useful way to approach this question is to consider language itself as a cognition-enhancing animal-built structure. To take this perspective is to view language as a kind of self-constructed cognitive niche: a persisting though never stationary material scaffolding whose critical role in promoting thought and reason remains surprisingly (...) ill-understood. It is the very materiality of this linguistic scaffolding, I suggest, that is responsible for some key benefits. By materializing thought in words, we create structures that are themselves proper objects of perception, manipulation, and thought. (shrink)
Climate Change Conceptual Change: Scientific Information Can Transform Attitudes.Michael Andrew Ranney &DavClark -2016 -Topics in Cognitive Science 8 (1):49-75.detailsOf this article's seven experiments, the first five demonstrate that virtually no Americans know the basic global warming mechanism. Fortunately, Experiments 2–5 found that 2–45 min of physical–chemical climate instruction durably increased such understandings. This mechanistic learning, or merely receiving seven highly germane statistical facts, also increased climate-change acceptance—across the liberal-conservative spectrum. However, Experiment 7's misleading statistics decreased such acceptance. These readily available attitudinal and conceptual changes through scientific information disconfirm what we term “stasis theory”—which some researchers and many laypeople (...) varyingly maintain. Stasis theory subsumes the claim that informing people about climate science may be largely futile or even counterproductive—a view that appears historically naïve, suffers from range restrictions, and/or misinterprets some polarization and correlational data. Our studies evidenced no polarizations. Finally, we introduce HowGlobalWarmingWorks.org—a website designed to directly enhance public “climate-change cognition.”. (shrink)
Feature-placing and proto-objects.AustenClark -2004 -Philosophical Psychology 17 (4):443-469.detailsThis paper contrasts three different schemes of reference relevant to understanding systems of perceptual representation: a location-based system dubbed "feature-placing", a system of "visual indices" referring to things called "proto-objects", and the full sortal-based individuation allowed by a natural language. The first three sections summarize some of the key arguments (inClark, 2000) to the effect that the early, parallel, and pre-attentive registration of sensory features itself constitutes a simple system of nonconceptual mental representation. In particular, feature integration--perceiving something (...) as being both F and G, where F and G are sensible properties registered in distinct parallel streams--requires a referential apparatus. Section V. reviews some grounds for thinking that at these earliest levels this apparatus is location-based: that it has a direct and nonconceptual means of picking out places. Feature-placing is contrasted with a somewhat more sophisticated system that can identify and track four or five "perceptual objects" or "proto-objects", independently of their location, for as long as they remain perceptible. Such a system is found in Zenon Pylyshyn's fascinating work on "visual indices", in Dana Ballard's notion of deictic codes, and in Kahneman, Treisman, and Wolfe's accounts of systems of evanescent representations they call "object files". Perceptual representation is a layered affair, and I argue that it probably includes both feature-placing and proto-objects. Finally, both nonconceptual systems are contrasted with the full-blooded individuation allowed in a natural language. (shrink)
The Presence of a Symbol.AndyClark -unknowndetailsThe image of the presence of symbols in an inner code pervades recent debates in cognitive science. Classicists worship in the presence. Connectionists revel in the absence. However, the very ideas of code and symbol are ill understood. A major distorting factor in the debates concerns the role of processing in determining the presence or absence of a stuctured inner code. Drawing on work by David Kirsh and David Chambers, the present paper attempts to re-define such notions to begin to (...) reflect the inextrictability of code and presence. (shrink)
The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God.Clark H. Pinnock,Richard Rice,John Sanders,William Hasker &David Basinger -1994 - Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press.detailsWritten by five scholars whose expertise extends across the disciplines of biblical, historical, systematic, and philosophical theology, this is a careful and ...
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Humour and Incongruity.MichaelClark -1970 -Philosophy 45 (171):20 - 32.detailsThe question “What is humour?” has exercised in varying degrees such philosophers as Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer and Bergson and has traditionally been regarded as a philosophical question. And surely it must still be regarded as a philosophical question at least in so far as it is treated as a conceptual one. Traditionally the question has been regarded as a search for the essence of humour, whereas nowadays it has become almost a reflex response among some philosophers to dismiss (...) the search for essences as misconceived. Humour, it will be said, is a family-resemblance concept: no one could hope to compile any short list of essential properties abstracted from all the many varieties of humour— human misfortune and clumsiness, obscenity, grotesqueness, veiled insult, nonsense, wordplay and puns, human misdemeanours and so on, as manifested in forms as varied as parody, satire, drama, clowning, music, farce and cartoons. Yet even if the search for the essence of humour seems at first sight unlikely to succeed, I do not see how we can be sure in advance of any conceptual investigation; and in any case we might do well to start with the old established theories purporting to give the essence of humour, for even if they are wrong they may be illuminatingly wrong and may help us to compile a list of typical characteristics. (shrink)
Max Stirner's egoism.John P.Clark -1976 - London: Freedom Press.detailsA major essay on the basis of individualist thought, with reference to the major influence of Stirner.
Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan. Janet R. Goodwin.Clark Chilson -1996 -Buddhist Studies Review 13 (2):198-200.detailsAlms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan. Janet R. Goodwin. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1994. vii, 181 pp. US$27.
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Cosmopolitan Care.SarahClark Miller -2010 -Ethics and Social Welfare 4 (2):145-157.detailsI develop the foundation for cosmopolitan care, an underexplored variety of moral cosmopolitanism. I begin by offering a characterization of contemporary cosmopolitanism from the justice tradition. Rather than discussing the political, economic or cultural aspects of cosmopolitanism, I instead address its moral dimensions. I then employ a feminist philosophical perspective to provide a critical evaluation of the moral foundations of cosmopolitan justice, with an eye toward demonstrating the need for an alternative account of moral cosmopolitanism as cosmopolitan care. After providing (...) an explanation of how care ethics in connection with Kantian ethics generates a duty to care, I consider one main feature of cosmopolitan care, namely the theory of obligation it endorses. In developing this account, I place special emphasis on the practical ramifications of the theory by using it to analyze gender violence in conflict zones. (shrink)
Connectionism, Moral Cognition, and Collaborative Problem Solving.AndyClark -unknowndetailsHow should linguistically formulated moral principles figure in an account of our moral understanding and practice?
Soft selves and ecological control.AndyClark -2007 -Distributed Cognition and the Will:101–22.detailsMarkets, companies and various forms of business organizations may all (we have argued) be usefully viewed through the lens of CAS -- the theory of complex adaptive systems. In this chapter, I address one fundamental issue that confronts both the theoretician and the business manager: the nature and opportunities for control and intervention in complex adaptive regimes. The problem is obvious enough. A complex adaptive system, as we have defined it, is soft assembled and largely self-organizing. This means that it (...) is the emergent product of multiple, and often very heterogeneous, interacting factors and forces, and that the crucial interactions are not controlled and orchestrated by an overseeing executive, detailed program, or any other source of strict hierarchical control. There is thus a pressing problem -- are such systems strictly out of control and beyond the reach of useful governance? I shall argue that they are not. Such systems, though initially unfamiliar, can nonetheless be led, influenced and enabled in a variety of ways. (shrink)
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(1 other version)Getting to the Truth through Conceptual Revolutions.Kevin T. Kelly &Clark Glymour -1990 -PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:89 - 96.detailsThere is a popular view that the alleged meaning shifts resulting from scientific revolutions are somehow incompatible with the formulation of general norms for scientific inquiry. We construct methods that can be shown to be maximally reliable at getting to the truth when the truth changes in response to the state of the scientist or his society.
Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I.Peter J. R. Millican &AndyClark (eds.) -1996 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.detailsThis is the first of two volumes of essays on the intellectual legacy of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three famous ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis. 'a fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in many fields' Choice.
Education(al) Research, Educational Policy-Making and Practice.CharlesClark -2011 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 45 (1):37-57.detailsProfessor Whitty has endorsed the consensus that research into education is empirical social science, distinguishing ‘educational research’ which seeks directly to influence practice, and ‘education research’ that has substantive value but no necessary practical application.The status of the science here is problematic. The positivist approach is incoherent and so supports neither option. Critical educational science is virtually policy-inert. The interpretive approach is empirically sound but, because of the value component in education, does not support education research either, or account for (...) this component.A solution to the latter problem is sought in the debate between Carr and Hirst on the relationship between philosophy and education. This shows Carr making claims that rely on a conception of philosophy that he rejects, while Hirst insists on this conception, uses it to justify practical claims, but denies that this is possible.To achieve a practically relevant analysis of educational research, both need to include second-order, normative, conceptual enquiry into the philosophies that drive educational policy-making and partly regulate teaching methodology. Deweyan, first-order, ‘reflective practice’ needs, then, to be supplemented with second-order reflection.Educational research is philosophy- not science-driven, and is value-led. Consequently, it has the status not of scientific discovery but of practical recommendation. (shrink)
Attention and Inscrutability: A commentary on John Campbell, Reference and Consciousness.AustenClark -2006 -Philosophical Studies 127 (2):167-193.detailsWe assemble here in this time and place to discuss the thesis that conscious attention can provide knowledge of reference of perceptual demonstratives. I shall focus my commentary on what this claim means, and on the main argument for it found in the first five chapters of "Reference and Consciousness". The middle term of that argument is an account of what attention does: what its job or function is. There is much that is admirable in this account, and I am (...) confident that it will be the foundation, the launching-pad, for much future work on the subject. But in the end I will argue that Campbell's picture makes the mechanisms of attention too smart: smarter than they are, smarter than they could be. If we come to a more realistic appraisal of the skills and capacities of our sub-personal minions, the "knowledge of reference" which they yield will have to be taken down a notch or two. (shrink)
Love, Poetry, and the Good Life: Mill's Autobiography and Perfectionist Ethics.SamuelClark -2010 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (6):565-578.detailsI argue for a perfectionist reading of Mill’s account of the good life, by using the failures of development recorded in his Autobiography as a way to understand his official account of happiness in Utilitarianism. This work offers both a new perspective on Mill’s thought, and a distinctive account of the role of aesthetic and emotional capacities in the most choiceworthy human life. I consider the philosophical purposes of autobiography, Mill’s disagreements with Bentham, and the nature of competent judges and (...) the pleasure they take in higher culture. I conclude that Millian perfectionism is an attractive and underappreciated option for contemporary value theory. (shrink)