A Cognitive Neuroscience View on Pointing: What is Special About Pointing with the Eyes and Hands?José Luis Ulloa &NathalieGeorge -2013 -Humana Mente 6 (24).detailsWhen interacting with others, we often use bodily signals to communicate. Among these signals, pointing, whether with the eyes or the hands, allows coordinating our attention with others, and the perception of pointing gestures implicates a range of social cognitive processes. Here, we review the brain mechanisms underpinning the perception and understanding of pointing, focusing on eye gaze perception and associated joint attention processes. We consider pointing gesture perception, but leave aside pointing gesture execution as it relates to a distinct (...) area of cognitive neuroscience research. We describe the attention orienting effects of pointing and the neural substrates for the perception of biological cues. We consider the multiple high-level social cognitive processes elicited by pointing gesture perception and examine how pointing gestures are related to the general taxonomy of gestures. We conclude by emphasizing that pointing is a social phenomenon and that a full account of pointing will require an integrative approach taking into account the distinct perspectives from which this phenomenon can be investigated. (shrink)
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Black disciplinary zones and the exposure of whiteness.George Yancy -2021 -Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (3):217-226.detailsThis essay is the result of a series of poignant interview questions posed to leading African American philosopherGeorge Yancy. The questions ranged from his entry into philosophy and how African...
God in patristic thought.George Leonard Prestige -1936 - Toronto,: W. Heinemann. Edited by F. L. Cross.detailsThis book assembles the evidence for what the Greek Fathers, the men whose contructive thought underlies the creeds, really thought and taught about the nature of God. It shows that they were original thinkers, with a profound reverence for the text of the Scriptures, and minds keenly tranined to discuss what ultimate truths were expressed in the scriptural text and what reality should be ascribed to Christian religious experience. The results indicate that a good deal which is assumed in current (...) theological text-books needs to be revised. The Fathers had to reconcile monotheism with faith in a Trinity of divine Persons. In the process, they pursued many lines of inquiry, often only to discard them after trial, but after following various clues and making various intellectual adventures they reached a solution of the problem, which was both true to their data and philosophically reasonable. Though the bulk of the book is concerned with the third and fourth centuries, during which the creeds were in the process of formulation, the story is carried down to the eighth century where the progress of original thought came to a standstill. It is shown that a great change came over the philosophical tradition during the sixth century, and owing to the consequent growth of formalism, a genuine outbreak of tritheism occurred. The book ends with the account of how this outbreak was met and overcome, largely through the efforts of a thinker whose very name is unknown, and whose book has only survived under the name of another man. (shrink)
African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations.George Yancy (ed.) -1998 - New York: Routledge.detailsAfrican-American Philosophers brings into conversation seventeen of the foremost thinkers of color to discuss issues such as Black existentialism, racism, Black women philosophers within the academy, affirmative action and the conceptual parameters of African-American philosophy.
Meditations.George Marcus Aurelius & Long -1997 - Courier Corporation.detailsStirring reflections on the human condition from a warrior and emperor provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman of the 2nd century. Recognizing that suffering is at the core of life, he counsels stoic detachment in the face of inevitable pain, loss and death.
Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz.George Allan,Merle Allshouse,Harley Chapman,John B. Cobb,John Compton,Donald A. Crosby,Paul T. Durbin,Barbara Meister Ferré,Frederick Ferré,Frank B. Golley,Joseph Grange,John Granrose,David Ray Griffin,David Keller,Eugene Thomas Long,Elisabethe Segars McRae,Leslie A. Muray,William L. Power,James F. Salmon,Hans Julius Schneider,Dr Kristin Shrader-Frechette,Udo E. Simonis,Donald Wayne Viney &Clark Wolf (eds.) -2005 - Lexington Books.detailsIn this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick FerrZ. These essays, informed by the insights of FerrZ and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions.
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Kierkegaard's authorship: a guide to the writings of Kierkegaard.George E. Arbaugh -1968 - London,: Allen & Unwin. Edited by George B. Arbaugh.detailsFirst published in English in 1968, Kierkegaard's Authorship begins with a brief account of the life and meaning of Kierkegaard and concludes with the brief treatment of his relation to multifaceted existentialism. By reviewing the total authorship and by making available much of the fruit of widespread research, this work throws into relief Kierkegaard's central purposes and makes it possible to avoid some of the dubious interpretations which have grown out of more narrowly selective study. This critical introduction and guide (...) is especially important because Kierkegaard's style was deliberately indirect and distorted and even more because half of the works are actually antagonistic to Kierkegaard's own views. By the pseudonymous works he intended to lead into truth through a process of frustration, provoking the reader into existence. In another sense, the body of the book is also a biography for, in a degree perhaps without parallel in world history, the library which he created was his deed and life. This is an important read for scholars and researchers of Philosophy specially existentialism. (shrink)
Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View.George Novack -1969 - Pathfinder.detailsTraces the evolution and contradictions of the philosophical outlook of empiricism as an ideological expression of the social system of capitalism.
Me, You, Us: Essays.George Sher -2017 - New York, NY: Oup Usa.detailsMe, You, Us addresses a range of issues in moral and political philosophy and moral psychology, but are unified by their starkly individualistic view of the moral subject. They challenge recent tendencies to conceptualize normative issues in terms of relationships, collectivities, and social meanings.
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Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics.George Yancy &Janine Jones (eds.) -2012 - Lexington Books.detailsPursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics explores the historical implications of the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, byGeorge Zimmerman, in 2012. The book telescopes various themes that are important to a broad market, including race, masculinity, racial profiling, racist stereotyping, black youth and police violence, and racism.
Social Strife May Have Exiled Ancient Indians.George Johnson -unknowndetailsUNTIL very recently, the most perplexing mystery of Southwestern archeology -- what caused the collapse of the ancient empire of the Anasazi -- seemed all but solved. Careful scrutiny of tree-ring records seemed to establish that in the late 1200's a prolonged dry spell called the Great Drought drove these people, the ancestors of today's pueblo Indians, to abandon their magnificent stone villages at Mesa Verde and elsewhere on the Colorado Plateau, never to return again.
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To test a powerful computer, play an ancient game.George Johnson -manuscriptdetailsWhile there are avid chess players in Japan, China, Korea and throughout the East, far more popular is the deceptively simple game of Go, in which black and white pieces called stones are used to form intricate, interlocking patterns that sprawl across the board. So subtle and beautiful is this ancient game that, to hear aficionados describe it, Go is to chess what Asian martial arts like aikido are to a boxing match.
Romancing the sacred?: towards an Indian Christian philosophy of religion.George Karuvelil (ed.) -2007 - Bangalore: Asian Trading.detailsMeeting held on the theme "Dynamics of religion: philosophical review from Indian perspectives".
The Literary Work of Art: An Investigation of the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language.George G. Grabowicz (ed.) -1973 - Northwestern University Press.detailsThis long-awaited translation of _Das literarische Kunstwerk_ makes available for the first time in English Roman Ingarden's influential study. Though it is inter-disciplinary in scope, situated as it is on the borderlines of ontology and logic, philosophy of literature and theory of language, Ingarden's work has a deliberately narrow focus: the literary work, its structure and mode of existence. _The Literary Word of Art _establishes the groundwork for a philosophy of literature, i.e., an ontology in terms of which the basic (...) general structure of all lliterary works can be determined. This "essential anatomy" makes basic tools and concepts available for rigorous and subtle aesthetic analysis. (shrink)