Conventional Wisdom: Negotiating Conventions of Reference Enhances Category Learning.John Voiklis &James E.Corter -2012 -Cognitive Science 36 (4):607-634.detailsCollaborators generally coordinate their activities through communication, during which they readily negotiate a shared lexicon for activity-related objects. This social-pragmatic activity both recruits and affects cognitive and social-cognitive processes ranging from selective attention to perspective taking. We ask whether negotiating reference also facilitates category learning or might private verbalization yield comparable facilitation? Participants in three referential conditions learned to classify imaginary creatures according to combinations of functional features—nutritive and destructive—that implicitly defined four categories. Remote partners communicated in the Dialogue condition. (...) In the Monologue condition, participants recorded audio descriptions for their own later use. Controls worked silently. Dialogue yielded better category learning, with wider distribution of attention. Monologue offered no benefits over working silently. We conclude that negotiating reference compels collaborators to find communicable structure in their shared activity; this social-pragmatic constraint accelerates category learning and likely provides much of the benefit recently ascribed to learning labeled categories. (shrink)
Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics.Jèurgen Habermas -1997 - Oxford, England: Polity.detailsUniversities must transmit technically exploitable knowledge. That is, they must meet an industrial society's need for qualified new generations and at the same time be concerned with the expanded reproduction of education itself. In addition, universities must not only transmit technically exploitable knowledge, but also produce it. This includes both information flowing from research into the channels of industrial utilization, armament, and social welfare, and advisory knowledge that enters into strategies of administration, government, and other decision-making powers, such as private (...) enterprises. Thus, through instruction and research the university is immediately connected with functions of the economic process. (shrink)
Encounters in the arts, literature, and philosophy: chance and choice.Jérôme Brillaud,Virginie Elisabeth Greene &Christie McDonald (eds.) -2021 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.detailsEncounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting. With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, (...) and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches. (shrink)
The future of values: 21st century talks.Jérôme Bindé (ed.) -2004 - [Paris]: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.detailsThis volume brings together about 50 scientists and researchers from the four corners of the world to redefine and anticipate tomorrow's values, and reflect on ...
Missing perspective: Marginalized groups in the social psychological study of social disparities.Jes L. Matsick,Flora Oswald &Mary Kruk -2022 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45.detailsDrawing on interdisciplinary, feminist insights, we encourage social psychologists to embrace the active participation of marginalized groups in social disparities research. We explain how the absence of marginalized groups' perspectives in research presents a serious challenge to understanding intergroup dynamics and concomitant disparities, and how their inclusion could assuage some of social psychology's “fatal flaws.”.
Seeing the Animal: On the Ethical Implications of De-animalization in Intensive Animal Production Systems.Jes Lynning Harfeld,Cécile Cornou,Anna Kornum &Mickey Gjerris -2016 -Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29 (3):407-423.detailsThis article discusses the notion that the invisibility of the animalness of the animal constitutes a fundamental obstacle to change within current production systems. It is discussed whether housing animals in environments that resemble natural habitats could lead to a re-animalization of the animals, a higher appreciation of their moral significance, and thereby higher standards of animal welfare. The basic claim is that experiencing the animals in their evolutionary and environmental context would make it harder to objectify animals as mere (...) bioreactors and production systems. It is argued that the historic objectification of animals within intensive animal production can only be reversed if animals are given the chance to express themselves as they are and not as we see them through the tunnel visions of economy and quantifiable welfare assessment parameters. (shrink)
Les vertus de la liberté: Machiavel et la critique de la domination.Jérémie Duhamel -2016 - Paris: Classiques Garnier.detailsCe livre montre, à travers l'étude de la notion de virtù, que Machiavel a développé une approche originale des choses politiques qui consiste à penser les conditions de possibilité de la liberté sans nier la contingence du monde et la méchanceté potentielle de l'être humain.