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- On the Meaning of Words and Dinosaur Bones: Lexical Knowledge Without a Lexicon.Jeffrey L. Elman -2009 -Cognitive Science 33 (4):547-582.Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language research between rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this distinction is now blurred in many theories. If anything, the focus of attention has shifted in recent years in favor of words. Results from many different areas of language research suggest that the lexicon is representationally rich, that it is the source of much productive behavior, and that lexically specific information plays a critical and early role in the interpretation (...) of grammatical structure. But how much information can or should be placed in the lexicon? This is the question I address here. I review a set of studies whose results indicate that event knowledge plays a significant role in early stages of sentence processing and structural analysis. This poses a conundrum for traditional views of the lexicon. Either the lexicon must be expanded to include factors that do not plausibly seem to belong there; or else virtually all information about word meaning is removed, leaving the lexicon impoverished. I suggest a third alternative, which provides a way to account for lexical knowledge without a mental lexicon. (shrink)
- Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2001 - Indiana University Press.Levinas and the Philosophy of ReligionJeffrey L. Kosky Reveals the interplay of phenomenology and religion in Levinas’s thought. "Kosky examines Levinas’s thought from the perspective of the philosophy of religion and he does so in a way that is attentive to the philosophical nuances of Levinas’s argument.... an insightful, well written, and carefully documented study... that uniquely illuminates Levinas’s work." —John D. Caputo For readers who suspect there is no place for religion and morality in postmodern philosophy,
- Language as a dynamical system.Jeffrey L. Elman -1995 - In Tim van Gelder & Robert Port,Mind As Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition. MIT Press. pp. 195--223.
- A model of event knowledge.Jeffrey L. Elman &Ken McRae -2019 -Psychological Review 126 (2):252-291.No categories
- Fictions of Childhood: Toward a Sociohistorical Approach to Human Development.Jeffrey L. Lewis &Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo -2004 -Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 32 (1):3-33.No categories
- (1 other version)Finding Structure in Time.Jeffrey L. Elman -1990 -Cognitive Science 14 (2):179-211.Time underlies many interesting human behaviors. Thus, the question of how to represent time in connectionist models is very important. One approach is to represent time implicitly by its effects on processing rather than explicitly (as in a spatial representation). The current report develops a proposal along these lines first described by Jordan (1986) which involves the use of recurrent links in order to provide networks with a dynamic memory. In this approach, hidden unit patterns are fed back to themselves: (...) the internal representations which develop thus reflect task demands in the context of prior internal states. A set of simulations is reported which range from relatively simple problems (temporal version of XOR) to discovering syntactic/semantic features for words. The networks are able to learn interesting internal representations which incorporate task demands with memory demands: indeed, in this approach the notion of memory is inextricably bound up with task processing. These representations reveal a rich structure, which allows them to be highly context‐dependent, while also expressing generalizations across classes of items. These representations suggest a method for representing lexical categories and the type/token distinction. (shrink)
- Revisiting 'Beyond Leave No Trace'.Jeffrey L. Marion,Ben Lawhon,Wade M. Vagias &Peter Newman -2011 -Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (2):231 - 237.Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 231-237, June 2011.
- Peirce on God, Reality and Personality.Jeffrey L. Kasser -2013 - In Jeanine Diller & Asa Kasher,Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities. Springer. pp. 431--440.
- First Philosophy and Religion in the Ethical Thought of Levinas.Jeffrey L. Kosky -1996 - Dissertation, The University of ChicagoThe dissertation focuses on the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In claiming "ethics is first philosophy," Levinas helps overcome the perceived indifference to ethical concerns among post-modern thinkers. However, it is often overlooked that this claim is as much about philosophy as it is about the importance of ethics. The dissertation explains why Levinas' philosophy turns to ethics and what philosophy is capable of once it has adopted this ethical figure. ;The first section is devoted to Levinas' Totality and Infinity. There, (...) Levinas argues that ethics reorients philosophy by accomplishing the metaphysical desire for beings as such, what Levinas calls the absolutely other. A reading of Jacques Derrida's essay "Violence and Metaphysics" shows that Totality and Infinity is profoundly determined by a theological conceptuality and correlatively by forgetting the ontological difference. This suggests that the primacy of ethics depends on an anterior instance, thus rendering Levinas' first philosophy secondary. ;The second section of the dissertation positions Levinas' ethical philosophy within the tradition of phenomenological philosophy and its quest for a subject who is first or ultimate. Whereas Husserl practiced the reduction to the point where it reached consciousness, Levinas practices it to a point beyond that: responsibility. Ethics intervenes as a supplement to Husserl's phenomenology: ethics is added to phenomenology in order to explain its possibility at the same time as it replaces phenomenology with ethical descriptions. This section concludes by contesting the privilege that Levinas accords to ethics in the phenomenology of the subject. It does so by showing that Heidegger's Dasein analytic offers phenomenological philosophy a similar subject. ;The third section argues that in responsibility, phenomena appear which do not appear when the subject is consciousness. These include religious phenomena. The phenomenology of responsibility can thus be the basis for a philosophy of religion. Like the modern philosophy of religion figured in Hegel and Nietzsche, it articulates the rationality or significance of religious phenomena without recourse to the dogmatic authority of faith or historical tradition. However, a philosophy of religion issued from Levinas surpasses the origin of this tradition in the death of God and end of metaphysics. (shrink)Export citation
Bookmark - Alfred Loisy and les Mythes Babyloniens: Loisy’s Discourse on Myth in the Context of Modernism.Jeffrey L. Morrow -2014 -Journal for the History of Modern Theology/Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 21 (1-2):87-103.With the 1901 publication of his Les Mythes babyloniens et les premiers chapitres de la Genèse, the French Catholic scholar Alfred Loisy examined carefully parallels between Babylonian literature and the Book of Genesis. In German scholarship, this had been a growing fascination since at least the 1895 publication of Hermann Gunkel’s Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit. Loisy’s use of the concept of “Myth” provides an important window into the appropriation of German scholarship on religion and the Bible into (...) the French scholarly world. Through Loisy’s work, what had been primarily a German Protestant academic discussion became one of the matchsticks that ignited what would become known as the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis. This present article situates Loisy’s appropriation of “Myth” from the German scholarship he mastered within the proximate cultural, historical, and religious context that became Roman Catholic Modernism. (shrink)No categories
- Cut Off from Its Wellspring: The Politics behind the Divorce of Scripture from Catholic Moral Theology.Jeffrey L. Morrow -2015 -Heythrop Journal 56 (4):547-558.
- Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of starting small.Jeffrey L. Elman -1993 -Cognition 48 (1):71-99.
- After the Death of God: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethical Possibility of God.Jeffrey L. Kosky -1996 -Journal of Religious Ethics 24 (2):235 - 259.Levinas holds that ethics provides a figure of philosophical thought that is not ordered metaphysically and so allows us to explicate the significance of God whose fate is not linked with that of metaphysics, and his descrip- tion of ethics permits philosophy to bypass historical revelations pre- served by religious traditions as it articulates this significance of God. Nevertheless, Levinas's attempt to save the name "God" for that which responsibility witnesses is troubled in several ways: the responsible self cannot tell, (...) and cannot tell us, whether its responsibility witnesses God since (1) both it and God are outside the order (metaphysics and consciousness) where identification would be possible and (2) the anonymity of this God and the trauma suffered by the self are disturbingly close to the menace of the anonymous il y a as that anonymity has been described in Levinas's earlier work. (shrink)
- The Non-Communist Left in Latin America.Jeffrey L. Klaiber -1971 -Journal of the History of Ideas 32 (4):607.
- Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments (review).Jeffrey L. Kosky -2005 -Symploke 13 (1):355-357.
- Ryan Coyne: Heidegger’s Confessions: The remains of Saint Augustine in Being and Time and beyond: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2015.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2017 -Continental Philosophy Review 50 (3):395-401.
- The Blessings of a Friendship: Maurice Blanchot and Levinas Studies.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2005 -Levinas Studies 1:157-171.Levinas scholarship in English has come a long way since his major philosophical works were translated some 35 years ago. Almost all the writings appear in English, and it is not a great exaggeration to say that the major theses have been explained and the major problems exposed. The task now is to make this seeming point of arrival into a new beginning. For students interested in exploring new directions in Levinas studies, a reading of Maurice Blanchot could prove immensely (...) rewarding. Companions since they first encountered one another at Strasbourg when each was not yet 20 years old, Levinas and Blanchot remainedfriends until Levinas’s death in 1996 and Blanchot’s in 2003. While we can only imagine the significance the friendship had for each of them, for the rest of us it proved what Jacques Derrida called “a grace, a blessing for our times.”. (shrink)
- Levinas and the Question of Friendship.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2005 -Levinas Studies 1:139-156.We take our bearings from Francesco Negri — Although many persons attribute the origin of letter writing to various causes, I however believe that one to be closer to the truth that we have received, handed down by memory, from the ancient stories of Turpilius: namely, that the letter was invented for no other purpose than that we should make absent friends once more present [absentes amicos presentes redderemus] and that by regarding [intuentes] their letters we mightfor a time restore (...) the friendship interrupted by intervals of time and space; for since friendship is accustomed to making its foundation in daily companionship,when this thing is missing it seems indeed to weaken not a little.and hear in this passage the resonance of Aristotle:Is it then the same way with friends as with lovers, for whom seeing [to horon] the beloved is their greatest contentment, and the thing they choose over the other senses, since it is especially through seeing that love is present and comes to be present, so that for friends, too, living together [suzèn] is the most choiceworthy thing? For friendship is a sharing in common [koinònia]. (EN 1171b29–33)The audible connection with Aristotle is faint. Negri’s work is securely placed against the background of the increasing formalization of the art of letter writing in the Middle Ages and its Renaissance development, in which he figured prominently. The genealogy that he proposes, whose forebear is an all but forgotten Roman playwright, belongs to an account of literary tradition in which Cicero is the exemplary figure. Nonetheless, it is in St. Jerome that he finds the likely source of his attribution. (shrink)
- The human in question: Augustinian dimensions in Jean-Luc Marion.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2010 - In Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba,Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 103-119.
- (1 other version)Thomas More on the Sadness of Christ: From Mystagogy to Martyrdom.Jeffrey L. Morrow -2016 -Heythrop Journal 57 (6).Thomas More presents us with a wonderful example of martyrological exegesis where his exegetical work was intended to inspire his readers to live the virtues, to follow Christ, and to provide consolation amidst tribulation. Such exegesis aimed to aid the reader to live the martyrdom required in ordinary life and beyond that, if necessary, with mental anguish, physical torture, and even death on behalf of Christ. Before examining More's work, I first situate this discussion within the broader conversation concerning modern (...) biblical interpretation- in particular the notion of senses of Scripture - therein explaining how I shall be using terms like mystagogy and martyrdom in this article. I shall then examine More's spiritual exegesis of Jesus' passion narratives, paying particular attention to the agony in the garden. I shall conclude with a look at the saint's life, which provides a background for his interpretation of Scripture. (shrink)
- Painting, parapraxes, and unconscious intentions.Jeffrey L. Geller -1993 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (3):377-387.
- Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity - Walter de Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2012 - University of Chicago Press.What might be thought of as religious longings, he argues, are crucial aspects of enchanting secularity when developed through encounters with these works of art.No categories
- Teaching Confucianism.Jeffrey L. Richey (ed.) -2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East Asia, an influence that continues to be important in the global Asian diaspora. If forecasters are correct in labeling the 21st century 'the Chinese century,' teachers and scholars of religious studies and theology will be called (...) upon to illuminate the history, character, and role of Confucianism as a religious tradition in Chinese and Chinese-influenced societies. The essays in this volume will address the specifically pedagogical challenges of introducing Confucian material to non-East Asian scholars and students. Informed by the latest scholarship as well as practical experience in the religious studies and theology classroom, the essays are attentive to the various settings within which religious material is taught and sensitive to the needs of both experts in Confucian studies and those with no background in Asian studies who are charged with teaching these traditions. The authors represent all the arenas of Confucian studies, from the ancient to the modern. Courses involving Confucius and Confucianism have proliferated across the disciplinary map of the modern university. This volume will be an invaluable resource for instructors not only in religious studies departments and theological schools, but also teachers of world philosophy, non-Western philosophy, Asian studies, and world history. (shrink)
- Decision point: real-life ethical dilemmas in law enforcement.Jeffrey L. Green -2014 - Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.Exploring the concepts of ethics, morality, and decision-making for the law enforcement community, Decision Point: Real-Life Ethical Dilemmas in Law Enforcement offers an inside look at the difficult challenges officers confront every day as they face ethical decisions that could drastically alter the course of their careers. Through a series of real-life vignettes, the book reviews specific scenarios, the actual decisions that were made, and the consequences and implications of these decisions. Focusing on the critical thinking needed for making appropriate (...) decisions, it retrospectively discusses considerations that were or should have been evaluated at the time. An engaging text ideal for classroom use, the book offers discussion questions at the end of each chapter that can be used as assignments, group breakout discussions, or professor-facilitated discussions. (shrink)
- Jonathan kozol: A profile.Jeffrey L. Lant -1976 -Educational Studies 7 (2):119-124.No categories
- Barney Clark Was Well Informed.Jeffrey L. Lenow -1983 -Hastings Center Report 13 (5):44-44.
- Military Psychology and Moral Dilemmas: The Military Response.Jeffrey L. House -1980 -Hastings Center Report 10 (4):25-26.
- JONATHAN St. BT EVANS (University of Plymouth) The mental model theory of conditional reasoning: critical appraisal and revision, l-20.Jeffrey L. Elman,Francesca Ge Happe,Richard D. Platt &Richard A. Griggs -1993 -Cognition 48:30-5.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Celestial Divination in Esarhaddon’s Aššur A Inscription.Jeffrey L. Cooley -2021 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 135 (1):131.The goal of this essay is to begin the study of the handful of references to celestial divination found in the Assyrian royal inscriptions from the perspective of propaganda analysis by approaching one text in particular, Esarhaddon’s Aššur A inscription. This inquiry helps to solve some of the outstanding problems in regard to the celestial phenomena recorded in these inscriptions and their mantic implications.No categories
- Ethical clinical practice and sport psychology: When two worlds collide.Jeffrey L. Brown &Karen D. Cogan -2006 -Ethics and Behavior 16 (1):15 – 23.From their own practices, the authors offer insight into potential ethical dilemmas that may frequently develop in an applied psychology setting in which sport psychology is also being practiced. Specific ethical situations offered for the reader's consideration include confidentiality with coaches, administration, parents, and athlete-clients; accountability in ethical billing practices and accurate diagnosing; identification of ethical boundaries in nontraditional practice settings (locker room, field, rink, etc.); and establishment of professional competence as it relates to professional practice and marketing.
- An immodest proposal: Banking embryonic stem cells for solid organ transplantation is problematic and premature.Jeffrey L. Ecker &Patricia Pearl O'Rourke -2007 -American Journal of Bioethics 7 (8):48 – 50.
- The Disqualification of Intentionality.Jeffrey L. Kosky -1997 -Philosophy Today 41 (Supplement):186-197.
- La libération de l'otage.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2006 -Les Etudes Philosophiques 78 (3):335.La pensée de Lévinas, du début jusqu’à la fin, est animée par le souci de libérer le moi du « mal de l’être » – c’est-à-dire, de l’expérience de l’être anonyme et irrémissible, sans fin ni commencement, que Lévinas nomme il y a. Dans les premiers ouvrages , l’autofondation du sujet répond à ce souci, mais cette tentative de libération échoue en tant qu’elle condamne le sujet à la présence toujours présente de lui-même et à sa persévérance dans l’effort d’être. (...) La notion de substitution que développera pleinement Autrement qu’être réussit là où la tentative des premiers ouvrages a échoué. La substitution dans la responsabilité libère la subjectivité mais, selon un paradoxe essentiel, la libère en la rendant otage de l’autre. Si la substitution dans la responsabilité est en effet l’événement de la subjectivation, comme le soutient Lévinas, alors il n’y a pas d’éthique sans libération et pas de libération sans éthique.Levinas’ thought, form start to finish, was animated by a concern for liberation of the self form the « evil of Being » – that is, form the experience of anonymous, irremissible Being without start or finish, which Levins names there is. In the early works , the autofoundation of the subject responds to this concern, but this attempt at liberation falls short as it condemns the subject to the ever present presence of itself and its perseverance in the effort of existing. The notion of substituion, developed most fully in Autrement qu’être, then succeeds xhere the aerlier effort failed. Substitution in responsibility liberates subjectivity, but, according to an essential paradox, liberates it as hostage of the other. If substitution in responsibility is indeed the event of subjectification, as Levinas argues, then there is no ethics without liberation, and no liberation without ethics. (shrink)
- The “Great Love Affair” with God.Jeffrey L. Morrow -2022 -The Chesterton Review 48 (3-4):429-438.No categories
- ‘Love Strong as Death’.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2022 - In Kevin Hart & Michael A. Singer,The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians. Fordham University Press. pp. 108-129.No categories
- Constructions in Kant’s Philosophy of Physics.Jeffrey L. Wilson -2018 - In Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing & David Wagner,Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. De Gruyter. pp. 1571-1580.The construction of geometrical concepts is familiar to readers of Kant’s _Critique of Pure Reason_ and _Prolegomena_ as the “shining example” [_glänzendes Beispiel_] of a priori cognition. So when Kant begins to offer constructions of concepts in physics in the _Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science_, it seems unproblematic that mathematics is being applied to matter in motion. Much of Kant’s rhetoric suggests that nothing extraordinary is going on. And yet, constructions in Kant’s philosophy of physics display such peculiarities in comparison (...) to mathematical ones that they begin to seem like unfamiliar operations, distinct from constructions in pure mathematics. (shrink)No categories
- An excess of happiness.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2017 - In Antonio Calcagno, Steve G. Lofts, Rachel Bath & Kathryn Lawson,_Breached Horizons: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion_, eds. Rachel Bath, Kathryn Lawson, Steven G. Lofts, Antonio Calcagno. New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield International.Export citation Bookmark
- Philosophy of Religion and Return to Phenomenology in Jean-Luc Marion.Jeffrey L. Kosky -2004 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (4):629-647.The phenomenological project of Jean-Luc Marion’s Being Given (namely, to free phenomenological possibility to the unconditional self-giving of all phenomena) should be distinguished from the theological project of his God without Being (to think God unconditionally and absolutely). In freeing phenomenological possibility to the self-giving of all phenomena (on the model of the saturated phenomenon), and in proposing a new figure of the subject who receives phenomena (the gifted), Marion’s phenomenology provides the conceptual means for a philosophy of religion that (...) admits the phenomenonality of unconditional revelation. And yet, thereremain striking parallels between the unconditional, self-giving phenomenon as it is described in the phenomenology of Being Given and the unconditional, self-giving God of the theological God without Being. This essay concludes by offering a framework for interpreting these parallels without claiming that the saturated phenomenon transforms phenomenology into theology and without claiming that phenomenological givenness limits revelation to its philosophical possibility. (shrink)
- El contexto político de la modernidad temprana de la crítica bíblica de Spinoza.Jeffrey L. Marrow -2010 -Revista de Filosofía (Venezuela) 66 (3):7-24.El filósofo político de la Temprana Edad Moderna, Benedicto Spinoza, es a menudo visto como el padre del método crítico histórico para el estudio de la Biblia. A partir del trabajo de contemporáneos, Spinoza construyó el fundamento metodológico sobre el cual más tarde levantaría la crítica histórica. En este trabajo se examina el trasfondo político de la crítica bíblica de Spinoza, colocando así la obra de Spinoza en su contexto socio-histórico. La Guerra de los Treinta Años y la agitación política (...) en la República holandesa proveen el trasfondo próximo de la teoría política de Spinoza y de su crítica bíblica. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- Transmission of mitochondrial DNA ‐ playing favorites?Jeffrey L. Boore -1997 -Bioessays 19 (9):751-753.Mitochondria are essential subcellular organelles containing an extranuclear genome (mtDNA). Mutations in mtDNA have recently been identified as causing a variety of human hereditary diseases. In most of these cases, the tissues of the affected individual contain a mixture of mutant and normal mtDNA, with this ratio determining the severity of symptoms. Stochastic factors alone have generally been believed to determine this ratio. Jenuth et al.(1), however, examining mice that contain a mixture of mtDNA types, show evidence of strong selective (...) forces at work in favoring one mtDNA variant over another in some tissues. (shrink)
- Habermas for Humanists.Jeffrey L. Tate -2007 -Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 15 (1):59-76.An exploration of how the writings of Jürgen Habermas lend philosophical support to the universal validity of reason, thus reinforcing the foundation of humanism.
- (1 other version)The Acid of History: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Separation of Faith and Reason in Modern Biblical Studies.Jeffrey L. Morrow -2016 -Heythrop Journal 57 (6).
- American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 220.Jeffrey L. Nicholas,Nalin Ranasinghe,Rohnn B. Sanderson,Marc A. Pugliese &José Filipe Silva -2013 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (1):219 - 220.Books Received listing for: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Winter2013, Vol. 87 Issue 1, p219-220. 2p.
- A premature retreat to nativism.Jeffrey L. Sokolov &Catherine E. Snow -1991 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):635-636.
- Putnam, Truth and Informal Logic.Jeffrey L. Kasser &Daniel H. Cohen -2002 -Philosophica 70 (1):85-108.
- Introduction To Science and Technology Studies.Jeffrey L. Sturchio -1985 -Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 5 (4):373-376.No categories
- A step towards a phenomenological account of gratitude.Jeffrey L. Thayne -2020 -Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 40 (4):264-270.
- On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and the Limits of Onto-Theo-Logy in Cartesian Thought.Jeffrey L. Kosky (ed.) -1999 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Does Descartes belong to metaphysics? What do we mean when we say "metaphysics"? These questions form the point of departure for Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking study of Cartesian thought. Analyses of Descartes' notion of the _ego_ and his idea of God show that if Descartes represents the fullest example of metaphysics, he no less transgresses its limits. Writing as philosopher and historian of philosophy, Marion uses Heidegger's concept of metaphysics to interpret the Cartesian corpus—an interpretation strangely omitted from Heidegger's own history (...) of philosophy. This interpretation complicates and deepens the Heideggerian concept of metaphysics, a concept that has dominated twentieth-century philosophy. Examinations of Descartes' predecessors and his successors clarify the meaning of the Cartesian revolution in philosophy. Expertly translated byJeffrey Kosky, this work will appeal to historians of philosophy, students of religion, and anyone interested in the genealogy of contemporary thought and its contradictions. (shrink)
- Importance of Path Planning Variability: A Simulation Study.Jeffrey L. Krichmar &Chuanxiuyue He -2023 -Topics in Cognitive Science 15 (1):139-162.Individuals vary in the way they navigate through space. Some take novel shortcuts, while others rely on known routes to find their way around. We wondered how and why there is so much variation in the population. To address this, we first compared the trajectories of 368 human subjects navigating a virtual maze with simulated trajectories. The simulated trajectories were generated by strategy-based path planning algorithms from robotics. Based on the similarities between human trajectories and different strategy-based simulated trajectories, we (...) found that there is a variation in the type of strategy individuals apply to navigate space, as well as variation within individuals on a trial-by-trial basis. Moreover, we observed variation within a trial when subjects occasionally switched the navigation strategies halfway through a trajectory. In these cases, subjects started with a route strategy, in which they followed a familiar path, and then switched to a survey strategy, in which they took shortcuts by considering the layout of the environment. Then we simulated a second set of trajectories using five different but comparable artificial maps. These trajectories produced the similar pattern of strategy variation within and between trials. Furthermore, we varied the relative cost, that is, the assumed mental effort or required timesteps to choose a learned route over alternative paths. When the learned route was relatively costly, the simulated agents tended to take shortcuts. Conversely, when the learned route was less costly, the simulated agents showed preference toward a route strategy. We suggest that cost or assumed mental effort may be the reason why in previous studies, subjects used survey knowledge when instructed to take the shortest path. We suggest that this variation we observe in humans may be beneficial for robotic swarms or collections of autonomous agents during information gathering. (shrink)
- The Schematism of Possession in the Early Rechtslehre Drafts.Jeffrey L. Wilson -2021 - In Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann,The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress. De Gruyter. pp. 1923-1930.Kant insists in the Rechtslehre that the right of possession is intelligible and abstracts from all sensible conditions but often maintains in his earlier drafts that empirical possession serves as the schema of intelligible possession. This paper addresses the questions, Why does Kant think in the early drafts that the right of possession requires a schematism? What work is this schematism meant to do? How does it operate in detail? What similarities between the schematism of possession and the first Critique (...) schematism justify calling them by the same name? The investigation reveals that, without the schematism of possession, no objects of choice would be available to be possessed. At the same time, the schematism must not be confused with the concept of intelligible possession. In the Rechtslehre itself, Kant retreats from a schematism of possession to a construction of right on analogy with the reciprocal relation of physical forces, and I speculate about the reasons for this change. (shrink)No categories
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