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- Efficiency of Sensory Substitution Devices Alone and in Combination With Self-Motion for Spatial Navigation in Sighted and Visually Impaired.Crescent Jicol,Tayfun Lloyd-Esenkaya,Michael J. Proulx,SimonLange-Smith,Meike Scheller,Eamonn O'Neill &Karin Petrini -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.
- (3 other versions)Truth-Makers.Kevin Mulligan,Peter Simons &BarrySmith -1984 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (3):287-321.A realist theory of truth for a class of sentences holds that there are entities in virtue of which these sentences are true or false. We call such entities ‘truthmakers’ and contend that those for a wide range of sentences about the real world are moments (dependent particulars). Since moments are unfamiliar, we provide a definition and a brief philosophical history, anchoring them in our ontology by showing that they are objects of perception. The core of our theory is the (...) account of truthmaking for atomic sentences, in which we expose a pervasive ‘dogma of logical form’, which says that atomic sentences cannot have more than one truthmaker. In contrast to this, we uphold the mutual independence of logical and ontological complexity, and the authors outline formal principles of truthmaking taking account of both kinds of complexity. (shrink)
- Co-Reasoning in Context: Collaboration in Critical Care.Jared N.Smith,Ben H. Lang &Meghan E. Hurley -2024 -American Journal of Bioethics 24 (9):100-102.In “What are Humans Doing in the Loop?” Salloch and Eriksen (2024) argue for a collaborative decision-making approach to using machine learning-based AI decisional support systems in medicine, rece...
- What’s wrong with contemporary philosophy?Kevin Mulligan,Peter Simons &BarrySmith -2006 -Topoi 25 (1-2):63-67.Philosophy in the West divides into three parts: Analytic Philosophy (AP), Continental Philosophy (CP), and History of Philosophy (HP). But all three parts are in a bad way. AP is sceptical about the claim that philosophy can be a science, and hence is uninterested in the real world. CP is never pursued in a properly theoretical way, and its practice is tailor-made for particular political and ethical conclusions. HP is mostly developed on a regionalist basis: what is studied is determined (...) by the nation or culture to which a philosopher belongs, rather than by the objective value of that philosopher’s work. Progress in philosophy can only be attained by avoiding these pitfalls. (shrink)
- Immediate and long-term priming effects are independent of prime awareness.Jolien Francken,Simon van Gaal &Floris deLange -2011 -Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1793-1800.Subliminal primes are assumed to produce weaker and short-lived effects on subsequent behavior compared to clearly visible primes. However, this difference in priming effect may be due to differences in signal strength, rather than level of awareness. In the present study we manipulated prime discriminability by using metacontrast masks and pseudomasks, while keeping the prime strength equal. This manipulation resulted in large differences in discriminability of the primes. However, both immediate response priming and long-term response priming was equal for the (...) poorly discriminable and well discriminable primes, and equal for groups that differed markedly in terms of how well they could discriminate the primes. Our findings imply that discriminability of information is independent of both the immediate and long-term effects that information can have on behavior. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Wahrmacher.Kevin Mulligan,Peter Simons &BarrySmith -1987 - In Lorenz Bruno Puntel,Der Wahrheitsbegriff. Neue Explikationsversuche. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. pp. 210-255.Als zu Beginn des Jahrhunderts der Realismus wieder ernst genommen wurde, gab es viele Philosophen, die sich mit der Ontologie der Wahrheit befaßten. Unabhängig von der Bestimmung der Wahrheit als Korrespondenzbeziehung wollten sie herausfinden, inwieweit zur Erklärung der Wahrheit von Sätzen besondere Entitäten herangezogen werden müssen. Einige dieser Entitäten, so zum Beispiel Bolzanos ‘Sätze an sich’, Freges ‘Gedanken’ oder die ‘propositions’ von Russell und Moore, wurden als Träger der Eigenschaften Wahrheit und Falschheit aufgefaßt. Einige Philosophen jedoch, wie Russell, Wittgenstein im (...) ›Tractatus‹ und Husserl in den ›Logischen Untersuchungen‹, argumentierten, zusätzlich zu den Wahrheitsträgern bzw. an ihrer Stelle müßten Entitäten angenommen werden, auf Grund deren Sätze und/oder ‘Propositionen’ wahr sind. Solchen Entitäten gab man verschiedene Namen, insbesondere ‘fact’, ‘Tatsache’, ‘state of affairs’ und ‘Sachverhalt’. 1 Wir wollen einer Entscheidung über die Angebrachtheit dieser Ausdrücke nicht vorgreifen und daher zunächst eine neutralere Terminologie verwenden: Alle Entitäten, die für diese zweite Rolle in Frage kommen, wollen wir ‘Wahrmacher’ nennen. (shrink)
- Formal ontology for biomedical knowledge systems integration.J. M. Fielding,J.Simon &BarrySmith -2004 -Proceedings of Euromise:12-17.The central hypothesis of the collaboration between Language and Computing (L&C) and the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) is that the methodology and conceptual rigor of a philosophically inspired formal ontology will greatly benefit software application ontologies. To this end LinKBase®, L&C’s ontology, which is designed to integrate and reason across various external databases simultaneously, has been submitted to the conceptual demands of IFOMIS’s Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). With this, we aim to move beyond the level (...) of controlled vocabularies to yield an ontology with the ability to support reasoning applications. (shrink)No categories
- Vérifacteurs.Kevin Mulligan,Peter Simons &BarrySmith -2008-2011 -Etudes de Philosophie 9:104-138.French translation of "Truth-Makers" (1984). A realist theory of truth for a class of sentence holds that there are entities in virtue of which these sentences are true or false. We call such entities ‘truthmakers’ and contend that those for a wide range of sentences about the real world are moments (dependent particulars). Since moments are unfamiliar we provide a definition and a brief philosophical history, anchoring them in our ontology by showing that they are objects of perception. The core (...) of our theory is the account of truthmaking for atomic sentences, in which we expose a pervasive ‘dogma of logical form’, which says that atomic sentences cannot have more than one truthmaker. The authors uphold the mutual independence of logical and ontological complexity. The theory is compared with that of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and the authors outline formal principles of truthmaking taking account of both kinds of complexity and suggesting how to overcome Wittgenstein’s problem of negation. (shrink)
- Nursing history as philosophy—towards a critical history of nursing.Thomas Foth,JetteLange &KylieSmith -2018 -Nursing Philosophy 19 (3):e12210.Mainstream nursing history often positions itself in opposition to philosophy and many nursing historians are reticent of theorizing. In the quest to illuminate the lives of nurses and women current historical approaches are driven by reformist aspirations but are based on the conception that nursing or caring is basically good and the timelessness of universal values. This has the effect of essentialising political categories of identity such as class, race and gender. This kind of history is about affirmation rather than (...) friction and about the conservation of memory and musealization. In contrast, we will focus on how we imagine nursing history could be used as a philosophical, critical perspective to challenge the ongoing transformations of our societies. Existing reality must be confronted with strangeness and the historically different can assume the function of this counterpart, meaning present and past must continuously be set in relation to each other. Thus, critical history is always the history of the present but not merely the pre‐history of the present – critique must rather present different realities and different certainties. In this paper, we use this approach to discuss the implementation of the nursing process (NP) in Germany. The nursing process appears to be a technology that helped to set up an infrastructure ‐ or assemblage ‐ to transform nursing interventions into a commodity exchangable between consumers and nurses in a free market. In our theoretical perspective, we argue that NP was a step in the realization of the German ordoliberal program, a specific variety of neoliberalism. In order to implement market‐orientation in the healthcare system it was necessary to transform hospitals into calculable spaces and to make all performances in the hospital calculable. This radically transformed not just the systems, but the ways in which nurses and patients conveived of themselves. (shrink)
- Immediate and long-term priming effects are independent of prime awareness.Jolien C. Francken,Simon van Gaal &Floris P. deLange -2011 -Consciousness and Cognition 20 (4):1793-1800.Subliminal primes are assumed to produce weaker and short-lived effects on subsequent behavior compared to clearly visible primes. However, this difference in priming effect may be due to differences in signal strength, rather than level of awareness. In the present study we manipulated prime discriminability by using metacontrast masks and pseudomasks, while keeping the prime strength equal. This manipulation resulted in large differences in discriminability of the primes. However, both immediate response priming and long-term response priming was equal for the (...) poorly discriminable and well discriminable primes, and equal for groups that differed markedly in terms of how well they could discriminate the primes. Our findings imply that discriminability of information is independent of both the immediate and long-term effects that information can have on behavior. (shrink)
- Owen Barfield: Romanticism come of age: a biography.Simon Blaxland-deLange -2021 - Forest Row: Temple Lodge Publishing. Edited by Andrew J. Welburn.Owen Barfield--philosopher, author, poet, and critic--was a founding member of the Inklings, the private Oxford society that included the leading literary figures C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Lewis, who was greatly affected by Barfield during their long friendship, wrote of their many heated debates: "I think he changed me a good deal more than I him."Simon Blaxland-deLange's biography (the first to be published on Owen Barfield) was written with the active cooperation of Barfield himself (...) who, before his death in 1997, gave numerous interviews to the author and shared many of his papers and manuscripts. The fruit of this collaboration is a book that penetrates deeply into the life and thought of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. It studies two pf Barfield's influences--the Romantic poet Coleridge and the philosopher Rudolf Steiner--and elaborates on his profound personal connection with C.S. Lewis. This biography also features a sketch in his own words (based on interviews with the author), describing Barfield's strong relationship with North America and his two professions as lawyer and writer. This updated edition features important new material, including Owen Barfield's own "Psychography" (1948) and four pages of color plates. (shrink)No categories
- Distinct influences of affective and cognitive factors on children’s non-verbal and verbal mathematical abilities.Sarah S. Wu,Lang Chen,Christian Battista,Ashley K.Smith Watts,Erik G. Willcutt &Vinod Menon -2017 -Cognition 166 (C):118-129.No categories
- From Opioid Overdose to LVAD Refusals: Navigating the Spectrum of Decisional Autonomy.Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby,Ben H. Lang,Joanna Smolenski &Jared N.Smith -2024 -American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):8-10.In “Revive and Refuse: Capacity, Autonomy, and Refusal of Care After Opioid Overdose”, Marshall, Derse, Weiner, and Joseph contend that patients who may appear to satisfy the standard criteria for...
- Patient Consent and The Right to Notice and Explanation of AI Systems Used in Health Care.Meghan E. Hurley,Benjamin H. Lang,Kristin Marie Kostick-Quenet,Jared N.Smith &Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby -2024 -American Journal of Bioethics 25 (3):102-114.Given the need for enforceable guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI) that protect the public and allow for innovation, the U.S. Government recently issued a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights which outlines five principles of safe AI design, use, and implementation. One in particular, the right to notice and explanation, requires accurately informing the public about the use of AI that impacts them in ways that are easy to understand. Yet, in the healthcare setting, it is unclear what goal (...) the right to notice and explanation serves, and the moral importance of patient-level disclosure. We propose three normative functions of this right: (1) to notify patients about their care, (2) to educate patients and promote trust, and (3) to meet standards for informed consent. Additional clarity is needed to guide practices that respect the right to notice and explanation of AI in healthcare while providing meaningful benefits to patients. (shrink)
- Semiotic resources for navigation: A video ethnographic study of blind people’s uses of the white cane and a guide dog for navigating in urban areas.Brian Due &SimonLange -2018 -Semiotica 2018 (222):287-312.Journal Name: Semiotica Issue: Ahead of print.
- On the relationship between negative affective priming and prefrontal cognitive control mechanisms.Rosalux Falquez,Simone Lang,Ramona Dinu-Biringer,Frauke Nees,Elisabeth Arens,Boris Kotchoubey,Moritz Berger &Sven Barnow -2016 -Cognition and Emotion 30 (2):225-244.
- Therapeutic Artificial Intelligence: Does Agential Status Matter?Meghan E. Hurley,Benjamin H. Lang &Jared N.Smith -2023 -American Journal of Bioethics 23 (5):33-35.In their paper, “Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Psychotherapy: A New Therapeutic Tool or Agent?” Sedlakova and Trachsel (2023) claim that therapeutic insights and therapeutic changes are...
- Trust criteria for artificial intelligence in health: normative and epistemic considerations.Kristin Kostick-Quenet,Benjamin H. Lang,JaredSmith,Meghan Hurley &Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby -2024 -Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (8):544-551.Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in healthcare raise pressing questions about how much users should trust AI/ML systems, particularly for high stakes clinical decision-making. Ensuring that user trust is properly calibrated to a tool’s computational capacities and limitations has both practical and ethical implications, given that overtrust or undertrust can influence over-reliance or under-reliance on algorithmic tools, with significant implications for patient safety and health outcomes. It is, thus, important to better understand how variability in trust (...) criteria across stakeholders, settings, tools and use cases may influence approaches to using AI/ML tools in real settings. As part of a 5-year, multi-institutional Agency for Health Care Research and Quality-funded study, we identify trust criteria for a survival prediction algorithm intended to support clinical decision-making for left ventricular assist device therapy, using semistructured interviews (n=40) with patients and physicians, analysed via thematic analysis. Findings suggest that physicians and patients share similar empirical considerations for trust, which were primarilyepistemicin nature, focused on accuracy and validity of AI/ML estimates. Trust evaluations considered the nature, integrity and relevance of training data rather than the computational nature of algorithms themselves, suggesting a need to distinguish ‘source’ from ‘functional’ explainability. To a lesser extent, trust criteria were also relational (endorsement from others) and sometimes based on personal beliefs and experience. We discuss implications for promoting appropriate and responsible trust calibration for clinical decision-making use AI/ML. (shrink)
- Crossing the Gap: Older Adults Do Not Create Less Challenging Stepping Stone Configurations Than Young Adults.Amy M. Jeschke,Annemieke M. M. deLange,Rob Withagen &Simone R. Caljouw -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.
- Semantic Web and Big Data meets Applied Ontology.Leo Obrst,Michael Gruninger,Ken Baclawski,Mike Bennett,Dan Brickley,Gary Berg-Cross,Pascal Hitzler,Krzysztof Janowicz,Christine Kapp,Oliver Kutz,ChristophLange,Anatoly Levenchuk,Francesca Quattri,Alan Rector,Todd Schneider,Simon Spero,Anne Thessen,Marcela Vegetti,Amanda Vizedom,Andrea Westerinen,Matthew West &Peter Yim -2014 -Applied ontology 9 (2):155-170.No categories
- Planetary Boundaries.Ulrich Brand,Barbara Muraca,Éric Pineault,Marlyne Sahakian,Anke Schaffartzik,Andreas Novy,Christoph Streissler,Helmut Haberl,Viviana Asara,Kristina Dietz,Miriam Lang,Ashish Kothari,ToneSmith,Clive Spash,Alina Brad,Melanie Pichler,Christina Plank,Giorgos Velegrakis,Thomas Jahn,Angela Carter,Qingzhi Huan,Giorgos Kallis,Joan Martínez Alier,Gabriel Riva,Vishwas Satgar,Emiliano Teran Mantovani,Michelle Williams,Markus Wissen &Christoph Görg -2023 - In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf,Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer. pp. 91-97.The planetary boundaries concept has profoundly changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. The article starts by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of planetary boundaries from a social science perspective. It is argued that the growth imperative of capitalist economies, as well as other particular characteristics detailed below, are the main drivers of the ecological crisis and exacerbated trends already underway. Further, the planetary boundaries framework can support interpretations that do not solely emphasize technocratic operational approaches and costs, (...) but also assume that these alone can be the solution. (shrink)No categories
- Sufi cosmology.ChristianLange &Alexander Knysh (eds.) -2022 - Boston: Brill.This volume discusses the origin and structure of the universe in mystical Islam (Sufism) and Islam's civilizational predecessors with special reference to parallel realms of existence and their interaction. Contributors address Sufi ideas about the fate of human beings in this and future life under three rubrics: (1) cosmogony and eschatology ("where do we come from?" and "where do we go?"); (2) conceptualizations of the world of the here-and-now ("where are we now?"); and (3) visualizations of realms of existence, their (...) hierarchy and mutual relationships ("where are we in relation to other times and places?"). Contributors are ChristianLange, Alexander Knysh, Noah Gardiner, Stephen Hirtenstein, Saeko Yazaki, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Leah Kinberg, Sara Sviri, Munjed M. Murad,Simon O'Meara, Pierre Lory, Mathieu Terrier, Michael Ebstein, Binyamin Abrahamov and Frederick Colby. (shrink)
- Societal Boundaries.Ulrich Brand,Barbara Muraca,Éric Pineault,Marlyne Sahakian,Anke Schaffartzik,Andreas Novy,Christoph Streissler,Helmut Haberl,Viviana Asara,Kristina Dietz,Miriam Lang,Ashish Kothari,ToneSmith,Clive Spash,Alina Brad,Melanie Pichler,Christina Plank,Giorgos Velegrakis,Thomas Jahn,Angela Carter,Qingzhi Huan,Giorgos Kallis,Joan Martínez Alier,Gabriel Riva,Vishwas Satgar,Emiliano Teran Mantovani,Michelle Williams,Markus Wissen &Christoph Görg -2023 - In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf,Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer. pp. 1647-1653.The notion of societal boundaries aims to enhance the debate on planetary boundaries. The focus is on capitalist societies as a heuristic for discussing the expansionary dynamics, power relations, and lock-ins of modern societies that impel highly unsustainable societal relations with nature. While formulating societal boundaries implies a controversial process – based on normative judgments, ethical concerns, and socio-political struggles – it has the potential to offer guidelines for a just, social-ecological transformation.No categories
- Response to Desender & Van den Bussche: On the absence of a relationship between discriminability and priming.Jolien C. Francken,Simon van Gaal &Floris P. deLange -2012 -Consciousness and Cognition 21 (3):1573-1574.
- Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction: An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners.Betty Achinstein,Krista Adams,Steven Z. Athanases,EunJin Bang,Martha Bleeker,Cynthia L. Carver,Yu-Ming Cheng,Renée T. Clift,Nancy Clouse,Kristen A. Corbell,Sarah Dolfin,Sharon Feiman-Nemser,Maida Finch,Jonah Firestone,Steven Glazerman,MariaAssunção Flores,Susan Hanson,Lara Hebert,Richard Holdgreve-Resendez,Erin T. Horne,Leslie Huling,Eric Isenberg,Amy Johnson,RichardLange,Julie A. Luft,Pearl Mack,Julia Moore,Jennifer Neakrase,Lynn W. Paine,Edward G. Pultorak,Hong Qian,Alan J. Reiman,Virginia Resta,John R. Schwille,Sharon A. Schwille,Thomas M.Smith,Randi Stanulis,Michael Strong,Dina Walker-DeVose,Ann L. Wood &Peter Youngs -2010 - R&L Education.This book's importance is derived from three sources: careful conceptualization of teacher induction from historical, methodological, and international perspectives; systematic reviews of research literature relevant to various aspects of teacher induction including its social, cultural, and political contexts, program components and forms, and the range of its effects; substantial empirical studies on the important issues of teacher induction with different kinds of methodologies that exemplify future directions and approaches to the research in teacher induction.No categories
- Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure.Simon Kirby,Monica Tamariz,Hannah Cornish &KennySmith -2015 -Cognition 141 (C):87-102.
- Truthmaker Explanations.BarrySmith &JonathanSimon -2007 - In Jean-Maurice Monnoyer,Metaphysics and Truthmakers. Pisctaway, NJ: Ontos Verlag. pp. 79-98.This paper is a fresh attempt to articulate the role of a theory of truthmakers. We argue that truthmaker theory constitutes a cornerstone of good methodology in metaphysics, but that a conflation of truthmaker theory with the theory of truth has been responsible for certain excesses associated with truthmaker-based approaches in the recent literature. If truthmaker theory is not a component of a theory of truth, then truthmaker maximalism – the view that every truth has a truthmaker – loses its (...) primary motivation. More generally, if the task of truthmaker theory is not to provide a definition or account of truth in truthmaker terms, there is no pressing need for hard, a priori principles stating which truths have truthmakers and which do not. (shrink)$146.88 new (collection) View on Amazon.comDirect download(5 more)Export citation
Bookmark 23 citations - (1 other version)Neural Correlates of Theory of Mind Are Preserved in Young Women With Anorexia Nervosa.Monica Leslie,Daniel Halls,Jenni Leppanen,Felicity Sedgewick,KatherineSmith,Hannah Hayward,Katie Lang,Leon Fonville,Mima Simic,William Mandy,Dasha Nicholls,Declan Murphy,Steven Williams &Kate Tchanturia -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.People with anorexia nervosa commonly exhibit social difficulties, which may be related to problems with understanding the perspectives of others, commonly known as Theory of Mind processing. However, there is a dearth of literature investigating the neural basis of these differences in ToM and at what age they emerge. This study aimed to test for differences in the neural correlates of ToM processes in young women with AN, and young women weight-restored from AN, as compared to healthy control participants. Based (...) on previous findings in AN, we hypothesized that young women with current or prior AN, as compared to HCs, would exhibit a reduced neural response in the medial prefrontal cortex, the inferior frontal gyrus, and the temporo-parietal junction whilst completing a ToM task. We recruited 73 young women with AN, 45 WR young women, and 70 young women without a history of AN to take part in the current study. Whilst undergoing a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan, participants completed the Frith-Happé task, which is a commonly used measure of ToM with demonstrated reliability and validity in adult populations. In this task, participants viewed the movements of triangles, which depicted either action movements, simple interactions, or complex social interactions. Viewing trials with more complex social interactions in the Frith-Happé task was associated with increased brain activation in regions including the right TPJ, the bilateral mPFC, the cerebellum, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. There were no group differences in neural activation in response to the ToM contrast. Overall, these results suggest that the neural basis of spontaneous mentalizing is preserved in most young women with AN. (shrink)
- Kant’s Mathematical Sublime and the Role of the Infinite: Reply to Crowther.Simon D.Smith -2015 -Kantian Review 20 (1):99-120.This paper offers an analysis of Kant’s account of the mathematical sublime with reference to his claim that ‘Nature is thus sublime in those of its appearances the intuition of which brings with them the idea of its infinity’. In undertaking this analysis I challenge Paul Crowther’s interpretation of this species of aesthetic experience, and I reject his interpretation as not being reflective of Kant’s actual position. I go on to show that the experience of the mathematical sublime is necessarily (...) connected with the progression of the imagination in its move towards the infinite. View HTML Send article to KindleTo send this article to your Kindle, first ensure[email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Note you can select to send to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be sent to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.Kant’s Mathematical Sublime and the Role of the Infinite: Reply to CrowtherVolume 20, Issue 1Simon D.Smith DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415414000302Your Kindle email address Please provide your Kindle[email protected]@kindle.com Available formats PDF Please select a format to send. By using this service, you agree that you will only keep articles for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services. Please confirm that you accept the terms of use. Cancel Send ×Send article to Dropbox To send this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about sending content to Dropbox. Kant’s Mathematical Sublime and the Role of the Infinite: Reply to CrowtherVolume 20, Issue 1Simon D.Smith DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415414000302Available formats PDF Please select a format to send. By using this service, you agree that you will only keep articles for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services. Please confirm that you accept the terms of use. Cancel Send ×Send article to Google Drive To send this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about sending content to Google Drive. Kant’s Mathematical Sublime and the Role of the Infinite: Reply to CrowtherVolume 20, Issue 1Simon D.Smith DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415414000302Available formats PDF Please select a format to send. By using this service, you agree that you will only keep articles for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services. Please confirm that you accept the terms of use. Cancel Send ×Export citation. (shrink)
- Compositionality and Linguistic Evolution.Simon Kirby &KennySmith -2012 - In Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen & Edouard Machery,The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. Oxford University Press.The productivity of language is subserved by two structural properties: language is recursive, which allows the creation of an infinite number of utterances, and language is compositional, which makes the interpretation of novel utterances possible. A potential explanation for the linkage between the functional properties of compositionality and the compositional structure of language is that this fit arose through cultural, rather than biological, evolution. In order to argue that the compositional structure of language is a product of cultural evolution, it (...) is assumed that language is compositional, socially learned, and therefore culturally transmitted. A well-established solution to the problem of linkage in biological systems is that of evolution by natural selection: adaptation. Compositionality can be explained as a cultural adaptation by language to the problem of transmission through a learning bottleneck. (shrink)No categories$141.36 new (collection) View on Amazon.comDirect download(3 more)Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
- Derrida degree: A question of honour.BarrySmith,Hans Albert,David M. Armstrong,Ruth Barcan Marcus,Keith Campbell,Richard Glauser,Rudolf Haller,Massimo Mugnai,Kevin Mulligan,Lorenzo Peña,Willard Van Orman Quine,Wolfgang Röd,Karl Schuhmann,Daniel Schulthess,Peter M. Simons,René Thom,Dallas Willard &Jan Wolenski -1992 -The Times 9 (May 9).A letter to The Times of London, May 9, 1992 protesting the Cambridge University proposal to award an honorary degree to M. Jacques Derrida.
- Formal Ontology for Natural Language Processing and the Integration of Biomedical Databases.JonathanSimon,James M. Fielding,Mariana C. Dos Santos &BarrySmith -2005 -International Journal of Medical Informatics 75 (3-4):224-231.The central hypothesis of the collaboration between Language and Computing (L&C) and the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) is that the methodology and conceptual rigor of a philosophically inspired formal ontology greatly benefits application ontologies. To this end r®, L&C’s ontology, which is designed to integrate and reason across various external databases simultaneously, has been submitted to the conceptual demands of IFOMIS’s Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). With this project we aim to move beyond the level of (...) controlled vocabularies to yield an ontology with the ability to support reasoning applications. Our general procedure has been the implementation of a meta-ontological definition space in which the definitions of all the concepts and relations in LinKBase® are standardized in a framework of first-order logic. In this paper we describe how this standardization has already led to an improvement in the LinKBase® structure that allows for a greater degree of internal coherence than ever before possible. We then show the use of this philosophical standardization for the purpose of mapping external databases to one another, using LinKBase® as translation hub, with a greater degree of success than possible hitherto. We demonstrate how this offers a genuine advance over other application ontologies that have not submitted themselves to the demands of philosophical scrutiny. LinKBase® is one of the world’s largest applications-oriented medical domain ontologies, and BFO is one of the world’s first philosophically driven reference ontologies. The collaboration of the two thus initiates a new phase in the quest to solve the so-called “Tower of Babel”. (shrink)
- Using philosophy to improve the coherence and interoperability of applications ontologies: A field report on the collaboration of IFOMIS and L&C.JonathanSimon,James Matthew Fielding &BarrySmith -2004 - In Gregor Büchel, Bertin Klein & Thomas Roth-Berghofer,Proceedings of the First Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz, Cologne: 2004 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings 112). pp. 65-72.The collaboration of Language and Computing nv (L&C) and the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) is guided by the hypothesis that quality constraints on ontologies for software ap-plication purposes closely parallel the constraints salient to the design of sound philosophical theories. The extent of this parallel has been poorly appreciated in the informatics community, and it turns out that importing the benefits of phi-losophical insight and methodology into application domains yields a variety of improvements. L&C’s LinKBase® (...) is one of the world’s largest medical domain ontologies. Its current primary use pertains to natural language processing ap-plications, but it also supports intelligent navigation through a range of struc-tured medical and bioinformatics information resources, such as SNOMED-CT, Swiss-Prot, and the Gene Ontology (GO). In this report we discuss how and why philosophical methods improve both the internal coherence of LinKBase®, and its capacity to serve as a translation hub, improving the interoperability of the ontologies through which it navigates. (shrink)
- Synaesthesia: prevalence and familiality.Simon Baron-Cohen If,Lucy Burtlf,FionaSmith-Laittan,John Harrison &Patrick Bolton -1996 - In Enrique Villanueva,Perception. Ridgeview Pub. Co. pp. 1073-1079.
- Explications vérifactionnistes.BarrySmith &JonathanSimon -2011 -Philosophiques 38 (1):177-194.Le présent article est une tentative nouvelle d’articuler le rôle d’une théorie des vérifacteurs. Nous soutenons que la théorie de la vérifaction constitue une pierre angulaire dans une bonne méthodologie en métaphysique, mais que l’amalgame entre la théorie de la vérifaction et la théorie de la vérité a été responsable de certains excès associés aux approches vérifactionnistes dans la littérature récente. Nous montrons que la théorie de la vérifaction conserve son attrait comme instrument d’investigation métaphysique, et ce, malgré notre accord (...) avec les doctrines déflationnistes telles que celles défendues par Ayer, Quine, Field et Horwich (ou, du moins, malgré notre neutralité à leur égard). Nous soutenons en outre que les intuitions sous-jacentes à la théorie de la vérifaction s’éclairent quand nous les dissocions d’une théorie de la vérité et, par-dessus tout, de la tentative de fournir une définition de la vérité. (shrink)
- Evidence‐based medicine training and implementation in surgery: the role of surgical cultures.Simon Kitto,Ana Petrovic,Russell L. Gruen &Julian A.Smith -2011 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17 (4):819-826.
- Reference ontologies for biomedical ontology integration and natural language processing.JonathanSimon,James Fielding,Mariana Dos Santos &BarrySmith -2004 - In Jana Zvárová,Proceedings of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004. pp. 62-72.The central hypothesis of the collaboration between Language and Computing (L&C) and the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) is that the methodology and conceptual rigor of a philosophically inspired formal ontology greatly benefits application ontologies.[1] To this end LinKBase®, L&C’s ontology, which is designed to integrate and reason across various external databases simultaneously, has been submitted to the conceptual demands of IFOMIS’s Basic Formal Ontology (BFO).[2] With this project we aim to move beyond the level of (...) controlled vocabularies to yield an ontology with the ability to support reasoning applications. Our general procedure has been the implementation of a meta-ontological definition space in which the definitions of all the concepts and relations in LinKBase® are standardized in a framework of first-order logic. In this paper we describe how this standardization has already led to an improvement in the LinKBase® structure that allows for a greater degree of internal coherence than ever before possible. We then show the use of this philosophical standardization for the purpose of mapping external databases to one another, using LinKBase® as translation hub, with a greater degree of success than possible hitherto. We demonstrate how this offers a genuine advance over other application ontologies that have not submitted themselves to the demands of philosophical scrutiny. (shrink)
- Disturbance of spontaneous and posed facial expressions in Parkinson's disease.Gwenda Simons,Heiner Ellgring &MarciaSmith Pasqualini -2003 -Cognition and Emotion 17 (5):759-778.
- Brill Online Books and Journals.Simon Clarke,Lu Pan,Philippe Régnier,Adam Fforde,Pauline Eadie,Elvira Bobekova,Scott Pearse-Smith,Isak Svensson,Shamsul Khan &Lei Yu -1998 -Historical Materialism 3 (1).No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Freedom of Information Act: scalpel or just a sharp knife?: Table 1.Simon P. Hammond,Jane L. Cross,Fiona M. Poland,Martyn Patel,Bridget Penhale,Toby O.Smith &Chris Fox -2017 -Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (1):60-62.
- An Introduction to Middle English.Simon Horobin &Jeremy J.Smith -2002 - Oxford University Press USA.This authoritative survey offers a concise description of Middle English, the language of Chaucer, during the period from 1100 to 1500. Middle English is discussed in relation to both earlier and later stages in the history of English and in regard to other languages with which it came into contact. The book covers the principal features of Middle English spelling, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary and also introduces Middle English textual studies.No categories
- Rural surgeons' attitudes towards and usage of evidence‐based medicine in rural surgical practice.Simon C. Kitto,Jennifer C. Peller,Elmer V. Villanueva,Russell L. Gruen &Julian A.Smith -2011 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17 (4):678-683.
- Alerts and affairs in the “brigádnik” dossier. The trajectory of public problems in (and beyond) online discussion spaces.SimonSmith -2014 -Human Affairs 24 (4):423-436.This article describes the covert seeding by political parties of forums and blogs hosted by one of the leading Slovak daily newspapers, and the techniques developed by journalists, administrators, bloggers and discussants to defend these ‘public spheres’ against perceived colonisation by professional political communicators acting under false identities. We follow a trajectory of accusatory forms and registers—a collective inquiry which gathered and evaluated evidence to support public accusations. The episode demonstrates the vulnerability of the sociotechnical systems used by the media (...) to host e-participation as well as their capacities for self-regulation. It shows how citizens, journalists and party political communicators are engaged in complex boundary struggles for the appropriation and regulation of these new spaces of sociability in order to qualify the forms of knowledge that emerge there, agree conventions for the expression of disquiet and negotiate practically enforcable definitions distinguishing political marketing from free public debate. (shrink)No categories
- Anthropomorphism and the evils of realism.SimonSmith -2012 -Appraisal 9 (2).
- A Matter of Consent.SimonSmith -2013 -Philosophy Now 94:22-24.
- Diffusion theory of the antipodal “shadow” mode in continuous-outcome, coherent-motion decisions.Philip L.Smith,Elaine A. Corbett &Simon D. Lilburn -2023 -Psychological Review 130 (5):1167-1202.
- Emotional distractors and attentional control in anxious youth: eye tracking and fMRI data.Ashley R.Smith,Simone P. Haller,Sara A. Haas,David Pagliaccio,Brigid Behrens,Caroline Swetlitz,Jessica L. Bezek,Melissa A. Brotman,Ellen Leibenluft,Nathan A. Fox &Daniel S. Pine -2021 -Cognition and Emotion 35 (1):110-128.Attentional control theory suggests that high cognitive demands impair the flexible deployment of attention control in anxious adults, particularly when paired with external threats. Extending this...
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.Charles D.Smith,Reeva S.Simon,Philip Mattar &Richard W. Bulliet -1998 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 118 (1):118.
- Going back to basics: Philosophical anthropology and the metaphysics of agency.SimonSmith -2011 -Appraisal 8 (4).
- Life, death, and monopoly rights in a democratic society.Simon J.Smith -2002 -American Journal of Bioethics 2 (3):43 – 44.
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