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- The Evolutionary Origins of Consciousness: Suggesting a Transition Marker.Z. Z.Bronfman &S. Ginsburg -2016 -Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (9-10):7-34.We suggest an approach to studying consciousness that focuses on its evolutionary origins. The proposed framework is inspired by the study of the transition from inanimate matter to life, which proved extremely useful for understanding what 'life' entails. We follow the theoretical and methodological scheme put forward by Tibor Ganti, who suggested a marker for the transition to life -- an evolved feature that is sufficient for ascribing dynamic persistence to a minimal living system and that can serve as a (...) point of departure for reconstructing it. We apply this approach to consciousness and suggest an overt behavioural trait -- unlimited associative learning -- as a candidate transition marker. We show that the enabling system of UAL instantiates the set of properties that are considered jointly sufficient for minimal consciousness, and discuss the experimental predictions and the implications of our approach for the taxonomic distribution of consciousness in the animal world. (shrink)
- We See More Than We Can Report “Cost Free” Color Phenomenality Outside Focal Attention.Zohar Z.Bronfman,Noam Brezis,Hilla Jacobson &Marius Usher -2014 -Psychological Science 25 (7):1394-1403.The distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness is a subject of intensive debate. According to one view, visual experience overflows the capacity of the attentional and working memory system: We see more than we can report. According to the opposed view, this perceived richness is an illusion—we are aware only of information that we can subsequently report. This debate remains unresolved because of the inevitable reliance on report, which is limited in capacity. To bypass this limitation, this study utilized (...) color diversity—a unique summary statistic—which is sensitive to detailed visual information. Participants were shown a Sperling-like array of colored letters, one row of which was precued. After reporting a letter from the cued row, participants estimated the color diversity of the noncued rows. Results showed that people could estimate the color diversity of the noncued array without a cost to letter report, which suggests that color diversity is registered automatically, outside focal attention, and without consuming additional working memory resources. (shrink)
- The Transition to Minimal Consciousness through the Evolution of Associative Learning.Zohar Z.Bronfman,Simona Ginsburg &Eva Jablonka -2016 -Frontiers in Psychology 7.
- Impoverished or rich consciousness outside attentional focus: Recent data tip the balance forOverflow.Zohar Z.Bronfman,Hilla Jacobson &Marius Usher -2019 -Mind and Language 34 (4):423-444.The question of whether conscious experience is restricted by cognitive access and exhausted by report, or whether it overflows it—comprising more information than can be reported—is hotly debated. Recently, we provided evidence in favor of Overflow, showing that observers discriminated the color‐diversity (CD) of letters in an array, while their working‐memory and attention were dedicated to encoding and reporting a set of cued letters. An alternative interpretation is that CD‐discriminations do not entail conscious experience of the underlying colors. Here we (...) argue, based on conceptual considerations and consistency with neuroscience and phenomenology, in favor of the Overflow interpretation. (shrink)
- The transparency of experience and the neuroscience of attention.Assaf Weksler,Hilla Jacobson &Zohar Z.Bronfman -2019 -Synthese 198 (5):4709-4730.According to the thesis of transparency, subjects can attend only to the representational content of perceptual experience, never to the intrinsic properties of experience that carry this representational content, i.e., to “mental paint.” So far, arguments for and against transparency were conducted from the armchair, relying mainly on introspective observations. In this paper, we argue in favor of transparency, relying on the cognitive neuroscience of attention. We present a trilemma to those who hold that attention can be directed to mental (...) paint. Such attention is either first-order sensory, higher-order cognitive, or higher-order sensory attention. We argue that the notion of first-order sensory attention to mental paint is incompatible with the neuroscience of sensory attention; that higher-order cognitive attention to mental paint is irrelevant to transparency; and that the notion of higher-order sensory attention to mental paint has an apparently incoherent prediction. Via elimination, these considerations support the thesis of transparency. (shrink)
- Classical and Operant Conditioning: Evolutionarily Distinct Strategies?Zohar Z.Bronfman,Simona Ginsburg &Eva Jablonka -2018 - In David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes & Anthony Biglan,Evolution & contextual behavioral science: an integrated framework for understanding, predicting, & influencing human behavior. Oakland, Calif.: Context Press, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications.Export citation
Bookmark - On Belief.Slavoj Žižek -2001 - New York: Routledge.What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book. From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', _On Belief_ gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in particular Judaism and Christianity. Holding up the so-called authenticity of religious belief to critical light, Zizek draws on (...) psychoanalysis, film and philosophy to reveal in startling fashion that nothing could be worse for believers than their beliefs turning out to be true. (shrink)
- Letters from Aby Warburg to Carl Neumann, 22nd June 1927.Z. Z. Partenkirchen -2005 -Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 60 (3):525-539.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Should post-trial provision of beneficial experimental interventions be mandatory in developing countries?Z. Zong -2008 -Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (3):188-192.The need for continuing provision of beneficial experimental interventions after research is concluded remains a controversial topic in bioethics for research. Based on the principle of beneficence, justice as reciprocity, concerns about exploitation and fair benefits, participants should be able to have continuing access to benefits beyond the research period. However, there is no consensus about whether or not post-trial provision of beneficial interventions should be mandatory for participants from developing countries. This paper summarises recommendations from international and national guidelines. (...) Ethical principles and practical issues relating to post-trial provision are also discussed. In conclusion, post-trial provision is not necessary in all situations and a set of criteria are proposed to identify the situations that beneficial interventions should be provided beyond the research period. However, mandatory post-trial supply of beneficial experimental interventions should be assured for those who still need and are able to benefit from them but have no alternative access. Mandatory provision is based on universal bioethical principles such as beneficence and justice. Furthermore, difficulties associated with implementation of post-trial provision are not unmanageable. Careful advanced planning and a comprehensive partnership among relevant parties would be very helpful in solving these difficulties in practice, which therefore should not be taken as an excuse to escape post-trial responsibility. (shrink)
- The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan.Slavoj Žižek -2014 - Malden, MA: Polity. Edited by Thomas Scott-Railton.What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional understanding, dynamites every cliché and undermines every conviction in order to clear the ground for (...) new ways of answering these questions. When Lacan described Hegel as the ‘most sublime hysteric’, he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is resolved through a reflexive turn in which the question begins to function as its own answer. We had made Hegel into the theorist of abstraction and reaction, but by reading Hegel with Lacan, Zizek unveils a Hegel of the concrete and of revolution - his own, and the one to come. This early and dazzlingly original work by Zizek offers a unique insight into the ideas which have since become hallmarks of his mature thought. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory, philosophy and contemporary social thought. (shrink)
- Ėmotivno-deĭkticheskai︠a︡ konstanta v semiosfere: Monografii︠a︡.Z. Z. Iskhakova -2014 - Moskva: Nauka.
- Informed consent in Ghana: what do participants really understand?Z. Hill,C. Tawiah-Agyemang,S. Odei-Danso &B. Kirkwood -2008 -Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (1):48-53.Objectives: To explore how subjects in a placebo-controlled vitamin A supplementation trial among Ghanaian women aged 15–45 years perceive the trial and whether they know that not all trial capsules are the same, and to identify factors associated with this knowledge.Methods: 60 semistructured interviews and 12 focus groups were conducted to explore subjects’ perceptions of the trial. Steps were taken to address areas of low comprehension, including retraining fieldworkers. 1971 trial subjects were randomly selected for a survey measuring their knowledge (...) that not all trial capsules are the same. The subjects’ fieldworkers were also interviewed about their characteristics and trial knowledge. Factors associated with knowledge were explored using multi-level modeling.Results: Although subjects knew they were taking part in research, most thought they were receiving an active and beneficial medication. Variables associated with knowledge were education and district of residence. Radio broadcasts benefited those with some schooling. Fieldworkers’ characteristics were not associated with subjects’ knowledge.Conclusions: Research and debate on new or improved consent procedures are urgently required, particularly for subjects with little education. (shrink)
- Benefits, risks and ethical considerations in translation of stem cell research to clinical applications in Parkinson's disease.Z. Master,M. McLeod &I. Mendez -2007 -Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (3):169-173.Stem cells are likely to be used as an alternate source of biological material for neural transplantation to treat Parkinson’s disease in the not too distant future. Among the several ethical criteria that must be fulfilled before proceeding with clinical research, a favourable benefit to risk ratio must be obtained. The potential benefits to the participant and to society are evaluated relative to the risks in an attempt to offer the participants a reasonable choice. Through examination of preclinical studies transplanting (...) stem cells in animals and the transplantation of fetal tissue in patients with Parkinson’s disease, a current set of potential benefits and risks for neural transplantation of stem cells in clinical research of Parkinson’s disease are derived. The potential benefits to research participants undergoing stem cell transplantation are relief of parkinsonian symptoms and decreasing doses of parkinsonian drugs. Transplantation of stem cells as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease may benefit society by providing knowledge that can be used to help determine better treatments in the future. The risks to research participants undergoing stem cell transplantation include tumour formation, inappropriate stem cell migration, immune rejection of transplanted stem cells, haemorrhage during neurosurgery and postoperative infection. Although some of these risks are general to neurosurgical transplantation and may not be reduced for participants, the potential risk of tumour formation and inappropriate stem cell migration must be minimised before obtaining a favourable potential benefit to risk calculus and to provide participants with a reasonable choice before they enrol in clinical studies. (shrink)
- Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge.Urszula M. Żegleń (ed.) -1999 - New York: Routledge.Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the most important analytical philosophers of the late twentieth century. _Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge_ addresses * Davidson's writings on epistemology and theory of language with their implications of ontology and philosophy of mind * the central issue of whether truth is the ultimate goal of enquiry, challenged by contributions from Richard Rorty and Paul Horwich (...) * Davidson's approach to semantics and applied linguistics as addressed by Kirk Ludwig, Gabriel Segal, Peter Pagin, Stephen Neale, Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore and Reinaldo Elugardo * Davidson's advances in the philosophy of mind in relation to the views of Williard V. Quine, John McDowell and Peter F. Strawson, in essays by Roger Gibson and Anita Avramides. (shrink)
- Waves, Philosophers and Historians.Jed Z. Buchwald -1992 -PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:205 - 211.Despite the substantial and important differences between Achinstein and Laudan, many historians of science would see little distinction between them. Both of these philosophers believe and strongly maintain that argumentation was a central aspect of the historical events involved in the establishment of wave optics. Contemporary historians would prefer to ask whether argumentation did much work at all - whether, that is, anyone ever actually persuaded anyone else to change a belief. I will attempt briefly to show that issues of (...) skilled knowledge, tacit understanding, and novel instrumentation, rather than straightforward assertions based on the overt structure of the contending theories, offer a better way to understand what took place. (shrink)
- Is an ethical theory posslble.Withln Z. E. N. Buddhlsm &Lee Stauffer -1989 -Southwest Philosophical Studies 11.Export citation Bookmark
- Diskurscl/zik, Politische Ökonomie und Volksabslinzzziungen 131.Z. Das Anliegen der Diskursethik -1993 -Analyse & Kritik 15:129-149.No categories
- Sex and the failed absolute.Slavoj Žižek -2019 - New York City: Bloomsbury Academic.In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Žižek critiques and challenges not only the work of Alain Badiou, Robert Brandom, Joan Copjec, Quentin Meillassoux, and Julia Kristeva (to name but a few), but everything from popular science and quantum mechanics to sexual difference and analytic philosophy. Alongside striking images of the Möbius strip, the cross-cap, and the Klein bottle, Žižek (...) brings alive the Hegelian triad of being-essence-notion. Radical new readings of Hegel, and Kant, sit side by side with characteristically lively commentaries on film, politics, and culture. Here is Žižek at his interrogative best. (shrink)
- Heavy-ion irradiations of Fe and Fe–Cr model alloys Part 1: Damage evolution in thin-foils at lower doses.Z. Yao,M. Hernández-Mayoral,M. L. Jenkins &M. A. Kirk -2008 -Philosophical Magazine 88 (21):2851-2880.No categories
- Conjectures on the exact solution of three-dimensional simple orthorhombic Ising lattices.Z.-D. Zhang -2007 -Philosophical Magazine 87 (34):5309-5419.No categories
- The Sharpness of the Distinction between the Past and the Future.David Z. Albert -2014 - In Alastair Wilson, Chance and Temporal Asymmetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Salute to India.J. Z. Hodge -unknownNo categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The creative essence of marxism-leninism.L. Hrzal &Z. Hrabica -1981 -Filosoficky Casopis 29 (2):143-154.Export citation Bookmark
- Reach the Stars Unarmed.Jerzy Z. Hubert -1985 -Dialectics and Humanism 12 (3-4):119-125.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Characterization and interpretation of the morphology of a Mg2Sn precipitate with irrational facets in a Mg–Sn–Mn alloy.Z. -Z. Shi,W. -Z. Zhang &X. -F. Gu -2012 -Philosophical Magazine 92 (9):1071-1082.No categories
- Del cosmos.M. Z. S. (ed.) -1964 - [Valparaíso,: Impr. Mercantil.Export citation Bookmark
- Dialekticheskiĭ materializm i teorii︠a︡ ravnovesii︠a︡.M. Z. Selektor -1934 - Moskva: Gos. sot︠s︡ialʹno-ėkonomicheskoe izd-vo.Export citation Bookmark
- A 'On Divine Self-Limitation and Revolutionary Love.S. Zˇizˇek &J. Delpech-Ramey -forthcoming -Journal of Philosophy and Scripture. Available From Http://Www. Philosophyandscripture. Org/Issue1-2/Slavoj_zizek/Slavoj_zizek. Html.No categories
- Dorovinės vertybės.Antanas Gaidys,Justinas Lazauskas &Vincentas Žemaitis (eds.) -1982 - Vilnius: "Mintis,".No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Two-body Dirac equation versus KDP equation.Z. Z. Aydm &A. U. Yilmazer -1993 -Foundations of Physics 23 (5):837-840.A brief review of two-body Dirac and Kemmer-Duffin-Petiau approaches for the bound state problem of two fermions is presented from an algebraic point of view in a comparative manner. Reduction of the direct product of two Dirac spaces is discussed.
- Complejidad y ciencias sociales.Esteban Ruiz Ballesteros,Solana Ruíz &José Luís (eds.) -2013 - Sevilla: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.No categories
- Special Issue: Aristotle, Function, and Mental Disorder.John Z. Sadler &K. W. M. Fulford -2000 -Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 7 (1).
- Ḥakīm-i Fārāb.Z̲abīḥ Allāh Ṣafā -1975Export citation Bookmark
- From politics to biopolitics....and back.Slavoj Žižek -2013 - In Timothy C. Campbell & Adam Sitze,Biopolitics: A Reader. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Conflicting Approaches of Managers and Stockholders in a Developing Country: Bangladesh Perspective.Muhammad Z. Mamun &Mohammad Aslam -2009 -International Corporate Responsibility Series 4:317-335.In general it is found that the corporate managers and stockholders possess totally different view about good governance of a company. Managers strongly believe that governance of their companies is quite well but stockholders view that it is very poor. The study found that the groups differ in perception especially in terms of turnover, production, capital, leverage, debt service, credit policy, solvency, human resource, recruitment, technology, customer satisfaction, internal control, strength, opportunity, competition, industry position, collective bargaining agent (CBA) issues, and (...) economic remedies; whereas, they have similar view in terms of adequacy of research fund, company weaknesses and threats, contingency plans, presence of political influence. The managers think that the companies do not have enough retained earnings and these should not be distributed among stockholders, but the stockholders thinkotherwise. Managers always perceive that they are underpaid whereas stockholders express the opposite view. Each group believes that it is the other group that dominates the decision-making. Both the group wants to have mutual interaction but stockholders want to interact more than the mangers. The study noted that corporate managers’ tenure is more with the company than a stockholder’s holding of stock. The study also found that the managers are better educated than the stockholders. The study observed serious gender biasness both in management position and stockholding of the corporations. Though both the groups belong to same age level but their distribution shows stockholders enter into the share market at an early age. (shrink)
- Simulations of weak-beam diffraction contrast images of dislocation loops by the many-beam Howie–Basinski equations.Z. Zhou,M. L. Jenkins,S. L. Dudarev,A. P. Sutton &M. A. Kirk -2006 -Philosophical Magazine 86 (29-31):4851-4881.
- Application of Pseudo-Derivative Feedback in industrial robot controllers.I. Z. Nikolic &I. Milivojevic -1998 -Facta Universitatis, Series: Linguistics and Literature 12:741-756.Export citation Bookmark
- The Rhetorics of Power.Slavoj Žižek -2001 -Diacritics 31 (1):91-104.Reviewed Work: The Leader's Two Bodies: Slavoj Žižek's Postmodern Political Theology by Claudia Breger.
- Savremeni materijalizam.Nikola Z. Grahek -1993 -Theoria 36 (2):67-70.No categories
- Individual and social wisdom.Jerzy Z. Hubert -1998 -Dialogue and Universalism 8 (7-12):123.Export citation Bookmark
- Democracy as failure.Aziz Z. Huq -2020 - In Melissa Schwartzberg & Daniel Viehoff,Democratic failure. New York: New York University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- L'opzione fondamentale nella vita morale e la grazia.M. Flick–Z. Alszeghy -1960 -Gregorianum 41:593-619.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Creativity and “Innatism”.Dimitri Z. Andriopoulos -1974 -Proceedings of the XVth World Congress of Philosophy 4:167-170.No categories
- Tribulations.A. Z. T. Trials -1998 -Hastings Center Report 28 (6):26-34.Export citation Bookmark
- Die serbische Philosophie heute.Mihailo Đurić &Slobodan Žunjić (eds.) -1993 - München: Slavic Verlag A. Kovač.Export citation Bookmark
- Response to ‘Comment on a recent conjectured solution of the three-dimensional Ising model’.Z. D. Zhang -2008 -Philosophical Magazine 88 (26):3097-3101.No categories
- Estʻetikuri sagnis bunebisatʻvis.N. Z. Chavchavadze -1965 - Tʻbilisi: Mecʻniereba.Export citation Bookmark
- A Study of Combining Chinese Character into Bel Canto.Z. H. A. Da-lin -2011 -Journal of Aesthetic Education (Misc) 1:011.
- Technokultura: transhumanizm i sztuka cyfrowa.Damian Gałuszka,Grzegorz Ptaszek &Dorota Żuchowska-Skiba (eds.) -2016 - Kraków: Wydawnistvo LIBRON.
- Knowledge, certainty and incorrigibility.Nikola Z. Grahek -1992 -Theoria 35 (3):45-52.
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