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From Something Old to Something New: Functionalist Lessons for the Cognitive Science of Scientific Creativity

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
An intuitive view is that creativity involves bringing together what is already known and familiar in a way that produces something new. In cognitive science, this intuition is typically formalized in terms of computational processes that combine or ...
Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira
doaj   +1 more source

Are Intellectual Virtues Truth-Relevant? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to attributor virtue epistemology (the view defended by Ernest Sosa, John Greco, and others), S knows that p only if her true belief that p is attributable to some intellectual virtue, competence, or ability that she possesses.
Roeber, Blake
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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

The European Form of Family Life: The Case of EU Citizenship

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2020
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 3-40 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Family life as a European legal form. - I.1. Family life and social life: the impotence of European Union law? - I.2.
Edouard Dubout
doaj   +1 more source

The Extended Mind Thesis and Mechanistic Explanations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Extended Mind Thesis (EMT) is traditionally formulated against the bedrock of functionalism, and ongoing debates are typically bogged down with questions concerning the exact relationship between EMT and different versions of functionalism.
Fazekas, Péter
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Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to demonstrate Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and its concept of ideologies as a general framework for analysing the actual implementation of normative ideas in modern society. Using the example of sustainable pricing within the economic system, it shows how values can be established at the programmatic level of function ...
Kristoffer Klement
wiley   +1 more source

Tales of function and form: the discursive legitimation of international technocracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It has become commonplace to say that, in the past, international governance has been legitimated mainly, if not exclusively, by its welfare-enhancing ‘output’.
Steffek, Jens
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formulating Consciousness: A Comparative Analysis of Searle’s and Dennett’s Theory of Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This research will argue about which theory of mind between Searle’s and Dennett’s can better explain human consciousness. Initially, distinctions between dualism and materialism will be discussed ranging from substance ...
Chua, John Moses
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