Results 41 to 50 of about 9,722 (159)
The biosemiotics of Aldo Leopold
Responding to Jean-Claude Gens’ article, “Uexküll’s Kompositionslehre and Leopold’s ‘land ethic’ in dialogue”, which appeared in Sign Systems Studies in 2013, the article further develops a direct connection between Aldo Leopold’s approach to ecology and
Rebecca C. Potter
doaj +1 more source
Animals gather information about their surroundings, including their social environment, using a wide range of sensory modalities. Variation in reception, processing and interpretation of information (cues or signals) can lead to differences in how individuals perceive their local environment. Yet, how individual differences in environmental perception
Ane Liv Berthelsen +13 more
wiley +1 more source
Philosophie der Tierforschung: Milieus und Akteure [PDF]
Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »
Kristian Köchy +2 more
core +1 more source
Critical Foundations of the Contextual Theory of Mind [PDF]
The contextual mind is found attested in various usages of the term complement, in the background of Kant. The difficulties of Kant's intuitionism are taken up through Quine, but referential opacity is resolved as semantic presence in lived context.
antiquari(at)vodamail(dot)co(dot)za, Mr S.A. Orwin O'Dowd
core
Enaction-Based Artificial Intelligence: Toward Coevolution with Humans in the Loop
This article deals with the links between the enaction paradigm and artificial intelligence. Enaction is considered a metaphor for artificial intelligence, as a number of the notions which it deals with are deemed incompatible with the phenomenal field ...
De Loor, Pierre +2 more
core +3 more sources
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence
ABSTRACT Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are relatively understudied. In four studies, using five samples from Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey (total N = 3758), we conceptualize and develop a new ...
Ramzi Abou‐Ismail +5 more
wiley +1 more source
> Context • Society is faced with “wicked” problems of environmental sustainability, which are inherently multiperspectival, and there is a need for explicitly constructivist and perspectivist theories to address them.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
core
Propagation of social representations [PDF]
Based on a minimal formalism of social representations as a set of associated cognems, a simple model of propagation of representations is presented. Assuming that subjects share the constitutive cognems, the model proposes that mere focused attention on
Abric J.C. +35 more
core +1 more source
Le béhaviorisme sémiotique de Jakob von Uexküll
The article offers a contextualization of the theories of the Baltic biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944). Uexküll’s works show convergence points both with non-physicalist versions of behaviorism and with neo-vitalism. Moreover, the importance of his
Didier Samain
doaj +1 more source
Theories of the development of human communication [PDF]
This article considers evidence for innate motives for sharing rituals and symbols from animal semiotics, developmental neurobiology, physiology of prospective motor control, affective neuroscience and infant communication. Mastery of speech and language
Delafield-Butt, Jonathan +1 more
core

