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Gibson's Ecological Approach: Perceiving What Exists
1 TRENDS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STU DIES AVANT The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard AVANT Pismo awangardy filozoficzno-naukowej 2/2012 EDITORS OF THIS ISSUE / REDAKTORZY TEGO NUMERU Witold Hensel, Dawid Lubiszewski, Przemysław Nowakowski, Nelly Strehlau, Witold Wachowski TORUŃ 3 ISSN: 2082-6710 AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard AVANT. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej Vol. III, No. 2/2012 (October-December 2012), English Issue Toruń 2012 The texts are licensed under / Teksty udostępniono na licencji: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Graphics design / Opracowanie graficzne: Karolina Pluta & Jacek S. Podgórski. Cover/Okładka: pictures by / obrazy autorstwa: Teresa Young (front/przód: "The Ripple Effect"; back/tył: " Flight Of The Humblebee"). Graphics inside by / Grafika wewnątrz autorstwa: Karolina Pluta. Address of the Editorial Office / Adres redakcji: skr. poczt. nr 34, U.P. Toruń 2. Filia, ul. Mazowiecka 63/65, 87-100 Toruń, Poland www.avant.edu.pl/en [email protected] Publisher / Wydawca: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych, ul. Stawki 3/20, 00-193 Warszawa, Poland www.obf.edu.pl Academic cooperation: university workers and PhD students of Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland). Współpraca naukowa: pracownicy i doktoranci Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. The Journal has been registered in District Court in Warsaw, under number: PR 17724. Czasopismo zarejestrowano w Sądzie Okręgowym w Warszawie pod numerem: PR 17724. ADVISORY BOARD / RADA NAUKOWA Chairman/Przewodniczący: Włodzisław -
Economics & Finance 2011
Economics & Finance 2011 press.princeton.edu Contents General Interest 1 Economic Theory & Research 15 Game Theory 18 Finance 19 Econometrics, Mathematical & Applied Economics 24 Innovation & Entrepreneurship 26 Political Economy, Trade & Development 27 Public Policy 30 Economic History & History of Economics 31 Economic Sociology & Related Interest 36 Economics of Education 42 Classic Textbooks 43 Index/Order Form 44 TEXT Professors who wish to consider a book from this catalog for course use may request an examination copy. For more information please visit: press.princeton.edu/class.html New Winner of the 2010 Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Fault Lines How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Raghuram G. Rajan “What caused the crisis? . There is an embarrassment of causes— especially embarrassing when you recall how few people saw where they might lead. Raghuram Rajan . was one of the few to sound an alarm before 2007. That gives his novel and sometimes surprising thesis added authority. He argues in his excellent new book that the roots of the calamity go wider and deeper still.” —Clive Crook, Financial Times Raghuram G. Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Profes- “Excellent . deserve[s] to sor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and be widely read.” former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. —Economist 2010. 272 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-14683-6 $26.95 | £18.95 Not for sale in India ForthcominG Blind Spots Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It Max H. Bazerman & Ann E. -
1 Merleau-Ponty for Cognitive Science
Chapter 1 1 Merleau-Ponty for Cognitive Science Preamble: A Remarkable Convergence My attention was first drawn to the relevance of Merleau-Ponty for cognitive science through reading Andy Clark's Being There (1997). Clark indicates that Merleau-Ponty's depiction of everyday intelligent activities in terms of "the playing out of whole organism-body-world synergies" is close in spirit and execution to Clark's own project. Moreover, Clark is particularly fond of Merleau-Ponty's stress on the activity of the organism in perception, and he coins the term 'continuous reciprocal causation' to describe this interaction between perceiver and perceived. Clark thus sees Merleau-Ponty as presenting a kind of 'free-form interactive dance' view of perception, which he endorses on the grounds of its compatibility with "recent work in the computational foundations of animate vision." (Clark 1997, p172) I want to take a moment to look at the compatibility that Clark refers to – with the findings of researchers in animate vision – which I think is surprisingly compelling. I offer this as a kind of intuition pump for appreciating the affinity between Merleau-Ponty's writing and certain developments within cognitive science. In the main part of this chapter, I'll go through the ways in which this affinity has been cashed out, supported, and formalised. Merleau-Ponty and animate vision Animate vision is a new engineering paradigm of robot vision which seeks to replace the traditional account of a system which constructs and updates an accurate 3-D model of the viewer's surroundings. This traditional approach is often unfavourably referred to as passive or pure vision and is generally criticised on the grounds that it makes infeasible computational demands on the observer robot, especially when it comes to tasks involving a moving object, a moving observer, or, in the worst case, both. -
Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition*
1 Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition* In recent decades, an intriguing view of human cognition has garnered increasing support. According to this view, which I will call ‘the hypothesis of extended cognition’ (‘HEC’, hereafter), human cognitive processing literally extends into the environment surrounding the organism, and human cognitive states literally comprise—as wholes do their proper parts— elements in that environment; in consequence, while the skin and scalp may encase the human organism, they do not delimit the thinking subject.1 The hypothesis of extended cognition should provoke our critical interest. Acceptance of HEC would alter our approach to research and theorizing in cognitive science and, it would seem, significantly change our conception of persons. Thus, if HEC faces substantive difficulties, these should be brought to light; this paper is meant to do just that, exposing some of the problems HEC must overcome if it is to stand among leading views of the nature of human cognition. The essay unfolds as follows: The first section consists of preliminary remarks, mostly about the scope and content of HEC as I will construe it. Sections II and III clarify HEC by situating it with respect to related theses one finds in the literature—the hypothesis of embedded cognition * I would like to thank Aaron Meskin, David Chalmers, Philip Robbins, and Josh Osbun for comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Shorter versions of the paper were presented at the Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference (2001), Texas Tech University, and the 2002 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. -
Bilan Scientifique Annexes
BILAN SCIENTIFIQUE ANNEXES 2007 2012 PARIS JOURDAN SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES – UMR8545 CNRS – ENS – EHESS – ECOLE DES PONTS PARIS TECH – INRA Bilan scientifique - Annexes UMR8545 | 2007 - 2012 Sommaire ANNEXE 1 : LISTES DES PUBLICATIONS ET DES PRODUCTIONS........................................................................ - 3 - Liste des publications .............................................................................................................................- 5 - PSE Working Papers............................................................................................................................- 41 - ANNEXE 2 : RAYONNEMENT ET ATTRACTIVITE ECONOMIQUES....................................................................... - 57 - Conférences EEP.................................................................................................................................- 61 - Colloques et workshops organisés ou co-organisés par un chercheur de PSE ..................................- 64 - Séminaires – Groupes de travail organisés par PSE...........................................................................- 71 - Invités à PSE (hors invités seminaires)..............................................................................................- 170 - Existence de collaborations suivies avec d’autres laboratoires .........................................................- 178 - Participation à des comités éditoriaux, à des comités scientifiques de colloques ou de congrès, à des instances d’expertise scientifique..............................................................................- -
Activities 2010
Activities 2010 Activities - 2010 Table of contents General Information .........................................................................................................................4 Unit Description ....................................................................................................................4 General Objectives .............................................................................................................5 Main Achievements ............................................................................................................7 Integrative/multidisciplinary activities ..............................................................................8 Outreach activities ........................................................................................................... 10 Outreach/Science and Society ..................................................................................... 11 Networking Actions .......................................................................................................... 13 Training Activities ............................................................................................................... 14 Organization of International Events ............................................................................. 15 Internal Services and Resources .................................................................................... 16 External Services and Resources ................................................................................... -
Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds: from Planets to Mallards
Scientific enquiry and natural kinds: From planets to mallards a philosophical monograph by P.D. Magnus pmagnus<at>fecundity.com This is the authors' final draft. Any citations should refer to the final typeset book, published by Palgrave Macmillan. In addition to canonical pagination and nice binding, the book has a cool picture of mallards on the cover. DOI: 10.1057/9781137271259 c 2012 P.D. Magnus, except where indicated; some figures are used by per- mission or under open licenses Acknowledgements5 Introduction7 1 How to think about natural kinds 10 A Why history is no help...................... 11 B Some criteria considered..................... 13 B.1 The induction assumption................ 14 B.2 The essence assumption................. 24 B.3 The science assumption................. 25 B.4 The law assumption................... 26 B.5 Artifacts and artificial kinds............... 28 B.6 The sharpness assumption................ 31 B.7 Starting with language.................. 34 B.8 The intrinsic feature assumption............. 37 B.9 The hierarchy assumption................ 41 1 B.10 The scarcity assumption................. 43 B.11 The implicit simpliciter assumption........... 44 C Keeping score........................... 50 2 A modest definition 52 A First formulation......................... 52 B More or less natural kinds.................... 54 B.1 Lessons from underdetermination............ 55 B.2 The lessons applied.................... 57 C Induction redux.......................... 59 D Natural kinds for settled science................. 61 D.1 Example: the domain of chemistry........... 62 D.2 Fungible kinds....................... 66 3 Natural kinds put to work 72 A Eight planets, great planets................... 72 A.1 Numerology and asteroids................ 74 A.2 Enter Pluto........................ 75 A.3 The constraints of astronomy.............. 78 A.4 Natural kinds and the fate of Pluto.......... -
Richard H. Thaler
RICHARD H. THALER Chicago Booth School of Business: 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: 773‐702‐5208 ▪ Fax: 773‐702‐0013 ▪ [email protected] Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, Booth Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research PERSONAL DATA Born: September 12, 1945; East Orange, New Jersey EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1974 M.A. University of Rochester, 1970 B.A. Case Western Reserve University, 1967 Dissertation Title: "The Value of Saving A Life: A Market Estimate" Supervisor: Sherwin Rosen HONORS Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 2017; Member, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, American Finance Association; Fellow, Econometrica Society; Vice President, American Economics Association; President, American Economics Association; TIAA‐CREF Paul Samuelson Award; Keil Global Economy Prize; CFA Institute Nicholas Molodovsky Prize PhD Honoris Causa, Case Western University, University of Rochester, Erasmus University PRIOR EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Jan 1998 ‐ Jun 1998 Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Stanford, California Jan 1988 ‐ Jun 1995 Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Economics Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University and Director, Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Sep 1994 ‐ Jun 1995 Visiting Professor Sloan School of Management, MIT Jan 1993 ‐ Jul 1993 Visiting Professor Sloan School -
The New Financial Order Shiller.Front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page Ii Shiller.Front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page Iii
Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page i The New Financial Order Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page ii Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page iii The New Financial Order risk in the 21st century Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press . Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page iv Copyright © 2003 by Robert J. Shiller Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press 3 Market Place Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shiller, Robert J. The new financial order : risk in the 21st century / Robert J. Shiller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-09172-2 (alk. paper) 1. Risk management. 2. Information technology. I. Title. HD61 .S55 2003 368—dc21 2002042563 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Book design by Dean Bornstein This book has been composed in Adobe Galliard and Formata by Princeton Editorial Associates, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ www.pupress.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10987654321 Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page v I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —Ecclesiastes 9:11 Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page vi Shiller.front 12/30/02 4:01 PM Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments -
Observing Violations of Transitivity by Experimental Methods Author(S): Graham Loomes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden Source: Econometrica, Vol
Observing Violations of Transitivity by Experimental Methods Author(s): Graham Loomes, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden Source: Econometrica, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Mar., 1991), pp. 425-439 Published by: The Econometric Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2938263 Accessed: 02-03-2015 09:13 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. The Econometric Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Econometrica. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 134.219.176.79 on Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:13:51 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Econometrica, Vol. 59, No. 2 (March, 1991), 425-439 OBSERVING VIOLATIONS OF TRANSITIVITY BY EXPERIMENTAL METHODS BY GRAHAM LOOMES, CHRIS STARMER, AND ROBERT SUGDEN' The preference reversal phenomenon is usually interpreted as evidence of nontransitiv- ity of preference, but has also been explained as the result of: the difference between individuals' responses to choice and valuation problems; the devices used by experi- menters to elicit valuations; and the "random lottery selection" incentive system. This paper reports an experiment designed so that none of these factors could generate systematic nontransitivities; yet systematic violations of transitivity were still found. -
A Deweyan Pragmatist Philosophy of Science
UC San Diego UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Science and experience : a Deweyan pragmatist philosophy of science Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08q037x9 Author Brown, Matthew J. Publication Date 2009 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Science and Experience A Deweyan Pragmatist Philosophy of Science A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy by Matthew J. Brown Committee in charge: Professor Paul Churchland, Chair Professor Nancy Cartwright, Co-Chair Professor Michael Cole Professor Gerald Doppelt Professor Roddey Reid Professor Donald Rutherford 2009 Copyright Matthew J. Brown, 2009 Some rights reserved. Licensed under the United States Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND). The dissertation of Matthew J. Brown is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm and electronically: Co-Chair Chair University of California, San Diego 2009 iii DEDICATION In memory of Professor Jon J. Johnston (1928-2008) Teacher, Mentor, Friend iv EPIGRAPH To work exclusively within the context provided by the sciences themselves is to ignore their vital context. The place of science in life, the place of its peculiar subject-matter in the wide scheme of materials we experience, is a more ultimate function of philosophy that is any self-contained reflection upon science as such. | John Dewey, Context and Thought (LW 6:19-20) v TABLE OF CONTENTS Signature Page................................... iii Dedication...................................... iv Epigraph......................................v Table of Contents.................................. vi List of Figures................................... ix Preface.......................................x Acknowledgements................................ -
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“...scholarships for research and education...” Newsletter August 2012 Evolution of the Milky Way Ancient Drawn Organised humans from natural of Britain history structures All change at the RAAC How do mosquitoes survive a The Trust each year deals with approximately 4,000 applications for grants. Not surprisingly, given this volume blood-meal? of interest, the Board delegates responsibility for some Mosquitoes need to feed on award-schemes to other expert panels. blood to reproduce and, as a Principal amongst these is the Research Awards Advisory consequence, transmit many of Committee (RAAC), which looks after three Fellowship schemes the world's most devastating (Early Career, Research and Emeritus) and both of the Study diseases including malaria, Abroad opportunities (Studentships and Fellowships). dengue and filariasis. During 2011 the RAAC made decisions about 1600 or so Insecticides are still the most applications – representing approximately 20 percent of the effective means to block the Trust’s spend for the year. The Committee itself comprises spread of disease and widely A female mosquito engorged with blood nine senior, experienced academics, who collectively take used to reduce mosquito (courtesy of John Morgan). responsibility for grant-making across the spectrum of populations, either coated on scholarly specialisms and disciplines. You don’t have to be a bednets or sprayed on walls. genius at arithmetic to work out that the colleagues who are However, resistance to insecticides is on the increase, and new targets on the