In any discipline, across a wide variety of subjects, there are numerous learning resources available to students. For many students the resources that will be most beneficial to them are quickly apparent but, because of the nature of... more
In any discipline, across a wide variety of subjects, there are numerous learning resources available to students. For many students the resources that will be most beneficial to them are quickly apparent but, because of the nature of philosophy and the philosophical method, it is not immediately clear which resources will be most valuable to students for whom the development of critical thinking skills is crucial. If we are to support these students effectively in their learning we must establish what these resources are, how we can continue to maintain and improve them, and how we can encourage students to make good use of them. In this paper we describe and assess our evaluation of the use made by students of the learning resources that are available to them in the context of learning logic and in developing their critical thinking skills. We also assess the use of a new resource, electronic handsets, the purpose of which was to encourage students to respond to questions in lectu...
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Context: Seventeen years ago Francisco Varela introduced neurophenomenology. He proposed the integration of phenomenological approaches to first-person experience – in the tradition of Husserl, …
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While the recent special issue of JCS on machine consciousness (Volume
While the recent special issue of JCS on machine consciousness (Volume
Special Issue : Selected Papers From ECAP 2005 - European Computing and Philosophy Conference 2005
Abstract This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to... more
Abstract This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to test the hypothesis that graphic traces, including handwriting, can set up graphetic empathy between writers and readers of traces across long temporal and spatial distances. Insofar as a graphic trace is lawfully related to the gesture by which it came into being, the trace itself will hold information about the gesture, which may resonate with the sensorimotor system of a perceiver, as if they themselves performed the gesture. If this is in fact so, it will have important and hitherto unanticipated implications for our understanding of the embodiment of reading. As part of the article we will present and discuss the results of a neurophenomenological trial study through which we attempt to operationalize the gesture-trace and trace–perception relations respectively.
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The word 'collection' has been common currency in what we accept as the real world of objects and events, and has been imported with seemingly little effort into our discourse about the digital world, yet there is no... more
The word 'collection' has been common currency in what we accept as the real world of objects and events, and has been imported with seemingly little effort into our discourse about the digital world, yet there is no clear definition in either domain of what is meant by the term. We ...
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A spate of recent international workshops have demonstrated that machine consciousness is a swiftly emerging field of international presence. Independently, there have been several new developments in cognitive science and consciousness... more
A spate of recent international workshops have demonstrated that machine consciousness is a swiftly emerging field of international presence. Independently, there have been several new developments in cognitive science and consciousness studies concerning the nature of experience and how it may best be investigated. Synthesizing results from embodied AI, phenomenology and hermeneutics in Philosophy, Neuroscience and enactive Psychology (among others), new paradigms for research into natural ...
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Libraries, archives and museums have long collected physical materials and other artefacts. In so doing they have established formal or informal policies defining what they will (and will not) collect. We argue that these activities by... more
Libraries, archives and museums have long collected physical materials and other artefacts. In so doing they have established formal or informal policies defining what they will (and will not) collect. We argue that these activities by their very nature privilege some information over others and that the appraisal that underlies this privileging is itself socially constructed. We do not cast this in a post-modernist or negative light, but regard a clear understanding of it as fact and its consequences as crucial to understanding what collections are and what the implications are for the digital world. We will argue that in the digital world it is much easier for users to construct their own collections from a combination of resources, some privileged and curated by information professionals and some privileged by criteria that include the frequency with which other people link to and access them. We conclude that developing these ideas is an important part of placing the concept of ...
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The dynamic plenisentient 1 interrelation of agent and world is specified in kinaesthetic terms. Kinaesthetic activity, with its temporal-spatial-energic qualities 2 , is always affectively-laden, and through the formation of... more
The dynamic plenisentient 1 interrelation of agent and world is specified in kinaesthetic terms. Kinaesthetic activity, with its temporal-spatial-energic qualities 2 , is always affectively-laden, and through the formation of intercorporeal resonances, the activity necessitates enkinaesthetic entwining with those agents with whom, and those objects with which, we are in relations of perpetual community. I will argue that the capacity for enkinaesthetic dialogue is an a priori nomological condition for agency and the generation of a felt anticipatory dynamics both within and between agents. Enkinaesthesia emphasizes not just the neuromuscular dynamics of the agent, that is, the givenness and ownership of its experience but also the entwined, blended and situated co-affective feeling of the presence of the other 3 (agential and non-agential alike) and, where appropriate, the enkinaesthetically anticipated arc of the other’s action or movement, including, again where appropriate, the o...
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This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to test the... more
This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to test the hypothesis that graphic traces, including handwriting, can set up graphetic empathy between writers and readers of traces across long temporal and spatial distances. Insofar as a graphic trace is lawfully related to the gesture by which it came into being, the trace itself will hold information about the gesture, which may resonate with the sensorimotor system of a perceiver as if they themselves performed the gesture. If this is in fact so, it will have important and hitherto unanticipated implications for our understanding of the embodiment of reading. As part of the article we will present and discuss the results of a neurophenomenological trial study through which we attempt to operationalize the gesture-trace and trace-perception relations respectively.
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Through our hands we construct our world and through our construction of our world we construct ourselves. We reach with our hands and touch with our hands, and with this reaching and touching we come to understand how things feel and... more
Through our hands we construct our world and through our construction of our world we construct ourselves. We reach with our hands and touch with our hands, and with this reaching and touching we come to understand how things feel and are. It is not an utterable knowledge, yet it is knowing the world in a dynamically-engaged affective, effective way. Through affective feedback our reaching and touching becomes a prehensive grasping which leads, through the enkinaesthetic givenness of the agent with its world, to a situated and embodied knowing, and the rudiments of apprehension. With each fresh comprehension a new enkinaesthetic enquiry is engendered; with each enquiry we have afresh the anticipatory dynamics of reaching, touching and feeling, with the hand-to-object of world-investigation, the hand-to-body of auto-investigation and investigating the Other.
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... ordeal for them. Page 144. Susan Stuart and Margaret BrownAn Electronically Enhanced Philosophical Learning Environment: Who Wants to be Good at Logic 144 how much they valued each one. The resources that we ...
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... A - L I F E A R T Fig. 1. Simplified MAGNUS architecture. (© Susan Stuart) The diagrams on the left of the figure show how MAGNUS behaves as a state machine; that on the right illustrates the sys-tem's pattern of sensory,... more
... A - L I F E A R T Fig. 1. Simplified MAGNUS architecture. (© Susan Stuart) The diagrams on the left of the figure show how MAGNUS behaves as a state machine; that on the right illustrates the sys-tem's pattern of sensory, internal and actuatory neurons. Page 3. ...
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In concentrating on Reid’s claim that mankind’s invention of an artificial language first necessitates the possession of a natural language, I will argue that kinaesthesia, direct perception and, most signif- icantly, enkinaesthesia are... more
In concentrating on Reid’s claim that mankind’s invention of an artificial language first necessitates the possession of a natural language, I will argue that kinaesthesia, direct perception and, most signif- icantly, enkinaesthesia are the necessary characteristics of the natural, and the origin of the artificial. Central to my thesis will be the claim that we are deeply and naturally kinaesthetic and enkinaes- thetic, aware of our bodily movement and our action in the world, but also able to affect others and be affected by them, moving and being moved within a reciprocal affective neuro-muscular dynamical temporal flow. It is this rich somatosensory engagement of feeling bodies which manages the proto- modal, prelinguistic interactivities of agents and plays an integral role in full-bodied sense-making relations. A fleshed out notion of this enkinaesthetic sense in combination with the claims in support of Reid’s fourth axiom – That there is life and intelligence in our fellow-me...
This paper presents an hypothesis, along with the appropriate theoretical and methodological underpinnings for analyzing the feasibility of the hypothesis as the fulcrum of a potential neurophenomenological project. The hypothesis states... more
This paper presents an hypothesis, along with the appropriate theoretical and methodological underpinnings for analyzing the feasibility of the hypothesis as the fulcrum of a potential neurophenomenological project. The hypothesis states that if, in the effective practice of Alexander Technique, there is a union of two nervous systems, it should be visible neurologically and affective phenomenologically, and thus it should be possible to investigate both its neural and phenomenal signatures. A significant aspect of the originality of this endeavour is that it draws together a range of perspectives within the study of experience, and gives each a non-reductive parity in the ensuing discussion of the correlation and observation of the spatio-temporal dynamics of synchronized neural sets. The overall aim is to present a method for examining possible correlations of neurodynamic and phenodynamic structures within the structurally-coupled work of Alexander Technique practitioners with th...
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... A - L I F E A R T Fig. 1. Simplified MAGNUS architecture. (© Susan Stuart) The diagrams on the left of the figure show how MAGNUS behaves as a state machine; that on the right illustrates the sys-tem's pattern of sensory,... more
... A - L I F E A R T Fig. 1. Simplified MAGNUS architecture. (© Susan Stuart) The diagrams on the left of the figure show how MAGNUS behaves as a state machine; that on the right illustrates the sys-tem's pattern of sensory, internal and actuatory neurons. Page 3. ...
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CHRIS DOBBYN1 and SUSAN STUART2 1Department of Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK; E-mail: chdobbyn@open.ac.uk 2Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; E-mail:... more
CHRIS DOBBYN1 and SUSAN STUART2 1Department of Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK; E-mail: chdobbyn@open.ac.uk 2Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; E-mail: S.Stuart@philosophy. ...
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The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://www. ia-cap. org/) is an umbrella organisation for a number of globally distributed associations: North-American Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP), Asian-Pacific Computing... more
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://www. ia-cap. org/) is an umbrella organisation for a number of globally distributed associations: North-American Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP), Asian-Pacific Computing and Philosophy (AP-CAP), and European Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP). The E-CAP conferences began in 2003 with a meeting at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The 2004 E-CAP took place at the University of Pavia, Italy; the 2005 E-CAP was held at the Mälardalen University, Västerås, ...
This book draws together a number of important strands in contemporary approaches to the philosophical and scientific questions that emerge when dealing with the issues of computing, information, cognition and the conceptual issues that... more
This book draws together a number of important strands in contemporary approaches to the philosophical and scientific questions that emerge when dealing with the issues of computing, information, cognition and the conceptual issues that arise at their intersections. It discovers and develops the connections at the borders and in the interstices of disciplines and debates, and presents a range of essays that deal with the currently vigorous concerns of the philosophy of information, ontology creation and control, ...
... extremely fascinating, detail which serves to 'supersize' the original text if not to actually 'supersize' the mind ... to recentralise the role of the brain not, let's be clear, to claim that mind and brain... more
... extremely fascinating, detail which serves to 'supersize' the original text if not to actually 'supersize' the mind ... to recentralise the role of the brain not, let's be clear, to claim that mind and brain ... in a claim for a more radical mental extension or the kind of supersizing suggested in ...
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My concern in this paper is with the binding problem and how information, that is stored across the brain, is in-tegrated into one unitary conscious experience, in an act of, what we might refer to as meta-binding. I will draw together... more
My concern in this paper is with the binding problem and how information, that is stored across the brain, is in-tegrated into one unitary conscious experience, in an act of, what we might refer to as meta-binding. I will draw together the common themes from a diverse body of work ...