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Multistable Figures

Author : Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
ISBN 13 : 3851327349
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Multistable Figures written by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and published by Series Cultural Inquiry. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multistable figures offer an intriguing model for arbitrating conflicting positions. Moving back and forth between different aspects, one recognizes that contradictory descriptions of a situation can be equally valid and that disputes over the correct account can be settled without dissolving differences or establishing a higher synthesis. Yet, the experience of a gestalt switch also offers a model for radical conversions and revolutions, that is, for irreversible leaps to incommensurable alternatives foiling ideals of rational choice while providing the possibility and necessity of decision. Accentuating the temporal dimensions of multistable figures, this multidisciplinary volume illuminates the critical potential and limits of multistability as a complex figure of thought.

Process, Image, and Meaning

Author : Wolfgang Wildgen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902725043X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Process, Image, and Meaning written by Wolfgang Wildgen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general topic of this book is the development of a realistic model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of scientific realism, i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern science: dynamical systems theory. In Part One a model of sentences is put forward. The first chapter outlines the philosophical background of a theory of meaning. Chapter 2 gives a very short summary of recent proposals for a semantic model which considers image-like schemata. In Chapter 3 a realistic model of valence and basic predication is developed in detail. Chapter 4 treats multistability in meaning and the application of chaos theory and dissipative structures in semantics. Chapter 5 outlines the global framework of a stratified universe of meanings, and Chapter 6 prepares the way for Part Two: the analysis of narrative texts. Oral narratives of personal experience are the prototypical form in which experienced events are organized with the aim of remaking a piece of reality. In Chapter 7 a discrete grammar based on vectorial schemata is developed. Chapters 8 and 9 elaborate the syntax of narratives in Chapter 7. Chapter 10 progress to conversational dynamics.

Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel

Author : Pierpaolo Antonello
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628951737
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel written by Pierpaolo Antonello and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now part of the theoretical parlance among critics and students. It also represents the genetic starting point for what has become one of the most encompassing, challenging, and far-reaching theories conceived in the humanities in the last century: mimetic theory. This book provides a forum for new generations of scholars and critics to reassess, challenge, and expand the theoretical and hermeneutical reach of key issues brought forward by Girard’s book, including literary knowledge, realism and representation, imitation and the anxiety of influence, metaphysical desire, deviated transcendence, literature and religious experience, individualism and modernity, and death and resurrection. It also provides a more extensive and detailed historical understanding of the representation of desire, imitation, and rivalry within European and world literature, from Dante to Proust and from Dickens to Jonathan Littell.

The Role of Eye Movements in Perceptual Processes

Author : E. Chekaluk
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080867421
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Eye Movements in Perceptual Processes written by E. Chekaluk and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1992-07-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become a truism that the frozen optical diagram representation of vision is the worst possible picture of the way in which we visually interact with the environment. Even apart from our reaction to moving targets by pursuit movements, our visual behaviour can be said to be characterised by eye movements. We sample from our environment in a series of relatively brief fixations which move from one point to another in a series of extremely rapid jerks known as saccades. Many questions arising from this characteristic of vision are explored within this volume, including the question of how our visual world maintains its perceptual stability despite the drastic changes in input associated with these eye movements.

The Scandal of Self-contradiction

Author : Luca Di Blasi
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
ISBN 13 : 3851326814
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis The Scandal of Self-contradiction by : Luca Di Blasi

Download or read book The Scandal of Self-contradiction written by Luca Di Blasi and published by Series Cultural Inquiry. This book was released on 2012 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was both a writer and filmmaker deeply rooted in European culture, as well as an intellectual who moved between different traditions, identities and positions. Early on he looked to Africa and Asia for possible alternatives to the hegemony of Western Neocapitalism and Consumerism, and in his hands the Greek and Judeo-Christian Classics morphed into unsettling multistable figures constantly shifting between West and East, North and South, the present and the past, rationality and myth, identity and otherness. The contributions in this volume, which belong to different intellectual and disciplinary fields, are bound together by a fascination for Pasolini's ability to recognize contradictions, to intensify and multiply them, as well as to make them aesthetically and politically productive. What emerges is a "euro-eccentric" and multifaceted Pasolini of great interest for the present.

Ambiguity in Mind and Nature

Author : Peter Kruse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642784119
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity in Mind and Nature written by Peter Kruse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguity in Mind and Nature is the result of cognitive multistability, the phenomenon in which an unchanging stimulus, usually visual, gives rise in the subject to an oscillating perceptual interpretation. The vase/face picture is one of the most famous examples. In this book scientists from many disciplines including physics, biology, psychology, maths and computer science, present recent progress in this fascinating area of cognitive science. Using the phenomenon of multistability as a paradigm they seek to understand how meaning originates in the brain as a consequence of cognitive processes. New advances are achieved by applying concepts such as self-organization, chaos theory and complex systems to the latest results of psychological and neurophysical experiments.

Understanding Creativity

Author : Daniel Collado-Ruiz Hesamedin Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi
Publisher : XinXii
ISBN 13 : 3960288255
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Creativity written by Daniel Collado-Ruiz Hesamedin Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Any ideas?” How often have you heard or said something like that? Most of the problems that we face force us to think about new ways of solving problems. Be it complicated design solutions, or simple riddles that we encounter in our free time, the world requires us to use our creativity. It is what has taken us so far. But creativity is very often not well understood. People often talk about it with an aura of mysticism; as if it were some sort of magical property; as if ideas “came from” somewhere; as if you would not be able to understand it, but that by applying some almost superstitious practices, you would gain access to it. Some say that magic is the explanation we use when we do not understand something. Instead of that, we want to make you understand creativity. By knowing a bit more about how your brain works, you will be able to enhance your creativity, and that of those around you. Not because you will be applying some trick, but because you will be understanding what is happening. We take pride in basing this book on scientific evidence. The authors have carried out research in this area, but have also read extensively the works of other authors. We will be sharing with you the most modern theories - and the older ones that have stood the test of time. In some books, you will find authors that shared what has worked for them, without understanding why. We will make sure you know what is behind the curtain all the time. In other words: we will not be talking about magic remedies, we will not give you any unexplained tricks, and we will not ask you to just take our word for it. We want to make sure you understand creativity.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Author : Gian Maria Annovi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542704
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Pier Paolo Pasolini written by Gian Maria Annovi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his mysterious murder in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini had become famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship, Gian Maria Annovi revisits Pasolini's oeuvre to examine the author's performance as a way of assuming an antagonistic stance toward forms of artistic, social, and cultural oppression. Annovi connects Pasolini's notion of authorship to contemporary radical artistic practices and today's multimedia authorship. Annovi considers the entire range of Pasolini's work, including his poetry, narrative and documentary film, dramatic writings, and painting, as well as his often scandalous essays on politics, art, literature, and theory. He interprets Pasolini's multimedia authorial performance as a masochistic act to elicit rejection, generate hostility, and highlight the contradictions that structure a repressive society. Annovi shows how questions of authorial self-representation and self-projection relate to the artist's effort to undermine the assumptions of his audience and criticize the conformist practices that the culture industry and mass society impose on the author. Pasolini reveals the critical potential of his spectacular celebrity by using the author's corporeal or vocal presence to address issues of sexuality and identity, and through his strategic self-fashioning in films, paintings, and photographic portraits he destabilizes the audience's assumptions about the author.

Business Psychology and Organisational Behaviour

Author : Eugene F. McKenna
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863776670
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Business Psychology and Organisational Behaviour written by Eugene F. McKenna and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory textbook about business psychology and organisational behaviour.

What is Cognitive Science?

Author : Ernest Lepore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631204938
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book What is Cognitive Science? written by Ernest Lepore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-10-18 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an assembly of leading researchers in the field, this volume provides an innovative and non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field.

Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour

Author : Eugene McKenna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317294645
Total Pages : 987 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour written by Eugene McKenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour introduces principles and concepts in psychology and organizational behaviour with emphasis on relevance and applications. Well organised and clearly written, it draws on a sound theoretical and applied base, and utilizes real-life examples, theories, and research findings of relevance to the world of business and work. The new edition of this best-selling textbook has been revised and updated with expanded and new material, including: proactive personality and situational theory in personality; theory of purposeful work behaviour; emotional and social anxiety in communication; decision biases and errors; and right brain activity and creativity, to name a few. There are numerous helpful features such as learning outcomes, chapter summaries, review questions, a glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography. Illustrations of practice and relevant theory and research also take the reader through individual, group, and organizational perspectives. This is an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates studying psychology and organizational behaviour. What is more, it can be profitably used on degree, diploma, professional, and short courses. It's also likely to be of interest to the reflective practitioner in work organizations.

The Language of Living Matter

Author : Bernd-Olaf Küppers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030803198
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Living Matter written by Bernd-Olaf Küppers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws. The author’s radical idea inevitably leads us to view the essence, origin and evolution of life in a completely new light. It shifts the coordinates of our scientific world-view in favor of an overarching concept of language that is able to bridge the gap between matter and mind. At the same time, it removes a blind spot in the Darwinian concept of evolution. To justify this far-reaching idea, the book takes a long and deep look at our scientific and philosophical thinking, at language as such, at science’s claim to truth, and at its methods, unity, limits and perspectives. These are the cornerstones structuring the book into six thematically self-contained chapters, rounded off by an epilogue that introduces the new topic of Nature’s semantics. The range of issues covered is a testimony to how progress in the life sciences is transforming the whole edifice of science, from physics to biology and beyond. The book is aimed at a broad academic and general readership; it requires no mathematical expertise.

Queer (In)Justice

Author : Joey L. Mogul
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807051179
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Queer (In)Justice written by Joey L. Mogul and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive work to turn a “queer eye” on the criminal justice system, providing an eye-opening study of LGBTQ+ rights and equality. Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes—from “gleeful gay killers” and “lethal lesbians” to “disease spreaders” and “deceptive gender benders”—to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the streets to the bench to behind prison bars, the authors prove that the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities. An eye-opening study of LGBTQ rights and equality, Queer (In)Justice illuminates and challenges the many ways in which queer lives are criminalized, policed, and punished.

Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives

Author : Roberto Poli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048188458
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives written by Roberto Poli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-28 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of ‘what there is’. Recently, however, a field called ‘ontology’ has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. The two fields have more in common than just their name. Theory and Applications of Ontology is a two-volume anthology that aims to further an informed discussion about the relationship between ontology in philosophy and ontology in information technology. It fills an important lacuna in cutting-edge research on ontology in both fields, supplying stage-setting overview articles on history and method, presenting directions of current research in either field, and highlighting areas of productive interdisciplinary contact. Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives presents ontology in philosophy in ways that computer scientists are not likely to find elsewhere. The volume offers an overview of current research traditions in ontology, contrasting analytical, phenomenological, and hermeneutic approaches. It introduces the reader to current philosophical research on those categories of everyday and scientific reasoning that are most relevant to present and future research in information technology.

Paolo Bozzi’s Experimental Phenomenology

Author : Ivana Bianchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351232304
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Paolo Bozzi’s Experimental Phenomenology written by Ivana Bianchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology translates eighteen papers by Italian philosopher and experimental psychologist Paolo Bozzi (1930-2003), bringing his distinctive and influential ideas to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The papers cover a range of methodological and experimental questions concerning the phenomenology of perception and their theoretical implications, with each one followed by commentary from leading international experts. In his laboratory work, Bozzi investigated visual and auditory perception, such as our responses to pendular motion and bodies in freefall, afterimages, transparency effects, and grouping effects in dot lattices and among sounds (musical notes). Reflecting on the results of his enquiries against the background of traditional approaches to experimentation in these fields, Bozzi took a unique realist stance that challenges accepted approaches to perception, arguing that experimental phenomenology is neither a science of the perceptual process nor a science of the appearances; it is a science of how things are. The writings collected here offer an important resource for psychologists of perception and philosophers, as well as for researchers in cognitive science.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080495710
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book International Review of Research in Mental Retardation written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and behavioral sciences.

Shapes of Time

Author : Michael McGillen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772848
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shapes of Time written by Michael McGillen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time—beyond those of historicism and nineteenth-century philosophies of history—at the boundary between secular and theological discourses. By analyzing canonical works of German modernism—those of Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Siegfried Kracauer, and Robert Musil—he identifies the ways in which spatial imagery and metaphors were employed to both separate the end of history from a narrative framework and to map the liminal relation between history and eschatology. Drawing on theories and practices as disparate as constructivism, non-Euclidean geometry, photography, and urban architecture, Shapes of Time presents original connections between modernism, theology, and mathematics as played out within the canon of twentieth-century German letters. Concepts of temporal and spatial form, McGillen contends, contribute to the understanding not only of modernist literature but also of larger theoretical concerns within modern cultural and intellectual history.