Cognitive Rethinking Of Beauty

Author : Andrej Démuth
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631794924

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Cognitive Rethinking of Beauty by Andrej Démuth Pdf

The book essentially discusses whether philosophy can integrate the plethora of various empirical and neuroscientific approaches to the study of beauty or whether it should preserve its traditional a priori basis. In fact, is it possible to unite philosophy and cognitive-scientific analyses of aesthetic perception and assessment?

Author : Edgar Valdez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527556256

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Rethinking Kant Volume 7 by Edgar Valdez Pdf

The questions Kant poses have endured because they get at the heart of the philosophical endeavour. The continued importance of these questions is what calls for rethinking Kant in light of contemporary philosophical debates. The essays collected in this volume range from reconsidering some of the results of reason’s critique of itself to determining the role of feeling in Kant’s account of moral judgment. The last section pays particular attention to Kant’s relationship to various other figures in the history of philosophy. Together they highlight the significance of Kant for the ever-broadening landscape of philosophy in the twenty-first century.

Author : James C. Griffith,Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118930359

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Revisiting Truth, Beauty,and Justice: Evaluating With Validity in the 21st Century by James C. Griffith,Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead Pdf

This issue discusses ways of constructing, organizing, and managing arguments for evaluation. Not focued solely on the logic of evaluation or predictive validity, it discusses the various elements needed to construct evaluation arguments that are compelling and influential by virtue of the truth, beauty, and justice they express. Through exposition, original research, critical reflection, and application to case examples, the authors present tools, perspectives, and guides to help evaluators navigate the complex contexts of evaluation in the 21st century. This is the 142nd issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.

Author : Somesh Gupta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819704118

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Critical Thinking in Contemporary Dermatology: Cognitive Essays by Somesh Gupta Pdf

Author : Chandana Chakrabarti,Gordon Haist
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527563193

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Revisiting Mysticism by Chandana Chakrabarti,Gordon Haist Pdf

The twelve essays in this collection promote scholarship on the rich and diverse subject of mysticism by examining the nature of its thought both from Eastern and Western and from philosophical and religious perspectives. These include studies of specific mystics, including Teresa de Avila, Lady Nijo, Hiroshi Motoyama, and Mirabai, and thinkers about mysticism, including Kant, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. The book opens with two descriptive studies of similarities in the life of Teresa de Avila and mystics of very different times and cultures. The issue of mysticism and ethics is addressed in three essays, and central concepts involving pure conscious events and primordial oneness in Nietzsche are addressed in two separate essays. Wittgenstein's comments on mysticism are examined in two essays, one that places them in the perspective of his overall development and the other that studies them in comparison with recent continental thought. The book concludes with two essays that look broadly at the supersensible, one from an examination of Kantian aesthetics and the other from quantum mechanical interpretations of reality. Taken together, these essays attest to the power of mysticism to provoke reasoned thought about ultimate matters.

Author : Stefania Ruzsits Jha
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822977339

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Reconsidering Michael Polanyi’s Philosophy by Stefania Ruzsits Jha Pdf

The chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) was one of the first twentieth-century scientists to propose a program to resolve the internal conflict of the modern Enlightenment: scientific detachment and moral nihilism with humanist values. Stefania Jha’s intellectual biography places Polanyi in the context of his time and culture, analyzes his key philosophical ideas, and explicates the application—and at times misappropriation—of his work. Polanyi’s method was not laid out in his published works, and his vocabulary tends to make his writings difficult to understand. By exposing the structure of his theory of tacit knowing, and by tracing the growth of his thinking, Jha shows how the various elements of his thought are integrated. Through examination of his philosophical roots in Kant and the complexity of his evolving thought, she counteracts the popular notion that Polanyi’s philosophy stands apart from the western philosophic tradition. Jha’s deep analysis makes Polanyi’s shift of focus from science to philosophy more intelligible, his philosophy more approachable, and the causes he championed—such as the freedom of science and cultural freedom—more understandable. Applying his notion of tacit knowing in practical directions, Jha seeks to bring the study of Polanyi’s philosophy out of the specialists’ enclave and into such fields as ethics and clinical medicine.

Author : Milan Todorovic,with Ali Bakir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317911869

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Rethinking Strategy for Creative Industries by Milan Todorovic,with Ali Bakir Pdf

Creative Industry practices are increasingly manifested through hybrid models and methods and emerging sub-sectors. With ever finer dividing lines between form and content, product and service, participation and consumption, the distinctions between sectors are increasingly blurred, while new, convergent models emerge. Reflecting this fluid context, this book provides a new perspective on strategy in the Creative Industries. Based on extensive original research and live empirical data derived from case studies, interviews, and observations with creative managers, it reveals strategic decision-making by analysing business manoeuvres and stages of innovation in the Creative Industries. Through analysing the interactive features of aesthetically driven information assets, and how new user/consumer cultures are applied, it uncovers the principles that are transforming strategy in the Creative Industries. This innovative volume will be of significant interest to scholars, advanced students and practitioners in the Creative Industries as well as well as industry consultancies and practitioners.

Author : Paco Calvo,John Symons
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262027236

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The Architecture of Cognition by Paco Calvo,John Symons Pdf

In 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural substrate; explanations at the cognitive level must be classical insofar as adult human cognition is essentially systematic. This volume reassesses Fodor and Pylyshyn's 'systematicity challenge' for a post-connectionist era, covering the most important recent developments in the systematicity debate.

Author : Rafal Banka
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438489254

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Cognition and Practice by Rafal Banka Pdf

This is the first book on the role of cognition in the aesthetic theory of Li Zehou (1930–2021), one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers. The cognitive dimension and its integration with practice is discussed by examining one of Li's pivotal concepts: "subjectality," a human subject shaped by the world in which they live, including beauty and aesthetic experience. Li's theory is also contextualized in the threefold inspiration coming from Confucian, Kantian, and Marxist philosophies, which differently conceptualize the aesthetic and cognitive dimensions in humans. By referring to different aesthetic theories and interdisciplinary approaches to cognition, the book aims to show how Li's cognitively oriented project can contribute to contemporary research into aesthetics. Although primarily written for philosophers working in aesthetics, Chinese, and comparative philosophy, the book is also addressed to anyone interested in contemporary Chinese thought.

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1316469123

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Beauty and Sublimity by Patrick Colm Hogan Pdf

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to examine the former in terms of information processing (specifically, prototype approximation and non-habitual pattern recognition) and emotional involvement (especially of the endogenous reward and attachment systems). In the course of the book, Hogan examines such issues as how universal principles of aesthetic response may be reconciled with individual idiosyncrasy, how it is possible to argue rationally over aesthetic response, and what role personal beauty and sublimity might play in the definition of art. To treat these issues, the book considers works by Woolf, Wharton, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Beethoven, Matisse, and Kiran Rao, among others.

Author : Michael R. DePaul,William Ramsey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461643074

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Rethinking Intuition by Michael R. DePaul,William Ramsey Pdf

Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driven philosophical inquiry. Rethinking Intuition brings together a distinguished group of philosophers and psychologists to discuss these important issues. Students and scholars in both fields will find this book to be of great value.

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461641179

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Pragmatist Aesthetics by Richard Shusterman Pdf

This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art—crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop—Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially progressive agenda. The second edition contains an introduction where Shusterman responds to his critics, and it concludes with an added chapter that formulates his novel notion of somaesthetics.

Author : Miklos Fodor
Publisher : Psychology 2.0 Books
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781409294597

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Self-expansion - redefining key psychology terms with system theory by Miklos Fodor Pdf

In this volume, I will attempt to provide insight on the theme of connection through three perspectives, namely, system theory, psychology, and practice. These three all revolve around the same concept: what happens, from the perspective of an entity, when that entity connects to another entity? Adaptivity, an aspect that represents an absolute positive value of its own accord from the perspective of the entity, is the key principle, in the light of which I will be examining the effects of the systems’ connections. By using system theory terminology, the first chapter discusses how two systems can connect. Also, some new notions are introduced to help understand how connections impact upon systems. The conclusions accepted in the first chapter will then in the second chapter, be framed in terms of the person, as a system, and its sub-systems, namely, cognitive schemata. The impact of the connections of these cognitive schemata on the human psyche will then be presented in a... More > simplified model.

Author : Joseph D. Wooddell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606081952

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The Beauty of the Faith by Joseph D. Wooddell Pdf

Nearly everyone finds beauty compelling, so Christian apologists should devise ways to present an "aesthetic Christian apologetic." Nearly all apologists admit that the beauty of a life well lived and the beauty of the Christian community (along with the use of media and the arts) are not only helpful for apologetics but essential in a postmodern culture. In fact, it is frustrating to see how many apologists mention the need for such an approach but go on devoting most of their energies to traditional approaches. This book is different. It clearly shows the pros and cons of traditional approaches and offers a fresh perspective as well, arguing that beauty is the most compelling apologetic, and suggesting ways to implement such an approach. It demonstrates how Western culture arrived in its current unfortunate situation and uses both Scripture and figures like Athenagoras and Jonathan Edwards to challenge current views on apologetics.

Author : Roy Ellen,Katsuyoshi Fukui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000323863

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Redefining Nature by Roy Ellen,Katsuyoshi Fukui Pdf

How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of culture in confrontation with nature was being challenged by science, philosophy and the environmental movement. Anthropology is increasingly concerned with such issues as they become more urgent for humankind as a whole. This important book reviews the current state of the concepts of 'nature' we use, both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organised around three themes:- nature as a cultural construction;- the cultural management of the environment; and- relations between plants, animals and humans.