A psycho-historical research program for the integrative science of art

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas J. Bullot ◽  
Rolf Reber
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Design Stance ◽  
Integrative Science

AbstractCritics of the target article objected to our account of art appreciators' sensitivity to art-historical contexts and functions, the relations among the modes of artistic appreciation, and the weaknesses of aesthetic science. To rebut these objections and justify our program, we argue that the current neglect of sensitivity to art-historical contexts persists as a result of a pervasive aesthetic–artistic confound; we further specify our claim that basic exposure and the design stance are necessary conditions of artistic understanding; and we explain why many experimental studies do not belong to a psycho-historical science of art.

scholarly journals Daily Existence of Karl Marx Smolensk State Pedagogical Institute during the Great Patriotic War (According to Contemporary Recollections)

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Kupchenko Konstantin ◽  
Nikitina Natalia
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Pedagogical Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Guidelines

issues of the daily life of educational establishments in the Western regions of the Soviet Union which were attacked and occupied in the early period of the Great Patriotic War have been touched upon in this article. The essence of historical science of war is that the paradigm is confined to the study of military operations and battles being the subject of numerous studies, scientific events, documentary chronicles. Many social history moments of wars have undeserved on the fringes of the scientific field of studying these problems. The history of everyday life has recently become a current historical research direction in the national historical science, allowing to reconstruct many events often unfairly unreported in scientific research and left in archival material or memoirs of the their direct participants. The relevance of the project stems from the very limited knowledge of the problem which has not been reflected either in the specialized studies or in the comprehensive studies of history of Smolensk Pedagogical Institute and the region in whole. The main task of the present study is to identify previously inaccessible information on the employees and students of Smolensk Pedagogical Institute who took part directly in the events described, introduction of new historical sources of science, especially personal sources. The work is based on strict adherence to the principle of historism. The article uses the most scientific and productive methodological guidelines of modern historical research directions. The main approach is historical-anthropological. The integrated approach of the study involves the following methods: historical description, historical analysis, comparative history, microhistory. The whole complex of archival heuristics tools is used in the work with the documents. In view of the lack of special works, the individual archives on the topic of the study were based on the materials identified in personal collections, common archives, relating to the military period of the region, memoirs and recollections of witnesses and direct participants in the events described in the proceedings. The study shows that since the first days of the war the staff and students of the Institute were involved in general activities aimed at organization of defense, at the opposition to the enemy, at evacuattion: to ensure the security of buildings and property, to attract to economic, defensive activities, assisting fighter squads. The authors note that at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the main activities directed to mobilization, defense and evacuation measures in Smolensk Pedagogical Institute were assigned to the Department of Military Training as the most prepared for work in extreme conditions. It has been shown in the article that in July 1941 due to the occupation of the city Smolensk Pedagogical Institute ceased to function as a teaching unit and it resumed its activity only after the liberation of the region in autumn 1943.

Historiographical facts and political practice in Russia in the XVIII – beginning of the XXI centuries

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Г.Н. Ланской
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategies ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control ◽  
Development And Evolution

Статья посвящена истории связи между развитием исторической науки и политической практики в России. В контексте этого развития представлены, с одной стороны, эволюция исторических исследований и их координации и, с другой стороны, трансформация подхода институциональных структур государства к выбору управленческой стратегии в руководстве работой историков. В качестве примера для исследования обозначенной проблемы выбран период с начала XVIII до начала XXI века, потому что в его рамках была сформирована практика профессиональной деятельности в сфере историографии как процесса человеческой деятельности. Особое внимание в статье адресовано к роли идеологии в формировании различных моделей связи между работой историков и политических деятелей по конструированию образа прошлого, настоящего и будущего развития российской истории. The article reveals the connection between the historical science development and evolution of political practice in Russia.In that context shown are the course of the historical research and the coordination and control strategies implemented by the state, including institutional transformations.As a subject of current research was taken the period from the XVIII – beginning of the XXI centuries, when historiography became a profession and was institutionalized.Special attention is driven to the role of ideology in adopting different models of interaction between historians and political actors, while framing the image of the past, the present and the future of Russia.

Does the nervous system depend on kinesthetic information to control natural limb movements?

1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Gandevia ◽  
David Burke
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Cutaneous Afferents ◽  
Motor Commands ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Natural Movement ◽  
Command Signals ◽  
Kinesthetic Information

Abstract This target article draws together two groups of experimental studies on the control of human movement through peripheral feedback and centrally generated signals of motor commands. First, during natural movement, feedback from muscle, joint, and cutaneous afferents changes; in human subjects these changes have reflex and kinesthetic consequences. Recent psychophysical and microneurographic evidence suggests that joint and even cutaneous afferents may have a proprioceptive role. Second, the role of centrally generated motor commands in the control of normal movements and movements following acute and chronic deafferentation is reviewed. There is increasing evidence that subjects can perceive their motor commands under various conditions, but that this is inadequate for normal movement; deficits in motor performance arise when the reliance on proprioceptive feedback is abolished either experimentally or because of pathology. During natural movement, the CNS appears to have access to functionally useful input from a range of peripheral receptors as well as from internally generated command signals. The unanswered questions that remain suggest a number of avenues for further research.

scholarly journals A developmental science commentary on Charney's “Behavior genetics and postgenomics”

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 371-372
Author(s):  
George F. Michel
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Behavior Genetics ◽  
Developmental Psychobiology ◽  
Developmental Science ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Program Characteristic

AbstractCharney's target article convincingly demonstrates the need for the discipline of quantitative human behavior genetics to discard its false assumptions and to employ the techniques, assumptions, and research program characteristic of modern developmental psychobiology.

scholarly journals Information and Computer Technologies as a Research Tool in the Works of Historians of Central Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
R.T. Elemanova
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

The article considers the possibilities of using information and computer technologies in historical research in Central Asia. Today, when there are discussions among Asian historians about a differentiated approach to the study of history and a desire to preserve the traditional directions of historical science that were laid down in the last century, there is an urgent need to use an interdisciplinary approach. The development of historical geoinformatics at the present stage can be identified that is continuously associated with the level of informatization of society, when information and communication technologies have become an integral part of everyday life, a change in the theory and methodology of historical science. Revolutionary changes in the theoretical development of an understanding of the essence of historical processes naturally led to a change in the methodology of history. The problem of information and computer technologies efficiency, in particular geoinformation, in scientific historical research, from a theoretical and methodological point of view is being posed and solved. Since the mid-1990s, the main emphasis has been shifted to the use of multimedia tools and methods and the use of global communications - the Internet. For the preservation, presentation of cultural heritage is an urgent task, the solution of which in a century of rapidly developing information and communication technologies is impossible without the use of new information technology.

Meta-theory rather than method fascism

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-431
Author(s):  
Elke U. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Optimal Design ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Meta Theory

Three comments take issue with specifics of the target article. First, I argue for the development of meta-theory to deal with inconsistencies in experimental results. Second, I advocate the use of the compatibility between experiment and application to decide on the optimal design and procedure of experimental studies. Last, I support the explicit incorporation of motivation into models of decision making.

Studying mental states is not a research program for comparative cognition

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara J. Shettleworth
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Comparative Cognition ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Existence Proof ◽  
Cognitive Evolution ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Human Uniqueness

AbstractThe title of the target article suggests an agenda for research on cognitive evolution that is doubly flawed. It implies that we can learn directly about animals' mental states, and its focus on human uniqueness impels a search for an existence proof rather than for understanding what components of given cognitive processes are shared among species and why.

Understanding the research program

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Henrich ◽  
Maciej Chudek
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Costly Punishment ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Key Points

AbstractThe target article misunderstands the research program it criticizes. The work of Boyd, Richerson, Fehr, Gintis, Bowles and their collaborators has long included the theoretical and empirical study of models both with and without diffuse costly punishment. In triaging the situation, we aim to (1) clarify the theoretical landscape, (2) highlight key points of agreement, and (3) suggest a more productive line of debate.

scholarly journals Is a class approach to learn history out of date? Or... (invitation to a discussion)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-324
Author(s):  
Georgiy Mikhailovich Ippolitov
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
State Development ◽  
Historical School ◽  
Soviet State

In the following paper the author disclosures some aspects of a complex problem. It is a class approach to the assessment of events and phenomena as one of the approaches to learn history. The style is lapidary, with conciseness elements. The author considers fundamental postulates of the Marxist-Leninist concept of a class approach to the assessment of events and phenomena as one of the approaches to learn history. The emphasis is placed here on Lenins understanding of the methodological phenomenon stated above and its development by ideologists of the Communist Party governing the Soviet state. Development of the studied concept in the Soviet historical science is traced. At the same time it is emphasized that eclecticism elements were allowed when scientists confused the concepts principles of a historical research and approaches to learn history. The author considers how the problem of a class approach to assessment of events and phenomena is treated in a Post-Soviet and modern historiography. The author says that this approach hasnt become outdated in historical science as many representatives of so-called liberal historical school consider (dont confuse with V.O. Klyuchevsky) and continues to function. However, it changed manifestation forms and receded a little into the background.

scholarly journals Information field for historical research

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Yurii Anatoliiovych Sviatets
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Transfer Of Information ◽  
Epistemological Uncertainty

The article analyzes the main information collision of historical knowledge, which consists in physical inaccessibility of events and phenomena of the past as an object of historical science for a historian as an investigator. The aim of the research is to formulate and discuss a working hypothesis about the information field of historical science. The article provides an analytical background on the main ideas and approaches in the field of modern information field theory. The author carries out the projection of the main provisions of the information field theory on historical research. It is shown that the information field is a really existing information carrier that provides its acquisition, transportation, storage and visualization, as well as provides information and knowledge recorded in various forms, realizes cultural communications. One of the manifestations of such a culture is the sign systems, which determine certain contexts. Signs are characterized by polysemy. Despite artificial origin, semiotic reality is objective. Simultaneously, signs provide intellectual activity of people. Mental signs in the historical process of use by society acquire additional meanings, generating new symbols. Polysemy shapes the problem of epistemological uncertainty of two stages – identifying the problem and solving it. Historians as researchers resort to cognitive models, which, thanks to the translational function, ensure the transfer of information from the known to the unknown. One of the explanations of polysemy is the theory of conceptual integration, according to which the structures of the original mental spaces are projected onto a new, constructed, mental space – blend. This is the result of a personʼs intellectual ability to create new meanings on the basis of the available ones. Since signs and symbols are multi-valued, they form a multiplicity of retrospective scenarios of historical research at the stage of problem formulation. At the stage of its solution, the historian interacts actively with the information field, which consists in verifying empirical data of available scientific hypotheses. At this stage, the historian conducts heuristic, axiological and selection work, which results in the authorʼs version of the historiography.

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