The Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Experience of Boundary Turbulence

The second part of the article continues the analytical and historiographical overview of the problems that are substantively related to the question of the role, meaning and historical fate of metaphysics. The author focuses on the phenomenon of the return of metaphysics to the philosophy of our time. The author traces the gradual rehabilitation of metaphysical problems in post-positivist studies of sci-ence. An attempt is made to differentiate these studies from the viewpoint of the opposition between internalism and externalism. The author shows the limits of this differentia-tion and highlights the mixed type of re-search, which focuses on the interaction of “external” and “internal” determinants of knowledge. It is shown that the postpositivist idea of the background knowledge extends not only to scientific (empirical) knowledge, but also to its philosophical (theoretical) justification, which is recognized by many re-searchers as historically and culturally conditioned. This opens up the possibility of a historical critique of the ontological presuppositions of the epistemological (transcendental) justification of science. Such presuppositions are considered in relation to the dis-course of negative ontology, which prohibits the cognitive experience of transcendent be-ing. The author shows that the criticism of these assumptions is carried out in the form of a regressive transcendental argument, which, comparing them with a new, philo-sophically revised scientific ontology, reveals their historically limited character. Thus, the regressive transcendental argument allows us to go beyond the negative ontology of the transcendental justification of science. This leads to the replacement of historical epistemology, whose subject matter is limited to knowledge and its historically mobile structures, with historical ontology, which returns to the description and explanation of reality. The author considers the concepts of new re-alism in the context of historical ontology and traces the connection of the new realism with the post-metaphysical and metametaphysical discourses.

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The Reflective Skill – Constructive-Prognostic Analysis in Methodological Context

Natural Science and Advanced Technology Education ◽

10.53656/nat2021-2.02 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 134-148

Author(s):

Natasha Tzanova ◽

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Nadezhda Raycheva ◽

Isa Hadjiali ◽

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Keyword(s):

Learning Experience ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Historical Aspect ◽

Prognostic Analysis ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Functional Part ◽

Cognitive Experience ◽

The Subject ◽

The Individual ◽

Reflective Skills

In historical aspect, the skill is among the key categories in the realm of human practice, which are often an object of different researches – psychological, pedagogical, and last but not least methodological. This is a fact, because the skill is a vital term for the description of productivity of learning experience at least in two dimensions – personally fundamental, guaranteeing its effective functioning in different situations and personally pragmatic, as a multi-level transformation of the cognitive experience, for the completion of certain social roles and the necessary qualities of the subject for this. The skill is a blend between those two dimensions of productivity both in higher education and in secondary school. The reflective skills are a structural and functional part of the transformation of the cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor experience and as such are included in the individual educational reality of the subject, and to a higher degree it defines it. This is the reason why the constructive-prognostic analysis of the reflective skill in the area of Methodology is pointing at the answer of the questions: What is this, what is its structure, how does it get integrated in the system of skills, how does it form and develop. The answers of those questions are basis of its methodological decoding in the process of training teachers and students in Biology. All of this describes the territory of the methodological context of analysing the reflective skill.

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The Mental Construction of Reality in James Joyce

Oceánide ◽

10.37668/oceanide.v13i.42 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 69-77

Author(s):

José Miguel Alonso-Giráldez

Keyword(s):

James Joyce ◽

Fundamental Characteristic ◽

Finnegans Wake ◽

Psychological Realism ◽

The Past ◽

Construction Of Identity ◽

Cognitive Theories ◽

Cognitive Experience ◽

Psychoanalytic Approach ◽

The Individual

The purpose of this study is to analyse how James Joyce builds a large part of his narrative through a verbal tissue that is born from the cognitive experience, from the deep interaction between mind and environment. Beyond the psychoanalytic approach or Psychological realism, Joyce, particularly in Ulysses, displays this reading of reality in which a series of cognitive events form a narrative continuum. Reality appears before us through the perceptions of the protagonists, and that is the reason why we only access an incomplete view of reality itself. Partiality or incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of Ulysses. However, Joyce aspires to build up a coherent and solid universe. Joyce creates a continuous reality through the semantic flow, often chaotic and blurry. Joycean language reveals the inconsistencies and instabilities of one's life, when it is impossible to transmit what cannot be apprehended completely, whether due to mental dysfunctions, hallucinations or other causes, as in Finnegans Wake. In this study, we also consider etymology as a tool that provides stability and linguistic richness to Joyce’s narrative, although subjecting it to hard transformations or mutation processes. Joyce finds great stylistic possibilities in the words used as semantic repositories that come from the past, and, with his passion for language, is able to build cognitive moments that rely on etymology. In the light of the most recent cognitive theories applied to Joyce's work, this study shows how the combination of mind, body and environment builds reality in Joyce, especially in Ulysses, overcoming traditional analyses around the inner monologue or the individual mind. Confirming previous studies, we consider that Joyce builds reality through microhistories, sketches, discursive or introspective cognitive events. However, to form a continuous substrate, that contributes to the construction of identity in Ulysses, Joyce deploys strategic frameworks, such as paternity or adultery.

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Konseptualisasi Citra Hara ‘Perut’ dalam Idiom Bahasa Jepang

Japanese Research on Linguistics Literature and Culture ◽

10.33633/jr.v1i1.2130 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 65-78

Author(s):

Akhmad Saifudin

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Linguistics ◽

Conceptual Metaphor ◽

Human Life ◽

Human Perception ◽

The Body ◽

Human Language ◽

Japanese People ◽

Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽

Metaphor Theory ◽

Cognitive Experience

Hara simply means belly, but for Japanese people it means more than physical. Hara is a concept, an important concept related to Japanese human life. This paper discusses the conceptualization of hara image for Japanese people. The study utilizes 25 idioms that contain hara ‘belly’ word that are obtained from several dictionaries of Japanese idioms. This paper is firmly grounded in cognitive linguistics, which relates linguistic expressions to human cognitive experience. The tool for analysis employed in this paper is the “conceptual metaphor theory” pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson. This theory considers human perception, parts of the body, and people’s worldview as the basis for the structure of human language. The analysis of this paper results that metaphorically, hara ‘belly’ is an entity and a container, which contains important elements for humans, such as life, mind, feeling, mentality, and physical. The concept of hara 'belly' for Japanese people is to have a spiritual, psychological, social and cultural, biological, and physical image. Keywords: conceptualization, conceptual metaphor, hara ‘belly’, idioms, imagee.

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When Facebook Becomes a Part of the Self: How Do Motives for Using Facebook Influence Privacy Management?

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769075 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Hyunjin Kang ◽

Wonsun Shin

Keyword(s):

Information Management ◽

Online Survey ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Psychological Factor ◽

The Self ◽

Boundary Management ◽

Privacy Management ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Boundary Turbulence ◽

Self System

This study examines how three different motivations for using an SNS (i.e., self-expression, belonging, and memory archiving) influence multi-facets of privacy boundary management on the platform mediated by self-extension to it. In recognition of the fact that information management on SNSs often goes beyond the “disclosure-withdrawal” dichotomy, the study investigates the relationships between the three SNS motives and privacy boundary management strategies (i.e., collective boundary and boundary turbulence management). An online survey with Facebook users (N = 305) finds that the three Facebook motivations are positively correlated to users’ self-extension to Facebook. The motivations for using Facebook are positively associated with the management of different layers of privacy boundaries (i.e., basic, sensitive, and highly sensitive), when Facebook self-extension is mediated. In addition, the three motives have indirect associations with potential boundary turbulence management mediated by Facebook self-extension. Extending the classic idea that privacy is deeply rooted in the self, the study demonstrates that perceiving an SNS as part of the self-system constitutes a significant underlying psychological factor that explains the linkage between motives for using SNSs and privacy management.

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Understanding Ant Forest continuance: effects of user experience, personal attributes and motivational factors

Industrial Management & Data Systems ◽

10.1108/imds-03-2021-0164 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Ashfaq ◽

Qingyu Zhang ◽

Abaid Ullah Zafar ◽

Mehwish Malik ◽

Abdul Waheed

Keyword(s):

User Experience ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Motivational Factors ◽

Personal Attributes ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Mobile Gaming ◽

Cognitive Experience ◽

Affective Experiences ◽

Forest Users

PurposeTechnology has emerged as a leading tool to address concerns regarding climate change in the recent era. As a result, the green mobile application – Ant Forest – was developed, and it has considerable potential to reduce negative environmental impacts by encouraging its users to become involved in eco-friendly activities. Ant Forest is a novel unexplored green mobile gaming phenomenon. To address this gap, this study explores the influence of user experience (cognitive experience and affective experience), personal attributes (affection and altruism) and motivational factors in game play (reward for activities and self-promotion) on the continuation intention toward Ant Forest.Design/methodology/approachThe authors assessed the data using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for understanding users' continuation intention toward Ant Forest.FindingsThrough a survey of 337 Ant Forest users, the results reveal that cognitive and affective experiences substantially affect Ant Forest continuation intention. Personal attributes and motivational factors also stimulate users to continue using Ant Forest.Originality/valueThe authors build and confirm a conceptual framework to understand users' continuation intention toward a novel unexplored Ant Forest phenomenon.

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Towards a Cognitively Based Quantification of Metrical Dissonance

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947279.013.12 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 276-302

Author(s):

Mark Gotham

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Relative Stability ◽

Musical Work ◽

Online Supplement ◽

Main Text ◽

Basic Model ◽

Relative Extent ◽

Cognitive Experience ◽

Metrical Dissonance ◽

Relative Differences

Metrical dissonance is a powerful tool for creating and manipulating musical tension. The relative extent of tension can be more or less acute depending (in part) on the type of dissonance used and moving among those dissonance types can contribute to the shape of a musical work. This chapter sets out a model for quantifying relative dissonance that incorporates experimentally substantiated principles of cognitive science. A supplementary webpage [**html page] provides an interactive guide for testing out these ideas, and a further online supplement [**URL—included in the main text as Section \ref{sec:online}] provides mathematical formalizations for the principles discussed. We begin with a basic model of metre where a metrical position’s weight is given simply by the number of pulse levels coinciding there. This alone enables a telling categorization of displacement dissonances for simple metres and a first sense of the relative differences between them. These arbitrary weighting ‘values’ are then refined on the basis of tempo and pulse salience. This provides a more subtle set of gradations that reflect the cognitive experience of metre somewhat better while still retaining a clear sense of the simple principles that govern relative dissonance. Additionally, this chapter sees the model applied in a brief, illustrative analysis and in a preliminary extension to ‘mixed’ metres (5s, 7s,…). This sheds light on known problems such as the relative stability of mixed metres in different rotations, and suggests a new way of thinking about mixed metres’ relative susceptibility to metrical dissonance.

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Screen Time, Temporality, and (Dis)embodiment

Managing Screen Time in an Online Society - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8163-5.ch003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 46-77

Author(s):

Eduardo J. Santos ◽

Ralph Ings Bannell ◽

Camila De Paoli Leporace

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Screen Time ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

The Body ◽

Cognitive Dimension ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Cognitive Experience

In this chapter, the authors will attempt to answer two related questions: How is our cognitive experience with time enacted and extended? Has the cognitive dimension of the experience of time lost its reference in the body? The background reviews relevant literature and shows the motivation for the main discussion of the chapter, especially the contrast between the authors' approach and the traditional symbolic-representational view. The principal argument will be that the dimension of the organism's coupling with the environment that can be called engagement with material culture—or things—has been undertheorized in the literature. Bringing this dimension into the analysis can, the authors argue, help explain how we experience psychological time. What's more, it can help understand the kinds of extra-bodily extensions that might explain why the use of technologies does not threaten disembodiment.

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