Attentional Engines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Seeley
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Abstract Objects ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Broad Base ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Perceptual Psychology ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in these often odd and abstract objects and events that we call artworks? My proposal is that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to direct attention to critical stylistic features that reveal their point, purpose, or meaning. My suggestion is that there is a lot that we can learn about art from interdisciplinary research focused on our perceptual engagement with artworks. These kinds of studies can reveal how we recognize artworks, how we differentiate them from other, more quotidian artifacts. In doing so they reveal how artworks function as a unique source of value. Our interactions with artworks draw on a broad base of shared artistic and cultural constitutive of different categories of art. Cognitive systems integrate this information into our experience of art, guiding attention, and shaping what we perceive. Our understanding and appreciation of artworks is therefore carried in our perceptual experience of them. Teasing out how this works can contribute valuable information to our philosophical understanding of art. Attentional Engines explores this interdisciplinary strategy for understanding art. It articulates a cognitivist theory of art grounded in perceptual psychology and the neuroscience attention and demonstrates its application to a range of puzzles in the philosophy of the arts, including questions about the nature of depiction, the role played by metakinesis in dance appreciation, the nature of musical expression, and the power of movies.

Education as a subject of philosophy

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
A.M. Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Specialized Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Discussed is upbringing as a socio-cultural characteristic of social experience, which makes it possible to form an idea of ​​upbringing as a necessity for social progress in philosophical thought. A complex of philosophical and pedagogical methods is used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, discourse analysis of educational programs, secondary analysis of the results of sociological research. It is determined that modern pedagogy is characterized by a crisis of the educational process, which has arisen with an urgent need for a philosophical understanding of the problem of education. The purpose of this work is to analyze the specifics of a philosophical approach to the phenomenon of education as a process of socio-philosophical research. In this regard, a need arose to study the essence of the phenomenon of education in the context of global information technology. According to the authors, the philosophy of upbringing is the most important factor in the interdisciplinary study of the problems of upbringing for the improvement of society. n arguing this issue, the authors are based on the pedagogical concepts of famous philosophers who determined the development of pedagogy of the last century. Thus, the authors propose to include in the curriculum the course “Philosophy of Education” that exists in the universities of the CIS. The authors of the articles identified the priorities of the effectiveness of higher and secondary specialized education in interdisciplinary research of the problem of education.

The Goose, The Fly, and the Submarine Navigator

2011 ◽  
pp. 1636-1657
Author(s):  
Alexander Riegler
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Research ◽  
Rule Based System ◽  
Organizational Closure ◽  
Neuronal Systems

Interdisciplinary research provides in¬spirations and insights into how a variety of disciplines can contribute to the formulation of an alternative path to artificial cognition systems. It has been suggested that results from ethology, evolutionary theory and epistemology can be condensed into four boundary conditions. They lead to the outline of an architecture for genuine cognitive systems, which seeks to overcome traditional problems known from artificial intelligence research. Two major points are stressed: (a) The maintenance of explanatory power by favoring an advanced rule-based system rather than neuronal systems, and (b) the organizational closure of the cognitive apparatus, which has far-reaching implications for the creation of meaningful agents.

DARIAH(-DE): Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities — Concepts and Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Henrich ◽  
Tobias Gradl
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Digital Research

DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is part of the European Strategy on Research Infrastructures. Among 38 projects originally on this roadmap, DARIAH is one of two projects addressing social sciences and humanities. According to its self-conception and its political mandate DARIAH has the mission to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts. DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices. One main distinguishing aspect of DARIAH is that it is not focusing on one application domain but especially addresses the support of interdisciplinary research in the humanities and arts. The present paper first gives an overview on DARIAH as a whole and then focuses on the important aspect of technical, syntactic and semantic interoperability. Important aspects in this respect are metadata registries and crosswalk definitions allowing for meaningful cross-collection and inter-collection services and analysis.

A Measured Pace: Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Trevor Whittock ◽  
Francis Sparshott
Keyword(s):  
The Arts ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Textile Craft Practice in Interdisciplinary E-Textiles Development through the Design of an Illuminated Safety Cycling Jacket

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matholo Kgatuke ◽  
Dorothy Hardy ◽  
Katherine Townsend ◽  
Eloise Salter ◽  
Tina Downes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Woven Textile

Most E-textile research tends to fall within the arts or science disciplinary boundaries, despite E-textiles themselves being interdisciplinary in nature. This work explores how contemporary woven textile practice methodologies can play a role within interdisciplinary research, expanding the creative and technical applications of materials and technologies. A team of electronics, textiles, and fashion specialists was formed to design and make an illuminated jacket for use by cyclists. The jacket incorporated bespoke woven panels that integrated electronic yarns within the pattern. The development of this prototype raised questions about the use of craft practice methodologies in the development of new E-textiles.

Musical expression from conception to reception

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darla Crispin ◽  
Stefan Östersjö
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
Music Psychology ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Dynamic Version ◽  
Artistic Research ◽  
Performance Strategies

The word ‘expression’, when applied to music, has a comfortably familiar ring to it. However, on careful scrutiny it turns out to be more elusive than one might think. Intrinsic to musical expression is the idea that within music there is something to be expressed, and that this might be reinforced (or undermined) by the performance strategies adopted. The issue becomes more complicated when one asks whether the ‘something’ in question equates to inchoate feeling, to apprehensible meaning or to both in variable proportions. This chapter reviews historical approaches to musical expression and argues that the concept of Werktreue still shapes much of our thinking and teaching in this area. This leads to a consideration of the respective roles of composer, performer and audience, generating a diagrammatic matrix which is progressively modified throughout the chapter. In its final, most dynamic version, the matrix proposes a ‘field of musical expression’ in which the roles of composer, performer and listener interact. The authors suggest that the time is ripe for more interdisciplinary research on musical expression, where a fusion of approaches—from music psychology and computing to performance studies and artistic research—may be the key to a deeper understanding.

Comparison of Barron-Welsh Art Scores of Artists and Nonartists and between Dancers of Two Training Styles

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Predock-Linnell
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Art Students ◽  
The Arts ◽  
General Studies ◽  
University Undergraduates ◽  
And Training

The Barron-Welsh Revised Art Scale was administered to 144 female and 68 male university undergraduates in art, music, dance, and general studies to test whether experience and training in the arts would be associated with choices consistent with openness to perceptual experience. It was hypothesized that training in modern and jazz dance, which is stylistically less classical and formal, would be associated with greater sensitivity to experience than would training in ballet and flamenco, more formalized dance styles. No differences between art students and nonart students or among dancers with various training experiences were observed.

Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: Remembering in everyday social and material contexts

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia B Harris ◽  
Amanda J Barnier ◽  
John Sutton ◽  
Paul G Keil
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Past Experiences

In everyday life remembering occurs within social contexts, and theories from a number of disciplines predict cognitive and social benefits of shared remembering. Recent debates have revolved around the possibility that cognition can be distributed across individuals and material resources, as well as across groups of individuals. We review evidence from a maturing program of empirical research in which we adopted the lens of distributed cognition to gain new insights into the ways that remembering might be shared in groups. Across four studies, we examined shared remembering in intimate couples. We studied their collaboration on more simple memory tasks as well as their conversations about shared past experiences. We also asked them about their everyday memory compensation strategies in order to investigate the complex ways that couples may coordinate their material and interpersonal resources. We discuss our research in terms of the costs and benefits of shared remembering, features of the group and features of the remembering task that influence the outcomes of shared remembering, the cognitive and interpersonal functions of shared remembering, and the interaction between social and material resources. More broadly, this interdisciplinary research program suggests the potential for empirical psychology research to contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary discussions of distributed cognition.

scholarly journals Seeing without Objects: Visual Indeterminacy and Art

Leonardo ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 394-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pepperell
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceptual Phenomenon

This article discusses the perceptual phenomenon of visual indeterminacy in an art-historical and scientific context and considers the phenomenon's role in certain heightened states of awareness. Further philosophical implications of the phenomenon are discussed, specifically the suggestion that visual indeterminacy may point to an inherent contradiction in the relationship between mind and world. This discussion is then related to a body of artwork produced by the author over some 20 years. The article concludes that visual indeterminacy is a fruitful subject for further interdisciplinary research, as it draws on ideas from the arts, sciences and humanities.

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