scholarly journals Perception, Logic and Plurality of Rational Representations of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor F. Mikhailov
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Logical Rules ◽  
Empirical Material

The article covers such issues as the relevance of the theory of perception as a multi-level information processing, the methodological role of the concept of representation and the relation of neurodynamic structures to subjective experience. The author critically reviews the philosophical presumptions underlying the various concepts of “local rationality,” the core of which is constituted by the belief that large ethnic cultures generate or are based on their own rationality and their own logic. Three statements are successively considered: (a) thinking is based on the inherent rules of rationality, (b) logic is an extract of rationality, and (c) types of rationality are geographically consistent with large ethnocultural communities. Empirical arguments are presented that demonstrate equivocality (if not falsity) of the first two theses. In particular, firstly, it is shown that the genuine rationality of thinking lies not in following the rules that are immanent to it, but in the development of thinking and, more broadly, cognitive operations towards optimization of certain indicators of the cognitive or motor system that are important for survival and adaptation. In addition, this rationality is multivariate, and the choice between variants is often weakly determined or even random. Thus, the first statement turns out to be refuted. Secondly, by reference to the well-known experiments, it is shown that most people do not explicitly follow some declared logical rules in solving even logical or mathematical problems, and yet there is reason to consider their behavior rational. The third thesis, as shown with some limited empirical material, appears to be partially confirmed. Nevertheless, the demonstration of the doubtfulness of the first two theses makes the conclusion that different nations have different logics insufficiently substantiated.

Emerging Principles of Practice Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-196
Author(s):  
Austin Michael ◽  
Sarah Carnochan
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Service Users ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Negative Findings ◽  
Principles Of Practice ◽  
Core Practice

Chapter 8 summarizes the core practice research principles identified in Practice Research in the Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model. The first set of principles relates to learning from the experiences of others, and includes understanding the context of practice research, the role of persistent communications, and the process of disseminating results. The second set of principles focuses on knowing how to implement practice research by utilizing specialized skills, balancing the dynamics of practice and research, and engaging in collaborative teamwork. The third set of principles relates to managing complexities by coping with the tensions and ongoing change associated with practice research, responding to negative findings, and engaging service users. The last set of principles focuses on the process of sharing practice research with the practitioners who are most able to integrate it into their practice. The chapter concludes with a discussion of rigor, relevance, and theory in practice research.

scholarly journals Assessing Democracy In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Actu and the Role of Democratic Theory Today

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Anastasia Deligiaouri ◽  
Jane Suiter
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Second Step ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ongoing Project

How can we define democracy today given the continuous changes that modern societies are undergoing? What is the role of a democratic theorist? This paper articulates a threefold argument in responding to these questions by analyzing the term of democracy in vitro, in vivo, and in actu. The first step is to secure a democratic minimum and the core principles of democracy. The second step involves studying democracy as an ongoing project and examining how the principles of this democratic minimum are encoded. In the third step we deploy the basic premises of discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe when evaluating a specific discourse of democracy, as this approach encompasses both discursive and nondiscursive practices. Utilizing this three-level evaluative framework for democratic theory will allow us to not only articulate normative principles but also evaluate them according to their mode of implementation.

The Global Insurgency

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Lake
Keyword(s):  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
State Building ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Us ◽  
Global War ◽  
Core Problem

The Pax Americana has produced remarkable political order in Europe and Northeast Asia. For decades, the US has sought to expand this international order into the Middle East. This effort, however, has sparked a backlash against the US, globalisation, and Westernisation. With state elites now largely co-opted into the Pax Americana, opposition takes the form of ‘private’, non-state actors using terrorist methods. The US response to the global insurgency has included counterterrorism and regime change, but state-building has become the dominant strategy. The core problem in state-building, however, is that though the US and its allies seek legitimacy for the states they build, they also aim to appoint local leaders willing to cooperate in the global war on terror and other elements of the Pax Americana. These ‘loyal’ leaders can govern only autocratically in ways that foment further opposition. State-building as counterinsurgency strategy is counter-productive. The first section of this chapter explains the spread of the Pax Americana; the second briefly describes the reaction to this expansion, focusing on the current global insurgency; the third probes the counter-reaction, highlighting the role of state-building; the Conclusion argues that given a choice between expansion or retrenchment, the US should lean towards the latter.

Social Capital, Learning and EU Regional Policy Networks: Evidence from Greece

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos J. Paraskevopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Level System ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
The Third ◽  
Multi Level

This Article Discusses The Importance Of Social Learning For Eu public policy-making in general and regional policy in particular. The first section analyses the implications of the learning process for EU regional policy and examines its social and institutional prerequisites. Section two introduces the concepts of social capital and institutional networks as components crucial for the learning process and socialization function. The third section, based on the analysis of the role of social learning, delineates the multi-level system of governance in EU regional policy. The fourth section presents empirical evidence from Greek regions on the role of social learning in the implementation of EU regional policy (Structural Funds) programmes. Finally, the last section draws conclusions on the role of social learning in EU regional policy and lessons from the Greek experience.

scholarly journals Which meaning is instilled in the idea of the ultimate ontology and existence of the world

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Vadim Markovich Rozin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Activity ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ontological Reality ◽  
Behavioral Transformations ◽  
Personal Research

This paper discusses the concept of ultimate ontology and the mechanism of its projection upon reality. The article consists of two thematic parts: the first analyzes the general cultural processes of the establishment of ultimate ontology and worldview, while the second traces the evolution of representations of the reality and ultimate ontology in the Moscow Methodological Circle. The article discusses the example of representation of nature, which fulfills the functions of ultimate ontology and worldview of the European Art Nouveau. Leaning on the personal research, the author outlines the following stages of the establishment of ultimate ontology: construction of narratives (i.e., initially these were schemes only, and thus, virtual semantic reality); perception and proliferation of these narratives (acquisition in the course of communication); practicing the acquired narratives (schemes) with behavioral transformations of the individuals; functioning of the new social reality, including its examination, and in some instances, attempts to make changes therein, Not every ultimate ontology is recognized in culture as the worldview, it pertains only to such that allows explicating the practices (including epistemic), which determine the core processes of functionality and development of the culture. The article also offers a reconstruction of the history of the Moscow Methodological Circle, which with time has replaced the three ultimate ontologies – attitude, activity, and mental activity. In the first two cases, these ontologies were suggested for the role of the worldviews (namely the category of activity); in the third case, G. P. Shchedrovitsky, who created the scheme of mental activity, for the most part considered it as a method of configuration of other methodological schemes, rather than a unified ontological reality. The article explores the reasons that impeded Shchedrovitsky and the members of the Moscow Methodological Circle to comprehend the essence of thinking, forgo the interpretation of the worldview as an activity, and shift towards the development of the theory of mental activity.

scholarly journals En diskusjon om universitetets tredje rolle

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-217
Author(s):  
James Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Ivory Tower ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Normative Concepts ◽  
Dual Strategy ◽  
Regional Engagement ◽  
Tower Model ◽  
The University

In the last decades, the discourse about universities and their engagement with actors in their host regions has increased. Concepts such as the third mission and the entrepreneurial university aim to describe the engagement between the university and regional actors as a change in the role of the university. In theory, this is described as a transformation of the university. In practice, this is organised as an add-on of a range of different knowledge-transfer and market-oriented activities, which do not interfere with the core activities of teaching and research. These normative concepts have a significant influence on how universities are developing their regional engagement. In a case study from a university in Norway, University of Agder, the study shows a university that gradually is transforming from an ivory tower model towards more regional engagement. However, the transformation is taking time. At present, the university has a dual strategy for its regional engagement. One part is organised as an add-on activity, while the other is organised within the academic core of teaching. In the latter, students are co-creating knowledge together with regional actors. The study demonstrates that it is possible to organise regional engagement as co-creation of knowledge also within the academic core.

The Phenomenon of Complexity and Quantum Semiotics

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Arshinov ◽  
◽  
Vladimir G. Budanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Temporal Complexity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Dependent Relationship ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Connected Set ◽  
Quantum Universe ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article is devoted to the discussion of some characteristic features of the “complexity paradigm” (Moraine). It is emphasized that thinking in complexity needs an adequate conceptual optics, methodological support, which can be rep­resented by a conceptual assemblage – a heterogeneous perceptual and com­municative network of concepts of quantum mechanics and Peirce semiotics, considered ontogenetically in terms of processality, temporality, becoming. The situation with thinking in complexity is such that this optics should arise as a certain set of cognitive operations as a certain topologically connected set of semiotically meaningful operations in the very process of realizing a cognitive situation as becoming specifically complex. And this awareness is a key prereq­uisite for the emergence of that epistemological situation, which we call “meet­ing with complexity”. Or, more precisely, thinking together with complexity. It is emphasized that the encounter with complexity itself implies the presence of a kind of sensitivity, an intuitive predisposition to its conscious recognition as such. We need such a conceptual character as the “observer of complexity”, un­derstood in the unity of the multiplicity of cybersemiotic, synergetic and quan­tum mechanical perspectives. A character who traces his ancestry from the quan­tum-relativistic physics of the twentieth century and the procedural philosophy of Pierce, Bergson and Whitehead.It is emphasized that in Peirce's scheme there is a specific, context-dependent relationship between signs and objects with which they are connected through the third element, an interpreter that plays the role of a connecting link between them" And this semiotic interpreter of Peirce is, in fact, a semiotic observer-a participant in the becoming turbulent flow of temporal complexity, synergistically included in the self-organizing quantum Universe.

La peur, passion radicale

Elenchos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-299
Author(s):  
Pierre-Marie Morel
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Basic Emotion ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Passionate Love ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core

Abstract This paper deals with the aetiological aspect of the Epicurean conception of passions. It is argued that the therapy of the soul relies on an overall explanation of the various emotional states, and that fear is at the core of this framework in so far as it is the root of most psychic troubles. The first part deals with fear in the context of the general theory of passions. The second part shows that this basic emotion is the root of injustice and political excessive ambition, in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. The third part puts the emphasis on the role of anxiety in passionate love, in the same text. Fear, in its various forms, appears to be the main cause of a number of pathological emotions. It may be concluded that the Epicurean therapy of emotions, far from dealing with separate passions from case to case, is based on a holistic approach of psychic states.

scholarly journals Peranan Sistem Informasi Akuntansi dan Tantangan Profesi Akuntan di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0 (Sebuah Studi Fenomenologi)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Fahri Cahyadi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Breakthrough Technology ◽  
Learning Programming

<p><em>In the last few years appeared a variety of breakthrough technology that generates new values in human life through a form of artificial intelligence, data, internet of things (IoT). Business circles call the third it as the core of the industrial revolution 4.0. These conditions have an impact on the role of the human being, particularly the challenges of the profession of accountants who will be replaced by the role of the robot.  The purpose of this research is to provide a solution so that the role of the accountants still exist in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0. As for qualitative research methods via the fenomenalogi approach i.e. we allow qualitative researchers implement and apply subjective abilities and exploratory process in interpersonalnya.  Results of the study so that the accountant still exist in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 then the accountant to start learning programming and algorithms to be able to adapt to change, if you don't use the technology, then the role of the accountant will be replaced by robots.</em></p>

scholarly journals Focus on Materials for Sulfur-Resistant Catalysts in the Reforming of Biofuels

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1029
Author(s):  
Patrizia Frontera ◽  
Pier Luigi Antonucci ◽  
Anastasia Macario
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Catalysts ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Sulfur Poisoning ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Sulfur Tolerance ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Renewable Hydrogen

The reforming of biofuels represents a promising technology for low carbon and renewable hydrogen production today. The core of the process is an active and stable catalyst, which can help to improve this technology and its efficiency. With this review, we aim to survey the more relevant literature on heterogeneous catalysts for the reforming of biofuels with improved sulfur tolerance. The review is structured into four main sections. Following the introduction, the fundamental aspects of sulfur poisoning are discussed. In the third section, the basic principles of the reforming of biofuels are reported, and finally, in the fourth section—the core of the review—recent progresses in the development of sulfur resistant catalysts are discussed, distinguishing the role of the metal (noble and non-noble) from that of the support.

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