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Ten lectures on cognitive construction of meaning
\"As we think and talk, rich arrays of mental spaces and connections between them are constructed unconsciously. Conceptual integration of mental spaces leads to new meaning, global insight, and compressions useful for memory and creativity. A powerful aspect of conceptual integration networks is the dynamic emergence of novel structure in all areas of human life (science, religion, art, ...). The emergence of complex metaphors creates our conceptualization of time. The same operations play a role in material culture generally. Technology evolves to produce cultural human artefacts such as watches, gauges, compasses, airplane cockpit displays, with structure specifically designed to match conceptual inputs and integrate with them into stable blended frames of perception and action that can be memorized, learned by new generations, and thus culturally transmitted\"-- Provided by publisher.
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FOR A CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF BRAZIL: RECEIVING BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE
The author argues that the development of a critical history of concepts should be based on a programmatic position different from that of original Begriffsgesckickte, or of its main interpretations. By drawing upon theoretical insights of Axel Honneth, be reassesses the basic assumption of Begriffsgeschichte regarding the relationship between the history of concepts and social history, and calls attention to the problems that spring from focusing analysis almost exclusively on hey concepts. According to Feres, special attention should be paid to concepts that are socially and politically effective, hut, at the same time, do not become the subject of public contestation. Based on this programmatic position, be ends the article proposing a sketch for organizing the study of conceptual history in Brazil along three semantic regions.
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THE NOTION OF MODERNlTY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN AN EXAMPLE OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY
This article provides an account of the concepts of modernidad and modernismo in the Spanish language, chiefly in Spain, from the end of the eighteenth century to the he ginning of the twentieth century. This account also reflects the peculiarities of how conceptual history is being conducted in Spain, which resulted in the recently published Diccionario de Conceptos Politicos y Sociales del Siglo xIx Espanol. The authors conclude that an examination of these two terms reveals that the emphasis upon Spanish singularity has been exaggerated and that, despite the presumed historical backwardness of the country, Spain played an outstanding role in the creation of the language of modernity and postmodernity.
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Fineness of grain and the hylomorphism of experience
A central objection to McDowell’s conceptualism about empirical content concerns the fine-grained phenomenology of experience, which supposedly entails that the actual content of experience cannot be matched in its particularity by our concepts. While McDowell himself has answered this objection in recourse to the possibility of demonstrative concepts, his reply has engendered a plethora of further objections and is widely considered inadequate. I believe that McDowell’s critics underestimate the true force of his reply because they tend to read unrecognized empiricist presuppositions into his account of experience. To show this, I introduce a new hylomorphic reading of McDowell’s account of experience and argue that the objections to his reply all rest on a specific empiricist assumption, which is untenable because it conflates the form of experience with its content. Consequently, conceptualism so understood can resist all of these objections, as I attempt to show by systematizing and answering them.
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Přijde mi, že to je někoho cizího“: Paměť a vzpomínání v románu Dmitrije Prigova Žijte v Moskvě
The article analyzes the novel “Živite v Moskve” (2000) by the conceptual writer and artist Dmitrij Prigov (1940–2007). The main aim of the paper is to find out how the author approaches the issue of memory and remembering. The article shows that the novel does not attempt to reconstruct the factual past events. It uses memory as an instrument for the production of fictional events which are based on the narrative and discursive schemata embedded in the narrator’s conscience. Therefore, the act of remembering can be seen as platonic anamnesis (recollection). It means that the narrator recollects the schemata, however, the latter do not exist as “pure” forms, but they are graspable only in the form of a very concrete literary realization.
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CIVILIZATION: COMPARING CONCEPTS AND IDENTITIES
This article is a transnational comparative study of the history of the concept of civilization. It starts with a hrief review of the meaning of concepts that historically preceded it, such as civilitas and civilite. Next, it focuses on the appearance of the concept in eighteenth-century England and France and the ways it was used hy different political theorists and polemists, mostly in the sense of politeness. During the nineteenth century in the colonies outside Europe, in Africa, in Asia, and in America, the concept of civilization played a hey role in the discourse of colonization. First it was used from above, hy the colonists, hut later on it was appropriated hy the colonized. At the end of the nineteenth century, civilization acquired one more layer of meaning as it was incorporated into nationalistic discourse. Eventually, the concept also became so internalized that the majority of people in a country could identify their own nation as the supreme form of civilization.
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Inhibition and Conceptual Learning in Science
Recent research about the learning of science has suggested that misconceptions are not replaced by scientific conceptions and extinguished once conceptual change has occurred. Rather, misconceptions still exist alongside the acquired scientific conceptions and must be suppressed in order to use scientific conceptions. Our goal in this review is to understand the conditions under which the executive function of inhibition plays a role in conceptual learning in science domains. We reviewed 18 articles in the extant literature that report investigations involving students at different educational levels, from primary to higher education, in order to identify how inhibition and science conceptual learning are measured and the conditions in which a link between the executive function and the outcome variable emerges. Part of the reviewed studies are based on behavioral data, while the others are based on both behavioral and brain imaging data. The review shows that the majority of the studies at each educational level reveal that inhibition contributes to topic-specific learning in science domains, or to overall academic achievement in science. Neuroscientific studies provide evidence that inhibition is recruited during the execution of tasks that require suppression of misconception interference. Comprehensive models of conceptual change should consider inhibitory control, which may also account for individual differences in this process.
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ATTENTION AND SYNTHESIS IN KANT'S CONCEPTION OF EXPERIENCE
In an intriguing but neglected passage in the Transcendental Deduction, Kant appears to link the synthetic activity of the understanding in experience with the phenomenon of attention (B156-7n). In this paper, we take up this hint, and draw upon Kant's remarks about attention in the Anthropology to shed light on the vexed question of what, exactly, the understanding's role in experience is for Kant. We argue that reading Kant's claims about synthesis in this light alhws us to combine two aspects of Kant's views that many commentators have thought are in tension with one another: on the one hand, Kant's apparent commitment to naïve realism about perception and, on the other, his apparent commitment to the necessity of synthetic activity by the understanding for any kind of cognitive contact with external objects.
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