The foundations of psychology are deeply intertwined with the philosophical inquiries that have perennially captivated the human mind. These philosophical musings, while often speculative, provided the fertile soil from which the scientific discipline of psychology would eventually emerge. The exploration of ...
Two diverging notions of responsibility are at stake, which are here contrasted with a third one. Built on a materialist view on ethics, the ethological perspective allows the acknowledgement of what the material and the designer become capable of together.Keywords: architectural theory, ethics,...
InDoom Patterns, Maia Gil’Adí takes up Latinx and Latinx-adjacent speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders as it is informed by historical trauma. Anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines the popular Black working-class dance rumba in...
Humans are always tempted to make decisions for emotional reasons, often based on preconceived notions that may or may not be true. Data analytics provides a strong check to this instinct so that business leaders can see whether their gut reactions are likely to result in success or not. In ...
Given that FEP has been implemented in a family of computational models that are by definition fully observable, it may seem paradoxical that it has been interpreted in so many ways. This is less surprising if one considers that FEP unites notions that are generally considered antithetical—most ...
It requires practising with turning strong commitments into speculative commitments; they are provisional, or tentative and can change as a result of the process. This relates to a wider search on the part of critically oriented action researchers on their own stance in transforma- tive research:...
My interlocutors in this somewhat speculative endeavor are the Minimalist artist Carl Andre and the cultural theorist Raymond Williams, two names that are not often seen together but which might well collide in an art school context—although today’s students are much more likely to be introduced...
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming; The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA; London, UK, 2013. [Google Scholar] Bouchain, P. Simone & Lucien Kroll: Une Architecture Habitée, 1st éd.; Bouchain, P., Lieu Unique (Arts Center), Eds.; Actes Sud: Arles, France, 2013...
That’s why the existence of animal play is considered something of an intellectual scandal. It’s understudied, and those who do study it are seen as mildly eccentric. As with many vaguely threatening, speculative notions, difficult-to-satisfy criteria are introduced for proving animal play exist...
Martin Luther questionedthe sovereignty of the Holy See. He replaced de facto the notions of freedom and responsible choices with the notion of mercy, and thus considered the human being not fully responsible for his choices, that is, not free. He unchained the Church from the authority of th...