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“Comprehending the Connection of Things”: Bernhard Riemann and Conceptual Thinking in Mathematics
The subject of this chapter is the conceptual nature of Bernhard Riemann’s thinking and its impact on mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Following...
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Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India
Prior research has shown that human trafficking has multiple facets and is deeply enmeshed in societies around the world. Two central challenges for...
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Decision-making in Shiatsu bodywork: complementariness of embodied coupling and conceptual inference
“4E” cognitive science has demonstrated that embodied coupling offers powerful resources for reasoning. Despite a surge of studies, little empirical...
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Transforming the food system in ‘unprotected space’: the case of diverse grain networks in England
Transitioning to food systems that are equitable, resilient, healthy and environmentally sustainable will require the cultivation and diffusion of...
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Alice Ambrose and Women’s Work in the Foundations Debate at the University of Cambridge, 1932–1937
This essay addresses the historical role of women’s work in the foundations debate in mathematical logic at the University of Cambridge. Part I gives...
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Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: a Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung
The last few years have seen increasing research interest in moods and atmospheres. While this trend has been accompanied by growing interest in the...
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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Interpretation plays a central role in using scientific models to explain natural phenomena: Meaning must be bestowed upon a model in terms of what it...
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‘We Are Inquiring Together’: The Dialogical Nature of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Work
A thorough examination of the dialogical nature of Krishnamurti’s discourse is a major key to unlocking the uniqueness of his thought and his...
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On Peaceful Political Relations Between Two in Luce Irigaray’s Work
Practical political relations according to Luce Irigaray ground the possibilities for emerging to a new political epoch. She articulates that in...
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Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Both in research on Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) and in their clinical assessment, it is common to distinguish between voices that are...
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Omissions and Conceptual Distinctions of Causal Concepts
This chapter discusses which theoretical accounts are best suited to deal with omissions or disconnections as they occur in biological feedback...
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Character identity mechanisms: a conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology
There have been repeated attempts in the history of comparative biology to provide a mechanistic account of morphological homology. However, it is...
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Approaching Truth in Conceptual Spaces
Knowledge representation is a central issue in a number of areas, but few attempts are usually made to bridge different approaches accross different...
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Sexual Ableism: Is Sex Work the Best Solution?
Scholarship in sexual ethics understands sex work as a primary means of combatting sexual ableism. Sexual ableism is the discriminatory manifestation...
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Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications
This edited book focuses on concepts and their applications using the theory of conceptual spaces, one of today’s most central tracks of cognitive...
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Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn
The theme surrounding scientific discoveries is quite neglected in and about the sciences, especially in terms of historical and epistemological...
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Being a woman with the “skills of a man”: negotiating gender in the 21st century US Corn Belt
There has been broad interest in the so-called rise of women farmers in United States (US) agriculture. Researchers have elucidated the diverse ways...
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Same but Different: Providing a Probabilistic Foundation for the Feature-Matching Approach to Similarity and Categorization
The feature-matching approach pioneered by Amos Tversky remains a groundwork for psychological models of similarity and categorization but is rarely...
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Exploring Digital Civics: a Framework of Key Concepts to Guide Digital Civics Initiatives
Presenting the challenges that face digital age citizens as philosophical, as opposed to technological, this paper explores the underpinning...
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Varieties of Natural Concepts
The concepts to be considered in this chapter are those that occur in everyday common human thought and language – the “natural history” of concepts...