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Word meaning: a linguistic dimension of conceptualization
That words express a conceptual content is uncontroversial. This does not entail that their content should break down neatly into a grammatical part,...
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The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding
In the following I show that Hubert Dreyfus’ account of skill rests on a misguided interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s work on understanding in Being...
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Traveling and Inclusion: A Stakeholder Approach to Tourism Experiences for Families with Children with Disabilities
The aim of this research is to propose a framework to remedy potential dignity violations to families with children with disabilities seeking tourism...
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Formalized Conceptual Spaces with a Geometric Representation of Correlations
The highly influential framework of conceptual spaces provides a geometric way of representing knowledge. Instances are represented by points in a...
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Realism and the point at infinity: The end of the line?
Philosophers of mathematics often rely on the historical progress of mathematics in support of mathematical realism. These histories typically build...
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Organisms: Between a Kantian Approach and a Liberal Approach
The concept of “organism” has been central to modern biology, with its definition and philosophical implications evolving since the nineteenth...
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Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula
There is growing need for hybrid curricula that integrate constructivist methods from Science and Technology Studies (STS) into both engineering and...
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On the Limits of Design: What Are the Conceptual Constraints on Designing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can bring substantial benefits to society by hel** to reduce costs, increase efficiency and enable new solutions to...
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Lost in Space and Time: A Quest for Conceptual Spaces in Physics
In this chapter, I investigate whether dimensions in physics are analogous to quality dimensions (in the sense of Gärdenfors P, Conceptual spaces:...
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Nature and Agency: Towards a Post-Kantian Naturalism
We outline an alternative to both scientific and liberal naturalism which attempts to reconcile Sellars’ apparently conflicting commitments to the...
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A Philosophy of Sidewalks: Reclaiming Promiscuous Public Spaces
This paper frames Jane Jacob’s ideas on urban planning in a wider philosophical framework by contrasting two philosophical orientations: control...
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Law as Counterspeech
A growing body of work in free speech theory is interested in the nature of counterspeech, i.e. speech that aims to counteract the effects of harmful...
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Algorithmic profiling as a source of hermeneutical injustice
It is well-established that algorithms can be instruments of injustice. It is less frequently discussed, however, how current modes of AI deployment...
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The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Processes of rapid and truncated agrarian change—driven through expanding urbanisation, infrastructure development, extractive industries, and...
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Abductive Spaces: Modeling Concept Framework Revision with Category Theory
A formal model of abductive inference is provided in which abduction is conceived as expansive and contractive movements through a topological space...
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The Performer Between Heritage and Novelty: Aspects of Spatiality in Performer’s Creativity
In the communication processes of Western art music, there is an inherent problem of “chain of command” versus performer’s creativity. Bluntly put,...
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Serendipity and Knowledge Organisation
Toby Burrows and Deb Verhoeven return to Walpole’sWalpole original story of the Three Princes of SerendipThe Three Princes of Serendip to remind us...
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Modeling community garden participation: how locations and frames shape participant demographics
Ample research documents the health benefits of community gardens, but our understanding of the factors sha** gardener participation is limited....
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Images of Work, Images of Defiance: Engaging Migrant Farm Worker Voice Through Community-Based Arts
This article addresses a stated need within the food justice movement scholarship to increase the attention paid to the political socialization of...
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The Discrete Scaffold for Generic Design, an Interdisciplinary Craft Work for the Future
We introduce the notion of generic design from a new perspective, though the term does have a history in fields like systems science and along...