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A Qualitative Approach to Conceptual Spaces: Prototypes as Qualitative Atoms
The aim of this paper is to propose a qualitative approach to the theory of conceptual spaces, in contrast to the usual metric framework. This...
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Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Expectations Orderings, and Conceptual Spaces
In Gärdenfors and Makinson (Artif Intell 65(2):197–245, 1994) and Gärdenfors (Knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty,...
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Conceptual Structuralism
This paper defends a conceptualistic version of structuralism as the most convincing way of elaborating a philosophical understanding of...
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The conceptual foundation of the propensity interpretation of fitness
The propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF) holds that evolutionary fitness is an objectively probabilistic causal disposition (i.e., a...
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Conceptual Engineering Between Representational Skepticism and Complacency: Is There a Third Way?
Conceptual engineering has been linked by Herman Cappelen to a position called “representational skepticism”, described as one’s refusal to...
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Can we Use Conceptual Spaces to Model Moral Principles?
Can the theory of conceptual spaces developed by Peter Gärdenfors (
2000 ,2014 ) and others be applied to moral issues? Martin Peterson (2017 ) argues...
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Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework
The concept of inclusive innovation has become widely embraced in the agricultural domain and promises to overcome traditional innovation paradigms...
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The Inclusion Tax: The Price of the Ticket in White Spaces
The highly publicized killing of Black people in spring 2020 sparked a national and global social movement to address racial violence. This led to...
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Explicating ‘Explication’ via Conceptual Spaces
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the method of explication as a procedure for conceptual engineering in philosophy and in...
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Taking Up Thagard’s Challenge: A Formal Model of Conceptual Revision
Thagard (1992) presented a framework for conceptual change in science based on conceptual systems. Thagard challenged belief revision theorists,...
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Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations
It is largely assumed that conceptual engineering is essentially about revising, introducing, or eliminating representational devices, in particular...
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Cultivating Organizations as Healing Spaces: A Typology for Responding to Suffering and Advancing Social Justice
Historic inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 and spotlighted by social justice movements like Black Lives Matter have reinforced the necessity and...
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Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation
A range of contemporary voices argue that negative affective states like distress and anxiety can be morally productive, broaden our epistemic...
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Affordances and organizational functions
In this paper, we bring together the concepts of affordance from ecological psychology and function from the organizational approach to philosophy of...
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Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the...
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How to protect privacy in a datafied society? A presentation of multiple legal and conceptual approaches
The United Nations confirmed that privacy remains a human right in the digital age, but our daily digital experiences and seemingly ever-increasing...
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Empty spaces: empire versus life
The article analyzes the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war in terms of a colonial seizure undertaken by a fading but aggressive Russian empire. This...
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Imaginative play for a predictive spectator: theatre, affordance spaces, and predictive engagement
This article proposes how theatre, as a site of expert adult imaginative play, provides a unique window into how E-cognition can advance our...
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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...
