Self-Negating Images: Towards An-Iconology

Negating compound sentences

How do reasoners negate compound sentences, such as conjunctions of the form A and B and disjunctions of the form A or B or both? A theory based on mental models posits that reasoners negate each clause independently, and enumerate the various possibilities consistent with the negation. It makes a novel prediction: negations of conjunctions should be more difficult to comprehend than negations ...

Erwin Panofsky: an Introduction to Iconography and Iconology

Open Images: Towards an Audiovisual Commons

Open Images (www.openimages.eu) is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material from various sources to stimulate -creativereuse. Footage from audiovisual collections can be downloaded and remixed into new works. Users also have the opportunity to add their own material to the Open Images and thus expand the collection. Open Images provides an API (http://www...

Towards an Integrated Theory of Self-Consciousness

Self-consciousness is an issue that is of fundamental theoretical significance in philosophy. It is at the root of many other philosophical issues ranging from epistemological questions (i.e., the problem of self-knowledge) to those that are metaphysical (i.e., the concept of a person or a "self") or moral (i.e., issues of moral agency or autonomy). In the philosophy of mind the problem of self...

attitudes towards self-assessment

improving teaching and assessment practice requires a change in the attitudes of both teachers and learners towards the new trends introduced in the field of testing. the reason for this is that no educational change can be effectively and efficiently implemented unless teachers are not only convinced but also willing to implement the new achievements. the present study aims to investigate one ...