The Conceptual Form of Natsume Soseki's Buddhist Thought

Conceptual spaces - the geometry of thought

In his book “Conceptual Spaces The Geometry of Thought”, Peter Gärdenfors [1] presents a pioneering theory for representing conceptual knowledge, the basic construct of human thinking and reasoning [4]. The conceptual level is not seen as an alternative to traditional approaches of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence, namely symbolic or subsymbolic methods. Instead, it is meant ...

A conceptual history of entrepreneurial thought

We introduce a conceptual history of knowledge expansion in the entrepreneurship field based on a logical mechanism of conjecture and refutation. Our undertaking interprets and explains the emergence, rise, re-emergence, and decline of key problem situations and theories through prehistoric, economic, and multidisciplinary movements in entrepreneurial thought.

Do Animals Engage in Conceptual Thought?

This article surveys and evaluates the answers that philosophers and animal researchers have given to two questions. Do animals have thoughts? If so, are their thoughts conceptual? Along the way, special attention is paid to distinguish debates of substance from mere battles over terminology, and to isolate fruitful areas for future research. Do animals engage in conceptual thought? Opinions am...

Hohlenstein-Stadel and the Evolution of Human Conceptual Thought

thinking and executive functions The concepts and categories generated and integrated via the temporal-parietal network are the product of a largely unreflective, effortless, integration of information. We do not structure the natural world taxonomically via sustained attention; it just comes to us. In a sense, we did not invent it; it evolved. Bruner’s parietal expansion may well reflect an ev...

A Review of Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought