Towards an Embodied Abstraction: An Historical Perspective on Lucinda Childs’ Calico Mingling (1973)

An Embodied Bisexual Perspective

An Embodied and Grounded Perspective on Concepts

By the mainstream view in psychology and neuroscience, concepts are informational units, rather stable, and are represented in propositional format. In the view I will outline, instead, concepts correspond to patterns of activation of the perception, action and emotional systems which are typically activated when we interact with the entities they refer to. Starting from this embodied and groun...

LOCK : An Historical Perspective

LOCK is an advanced development of hardware-based computer security and crypto-graphic service modules. Much of the design and some of the implementation specifications are complete. The Formal Top Level Specification (FTLS) also is complete and the advanced noninterference proofs are beginning. This hardware-based approach has brought the LOCK project into many uncharted areas in the design, v...

Epistemology: an Historical Perspective

There are some important issues associated with knowledge and its acquisition which, if realized, could make quite a shift in our thinking about what constitutes valid research. They have a rich historical tradition and are fundamental to our understanding of nature and society. This paper takes an historical perspective on information systems epistemology; in so doing, it hopes to expose some ...

Forms of Action: towards an Historical Epistemology [1973] I. Introduction: Critique of Ahistor1cal Theories of Perception

Among the things which are generally taken to change, historically, are ideas, theories, social systems, technologies, customs, beliefs. Biological evolutionary changes or developments are often distinguished from and sometimes compared with these historical changes: Thus, species-change, or the evolution of particular organs or traits, or even geological change are taken to be processes of nat...