Should psychology be ‘positive’? Letting the philosophers speak

Interrelationships of Willingness to Speak and Cultural Identity with English L2 Speaking Proficiency

Regarding the belief that willingness to communicate is strongly tied with developing some insights into the L2 culture, such a connection may not be always positive and the issue of cultural attachment and identity may sometimes function as a hindrance. Individuals are believed to be highly emotional in terms of “religion and spirituality", among other components of cultural identity. This stu...

Moral Intuitionism Meets Empirical Psychology

G. E. Moore’s diatribe against the naturalistic fallacy in 1903 set the stage for most of twentieth-century moral philosophy. The main protagonists over the next sixty years were intuitionists and emotivists, both of whom were convinced by Moore that empirical science is irrelevant to moral philosophy and common moral beliefs. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, when a wider array of moral theories en...

مقایسه تطبیقی مفهوم ادراک و فرایند آن در فلسفه و روانشناسی‌محیط و کاربرد آن در طراحی شهری

Human’s perception and cognition of city form based on his mutual interaction with the environment. The knowledge of urban design, which is aimed at creating a good environment for humans, tries to identify ways of deepening the relationship. It has mostly utilized the achievements of environmental psychology, but the notion of perception, as an epistemological issue, has its conceptual roots i...

The case for letting information speak for itself.

How to Speak a Language without Knowing It

We develop a system that lets people overcome language barriers by letting them speak a language they do not know. Our system accepts text entered by a user, translates the text, then converts the translation into a phonetic spelling in the user’s own orthography. We trained the system on phonetic spellings in travel phrasebooks.