This paper analyses the cognitive image schemas structuring the ontological commitments of dominant conceptions of ethics and economics to show that the content of economics is implicated in conceptions of ethics, and that these conceptions cannot be separated from questions of research and professional ethics. This analysis of the metaphoric structuring of the ontological commitments of ethics...

The challenge addressed here is to design a hybrid cognitive architecture that will possess the minimal Core Cognitive Competency (CCC) sufficient for the cognitive and social growth of an agent up to the human level of intelligence, based on autonomous learning. The approach is based on the integration of high-level symbolic (schema-based) and connectionist components at the top representation...

Spatial navigation in mammals is based on building a mental representation of their environment-a cognitive map. However, both the nature of this cognitive map and its underpinning in neural structures and activity remains vague. A key difficulty is that these maps are collective, emergent phenomena that cannot be reduced to a simple combination of inputs provided by individual neurons. In this...

Newly, researchers have emphasized the importance of cognitive-schema affective elements in person sexual reaction [1,2] and have extended new theoretical approach and therapeutic techniques based on this perspective. Most empirical studies in this field have been focused on specific cognitive constructs such as cognitive distraction [3,4], efficacy expectancies [5], causal attributions [4] or ...

As an introduction, I want to contrast two general traditions in semantics, one realistic and one cognitive. According to the realistic approach to semantics the meaning of an expression is something out there in the world. In technical terms, a semantics for a language is defined as a mapping from the syntactic structures to things in the world. In philosophical ontological terms, this is thus...

objective: this project aimed to study early maladaptive schemas in adults with parents afflicted with schizophrenia. methods: in a causal-comparative study, a sample of 39 adults with one schizophrenic parent as the experiment group and 40 students without schizophrenic parents as the control group were selected. both groups completed early maladaptive schema questionnaire. descriptive statist...

iv CHAPTER 1: Psychopathy and Narcissism 1 1.1 Personality Disorders 1 1.2 Psychopathy 9 1.2.1 Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD): Historical Background 9 1.2.2 Modern Conceptualisations: Primary and Secondary Psychopathy 14 1.2.3 Hare’s Two-Factor Conceptualisation of Psychopathy and the Psychopathy Checklist – Revised (PCL-R) 15 1.2.4 Levenson’s Self-Report Psychopathy Scal...

Patients with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) typically report little psychopathology. Recent findings also showed this group to report high levels of healthy cognitions. Such a non-deviant cognitive profile might merely characterize ASPD under neutral assessment conditions. Indeed, hardly anything is known about how emotional states alter ASPD patients' cognitions. The current study the...