C’est au milieu d’une importante collection d’art européen allant de la fin du Moyen-Âge à l’époque contemporaine que les délégués SSMIG se sont réunis le 17 novembre 2022 Kunstmuseum Berne. En plus des objectifs annuels et budget pour 2023 ainsi d’autres points standard l’ordre jour, thème «TARDOC» était cœur l’assemblée.

The design critique process, used to provide expert feedback on a building design concept to students in architecture schools throughout the world, is reinterpreted within the context of an ITbased collaborative virtual environment. IT support for design critique allows new modes of participation where the experts do not have to be co-located to carry out their tasks and, through the ability to...

The notion of ‘power of judgement’ in the title of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement is commonly taken to refer to a cognitive power inclusive of both determining judgement and reflecting judgement. I argue, first, that this seemingly innocuous view is in conflict both with the textual fact that Kant attempts a critical justification of the reflecting power of judgement – only – and wit...

Edward Tolman’s ideas on cognition and animal behavior have broadly influenced modern cognitive science. His principle contribution, the cognitive map, has provided deep insights into how animals represent information about the world and how these representations inform behavior. Although a variety of modern theories share the same title, they represent ideas far different than what Tolman prop...

Traditionally, a sharp distinction was made between conscious perception of elapsed time, considered a key attribute of cognition, and automatic time processes involving basic sensory and motor functions. Recently, however, this dichotomous view has been challenged on the ground that time perception and timed actions share very similar features, at least for events lasting less than a second. F...

La fiction contemporaine produit un grand nombre de personnages dont la caractéristique est rester peu longtemps en scène. Sans être secondaires, ils se définissent par brièveté leur présence et récit, comme s’il s’agissait pour eux laisser le moins trace possible ou retrait d’une trame qui poursuit sans même souvenir. Repérable chez des auteurs aussi divers que Jean Echenoz, Maylis Kerangal, M...

This is a rough draft synopsis of a book presently in preparation. This book provides a systematic critique of the software industry. This critique is accomplished using classical methods in practical design science.

This article provides some philosophical “groundwork” for contemporary debates about the status of the idea(l) of critical thinking. The major part of the article consists of a discussion of three conceptions of “criticality,” viz., critical dogmatism, transcendental critique (Karl-Otto Apel), and deconstruction (Jacques Derrida). It is shown that these conceptions not only differ in their answ...