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...

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...

l’objectif de ce travail est de proposer un panorama général des romans de robbe-grillet dans leurs rapports aux multiples discours critiques tenus par des lecteurs avertis. dans l’espace réduit de cette étude, il m’est impossible d’en présenter tous les détails. j’essayerai seulement de voir de quoi robbe-grillet nous avions affaire hier, de quel robbe-grillet il s’agit aujourd'hui, á la fin ...

Probably one of the reasons the paper was awarded the best paper award is the social implication and the practical applicability that the technology described in the paper has. It is not so often that you come across papers in computer science that have such a broad social implication. As the authors argue, even a partial solution to the problem that the paper attempts to solve would have a bro...

signifiant un idéal esthétique de mesure et de rigueur, le classicisme français est le produit d’un long parcours. en fait, la doctrine classique ne s’est pas construite en un jour ou par les écrivains qui l'illustrent. les préceptes d'imitation des anciens avant que molière et racine écrivent, sont déjà élaborés; et on peut citer des ouvrages qui, s’ils ne sont pas dignes d'être appelés classi...

This paper argues that the development of a critical approach to technology from an ANT perspective is both possible and necessary. This approach to critique is not based on the belief in the autonomous and rational human agent since it fully acknowledges human/technological entanglement. It is argued that such an approach could make a contribution to the field of critical research of informati...

The philosophical relevance of experimental psychology is hard to dispute. Much more controversial is the so-called negative program’s critique of armchair philosophical methodology, in particular the reliance on ‘intuitions’ about thought experiments. This chapter responds to that critique. It argues that, since the negative program has been forced to extend the category of intuition to ordina...