Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Max Deutsch
Summary: Conceptual analysis is often misunderstood as targeting concepts directly, when in fact it is a method for analyzing philosophical phenomena. By recognizing this distinction, skepticism about the viability of conceptual analysis can be addressed.
Article
Ethics
Steffen Koch
Summary: The article discusses the challenge of conceptual engineering, specifically the 'attractor challenge', which suggests that reforming certain concepts is difficult due to their psychological nature. These concepts are attractors that the mind is naturally drawn to, making it unlikely for engineering efforts to successfully replace them. This challenge is supported by experimental research on the concept of innateness.
INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Iris Berent
Summary: The controversy over human nature in science revolves around whether concepts and emotions are learned or innate. Studies suggest that newborns possess core concepts, while laypeople believe concepts are learned and emotions are innate. This discrepancy is influenced by implicit psychological principles, leading to a bias in reasoning about innateness.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Amira Mouakher, Axel Ragobert, Sebastien Gerin, Andrea Ko
Summary: Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory used for knowledge representation. By utilizing natural groupings and organizing concepts effectively, it can prevent exponential growth of concepts and offer meaningful subset for concept coverage in formal contexts.
Review
Biology
Ione Fine, Woon Ju Park
Summary: This article compares visual and auditory motion processing and discusses the impact of early blindness on the perception of auditory motion. Blindness leads to the use of the visual motion area hMT+ for auditory motion processing, while the planum temporale, associated with auditory motion, shows reduced selectivity in blind individuals. The article discusses how this significant shift in the cortical basis of motion processing may affect the perceptual experience of motion in the early blind.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Hui Yu, Wu Zhao, Qian Zhao
Summary: Data-driven conceptual design is an effective approach to generate novel and meaningful ideas by utilizing external knowledge, especially in the early design phase. However, the majority of engineering knowledge exists in unstructured and heterogeneous texts, posing challenges in capturing complex knowledge relationships and efficiently retrieving valuable implicit associations. In this work, we propose a new data-driven conceptual design approach that represents and retrieves cross-domain knowledge concepts through information-dense word embeddings and a semantic network. The validation results and case studies demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of our proposed approach in enhancing engineering conceptual design.
ADVANCED ENGINEERING INFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Kevin Scharp
Summary: The analysis of the concept of truth through the Canberra plan failed due to inconsistencies, leading to the proposal of a new methodology called conceptual engineering, which aims to offer new concepts to replace the concept of truth. This new approach involves exploring aletheic properties and concepts, ultimately leading to the need for an Aletheic Principles Project (APP) to investigate and develop new aletheic concepts.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Iris Berent, Rachel M. Theodore, Erick Valencia
Summary: People commonly hold intuitive Dualist beliefs, perceiving the mind as distinct from the body. This study explores whether Dualism emerges from conflicting core principles regarding objects and theory of mind. Results show that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to view psychological traits as embodied and do not consider thoughts as disembodied. These findings demonstrate that ASD attenuates Dualist reasoning and link Dualism to theory of mind.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger
Summary: The article extends the mathematical formalization of the conceptual spaces framework by providing quantitative mathematical definitions for measuring relations between concepts, enhancing the representational capabilities of the framework.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Katie Hoemann, Ludger Hartley, Akira Watanabe, Estefania Solana Leon, Yuta Katsumi, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen S. Quigley
Summary: The study investigated the electrophysiological correlates of acquiring new emotion concepts through conceptual combination, finding reduced N400 amplitudes for correct emotion combinations regardless of how the preceding components were presented, indicating deeper semantic learning.
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
J. Brendan Ritchie
Summary: This article discusses the debate between nativism and empiricism in cognitive science, emphasizing the importance and value of the minimal concept of innateness in understanding psychological development. It argues that the minimal concept avoids the shortcomings of traditional views and helps to understand the key debate between nativism and empiricism.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Marina Dubova, Robert L. Goldstone
Summary: A new wave of proposals suggests the need for scientists to reassess scientific concepts based on accumulated evidence. However, this is challenging because scientific concepts influence the evidence itself in multiple ways, such as priming scientists' perceptions and affecting the phenomena being studied. To avoid a vicious circle of concept-evidence mutual substantiation, scholars must consider the concept-laden nature of evidence when seeking improved ways to understand the nature of reality.
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Davide Coraci
Summary: This paper investigates the construction and use of ad hoc concepts and explores the relations between two different research approaches. It first presents an integrated account of ad hoc representations and then embeds it in a conceptual space framework for a geometrical interpretation. The paper concludes with a discussion on possible extensions of the approach.
MINDS AND MACHINES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sajal Chowdhury, Masa Noguchi, Hemanta Doloi
Summary: This study explores the theoretical relationship between spatial and environmental design factors within domestic settings, leading to the concept of Environmental Experience Design (EXD). By reviewing literature, the study has identified theoretical associations between spatial and environmental design factors of different domestic spaces, which can enhance occupants' satisfaction and comfort. However, occupants' contextual situations significantly impact domestic spaces.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Zhao Yao, Yu Chai, Peiying Yang, Rong Zhao, Fei Wang
Summary: The study investigated the impact of social experience on social abstract and emotional abstract concepts using a picture-word paradigm. The results showed a significant facilitatory effect of social experience on positive social abstract concepts, but no significant effect on negative emotional abstract concepts.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)