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Book SynopsisA bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human A daring, original work of philosophical speculation, Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude mounts a sustained investigation into the possibility that human beings may technologically overcome the transcendental limits of possible experience and envisages what such a transition would look like. Focusing on emergent neurotechnologies, which establish a direct channel of communication between brain and machine, Michael Haworth argues that such technologies intervene at the border between interiority and exteriority, offering the promise of immediacy and the possibility of the mind directly affecting the outside world or even other minds. Through detailed, targeted readings of Kant, Freud, Heidegger, Croce, Jung, and Derrida, Haworth explores the effect of this transformation on human creativity and our relationships with others. He pursues these questions across four distinct but interrelated spheres: the act of artistic creation and the potential for a technologically enabled coincidence of idea and object; the possibility of humanity achieving the infinite creativity that Kant attributed only to God; the relationship between the psyche and the external world in Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian analytical psychology; and the viability and impact of techno-telepathic communication. Addressing readers interested in contemporary continental philosophy and philosophy of technology, media and communications, and science and technology studies, Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude critically envisions a plausible posthuman future.Trade Review"Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude is a highly original and profound scholarly inquiry into the impact of technology on our understanding of art and of communication more generally. Michael Haworth is one of the most talented young researchers working in the humanities today."—Alexander García Düttmann, Universität der Künste, BerlinTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Idea Becomes a Machine that Makes the Art2. Intellectual Intuition and Finite Creativity3. Unus Mundus4. Techno-Telepathy and the Otherness of the OtherNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms, Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow us to discriminate between those materials and objects where aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it doesn’t. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of “epistemaesthetics,” which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents. Trade Review"Aesthesis and Perceptronium offers a nuanced engagement with science, technology, and art that is otherwise largely missing from contemporary debates, exploring the significance of aesthetics in the aftermath of neomaterialist and nonrepresentational theories of perception, cognition, and intelligence."—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Book SynopsisA new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms, Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow us to discriminate between those materials and objects where aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it doesn’t. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of “epistemaesthetics,” which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents. Trade Review"Aesthesis and Perceptronium offers a nuanced engagement with science, technology, and art that is otherwise largely missing from contemporary debates, exploring the significance of aesthetics in the aftermath of neomaterialist and nonrepresentational theories of perception, cognition, and intelligence."—Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Book SynopsisEntrepreneurial cognition research is at a crossroads, where static views give way to dynamic approaches. This Handbook draws on a variety of perspectives from experts in the field of entrepreneurial cognition to highlight the key elements in a socially-situated view, where cognition is action-oriented, embodied, socially-situated, and distributed.It provides readers with some of the most up-to-date approaches to entrepreneurial cognition research and is designed to be an invaluable and timesaving companion for entrepreneurial cognition researchers. With insights from leading entrepreneurial cognition researchers the Handbook offers a comprehensive literature review of the field.Readers seeking to better understand and participate in some of the most up-to-date approaches to entrepreneurial cognition research will find this Handbook to be especially helpful in their research. Established scholars who are new to the research area will also be interested in this book. University libraries with research-focused business schools will also benefit from this Handbook.Contributors: R.A. Baron, D.A. Baucus, M.S. Baucus, B. Bird, M. Brännback, M.S. Cardon, A.L. Carsrud, E.T. Chan, J.S. Clarke, A.C. Corbett, J.P. Cornelissen, M. Drnovsek, M-D. Foo, D.P. Forbes, D.A. Grégoire, M. Hayek, J.S. McMullen, J.R. Mitchell, R.K. Mitchell, C.Y. Murnieks, L.E. Palich, B. Randolph-Seng, M.R. Ryan, S.D. Sarasvathy, A. Slavec, W.A. Williams, Jr., M.S. Wood, M.A. ZacharyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Historical Context, Present Trends and Future Directions in Entrepreneurial Cognition Research Brandon Randolph-Seng, J. Robert Mitchell and Ronald K. Mitchell 1. Thinking About Cognition and its Central Role in Entrepreneurship: Confessions of a “Reformed” Behaviorist Robert A. Baron 2. Linking Achievement Motivation to Intentions, Goals and Entrepreneurial Behaviors Alan L. Carsrud and Malin Brännback 3. Toward a Taxonomy of Entrepreneurs’ Behavior Barbara Bird 4. Entrepreneurial Self-Regulation: Consciousness and Cognition Brandon Randolph-Seng, Wallace A. Williams, Jr. and Mario Hayek 5. Feeling and Thinking: The Role of Affect in Entrepreneurial Cognition Maw-Der Foo, Charles Y. Murnieks and Elsa T. Chan 6. Exploring the Affective and Cognitive Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Across Time and Planes of Influence Denis A. Grégoire 7. Cultural Context, Passion, and Self-Efficacy: Do Entrepreneurs Operate on Different “Planets”? Mateja Drnovšek, Alenka Slavec and Melissa S. Cardon 8. Lessons from the Neural Foundation of Entrepreneurial Cognition: The Case of Emotion and Motivation David A. Baucus, Melissa S. Baucus and Ronald K. Mitchell 9. Entrepreneurial Cognition and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Jeffery S. Mcmullen, Matthew S. Wood and Leslie E. Palich 10. The Infrastructure of Entrepreneurial Learning Daniel P. Forbes 11. How Language Shapes Thought: New Vistas for Entrepreneurship Research Jean S. Clarke and Joep P. Cornelissen 12. Thinking Big from the Start: An Essay on Entrepreneurial Growth Cognitions Andrew C. Corbett 13. Simulating Socially Situated Cognition in Exchange Creation Ronald K. Mitchell, J. Robert Mitchell, Miles A. Zachary and Michael R. Ryan 14. The Whole Deal: Models, Metaphors and Mechanisms in Entrepreneurial Cognition Saras D. Sarasvathy Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in an age saturated with images. Video screens loop multimillion dollar ads while we sit in the back of taxis. Teenagers scavenge through public parks in search of Pokemon. Technology has created for us a new reality; one which we are still struggling to understand. Taking their cue from the work of Charles Johns, who has argued that, far from being an ailment, neurosis is in fact the dominant condition of our society today, an array of thinkers have gathered in The Neurotic Turn to address the question: How can the concept of "neurosis" help us understand this new, digitized world in which we live and our place within it? With essays from Charles Johns, Graham Harman, Benjamin Noys, Patricia Reed, Dany Nobus, John Russon and Katerina Kolozova.

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Book SynopsisCognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that anumber of disciplines, including psychology, computer science,linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to thefield’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to thefoundational assumption that cognition is information processing,cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology.However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundationalassumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the terminformation processing, three separate schools emerged:classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, andembodied cognitive science. Examples, cases, and research findings taken from the wide range ofphenomena studied by cognitive scientists effectively explain andexplore the relationship among the three perspectives. Intended tointroduce both graduate and senior undergraduate students to thefoundations of cognitive science, Mind, Body, World addressesa number of questions currently being asked by those practicing in thefield: What are the core assumptions of the three different schools?What are the relationships between these different sets of coreassumptions? Is there only one cognitive science, or are there manydifferent cognitive sciences? Giving the schools equal treatment anddisplaying a broad and deep understanding of the field, Dawsonhighlights the fundamental tensions and lines of fragmentation thatexist among the schools and provides a refreshing and unifyingframework for students of cognitive science.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables | ix Preface | xiii Who Is This Book Written For? | xiv Acknowledgements | xv Chapter 1. The Cognitive Sciences: One or Many? | 1 1.0 Chapter Overview | 1 1.1 A Fragmented Psychology | 2 1.2 A Unified Cognitive Science | 3 1.3 Cognitive Science or the Cognitive Sciences? | 6 1.4 Cognitive Science: Pre-paradigmatic? | 13 1.5 A Plan of Action | 16 Chapter 2. Multiple Levels of Investigation | 19 2.0 Chapter Overview | 19 2.1 Machines and Minds | 20 2.2 From the Laws of Thought to Binary Logic | 23 2.3 From the Formal to the Physical | 29 2.4 Multiple Procedures and Architectures | 32 2.5 Relays and Multiple Realizations | 35 2.6 Multiple Levels of Investigation and Explanation | 38 2.7 Formal Accounts of Input-Output Mappings | 40 2.8 Behaviour by Design and by Artifact | 41 2.9 Algorithms from Artifacts | 43 2.10 Architectures against Homunculi | 46 2.11 Implementing Architectures | 48 2.12 Levelling the Field | 51 Chapter 3. Elements of Classical Cognitive Science | 55 3.0 Chapter Overview | 55 3.1 Mind, Disembodied | 56 3.2 Mechanizing the Infinite | 59 3.3 Phrase Markers and Fractals | 65 3.4 Behaviourism, Language, and Recursion | 68 3.5 Underdetermination and Innateness | 72 3.6 Physical Symbol Systems | 75 3.7 Componentiality, Computability, and Cognition | 78 3.8 The Intentional Stance | 82 3.9 Structure and Process | 85 3.10 A Classical Architecture for Cognition | 89 3.11 Weak Equivalence and the Turing Test | 93 3.12 Towards Strong Equivalence | 97 3.13 The Impenetrable Architecture | 106 3.14 Modularity of Mind | 113 3.15 Reverse Engineering | 119 3.16 What is Classical Cognitive Science? | 122 Chapter 4. Elements of Connectionist Cognitive Science | 125 4.0 Chapter Overview | 125 4.1 Nurture versus Nature | 126 4.2 Associations | 133 4.3 Nonlinear Transformations | 139 4.4 The Connectionist Sandwich | 142 4.5 Connectionist Computations: An Overview | 148 4.6 Beyond the Terminal Meta-postulate | 149 4.7 What Do Output Unit Activities Represent? | 152 4.8 Connectionist Algorithms: An Overview | 158 4.9 Empiricism and Internal Representations | 159 4.10 Chord Classification by a Multilayer Perceptron | 162 4.11 Trigger Features | 172 4.12 A Parallel Distributed Production System | 177 4.13 Of Coarse Codes | 184 4.14 Architectural Connectionism: An Overview | 188 4.15 New Powers of Old Networks | 189 4.16 Connectionist Reorientation | 193 4.17 Perceptrons and Jazz Progressions | 195 4.18 What Is Connectionist Cognitive Science? | 198 Chapter 5. Elements of Embodied Cognitive Science | 205 5.0 Chapter Overview | 205 5.1 Abandoning Methodological Solipsism | 206 5.2 Societal Computing | 210 5.3 Stigmergy and Superorganisms | 212 5.4 Embodiment, Situatedness, and Feedback | 216 5.5 Umwelten, Affordances, and Enactive Perception | 219 5.6 Horizontal Layers of Control | 222 5.7 Mind in Action | 224 5.8 The Extended Mind | 230 5.9 The Roots of Forward Engineering | 235 5.10 Reorientation without Representation | 239 5.11 Robotic Moments in Social Environments | 245 5.12 The Architecture of Mind Reading | 250 5.13 Levels of Embodied Cognitive Science | 255 5.14 What Is Embodied Cognitive Science? | 260 Chapter 6. Classical Music and Cognitive Science | 265 6.0 Chapter Overview | 265 6.1 The Classical Nature of Classical Music | 266 6.2 The Classical Approach to Musical Cognition | 273 6.3 Musical Romanticism and Connectionism | 280 6.4 The Connectionist Approach to Musical Cognition | 286 6.5 The Embodied Nature of Modern Music | 291 6.6 The Embodied Approach to Musical Cognition | 301 6.7 Cognitive Science and Classical Music | 307 Chapter 7. Marks of the Classical? | 315 7.0 Chapter Overview | 315 7.1 Symbols and Situations | 316 7.2 Marks of the Classical | 324 7.3 Centralized versus Decentralized Control | 326 7.4 Serial versus Parallel Processing | 334 7.5 Local versus Distributed Representations | 339 7.6 Internal Representations | 343 7.7 Explicit Rules versus Implicit Knowledge | 345 7.8 The Cognitive Vocabulary | 348 7.9 From Classical Marks to Hybrid Theories | 355 Chapter 8. Seeing and Visualizing | 359 8.0 Chapter Overview | 359 8.1 The Transparency of Visual Processing | 360 8.2 The Poverty of the Stimulus | 362 8.3 Enrichment via Unconscious Inference | 368 8.4 Natural Constraints | 371 8.5 Vision, Cognition, and Visual Cognition | 379 8.6 Indexing Objects in the World | 383

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Book Synopsis​The purpose of the book is to propose and exploit an analytical, critical, well defined theory of a very crucial human social relation that I call “Tutelarity/ Tutelage”. This will thus explain how/why such relation is so relevant at any layer of sociality: from affective relationships, to social cooperation and interactions, to politics and democracy. The approach is theoretical and strongly grounded on cognitive science and the models of human mind: beliefs, desires, expectations, emotions, etc. Written in an accessible way, it will be of interest for a large audience, specifically to researchers and scientists interested in cognitive science and the dynamics of social relationships alike. Table of ContentsSECTION 1 125 pages In the first part of the book (Section 1) we will make clear the notion of “tutelarity” and some of its challenges. For that goal we have to systematically analyze the foundational cognitive and social notions necessary for a well grounded definition and theory of “tutelarity”: Goals, Powers, Dependence, Interests, Goal-Adoption, Trust. Tutelary Relations: definition, grounding and misunderstandings 0. Premise and Introduction 0.1 Premise 0.2 Organization 0.3 Subject 0.4 “Paternalism”? Ch. 1. Tutelary Relations: definition and grounding 1.1 The “gnoseological deficit” 1.2 Goal-Theory and the notion of 'Interests' 1.3 Rationality of Actions contrary to our Interests 1.4 Defining ‘tutelary’ 1.5 Tutelary Faces 1.6 Paradoxical and Insincere/Unintended Tutelage 1.7 Attitude vs. Role and Action 1.8 Paternalism? 1.8.1 A fundamental, beautiful, unavoidable relation Ch. 2 Tutelarity as a Forms of Help Based on Dependency 2.1 ‘Goal- Adoption’: the general theory of doing something for the others 2.1.1 Reasons for Goal-Adoption 2.1.2 Goal-Adhesion 2.1.3 Level of Goal-Adoption beyond Delegation 2.1.4 Tutelary Risks already in Goal-Adoption 2.1.5 Interests Adoption 2.1.6 ‘Over’ and ‘Critical’ Help as Tutelary 2.1.7 Y's side in Tutelary influence 2.2 The Other Side of Goal-Adoption: Y’s Dependence 2.2.1 What is ‘Dependence’ and its relation with tutelarity - From Dependence to Social Power over the other - Subjective dependence 2.2.2 Autonomy: kinds and degrees 2.2.3 Autonomy and Freedom not “from” but “due to” - ‘Power’ and ‘freedom’ 2.2.4 Dialectic view of Dependence 2.2.5 “Rights” as tutelary protection of ‘interests’ 2.3 Goal-Adoption as X’s “Influencing Power” 2.3.1 Functions of “mind-reading” 2.3.2 An Open Issue on Y’s side: Forms of influence and “Free Decision” - Do I Really Have “choice”? - Manipulation Ch. 3 Faces and Minds of Tutelage Relation 3.1 X’s Side and Mind 3.1.1 Tutelarity is not Empathy 3.1.2 X’s reasons for a Tutelary role 3.1.3 Value Foundation of Tutelary relations 3.1.4 Tutor’s motives 3.1.5 Not just motives but functions 3.2 Forms of “Taking care of” A) Protection from yourself B) Protection from the others 3.3. A crucial distinction in Tutelary Role 3.4 Y’s Side and Mind 3.4.1 Non fully understood tutelary influence 3.4.2 From ‘external’ to ‘internal’ goals 3.4.3 “The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth” 3.4.4 Our Goals vs. our Functions: which have priority? - Why are we workers and consumers 3.5 Y’s reasons for subjection and acceptance 3.5.1 Imposed or Spontaneous or Voluntary subjection and compliance 3.5.2 Our need for dependence 3.5.3 Emergent ‘order’ 3.6 The needed and specific trust by Y 3.6.1 Advices 3.6.2 Presupposed Y’s Trust even in/for Tutelary Domination 3.6.3 Y’s Trust and Conflict 3.7 Tutelary Conflicts 3.7.1 Intra-Conflict. Multifaceted Interests of Y 3.7.2 Inter-Conflict 3.8 A hierarchical social relation? 3.8.1 Reverse and Reciprocal tutelarity Ch. 4 The Nature of Power and its Complex Dynamics 4.1. Premise 4.1.1 A Distorted Perception of Power: Power as Domination. 4.1.2 Main issues 4.2 Cognitive and Pragmatic Foundation of Power Construct 4.2.1 A Misliding start point/perspective 4.2.2 A Basic Ontology of Individual Powers 4.2.3 Beyond “Basic” Powers: the Intention and Deliberation Components 4.2.4. From Personal Powers to Social Dependence 4.2.5 Towards Sociality: From Personal Powers to Social Powers 4.2.6 More complex relations Command Power Information Power How Communication is/gives Power 4.3. Power Transfer, Appropriation, Circulation, and Multiplication 4.3.1 Propagation & Accumulation 4.3.2 Co-powers and the multiplication of powers 4.4. The Vicious Circles of Power 4.4.1 Poor people is sick, ignorant, inferior, .... 4.4.2 Basic “mechanisms” 4.4.3 The nice dynamics: “empowering” as an open process 4.5. Different faces of social power 4.5.1 Not aggression only 4.5.2 “La servitude volontaire” 4.5.3 “Spontaneous”? 4.5.4 A more dialectic view 4.6 Power “over” us but not necessarily “against” us 4.6.1 Soft Power 4.6.2 ‘Power over’ us is not necessarily against us. 4.6.3 We “should” rebel 4.6.4 Isn't the communication of power dialogic? 4.6.5 Depowering and Empowering 4.7 Empowerment 4.7.1 Powers that in principle cannot be ‘given’ 4.7.2 Powers that must be ‘given’ Permission & “Rights”: the power of the weak Powers that are mutually ‘given’ 4.8 Powers that make us lose power. Paradoxical and problematic power dynamics 4.9 Leadership 4.9.1 The peculiar impact of Leadership 4.9.2. Advantages of a Leadership relation 4.9.3 Real Leadership and Hegemony 4.10 "Knowledge" as Power and Institution 4.10.1 Barriers in believing 4.10.2 The Power of Deception (Lie), and the Deceptive Nature of Power 4.11 The Greed for Power 4.11.1 Power can be accumulated and stored 4.11.2 Inequality 4.11.3 People empowering the institution (the Leviathan) 4.12 Emergence & Cognition 4.12.1 Power delegation and building as an unaware "function" 4.12.2 "Subjection" & "Alienation" 4.13 Concluding remarks 4.13.1 The “tutelary” power Ch. 5 Misleading or Ideological Perspectives 5.1. A misleading tradition: “Tutelary” = “Paternalistic” 5.1.1 True “Paternalism” as a manipolatory and selfish pseudo-tutorial attitude “Manipulation” Intrinsic Hypocrisy and Deception 5.1.2 Ideological background of using “Paternalism” Individualistc and liberistic ideology A remark of Alexis Tocqueville 5.1.3 “Against his will” “Without the consent of Y” 5.1.4 Y’s “A posteriori” Consent? 5.1.5 “Authority” as Paternalism: Ullmann-Margalit 5.1.6 How All State’s Tutelarity Becomes Immoral “Paternalism” 5.1.7 In sum 5.2 Sen’s “Capabilities” theory as intrinsically ‘tutelary’, and its limits 5.2.1 Some limits: Powers and Resources Circularity 5.2.2 Liberistic limits to tutelary intervention Giving “Freedom” is Changing Mind 5.3 “Nudges”: Manipulation and Marketing as Freedom 5.3.1 What are “nudges” and “libertarian paternalism” 5.3.2 “Future” or “ideal” preference of the subject Nudging and our Cognitive Biases 5.3.3 “Means” vs. “Ends” 5.3.4 The best way for predicting the future is to build it 5.3.5 Criticisms within Behavioral Economics 5.3.6 Against the “libertarian” (liberal) ideology of Nudges 5.3.7 Better explicit recommendations or argumentation and even obligations 5.3.8 Back to the origin: Tutelary “Invisible HandS” 5.3.9 Useful Nudges 5.4 In sum: “Paternalism” is SECTION 2: Tutelarity Issues in social domains and disciplines - 100 pages In the second part of the book, we will discuss some of the crucial distinctions (for example with “Paternalism”) and problems of tutelarity; its beauty but also its contradictions and tragedies. We will see the centrality, relevance, and possible dangers of “tutelarity” in specific crucial domains of social life and behavioral sciences: education (pedagogy), psychotherapy and psychiatry, economics, norms, political power and democracy; .... Ch. 6 Tutelary Nature of Norms and Normative Education 6.1 Tutelary Nature of Prescriptions and Rights 6.2 Deontic Cognition: Norms as Mind Shapers 6.2.1 Architecture of a Norm-sensitive Agent 6.2.2 Norm-acceptance 6.2.3 ‘Normative’ Adoption/Adhesion 6.3. Towards a ‘Normed’ Mind 6.3.1 From ‘ascribed’ to ‘prescribed’ minds 6.3.2 Meta-Ns about Reasons for the Adoption of N Goal 6.3.3 A Paradoxical Function of Norms: Disobedience 6.3.4 Obligation vs. Duty 6.3.5 From Instrumental Goals to Final Goals: from Threats to ‘Values’ - Two different normative minds 6.3.6 The “alienated” nature of norm adoption 6.3.7 In sum 6.3.8 The affective grounding of Norm and deontic conform behaviors 6.4 “Right” as a Tutelary relation (and as “capability”) 6.4.1 The psychology of “rights” 6.5 Homage to Simon Weil: The intrinsic tutelary nature of “duties” 6.6 Norms imposing to you (to care of) your own good 6.7 Education as internalized discipline 6.8 Tutors of ourselves 6.8.1 Self- tutelary attitude: “Me”, the puppet of myself 6.8.2 The Tutelary and Paternalistic nature of SuperEgo 6.8.3 Self-tutelarity Function or Intention? 6.9. The Emancipation and Autonomization Process 6.9.1. The normative autonomization process - Deontic Internalization - Learning as autonomization 6.9.2. Re-habilitation (recovery) as autonomization 6.9.3. A complex dialectics 6.9.4. A more extreme and radical “Autonomization”: Rebellion - Empowerment is not just “giving powers” 6.9.5 Not conclusive considerations Ch. 7 Possible Dangers and Ambivalence of Tutelarity and Assistance 7.1 A very problematic (non-renounceable) relation 7.1.1 Problems - X’s Bona fide - Y’s Mala fide 7.1.2 Manipulation 7.1.3 Tutelary Conflicts - Tutelary need for conflicts 7.1.4 Additional dangers - Prescribed Future Goals - Not real “Listening” to Y 7.1.5 Risks due to Power dynamics - Tutelary Acts as Power Demonstration 7.1.6 Tutelarity preserving and betraying itself 7.2. Ambivalence in Assistance: Welfarism, Rehabilitation, Psychotherapy and Emancipation process 7.2.1. A Contradiction to be managed, not to be denied 7.2.2. Emancipatory tutelage vs. Chronic/Stabilizing/Assistive Tutelage 7.2.3 Emancipatory and empowering Tutelage 7.2.4. Welfarism - Economic False Tutelarity 7.2.5 Psychiatric and Rehabilitation Relationships and Tutelarity - Mental Health Care - The need for “masochism” of psychiatric institutions - De-institutionalization - Potential "psycho-therapeutic" character of “assistance” interventions 7.2.6 The fear of tutelarity responsibility - Just “maieutic” - Psychotherapy and its Therapeutic “alliance” 7.3 Tutelary Tragedies 7.3.1 A noxious love: Vincent van Gogh suicide 7.3.2 “Trust us: it is for the good of indigenous childrens 7.4 But not in politics Ch. 8 Tutelarity and Trust Problems in Democracy 8. 0. A unpleasant premise: No shared understanding and mind 8.1 Power Delegation and the Intrinsic Limits of Democracy 8.1.1 Possible power ‘alienation’ in delegation 8.2 Constitutive Tutelarity and its Nature 8.2.1 Tutelage is an ‘attitude’ not a person 8.2.2 Multi-tutelarity and meta-tutelarity of politics 8.2.3 Citizens as tutors of the “city” 8.2.4 Guardian of “Common Good”? 8. 3 No conflicts no democracy 8.4. Citizen’s ‘ignorance’ 8.4.1 Delegation for and Cognitive Transition to “Deliberation” 8.4.2 Overcoming People’s Ignorance 8.4.3 The social production of ignorance and the crisis of democracy 8.4.4 The tutelary relationship in politics is not towards the "vulgars" 8.5 Representation as “advocacy” 8.5.1 Our emphases 8.6 Does tutelarity mean elites and aristocracies? 8.6.1 Who Knows What 8.6.2 In defense (and offence) of aristocracies 8.6.3. Self-deprecating or Suicidal Aristocracies 8.7 “Representation” as construction of a social subject and reduction of delegation 8.7.1 The tutelary relation with the proletariat 8.8. Trust for Democracy 8.8.1 ‘Ignorant trust’ - Secrets for Democracy - Trust or Faith? - Ignorant Trust for Open Delegation 8.8.2 Trust Crisis in Democracy: Additional bases of mistrust 8.8.3 Democracy under surveillance? 8.9. The theater of Democracy: its double staging 8.9.1 Democracy letdown. Not just a matter of value relativism and false representativity 8.9.2 “Representation” is a “crass pretense” 8.9.3 Second “crass pretense”: Hidden powers 8.9.4 Hidden Powers and Functions: Hayekian fallacies 8.9.5 “Dominant powers” 8.9.6 The Hidden Goals of the “Invisible” Hand 8.9.7 To be or to feel free? 8.10. Vox Populi: "People is always right" and the dictatorship of the majority 8.10.1 Creating Vox populi 8.10.2. Self-monitoring of Political Power Against Paternalism and Self-referentiality 8.11. Making Democracy True 8.11.1 The not formal emancipation and real empowering of “people” 8.12 Is the State intervention intrinsically “paternalistic”? 8.13 The ICT and On-Line Future of Democracy: Dangerous Ideologies and Good Potentialities 8.13.1 Demystifying the Ideology of the NET: “We” against “them” 8.13.2 Building a “critical thinking” - WEB as the Truth 8.13.3 Demystifying the Ideology of the NET: No more delegation 8.13.4 No Delegation or Unaware Delegation? 8.13.5 Demystifying the Ideology of the NET: no mediation, no hierarchy 8.13.6 “Direct” vs “Participatory” Democracy 8.13.7 ICT potentialities: Anti-manipulation Technologies 8.13.8 ICT potentialities: A Glass of the Invisible - Presences - Make Visible the “invisible hand” 8.13.9 Back to tutelary 8.13.10 Another tutelary hazard: The algorithmic deresponsabilization 8.14 From surveillance capitalism to surveillance eGovernment 8.15 Short concluding remarks

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Book SynopsisJesús, Moisés, Mahoma, Gandhi y Buda tenían cerebros construidos esencialmente como el de cualquier otra persona, pero fueron capaces de controlar sus pensamientos y moldear sus patrones de pensamiento de maneras que cambiaron la historia. Gracias a los nuevos avances en la neurociencia moderna y a la sabiduría de miles de años de práctica contemplativa, es posible moldear nuestros propios pensamientos de forma similar para alcanzar mayor felicidad, amor, compasión y sabiduría. El Cerebro de Buda combina las fuerzas de la neurociencia moderna con antiguas enseñanzas contemplativas para mostrar a los lectores cómo pueden trabajar para lograr un mayor bienestar emocional, relaciones más sanas, acciones más efectivas y una comprensión religiosa y espiritual más profunda. Este libro explicará cómo los elementos centrales tanto del bienestar psicológico como de la vida religiosa o espiritual ?virtud, atención plena y sabiduría? se basan en las funciones esenciales del cerebro: regulación, aprendizaje y valoración. Los lectores también aprenderán maneras prácticas de aplicar esta información, ya que el libro ofrece numerosos ejercicios que pueden realizar para aprovechar el potencial no utilizado del cerebro y reconfigurarlo con el tiempo para lograr mayor paz y bienestar.CRÍTICASEste libro nos permite comprender el porqué y el cómo de nuestro sistema operativo humano para que podamos tomar decisiones más informadas que nos permitan vivir vidas más plenas, compasivas, con mayor bienestar y bondad hacia los demás y hacia nosotros mismos. Lo que me entusiasma de El Cerebro de Buda es la capacidad de Rick Hanson para delinear claramente las causas profundas del sufrimiento y explicar maneras pertinentes de cambiarlas y lograr un cambio duradero en todos los niveles de nuestra mente, cuerpo y relaciones interpersonales. Su estilo informativo, relajado y fácil de leer me hizo querer retomar este libro una y otra vez y profundizar cada vez más en las complejidades de nuestra ingeniería humana. El Cerebro de Buda está ahora en mi lista de recomendaciones para todos mis estudiantes y profesores en formación. --Richard C. Miller, PhD, presidente fundador del Instituto de Restauración Integral.Numerosos escritos en los últimos años han exacerbado la tradicional brecha entre ciencia y religión; sin embargo, ha surgido un refrescante movimiento paralelo en la dirección opuesta. Los neurocientíficos se han interesado cada vez más en utilizar indagaciones introspectivas de la mente en primera persona para complementar sus investigaciones científicas occidentales sobre el cerebro, en tercera persona. Las prácticas contemplativas budistas son particularmente propicias para dicha colaboración, lo que invita a buscar explicaciones neurobiológicas para la filosofía budista. Despojado de su carga religiosa, El Cerebro de Buda describe claramente cómo los conceptos modernos de neurobiología evolutiva y cognitiva respaldan las enseñanzas y prácticas budistas fundamentales. Este libro resultará muy atractivo para quienes buscan un camino espiritual secular, a la vez que plantea numerosas hipótesis comprobables para los neurocientíficos interesados. --Jerome Engel, Jr., MD, PhD, Profesor Distinguido Jonathan Sinay de Neurología, Neurobiología, Psiquiatría y Ciencias Bioconductuales en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles."El Cerebro de Buda hace una contribución significativa al diálogo dinámico actual entre la neurociencia, la psicología y las disciplinas budistas de entrenamiento mental. Basándose en la sabiduría surgida de su propia práctica de meditación y sus antecedentes científicos, los autores señalan una y otra vez las posibilidades de la transformación profunda de nuestras mentes y vidas". --Christina Feldman, autora de Compasión y El camino budista hacia la simplicidad."Los recientes avances en psicología y neurociencias han generado perspectivas claras y contundentes sobre cómo funciona nuestro cerebro y cómo estas funciones neurológicas moldean nuestra experiencia del mundo. Estas perspectivas son profundamente congruentes con la sabiduría que se ha desarrollado durante miles de años en las tradiciones contemplativas. Los autores de El cerebro de Buda nos han brindado una guía concisa y práctica sobre cómo estas dos corrientes de conocimiento pueden utilizarse para transformar nuestra capacidad de conectar con nosotros mismos y con los demás con sabiduría, compasión y atención plena". --Robert D. Truog, MD, profesor de la Facultad de Medicina de Harvard, director ejecutivo del Instituto de Profesionalismo y Práctica Ética, y asociado sénior en medicina de cuidados intensivos del Hospital Infantil de Boston. "Una introducción clara a algunos principios básicos de la neurociencia y el dharma". --Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, profesor de la Universidad de California, Irvine, y autor de Espiritualidad Esencial."El Cerebro de Buda revela brillantemente las enseñanzas del Buda a la luz de la neurociencia moderna. Esta es una guía práctica para cambiar tu realidad. Este es tu cerebro en Dharma!" --Wes "Scoop" Nisker, autor de Sabiduría Loca Esencial y editor de Mente Inquisitiva. "El Cerebro de Buda es convincente, fácil de leer y muy educativo. El libro responde hábilmente a la pregunta central de cada una de nuestras vidas: cómo ser feliz, al presentar los preceptos centrales del budismo integrados con una introducción al funcionamiento de nuestro cerebro. Este libro será útil para cualquiera que desee comprender formas comprobadas de una vida hábil, respaldadas por la ciencia actualizada". --Frederic Luskin, PhD, autor de Forgive for Good y director de Stanford Forgiveness Projects"El cerebro de Buda es una contribución significativa para comprender la interfaz entre la ciencia y la meditación en el camino de la transformación. Esclarecedor." --Joseph Goldstein, autor de A Heart Full of Peace y One Dharma "Este es simplemente el mejor libro que he leído sobre por qué y cómo podemos moldear nuestros cerebros para que sean pacíficos y felices. Este es un libro que literalmente cambiará tu cerebro y tu vida." --Jennifer Louden, autora de The Woman's Comfort Book y The Life Organizer "Un libro maravillosamente completo. Los autores han facilitado la comprensión de cómo funciona nuestra mente y cómo realizar cambios para que podamos vivir vidas más felices y plenas." --Sharon Salzberg, autora de LovingkindnessEl Cerebro de Buda te mostrará cómo las prácticas mentales, basadas en las tradiciones contemplativas, pueden aumentar tu capacidad para experimentar felicidad y paz. Este libro proporciona una comprensión científica de estos métodos y una guía clara para las prácticas que cultivan un corazón sabio y libre. --Tara Brach, PhD, autora de Aceptación Radical."Una guía reveladora sobre la confluencia emergente de la neuropsicología de vanguardia y la antigua sabiduría budista, repleta de sugerencias prácticas sobre cómo reconfigurar gradualmente tu cerebro para una mayor felicidad. Lúcida, amena y de fácil acceso." --John J. Prendergast, PhD, profesor adjunto de psicología en el Instituto de Estudios Integrales de California y editor principal de The Sacred Mirror y Listening from the Heart of Silence."Con la mente de un científico, la perspectiva de un psicólogo y el corazón sabio de un padre y meditador devoto, Rick Hanson ha creado una guía para todos los que deseamos aprender y aplicar las nuevas y brillantes investigaciones que abarcan la neurología, la psicología y la auténtica indagación espiritual. Descubrimientos actualizados, combinados con prácticas de vanguardia, hacen de este libro una lectura cautivadora. El Cerebro de Buda es mi libro predilecto!" --Richard A. Heckler, PhD, profesor adjunto en la Universidad John F. Kennedy en Pleasant Hill, California."Ojalá hubiera tenido un profesor de ciencias como Rick Hanson cuando iba a la escuela. El Cerebro de Buda es a la vez divertido, fascinante y profundo. No solo nos muestra maneras efectivas de desarrollar la verdadera felicidad en nuestras vidas, sino que también explica fisiológicamente cómo y por qué funcionan. Al igual que nos instruye sobre cómo hacer con las experiencias positivas, asimile toda la buena información que ofrece este libro y disfrútela." --James Baraz, autor de Awakening Joy y cofundador del Centro de Meditación Spirit Rock."Sólidamente fundamentado en las últimas investigaciones neurocientíficas y respaldado por una profunda comprensión de la práctica contemplativa, este libro es accesible, convincente y profundo: una cristalización de sabiduría práctica!" --Philip David Zelazo, PhD, Profesor Nancy M. y John E. Lindahl en el Instituto de Desarrollo Infantil de la Universidad de Minnesota.

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Book SynopsisIn the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. Glyn Humphreys is an internationally renowned cognitive neuropsychologist with research interests covering object recognition and its disorders, visual word recognition, object and spatial attention, the effects of action on cognition, and social cognition. Within the field of Psychology he has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Spearman Medal, the President's Award of the British Psychological Society, and the Donald Broadbent Prize from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. This collection reflects the different directions in his work and approaches which have been adopted. It will enable the reader to trace key developments in cognitive neuropsychology iTable of Contents1. A case of integrative visual agnosia. (1987), Riddoch, M.J. & Humphreys, G.W. 2: Cascade processes in picture identification. (1988), Humphreys, G.W., Riddoch, M.J. & Quinlan, P.T. 3. Visual search and stimulus similarity. (1989), Duncan, J. & Humphreys, G.W. 4: Early orthographic processing in visual word recognition. (1990), Humphreys, G.W., Evett, L.J. & Quinlan, P.T. 5. Non-spatial extinction following lesions of the parietal lobe in humans. (1994), Humphreys, G.W., Romani, C., Olson, A., Riddoch, M.J. & Duncan, J. 6. Visual marking: Prioritising selection for new objects by top-down attentional inhibition. (1997), Watson, D.G. & Humphreys, G.W. 7. Seeing the action: Neuropsychological evidence for action-based effects on object selection. (2003), Riddoch, M.J., Humphreys, G.W., Edwards, S., Baker, T. & Willson, K. 8. The left temporo-parietal junction is necessary for representing someone else’s beliefs. (2004), Samson, D., Apperly, I., Chiavarino, C. & Humphreys, G.W. 9. Dissociating the neural mechanisms of memory-based guidance of visual selection. (2007), Soto, D., Humphreys, G.W. & Rotshtein, P. 10. Ignoring the elephant in the room: A neural circuit to down-regulate salience. (2010), Mevorach, C., Hodsoll, J., Allen, H.A., Shalev, L. & Humphreys, G.W. 11. The attraction of yellow corn: Reduced attentional constraints on coding learned conjunctive relations. (2013), Rappaport, S.J., Humphreys, G.W. & Riddoch, M.J. 12. Coupling social attention to the self forms a network for personal significance. (2013), Sui, J., Rotshtein, P. & Humphreys, G.W. 13. The BCoS cognitive profile screen: Utility and predictive value for stroke. (2015), Bickerton, W-L.,Demeyere, N., Francis, D., Kumar, V., Remoundou, M., Balani, A., Harris, L., Williamson, J., Lau, J.K., Samson, D., Riddoch, M.J. & Humphreys, G.W.

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Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially modeling intelligence is offering new insights into the human mind and revealing new forms mentality can take. This volume of original essays presents the state of the art in AI, surveying the foundations of the discipline, major theories of mental architecture, the principal areas of research, and extensions of AI such as artificial life. With a focus on theory rather than technical and applied issues, the volume will be valuable not only to people working in AI, but also to those in other disciplines wanting an authoritative and up-to-date introduction to the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction Keith Frankish and William M. Ramsey; Part I. Foundations: 1. History, motivations, and core themes Stan Franklin; 2. Philosophical foundations Konstantine Arkoudas and Selmer Bringsjord; 3. Philosophical challenges William S. Robinson; Part II. Architectures: 4. GOFAI Margaret A. Boden; 5. Connectionism and neural networks Ron Sun; 6. Dynamical systems and embedded cognition Randall D. Beer; Part III. Dimensions: 7. Learning David Danks; 8. Perception and computer vision Markus Vincze, Sven Wachsmuth and Gerhard Sagerer; 9. Reasoning and decision making Eyal Amir; 10. Language and communication Yorick Wilks; 11. Actions and agents Eduardo Alonso; 12. Artificial emotions and machine consciousness Matthias Scheutz; Part IV. Extensions: 13. Robotics Phil Husbands; 14. Artificial life Mark A. Bedau; 15. The ethics of artificial intelligence Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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Book SynopsisThis Element supports the Computational Theory of Mind by its contribution to solving the mind-body problem, its ability to explain mental phenomena, and the success of computational modelling and artificial intelligence.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Computing systems; 4. Computation in physical systems; 5. Why believe CTM; 6. Challenges to CTM; 7. Conclusions; References.

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Book SynopsisThis Element introduces contemporary theories of mental content. It considers recent developments in the debate, specifically the 'explanatory turn' and its implications for questions about representations in basic cognitive systems and the representational character of current empirical theories of cognition.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts and distinctions; 3. Mental content: main questions; 4. Theories of mental content I: naturalizing content; 5. Theories of mental content II: interpretationism and intentional stance theory; 6. Theories of mental content III: the phenomenal intentionality approach; 7. Skepticism about content: anti-representationalist approaches; 8. Recent developments; References.

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Book SynopsisIn this Element, the authors address the human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people by first considering the kinds of information an observer may gain when viewing an action.

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Book SynopsisThis broad overview introduces the full range of topics from robotics, AI, psychology, sociology, ethics, and design that are central to modern research in the area. The second edition includes a new chapter on how people perceive robots, recent developments in robotic hardware, software, and artificial intelligence, and exercises.

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