scholarly journals An ESR Framework for the Study of Consciousness

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Diana Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Mathematical Structures ◽  
Ontological Question ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Epistemic Structural Realism ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Integrated Information Theory

I will argue that, in an interdisciplinary study of consciousness, epistemic structural realism (ESR) can offer a feasible philosophical background for the study of consciousness and its associated neurophysiological phenomena in neuroscience and cognitive science while also taking into account the mathematical structures involved in this type of research. Applying the ESR principles also to the study of the neurophysiological phenomena associated with free will (or rather conscious free choice) and with various alterations of consciousness (AOCs) generated by various pathologies such as epilepsy would add explanatory value to the matter. This interdisciplinary approach would be in tune with Quine’s well known idea that philosophy is not simple conceptual analysis but is continuous with science and actually represents an abstract branch of the empirical research. The ESR could thus resonate with scientific models of consciousness such as the global neuronal workspace model (inspired by the global workspace theory—GWT) and the integrated information theory (IIT) model. While structural realism has already been employed in physics or biology, its application as a meta-theory contextualising and relating various scientific findings on consciousness is new indeed. Out of the two variants: ontic structural realism (OSR) and epistemic structural realism (ESR), the latter can be considered more suitable for the study of consciousness and its associated neurophysiological phenomena because it removes the pressure of the still unanswered ‘What is consciousness?’ ontological question and allows us to concentrate instead on the ‘What can we know about consciousness?’ epistemological question.

scholarly journals Carnavalesk taalgebruik en de constructie van lokale identiteiten

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie M.E.A. Cornips ◽  
Vincent de Rooij ◽  
Irene Stengs
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Southern Netherlands ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This article aims to encourage the interdisciplinary study of ‘languaculture,’ an approach to language and culture in which ideology, linguistic and cultural forms, as well as praxis are studied in relation to one another. An integrated analysis of the selection of linguistic and cultural elements provides insight into how these choices arise from internalized norms and values, and how people position themselves toward received categories and hegemonic ideologies. An interdisciplinary approach will stimulate a rethinking of established concepts and methods of research. It will also lead to a mutual strengthening of linguistic, sociolinguistic, and anthropological research. This contribution focuses on Limburg and the linguistic political context of this Southern-Netherlands region where people are strongly aware of their linguistic distinctiveness. The argument of the paper is based on a case study of languaculture, viz. the carnivalesque song ‘Naar Talia’ (To Italy) by the Getske Boys from the city of Heerlen.

Convergence and overwriting: Toward an interdisciplinary study of memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1337-1351
Author(s):  
Petar Ramadanovic
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

This article turns to the debate that followed Paul Connerton’s “Seven Types of Forgetting” to demonstrate how a cultural theory of forgetting can be updated to agree with cognitive science. The article goes on to show what an interdisciplinary approach to memory might look like based on the post-structuralist notion of memory as a substitute or supplement.

scholarly journals Podstawowe zasady międzynarodowej ochrony środowiska morskiego. Wybrane aspekty prawa, doktryny i praktyki

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-340
Author(s):  
Leonard Łukaszuk
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Law And Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

The author of this article presents the notion and meaning of international protection of the marine environment and offers a solid legal and philosophical background to this issue. He points at and systematically analyzes a kind of compendium of selected main legal and philosophical principles as environmental values, included in the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea (1982). The author discusses both environmental management at seas as a global system and topical issues in the light of international legal instruments, doctrine, and some practical experiences. He also shows the environmental law as an increasingly important area of new interdisciplinary study and addresses how this law and science may best able to address the key issues facing the marine environment in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Text of the Qur’ān

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
O. I. Redkin ◽  
O. A. Bernikova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Processing ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Automatic Data ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Textual Research

The article examines the language of the Qur’ān as an object of interdisciplinary study. Based on the research of the periods of the formation of the text of the Qur’ān and the available approaches to its description, the authors compare history and modernity, determining the prospects for the development of the Qur’ānic studies. As an example of particular areas of scholar research, the paper considers Qur’ān manuscript as an object of separate research. The authors cite both classical methods of codicological research and available solutions for digital processing of Arabographic manuscripts. Attention is also paid to the study of the language of the Qur’ān in a historical perspective through the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Another example of the application of an interdisciplinary approach was the study of the possibilities of carrying out linguistic analysis of the text of the Qur’ān using methods of automatic data processing. The effectiveness of methods of sentiment analysis was also considered. The use of Information and Communication Technologies in humanities in general, and the possibilities of processing Arabographic text in particular, have created new methods and perspectives for the development of the Qur’ānic Studies. An analysis of the Qur’ānic corpus, the use of artificial intelligence methods in conducting textual research will make it possible to verify some facts related to the historical development of the Arabic language, to reconstruct certain features of the linguistic situation on the Arabian Peninsula in the pre-Islamic period, as well as in the first centuries of Islam. In this regard, it is necessary to consider the Qur’ānic text in all its diversity using both traditional and innovative research methodologies, including taking into account the latest achievements of the humanities and natural sciences.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT OF 20TH CENTURY HYDROELECTRIC PLANTS AS INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽  
pp. 685-692
Author(s):  
N. Kuban ◽  
İ. T. Güven ◽  
M. Pretelli
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Hydroelectric Plant ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hydroelectric Plants ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> By rapidly increasing the production of energy and widely extending the usage of electricity in the 20th century, hydroelectric plants and dams have radically affected the social, technological and industrial aspects of the period. Therefore, as an integral part of industrial heritage, the cultural assets of these energy facilities are required to be preserved. As a requirement of this hypothesis, it is necessary: to develop management strategies for these assets; to provide scientific data and information on these buildings / facilities; to define criteria of ‘planned conservation’ with long-term preventive measures in order to provide the continuation of the original function as long as possible. Hydroelectric plants are a common subject of interest for several disciplines, such as: engineering, hydrology, ecology, geo-sciences and remote sensing. Therefore, the conservation of the plants also requires the interdisciplinary study and collaboration of these disciplines.</p><p>Within the study, the considerations of an interdisciplinary approach – such as dam safety, ecological concerns and energy requirements – are presented, and examples from different countries are examined through the framework of architectural conservation, considering cases of dam failures, intended removal of dams and upgrading of facilities. Preventive measures for the planned conservation of hydro electrical facilities such as: constant maintenance of technical components; management of the sediment accumulated in the reservoirs; methods of analysis for the structure of the embankment are introduced briefly, concentrating on gravity dams, in order to provide conclusions for the conservation of Sarıyar Dam and Hydroelectric Plant (1956) in Turkey.</p>

Interdisciplinary Study for Urban Sciences

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Behavior of an urban system is dependent on many factors. These factors may be characterized by a different set of parameters. And understanding the complexities of an urban system would not be complete without having knowledge of these parameters. However, they may have associations with different disciplines. Therefore, there is a need to go beyond the boundaries of a discipline to understand the other aspects of a system. It would help in establishing relationship between different aspects of it. That would be significant in developing an understanding to view urban events from the angle of system sciences. However, that is not possible without interdisciplinary studies. Hence, this chapter explains the significance of interdisciplinary study in the context of urban sciences along with the challenges associated with it. Having read this chapter, it is hoped that need of interdisciplinary approach in urban sciences would be clear to the readers.

Human dignity right in the system of personal (civil) human rights (the problem of applying an interdisciplinary approach to research)

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Nikolay Pridvorov ◽  
Vasily Trofimov
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
The Right ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

We consider the problem of human dignity right as one of the key elements of the system of personal (civil) rights and freedoms of man and citizen. We state the constitutive importance of the right to human dignity in the structure of the legal status of an individual. We demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of the institution of human dignity. We give examples of legislative protection of the right to dignity of an individual from a number of branches of Russian and foreign law. We reveal the incompleteness of both the doctrinal understanding and the legislative regulation of personal rights, including the right to the dignity of the person, which, as a general principle, figure only as objects of protection from state and legal means (mechanisms). In addition, these rights have their potential for the full realization of the personality in the process of social and legal life, and therefore it is necessary to create wider regulatory opportunities for this legal institution. The achievement of the goals of a correct understanding and regulation of the right to human dignity (as well as other personal rights) will be facilitated by the use of an interdisciplinary scientific approach in the process of scientific and practical research of this subject. We offer arguments that indicate the relevance of an interdisciplinary study of the right to human dignity.

The Benacerraf Problem as a Challenge for Ontic Structural Realism†

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-59
Author(s):  
Majid Davoody Beni
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Ontic Structural Realism ◽  
Mathematical Structures ◽  
Scientific Representations

ABSTRACT Benacerraf has presented two problems for the philosophy of mathematics. These are the problem of identification and the problem of representation. This paper aims to reconstruct the latter problem and to unpack its undermining bearing on the version of Ontic Structural Realism that frames scientific representations in terms of abstract structures. I argue that the dichotomy between mathematical structures and physical ones cannot be used to address the Benacerraf problem but strengthens it. I conclude by arguing that versions of OSR that do not rely on mathematical frameworks for representational purposes need not be vulnerable to Benacerraf’s second problem.

scholarly journals Epistemic structural realism, modality and laws of nature

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 447
Author(s):  
Bruno Borge
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Realism ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Epistemic Structural Realism ◽  
The One

According to epistemic structural realism (EER) scientific theories provide us only with knowledge about the structure of the unobservable world, but not about its nature. The most significant objection that this posi- tion has faced is the so-called Newman’s problem. In this paper I offer an alternative objection to EER. I argue that its formulation leads to undesirable skeptical positions in two fields close to scientific realism: the debates on modality and laws of nature. I also show that there is an interesting sense in which my objection is stronger than the one offered by Newman.

Thomist vs. Scotist Perspectives on Ontic Structural Realism

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-337
Author(s):  
Travis Dumsday ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Realism ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Ontic Structural Realism ◽  
Metaphysics Of Science ◽  
Important Player ◽  
Epistemic Structural Realism

Structural realism has re-emerged as part of the debate between scientific realism and antirealism. Since then it has branched into several different versions, notably epistemic structural realism and ontic structural realism. The latter theory (which itself has now divided into competing formulations) is still an important perspective in the realism/antirealism dialectic; however, its significance has expanded well beyond that debate. Today ontic structural realism is also an important player in the metaphysics of science literature, engaging with a variety of ontological questions. One of these pertains to the basic categories of ontology, with the proponents of ontic structural realism typically advocating a radical rethinking of how to view substance and relation while calling into question the (allegedly) traditional privileging of the former over and against the latter. In this paper I assess ontic structural realism from the perspective of two major systems: Thomism and Scotism. I argue that the basic commitments of Thomism allow for some surprising convergences with ontic structural realism, while Scotism does not.

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