Introductory Chapter: New Directions in the Study of Psychopathology

Knowledge First

10.1093/oso/9780198716310.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Adam Carter ◽

Emma C. Gordon ◽

Benjamin W. Jarvis

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Mind ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Contemporary Research ◽

Timothy Williamson ◽

Research Themes ◽

New Directions ◽

Individual Contributions ◽

The Individual

In this introductory chapter, the volume’s editors provide a theoretical background to the volume’s topic and a brief overview of the papers included. The chapter is divided into five parts: Section 1 explains the main contours of the knowledge-first approach, as it was initially advanced by Timothy Williamson in Knowledge and its Limits. In Sections 2–3, some of the key philosophical motivations for the knowledge-first approach are reviewed, and several key contemporary research themes associated with this approach in epistemology, the philosophy of mind and elsewhere are outlined and briefly discussed. The volume’s papers are divided into two broad categories: foundational issues and applications and new directions. Section 4 discusses briefly the scope and aim of the volume as the editors have conceived it, and Section 5 offers an overview of each of the individual contributions in the volume.

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Introduction

Strange and Wonderful ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190672539.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Karen Polinger Foster

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Essential Elements ◽

Public Access ◽

Time And Space ◽

Human Relationships ◽

Disciplinary Boundaries ◽

Science And Art ◽

New Directions ◽

Western Scholarship

This introductory chapter presents two new directions in Western scholarship that coincide with the study of human relationships with flora and fauna in gardens and zoos. The first grew out of increasing interest in natural history in its broadest sense, with investigation into such topics as the intersection of science and art, and the societal and personal motivations behind the collection of specimens, living and not. Historians of botanical and zoological gardens, for their part, were now considering the evolution of planting schemes, display architecture, public access, and popular expectations, as well as the psychology of interaction with the strange and wonderful. The second direction was a byproduct of globalization. Here, museums led the way by mounting exhibitions that transcended disciplinary boundaries to demonstrate influences and linkages across time and space. Thought-provoking juxtapositions illuminated the myriad ways in which communities reflected, absorbed, reinterpreted, and sometimes rejected the exotic. Ultimately, among the book’s unifying themes is the pervasive, persistent notion that exotic flora and fauna were essential elements in creating and ordering perfect, microcosmic worlds.

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Introduction: philosophy of New Directions in Garden Tourism.

New directions in garden tourism ◽

10.1079/9781789241761.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Richard W. Benfield

Keyword(s):

Botanical Garden ◽

Missouri Botanical ◽

Current State ◽

New Directions ◽

State Of Research ◽

Missouri Botanical Garden

Abstract This introductory chapter reviews the current state of research in garden tourism before describing the structure of the book. It also highlights some recent garden openings, new garden audiences, and new initiatives and new uses in existing gardens. A case study is presented of the Missouri Botanical Garden as an example of one garden that is combining new initiatives to attract visitors.

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Introduction and Background

Quantal Response Equilibrium ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691124230.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jacob K. Goeree ◽

Charles A. Holt ◽

Thomas R. Palfrey

Keyword(s):

Game Theory ◽

Journal Article ◽

Detailed Data ◽

Quantal Response ◽

New Directions ◽

Broad Array ◽

New Material ◽

Informed Reader ◽

Applications To Economics

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book focuses on a class of general models, quantal response equilibrium (QRE) models, and its applications to economics, political science, and pure game theory. It aims to lay out for an informed reader the broad array of theoretical and experimental results based on QRE. It contains some genuinely new material, offering new directions and open issues that have not been explored in depth yet, as well as delving into a range of peripheral issues, tangencies, and more detailed data analysis than the typical journal-article format allows for. There is also a “how-to” aspect to the book, as it provides details and sample programs to show readers how to compute QRE and how to take it to the data.

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Introduction

10.5406/illinois/9780252038877.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Research Topics ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Global Context ◽

Theoretical Inquiry ◽

New Directions ◽

American Diplomacy ◽

Citizen Diplomacy ◽

Domestic Affairs

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book brings together work that focuses on understudied and contemporarily resonant topics—scholarship that illuminates trends in the study of African American diplomacy, attempts to (re)open lines of theoretical inquiry, demonstrates creative use of archival materials, and motivates questions for further research. Topics range from consideration of early diplomatic appointees to assessments of those leaders who have served as policy makers, performers, and cultural ambassadors from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters are informed by scholarship on African Americans as formal diplomatic appointees, studies of citizen diplomacy, and research that seeks to bring a global context to domestic affairs. The volume synthesizes the extant literature and, in so doing, bridges the scholarly gap between institutional and extra-institutional (i.e., sociocultural) forms of African American diplomacy throughout American history and suggests new directions in historiography.

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Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000979 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Penny Van Bergen ◽

John Sutton

Keyword(s):

Episodic Memory ◽

Autobiographical Memory ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Memory Development ◽

Development Research ◽

Cultural Research ◽

New Directions ◽

Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

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