Re-invent Yourself! How Demands for Innovativeness Reshape Epistemic Practices

How to Invent Functions

The paper presents the abstraction transformation which is a fundamental method for creating functions in ADATE. The use of abstraction turns out to be similar to evolution by gene duplication which is emerging as the most important theory of \building blocks" in natural genomes. We discuss the relationship between abstraction and its natural counterparts, but also give novel technical details ...

How to Avoid Yourself

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How Innovativeness Influences Internet Shopping

Innovativeness is a willingness to try new things. Combined with other factors, innovativeness leads consumers to be among the first to adopt new ideas, products, and practices, such as buying online. As an individual difference trait, innovativeness can be conceptualized at three levels of generality: a global personality trait, general marketplace innovativeness, and domain-specific innovativ...

Cross-cultural epistemic practices

should provide a framework for the effective investigation of the entire complex problem of the intellectual processes of society—a study by which society as a whole seeks a perceptive relation to its total environment. It should lift the study of intellectual life from that of a scrutiny of the individual to an inquiry into the means by which a society, nation, or culture achieves understandin...

GoldenEye : The Quest to Re - Invent the Video Game Standard