Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena

Prolegomena to Any Future Prolegomena

The paper by Sacks and Doyle that is the focus of this debate resembles previous papers by Cheeseman and McDermott, leaping from the observation that a speciic application of some AI technology is unable to solve a problem to the conclusion that the technology itself is of limited value. We argue that claims such as this should be made more cautiously in the future, and make constructive sugges...

Christian Wolff's prolegomena to empirical and rational psychology: translation and commentary.

Though not the first to use the term "psychology" (psychologia), 1 Christian Wolff did give it currency in the mid-eighteenth century. He was the first to mark off the discipline of empirical psychology and to distinguish it from rational, or theoretical, psychology. This distinction and his conception of the two corresponding methods of conducting psychological inquiry, especially his emphasis...

Prolegomena to sonic toys

A variety of electronic sonic toys is available in the market. However, such toys are usually played by pushing buttons which trigger different sampled sounds. In this paper we advocate the possibility of using continuous natural gestures connected with synthesized sounds for the creation of enactive sonic toys. Keywords— sonic toys, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interaction

Prolegomena to the semiotic

Prolegomena and Epimythion

A rather simple and non-technical exposition of our new approach to Time, Quantum Physics, Black-Hole dynamics, and Cosmology, based on non-critical string theory, is provided. A new fundamental principle, the Procrustean Principle, that catches the essence of our approach is postulated: the low-energy world is unavoidably an “open” system due to the spontaneous truncation of the delocalized, t...