Universals: the contemporary debate by Fraser MacBride

The Intentionality of Passive Experience: Husserl and A Contemporary Debate

Great Media and Communication Debates: WSIS and the MacBride Report

Author(s): Mansell, Robin; Nordenstreng, Kaarle Title: Great media and communication debates: WSIS and the MacBride report Year: 2006 Journal Title: Information Technologies and International Development Vol and number: 3 : 4 Pages: 15-36 Publisher: USC Annenberg School for Communication ISSN: 1544-7529 Discipline: Media and communications Item Type: Journal Article Language: en URN: URN:NBN:fi...

A Peircean contribution to the contemporary debate on perception: the sensorimotor theory and diagrams

The comic strip at the beginning of this paper is not mere amusement. With a stroke of pure genius, Wulffmorgenthaler – the Danish duo that wrote and drew the strip – went directly to the heart of the issues that we are going to discuss here: perception in its relation to action and practices. A new promising account of perception – the sensorimotor one – deeply challenges some established conc...

produce cultural universals Anna

Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...

Language universals at birth.

The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further shaped by linguistic biological biases remains controversial. To address this question, we used near-infrared spectroscopy to examine whether the brain activity of neonates is sen...