Who’s Calling Wittgenstein a Pragmatist?

Whos Calling at This Hour? Local Sidereal Time and Telephone Telepathy

Can we guess who is calling us on the phone before picking up, and does local sidereal time (LST) affect how often we guess right? Reviews of anomalous cognition studies have shown that effect sizes are highest around 13.30 LST (Spottiswoode, 1997). A post-hoc analysis of telephone telepathy data of Sheldrake (2003) also showed a peak at that time. LST (peak or non-peak) was an independent vari...

Whos In the Picture

The context in which a name appears in a caption provides powerful cues as to who is depicted in the associated image. We obtain 44,773 face images, using a face detector, from approximately half a million captioned news images and automatically link names, obtained using a named entity recognizer, with these faces. A simple clustering method can produce fair results. We improve these results s...

Was Wittgenstein a Jew?*

In my mind's eye, I can already hear posterity talking about me, instead of listening to me, those, who if they knew me, would certainly be a much more ungrateful public . And I must do this: not hear the other in my imagination, but rather myself. Le ., not watch the other, as he watches me for that is what I do rather, watch myself. What a trick, and how unending the constant temptation to lo...

A pragmatist theory of learning

This paper suggests that Peirce’s pragmatism might be a more suitable underpinning of educational research than the currently prevailing constructivism, in particular with respect to science and mathematics education. Using examples from the educational literature, a case is made for a notion of “truth”, a pragmatist scientific method, Peirce’s doubt-belief cycle and his semiotics and logic in ...

Pragmatist and Non-pragmatist Knowledge Practices in American Law