In the design process, architects tend to choose and arrange together primitive geometrical elements according to their own cognitive environment (as reflected by culture and education), taking into account as well the broader social environment from which planning requests emerge. Therefore, each of such elements plays a very specific role in the global system, resulting from a strong intentio...

The investigation of attention has been pursued in a surprising disconnect from the investigation of other aspects of the mind. Much of the philosophical discussion of perception, belief, desire, intention, imagination or emotion, for example, revolves around issues of intentionality and content. Versions of the following questions will, thus, sound familiar to many philosophers: is perception ...

In this study we investigate whether paying attention to a speaker’s mouth impacts 15and 18-month-old infants’ ability to process visual information displayed in the talker’s eyes or mouth region. Our results showed that both monolingual and bilingual 15 month-olds could detect the apparition of visual information appearing in the eyes/mouth region but only 15month-old monolinguals and 18-month...

Abstract: One important strand of Sellars’s attack on classical foundationalism from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is his thesis about the priority of is-talk over looks-talk. This thesis has been criticized extensively in recent years, and classical foundationalism has found several contemporary defenders. I revisit Sellars’s thesis and argue that is-talk is epistemically prior to look...

This paper is going to discuss the following three questions from the view of Whitehead philosophy of education: (1) what is the idea of integrated education, (2) why should we have the integrated education, and (3) how can we achieve it? The concept of integrated education emphasizes methods which concentrate on viewing the student as a whole person. The goal is not about how to find a good jo...

The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all minds to software. Next it proves some properties of the mind design space such as infinitude of minds, size and representation complexity of minds. A survey of mind design taxonomies is followed by a proposal for a new field of investigation devoted to study of minds, intellectology.

Crowdfunding has become a viable source of funding for a variety of projects during the last years. More and more music, creative and artistic but also entrepreneurial projects search funding through the crowd. Although first project characteristics with an impact on a project’s funding success have been identified, qualitative variables within crowdfunding projects have mostly remained uncover...

In my efforts to synthesize Buddhist and psychodynamic psychologies of mind, the inner experience of emptiness has emerged as the most beguiling and yet the most treacherous subject common to both fields. There is confusion within psychodynamic theory about what constitutes emptiness, there is confusion within Buddhist theory about what constitutes emptiness, and there is certainly confusion am...