This article proposes a model of anthropocentric ocean connectivity based on the concept human perspective as location. Within this location, anthropocentrism can be, but is not necessarily, an exclusive or dominant valuation human. In fact, conceptions both and are pluralistic. These other pluralisms borne out in article’s content structure, which takes form explorations relation to four speci...

This editorial endorses a diverse approach to the study of animal cognition and emphasizes the theoretical and applied gains that can be made by embracing this approach. This diversity emerges from cross-talk among scientists trained in a variety of backgrounds and theoretical approaches, who study a variety of topics with a range of species. By shifting from an anthropocentric focus on humans ...

The concept of the Anthropocene, denoting humans as geological agents, severely complicates traditional Western distinctions between culture and nature, human nonhuman world. Contrary to anthropocentric accounts, new materialisms have established a post-humanist reading Anthropocene that destabilises such dichotomies, placing beings on par with world they encounter. This approach can also be fo...

Set in an unknown time a utopian world named The Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish’s prose fiction published 1666 introduces posthuman world. Cavendish philosophizes on variety of subjects from science and technology to religion human rights her narrative. text is considered the predecessor novels as well dystopian novels. It packed with numerous beings that are half animal immaterial spirits p...

This paper analyses the problems and trends of the introduction of anthropocentric production systems (APS) in small less industrialized member states of the European Union, specifically the case of Portugal, based on the report for the FASTAnthropocentric Technology Assessment Project (Monitor Programme) on “Prospects and conditions for APS in Europe by the 21st century”. Research teams from a...

In the framework of the COMAPS (COgnitive Management of Anthropocentric Production Systems) project (Brite Euram BE 96-3941) this paper presents an algorithm dedicated to the updating of a rules base under cognitive constraints. These constraints come from the assumption that the rules are reasonable “approximations” of those used by a human expert.