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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"cognitivist"”.
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Emerging Elements of Leadership in a Complex System: A Cognitivist Approach
As our world grows increasingly complicated at an intensified pace, leaders must be facile managers of complexity if organizations and society are to productively and peacefully evolve. Today’s global corporations are microcosms of complexity and have the potential to affect life for almost all …
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Music as an interaction ritual: A post-cognitivist framework for understanding musical interaction within Jazz
… underpinnings of musical interaction from a post-cognitivist perspective – viewing cognition from an embodied and ecological standpoint.
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
This thesis integrates lexical and grammatical aspects of Biblical Hebrew with insights from contemporary Structuralist and Cognitive Linguistics, to present an original diachronic analysis of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible’s verbs of ‘Seeking’ and their semantic interdependence. Key …
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Scientific laws and causality in the philosophy of second language acquisition: A neo-Aristotelian approach
… its inception, has been strongly influenced by a cognitivist tradition that stretches back to Descartes. This cognitivist influence is particularly visible in the application of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar to SLA (e.g., White, 1989, 2003, 2007) and in Doughty and Long’s (2003) call for SLA to …
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Action, intention and knowledge
… rejects a version of Intentionalism which I call Cognitivist Intentionalism – CI. Cognitivist Intentionalists think of intentions as a kind of belief. Practical knowledge is constituted by intention in whatever way ordinary knowledge is constituted by belief, but it is a special kind of knowledge …
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Desire, belief, and conditional belief
… and the question of whether they should be given cognitivist analyses. Emotivist theories treat value judgments as expressions of desire, rather than beliefs about goodness. Inference ticket theories of conditionals treat them as expressions of conditional beliefs, rather than propositions. The …
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A Developmental Theory of Intention
… the assumption that an intention is a state and cognitivists often share this assumption. This, together with the previous problem, is why we should consider a non-cognitivist radicalism. In Chapter 4, I present and motivate what I take to be the best non-cognitivist radicalism: a developmental …
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Consciousness, Representation, and Flexibility
… like any other. In Chapter 2, I argue that most cognitivist accounts of consciousness fail in one of two ways: they are narrowly circular, or they change the subject. I suggest that one way to avoid these common routes to failure is to adopt what I refer to as the Minimal Claim - that …
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Know-how as the cognitive basis of skill
… In Chapter 2, I develop the core components of a cognitivist, yet rule-free, conception of know-how. I show how this conception better accommodates the phenomenology of fluent skilled action and provides resources for a new way of thinking about practical modes of presentation. In Chapter 3, I …
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MORAL REALISM
… Moral realists argue that ethics is or can be cognitivist and objectivist in nature. They point to a distinctive moral reality which provides the truth-conditions for well-formed, meaningful ethical claims. Two versions of moral realism are distinguished in this essay, and both are evaluated …
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A study of Grade 8 and 9 learner thinking about linear equations, from a commognitive perspective
… on functions and linear equations from a cognitivist perspective, suggest that the reason for poor performance can be ascribed to a lack of relational understanding. Using a discursive rather than a cognitive lens, the study concludes that learners' discourse is ritualistic and that …
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Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach to Metaphor
Two of the major claims of the cognitivist approach to metaphor, the paradigm which has emerged as dominant over the last three decades, are 1) that metaphor is a conceptual, rather than strictly linguistic, phenomenon, and 2) that metaphor exemplifies processes which are at work in cognition more …
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Reading Between The Lines: An Account Of The Cognitive Gain From Literary Fiction
… An explanation is required in order to meet anti-cognitivist scepticism. I rule out the view that cognitive gain is irrelevant to our aesthetic appreciation of literature. My thesis locates cognitive gain in the Verstehen tradition and identifies five relevant senses of ‘understanding’ as the …
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Accounting for taste : conversation, categorisation and certification in the sensory assessment of craft brewing
… a re-enactment and materialisation of individual cognitivist models of assessment. Through exploring the ways a classification system is assembled, translated and made authoritative this thesis extends the conceptualisation of what is considered a technology in technology enhanced learning, and …
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Curriculum Governance in the Professions: A Comparative and Sociological Analysis of Engineering Accreditation
… are scrutinized before being admitted. From a cognitivist perspective, the regime is under threat from a subtle shift in its purpose, from mobility to quality assurance. Drawing on the pedagogic device, the thesis finds meaningful differences across countries in the structure of the …
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Beliefs And Instructional Practices Of Two College Developmental Reading Instructors At An Open-Admission College
… reading students reflect behaviorist, cognitivist and/or constructivist theories? and 3) How do instructors’ beliefs and instructional practices affect the learning environment of the developmental reading classroom?</p> <p>The procedures included analyzing classroom observational data, …
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Meaningful relations: the relational basis of aesthetic judgment and its implications for aesthetic concern in environmental deliberation
… between two schools of thought namely scientific cognitivists and non-cognitivists. In arguing against the cognitivist position I develop and advance a non-cognitive approach that focuses on the relational dimension of aesthetic experience and value. Relationship, though largely implicit or …
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Function Follows Form: An Exploration of Robotic Embodiment through Geometry
… intelligence” that is unique to robotics. This cognitivist approach to robot design is in-line with critiques from disability studies, which argues that assuming a single normative body ignores the diversity of human body-environment interactions, unfairly limiting human potential. This thesis …
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A discourse analysis of the nature of shared decision-making in general practice consultations
… decisions has, to date, been little understood. Cognitivist or intra-psychic assumptions about decision-making have underpinned the traditional methods of investigation into the doctor-patient consultation and as a result interactional dynamics have not taken centre stage. Participants' …
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An Electrophysiological Investigation of Embodied Language Processing
… symbols (Galetzka, 2017). The problem with this cognitivist approach is that it was unclear how these symbols came to have meaning, known as the “grounding problem” (Harnad, 1990; Searle, 1980). Theories of embodied cognition were developed in an attempt to resolve this issue (Barsalou, 1999; …
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