Pretense in chimpanzees
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DOI: 10.1007/s10329-020-00836-z
Abstract: Chimpanzees, especially young ones, have an extraordinary photographic memory for fleeting visual events (Inoue and Matsuzawa 2007). Humans may have lost this kind of memory, in a tradeoff that saw us acquiring the power of… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; use; field; pretense chimpanzees ... See more keywords
Imagination-Based Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation: A New Meditation Method Developed from Chinese Buddhism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01409-0
Abstract: Many loving-kindness and compassion meditation methods used in psychological research are derived from Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism. Zhiyi (智顗), a representative figure of Chinese Buddhism, proposed a different meditation method, namely, imagination-based loving-kindness and compassion… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; kindness compassion; method; meditation ... See more keywords
Synthetic Deliberation: Can Emulated Imagination Enhance Machine Ethics?
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DOI: 10.1007/s11023-020-09531-w
Abstract: Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly entwined with our daily lives: AIs work as assistants through our phones, control our vehicles, and navigate our vacuums. As these objects become more complex and work within our societies… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; machine ethics; machine; deliberation emulated ... See more keywords
Imagination extended and embedded: artifactual versus fictional accounts of models
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1545-2
Abstract: This paper presents an artifactual approach to models that also addresses their fictional features. It discusses first the imaginary accounts of models and fiction that set model descriptions apart from imagined-objects, concentrating on the latter… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; imagination extended; accounts models; embedded artifactual ... See more keywords
Taming the runabout imagination ticket
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-1751-6
Abstract: The ‘puzzle of imaginative use’ (Kind and Kung in Knowledge through imagination, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016) asks: given that imagination is arbitrary escape from reality, how can it have any epistemic value? In particular,… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; taming runabout; imagination ticket; runabout ... See more keywords
A Humean modal epistemology
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02842-6
Abstract: I present an exemplary Humean modal epistemology. My version takes inspiration from but incurs no commitment to both Hume’s historical position and Lewis’s Humeanism. Modal epistemology should meet two challenges: the Integration challenge of integrating… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; modal epistemology; humean modal; epistemology ... See more keywords
The variety and limits of self-experience and identification in imagination
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03230-4
Abstract: Imagination and other forms of mental simulation allow us to live beyond the current immediate environment. Imagination that involves an experience of self further enables one to incorporate or utilize the contents of episodic simulation… read more here.
Keywords: variety limits; perspective imagination; observer perspective; identification ... See more keywords
The training and creativity of professional chefs: Stoking the imagination in global gastronomic discourse
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DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.08.014
Abstract: The sameness of eating out has been criticised in some quarters of food media in recent years. In this paper I demonstrate through the case of three chefs in Hong Kong how this sameness is… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; training creativity; gastronomic discourse; global gastronomic ... See more keywords
Is imagery better than reality? Performance in imagined dart throwing
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DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2019.03.005
Abstract: We investigated whether deviations from optimal performance are predicted in motor imagery. In Experiment 1, novices and experts imagined and executed dart throws. In imagination, they reported the final position of the dart. Experts performed… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; imagery; optimal performance; imagination execution ... See more keywords
Overcoming constraints of collective imagination: An inquiry into activist entrepreneuring, disruptive truth-telling and the creation of ‘possible worlds’
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.11.002
Abstract: This article introduces ‘activist entrepreneuring’ to suggest a fresh understanding of entrepreneuring which foregrounds how constraints of imagination are removed through critical speech. Specifically, we link Michel Foucault's work on parrhesia, or courageous speech, and… read more here.
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Caring well for children in ECEC from a wholeness approach – The role of moral imagination
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100452
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, I propose a theoretical framework for understanding professional care in the context of Early Childhood and Care (ECEC). This proposal aims at further developing a cultural-historical wholeness approach to the central… read more here.
Keywords: imagination; wholeness approach; role moral; moral imagination ... See more keywords