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Author |
: Richard Saul Wurman |
Publisher |
: Richard Saul Wurman |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1939621690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781939621696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis UnderstandingUnderstanding by : Richard Saul Wurman
This is a book for people to dip into, as they would walk in and out of the room of a dinner party and embrace their interests. Before Information Architecture, before the rules on how to organize information, before you learn grammar, before you work hard at expanding your vocabulary and go through the exercises of parallel meanings of things as using a Thesaurus and as one writes papers in class, before any learning one must understand. Understanding Understanding precedes the whole process of learning, of giving yourself permission to understand the formations of facts, data, stories, pictures, words, conversations that allow you to understand. This book could be called A Celebration of Conversation or Musings with my Mentors. It is about the fantasy of being the dumbest person in the room and being able to identify all the myriad connections of how others think, talk, explain and visualize. The following is a collection of many of the most interesting idiosyncratic paths of understanding that lead to creation.
Author |
: Richard Mason |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791486122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791486125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Understanding by : Richard Mason
How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that a critical theory of under¬standing, modeled on past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable. Understanding may bring wisdom: an uncomfort¬able thought for many philosophers in the twentieth century. Yet philosophy aims at expanding understanding at least as much as knowledge. How we understand understanding affects how we understand philosophy. If we put aside a narrow view of under¬standing based upon a Cartesian model of knowledge, we may gain a more liberal, open understanding of philosophy. Mason's treatment of these fascinating problems offers a clear and lucid dialogue with a number of contemporary philosophical schools and with philosophy's past. His discussions include the thought of Hume, Henry James, Heidegger, Frege, Charles Taylor, Michael Oakeshott, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, James Joyce, and the Guyaki Indians. This fascinating book contributes to the work of many of these traditions as well as to the nature of understanding in areas as diverse as physics, music, and linguistics.
Author |
: Heinz von Foerster |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2007-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780387217222 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0387217223 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Understanding by : Heinz von Foerster
In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of the founders of the science of cybernetics.
Author |
: Daniel R. DeNicola |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2017-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262036443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262036444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Ignorance by : Daniel R. DeNicola
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm belief. Ignorance about American government and history is so alarming that the ideal of an informed citizenry now seems quaint. Conspiracy theories and false knowledge thrive. This may be the Information Age, but we do not seem to be well informed. In this book, philosopher Daniel DeNicola explores ignorance -- its abundance, its endurance, and its consequences.
Author |
: Richard Saul Wurman |
Publisher |
: Ted Conferences |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000056867077 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding USA by : Richard Saul Wurman
Consists of statistical graphs that explain the state of America at the Millenium.
Author |
: Grant Uden |
Publisher |
: ACC Distribution |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015005643708 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Book-collecting by : Grant Uden
This work makes available a mass of useful information, including details of the technical aspects of book making, the vexed question of first editions and the matters of completeness and condition. Contains an excellent glossary.
Author |
: Rolf Pfeifer |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 724 |
Release |
: 2001-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262250799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262250795 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Intelligence by : Rolf Pfeifer
The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own. By the mid-1980s researchers from artificial intelligence, computer science, brain and cognitive science, and psychology realized that the idea of computers as intelligent machines was inappropriate. The brain does not run "programs"; it does something entirely different. But what? Evolutionary theory says that the brain has evolved not to do mathematical proofs but to control our behavior, to ensure our survival. Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior—thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI." This book provides a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building. The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own. The reader is guided through a series of case studies that illustrate the design principles of embodied cognitive science.
Author |
: Tina Blythe |
Publisher |
: Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105029420945 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Teaching for Understanding Guide by : Tina Blythe
Companion guide to: Teaching for understanding / Martha Stone Wiske, editor. 1998.
Author |
: Kareem Khalifa |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107195639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107195632 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge by : Kareem Khalifa
The first comprehensive exploration of the nature and value of understanding, addressing burgeoning debates in epistemology and philosophy of science.
Author |
: Alan Wolfelt |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2013-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135059293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135059292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Grief by : Alan Wolfelt
This classic resource helps guide the bereaved person through the loss of a loved one, and provides an opportunity to learn to live with and work through the personal grief process.