User:KYPark/1979

Joseph Agassi

 * Quanta in Context
 * in Einstein Symposium. Lecture Notes in Physics, Berlin: Springer, Vol. 100, 1979, pp. 180-203. pdf


 * The context of a scientific theory can be epistemological and methodological. Or it can be metaphysical, relating to the intellectual framework within which we cast it. Or it can be intertheoretical, both synchronically and diachronically. My concern here will be mainly diachronical -- the historical context of quantum theory, what is required of it vis -a-vis that context and how well it fulfills this requirement. But I shall come to this only at the later part of this essay. I shall have to clear the 3round by discussing the epistemic and metaphysical contexts first.

Kent Bach

 * Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts
 * MIT Press (with Robert Harnish)


 * This ambitious book purports to present `the first comprehensive, systematic theory of linguistic communication within the broader framework of social interaction` (dust jacket) -- and, with that framework, to resolve troublesome questions concerning the analysis of meaning, presuppostion, implicature, indirect speech acts, explicit performatives, and hedged performatives. The authors are a philosopher (Bach) and a linguistic philosopher (Harnish). B&H's account of linguistic communication is basically pragmatic: hearers recognize utterances as having certain (literal) meanings and illocutionary forces; they make principled inferences about the intentions of speakers meant. (Strangely, the word `pragmatc' does not figure in the explication of the Speech Act Schema [SAS] which B&H elaborate to explicate this process.) -- Review by Georgia M. Green (U. of Illinois), Linguistic Society of America, 1983.

Gregory Bateson

 * Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)

Stafford Beer

 * The Heart of Enterprise
 * John Wiley & Sons


 * Cf. Diagnosing the System for Organizations (John Wiley & Son, 1985)

Isaiah Berlin

 * Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
 * Hogarth Press

Max Black

 * More about Metaphor
 * In: Andrew Ortony (ed.)


 * Cf. (1954), (1962)

Urie Bronfenbrenner

 * The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design
 * Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA


 * Ecological Systems Theory
 * systems psychology
 * ecological psychology
 * environmental psychology
 * situated cognition
 * cognitive psychology
 * evolutionary psychology
 * developmental psychology
 * James J. Gibson (1979)
 * The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
 * Houghton Mifflin, Boston

Donald Campbell

 * Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings
 * with Thomas D. Cook

Bernard Carr

 * The Anthropic Principle and the Structure of the Physical World
 * Nature, 278: 605–612
 * with Martin Rees


 * Anthropic Principle

Edgar Codd

 * Extending the Database Relational Model to Capture More Meaning
 * ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 4, no. 4,  (December 1979), pp. 397-434. (IBM Research Lab, San Jose, CA) ACM

During the last three or four years several investigators have been exploring "semantic models" for formatted databases. The intent is to capture (in a more or less formal way) more of the meaning of the data so that database design can become more systematic and the database system itself can behave more intelligently. Two major thrusts are clear. (1) the search for meaningful units that are as small as possible—atomic semantics; (2) the search for meaningful units that are larger than the usual n-ary relation—molecular semantics. In this paper we propose extensions to the relational model to support certain atomic and molecular semantics. These extensions represent a synthesis of many ideas from the published work in semantic modeling plus the introduction of new rules for insertion, update, and deletion, as well as new algebraic operators.

Larry Ellison

 * Oracle Database
 * relational database management system (RDBMS)
 * developed by Oracle Corporation


 * cf. System R

Hubert Dreyfus

 * What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
 * 2nd ed. (1st ed. 1972)


 * Cf. George Lakoff & Mark Johnson (1999) Philosophy in the Flesh: the Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Basic Books)

Milton Erickson

 * Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook
 * Irvington Publishers Inc., New York
 * with Ernest Rossi


 * [Erickson] developed an extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis and coined the term Brief Therapy for his approach of addressing therapeutic changes in relatively few sessions.
 * noted for an uncommon approach to psychotherapy
 * cf. Neuro-linguistic programming

Jason Farradane

 * The Nature of Information
 * In: G. Walker (ed.) The Information Environment: A Reader (G.K. Hall & Co.) pp. 4-11


 * As noted by Michael Buckland (1991), Farradane states that "'information' should be defined as any physical form of representation, or surrogate, of knowledge, or of a particular thought, used for communication." (p. 4)

Gerhard Fischer

 * Powerful Ideas in Computational Linguistics -- Implications for Problem Solving
 * ACL 1979 (pdf)


 * DBLP Bibliography
 * Ulrich Kling, H.-D. Boecker, Gerhard Fischer, D. Freiburg, B. Schneider und J. Schroeder (1977). "Projekt PROKOP", Forschongscjruppe CUU, Darmstadt

James Gibson

 * The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
 * Houghton Mifflin, Boston


 * Ecological Systems Theory
 * systems psychology
 * ecological psychology (coined by Gibson)
 * environmental psychology
 * situated cognition
 * cognitive psychology
 * evolutionary psychology
 * developmental psychology
 * Urie Bronfenbrenner (1979)
 * The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design

Ernst Gombrich

 * The Sense of Order

Ranulph Glanville

 * Entertaining the Environment
 * in: Gerard de Zeeuw and P. van der Eeden (eds) Proceedings of Conference on Problems of Context, Vrije Universiteit Druck, Amsterdam, 1980


 * CV

Paul Grice

 * The Conception of Value
 * John Locke Lectures, Oxford University Press

Jurgen Habermas

 * Communication and the Evolution of Society
 * Beacon Press, Toronto
 * "What is universal pragmatics?" p. 21


 * universal pragmatics, Rational reconstruction
 * ``Habermas has formulated a notion of communicative rationality which takes up this implicit potential [for rationality] and formalizes it into explicit knowledge. The goal is to transform implicit know-how into explicit know-that. In this case, the phenomena that needs to be explicated are the intuitively mastered rules for reaching an understanding and conducting argumentation possessed by subjects capable of speech and action. The result is a complex conception of reason that Habermas sees as doing justice to the most important trends in twentieth century philosophy, while escaping the relativism which characterizes postmodernism, and providing standards for critical evaluation (Habermas, 1992).`` -- Communicative rationality (my links and emphases)


 * ``While Habermas's notion of communicative rationality is contextualized and historicized, it is not relativistic. Many philosophical contextualists take reason to be entirely context-dependent and relative. Habermas holds reason to be relatively context specific and sensitive. The difference is that Habermas explicates the deep structures of reason by examining the presuppositions and validity dimensions of everyday communication, while the relativists focus only on the content displayed in various concrete standards of rationality.`` -- communicative rationality

Ian Hacking

 * Imre Lakatos's Philosophy of Science
 * The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 30(4): 381-402

Douglas Hofstadter

 * G&ouml;del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
 * Cf. AI: Hope and Hype

Steven Jones

 * Dogmatism in the Contextual Revolution
 * Western Folklore, 38:52-55.


 * Steven Jones (1979). "Slouching Towards Ethnography: The Text/Context Controversy Reconsidered." Western Folklore, 38:42-47.
 * Robert Georges (1980). "Toward a Resolution of the Text/Context Controversy." Western Folklore, 39:34-40.
 * Lisa Gabbert (1999). "The "Text/Context" Controversy and the Emergence of Behavioral Approaches in Folklore." Folklore Forum, 30(112): 119-128. pdf

Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979).  Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk. Econometrica, 47(2): 263-291.
 * prospect theory, expected utility, rational expectations, bounded rationality, cognitive bias, framing (economics), rules of thumb, behavioral economics
 * optimal foraging theory, information foraging
 * feature integration theory - Anne Treisman (1980)


 * See also
 * George Ainslie (1975). "Specious Reward: A Behavioral /Theory of Impulsiveness and Impulse Control." Psychological Bulletin 82(4): 463–496.
 * R. M. Hogarth, et al. (1987). Rational Choice: The Contrast between Economics and Psychology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 * Herbert A. Simon (1987). "Behavioural economics," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 1, pp. 221–24.

Karttunen

 * Lauri Karttunen


 * Conventional Implicature
 * In: C. K. Oh and D. Dinnen (eds.) Syntax and Semantics 11: Presupposition (with Stanley Peters; New York: Academic Press)

Korfhage
Robert R. Korfhage & Christine L. Borgman (eds.)
 * Proceedings of the 2nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on information storage and retrieval&#58; information implications into the eighties, Dallas, Texas, September 27 - 28, 1979. ACM Portal

Robert M. Landau pp. 59 - 63
 * Progress report on automatic information retrieval Gerard Salton pp. 1 - 1
 * Automated monitoring to support the analysis and evaluation of information systems W. D. Dominick, W. D. Penniman pp. 2 - 9
 * A clustering strategy based on a formalism of the reproductive process in natural systems : Given a set of objects each of which is represented by a finite number of attributes or features and a clustering criterion that associates a value of utility to any classification, the objective of a clustering method is to identify that classification of the objects which optimizes the criterion. A new strategy to solve this problem is developed. The approach is, in essence, a modification of the reproductive plan, a type of adaptive procedure devised by Holland [2], which embodies many principles found in the adaptation of natural systems through evolution. The proposed approach differs from conventional methods in the sense that the search through the space of possible solutions proceeds in a parallel fashion.The adaptive clustering strategy requires the specification of methods for the generation of an initial population of classifications, the parent selection, the modifications and the replacement of current classifications with new ones. The effects of changing several of these features are investigated. Experimental results show that it is possible to devise clustering strategies based on the principles of adaptation in natural systems that are both effective and efficient. Vijay V. Raghavan, Kim Birchard pp.  10 - 22
 * Use of dynamic discrimination values in a document retrieval system Robert T. Dattola pp. 23 - 32
 * An empirical comparison&#58; tree and lattice structures for symbolic data bases Lawrence J. Mazlack pp. 33 - 40
 * Document representation models for retrieval systems Leslie Miller pp. 41 - 44
 * The economic implementation of experimental retrieval techniques on a very large scale using an intelligent terminal S. H. Jamieson pp. 45 - 51
 * The role of information retrieval in the second computer revolution : Information retrieval is conceptually fundamental in human communication as well as in man-computer communication. Computing and Information Retrieval professionals have the opportunity to apply information retrieval techniques within the second computer revolution to foster a new potential revolution in education, brought about by the advent of the personal computer. R. K. Wiersba pp.  52 - 58
 * Productivity, information technology and the office : It is well known that American productivity has advanced very little in the last ten years in contrast to many other countries' rapidly rising productivity. It is becoming evident that major productivity gains can be made, particularly in the office workforce, which constitutes the majority of the American workforce today. Rapidly developing information technologies are making it possible to achieve radically increased productivity in the office. This paper will discuss the specific technologies; the specific major office functions; how they interrelate; and how they are making such radical productivity increases possible. "The Paperless Office", created by Micronet, Inc. in Washington, D.C., will be described. The current project to automate the office activities of the American Productivity Center in Houston, Texas, will be described. Some projections of the significance of these projects will be given.
 * Message extraction through estimated relevance : METER is a text analysis and retrieval system for non-expert computer users to exploit statistical associations between index terms of documents. It will run on a DEC PDP-11/45 minicomputer with continually changing collections of up to 20,000 documents at a time. A scaled version of METER with all major features of the full system has been implemented on a DEC PDP-11/70 as an experimental test bed for evaluation and comparison of associative retrieval algorithms. Although the basic structure of METER is similar to earlier statistical systems for retrospective document searches, the severe requirements of frequent updates of a document collection, of running on a small processor, and of meeting needs of users with little technical training have led to some novel developments. Among these are an update procedure that draws as much as possible on intermediate results from previous updates and a user interface that provides for control over the process of retrieval without calling for knowledge of how that process works. Christopher Landauer, Clinton Mah pp.  64 - 70
 * On the implementation of some models of document retrieval W. Bruce Croft pp. 71 - 77
 * Document storage and retrieval Salah A. Khairy, George C. Miller pp. 78 - 82
 * On-Line Personal Bibliographic Retrieval System Emily G. Fayen, Susan B. Baird pp. 83 - 86
 * Information implications into the eighties&#58; panel discussion Christine L. Borgman pp. 87 - 87

Thomas Kuhn

 * Metaphor in Science
 * In: Andrew Ortony (ed.) 409-419

Bruno Latour

 * Laboratory Life&#58; The Social Construction of Scientific Facts
 * with Steve Woolgar; Princeton University Press

Paul Levy

 * Moore: G. E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles
 * The Cambridge Apostles

David Lewis

 * Attitude De Dicto and De Se
 * Philosophical Review, 88: 513-543


 * de dicto and de re, literally, of word and of thing, Ernest Sosa (1970), cf. Van Quine (1960) Word and Thing, cf. de se, literally "of oneself"
 * Roderick Chisholm (1976) Person and Object
 * John Perry (1979). "The Problem of the Essential Indexical," Noûs, 13, no. 1, pp. 3–21.

James Lovelock

 * Gaia&#58; A New Look at Life on Earth
 * Oxford University Press


 * Gaia hypothesis, superorganism, global brain

Jean-Francois Lyotard

 * La Condition postmoderne&#58; Rapport sur le savoir
 * The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (trans. 1984)


 * metanarrative, metalanguage, meta
 * paradigm, relativism (anti- and anti-anti-)
 * theory of everything, unified field theory
 * unified science, consilience, interdisciplinarity
 * unified theory of cognition, society of mind

Pamela McCorduck

 * Machines Who Think&#58; a Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence


 * Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann felt obliged to deliver lectures warning against too facile an analogy between the digital computer and the human brain, and they were joined by many other distinguished scientists and engineers who assured the public and each other that computers were only high-speed morons, incapable of intuition, originality, or any other variety of intelligence. (p. 151)

David McNeill

 * University of Chicago


 * The Conceptual Basis of Language
 * Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

[...] A schema is an overall, large-scale organizing concept within the memory that is used to guide processing.

Q: What's the importance of schemata? I am genuinely puzzled about what schemata do for cognitive psychologists. It just seems to be another data structure.

A: There are several different ways of viewing the schema. The concept of the schema is very important because it says that the memory structures are organized into small units of information -- that new structures can be built only by analogy to old structures or by addition to old structures. It says that we don't just experience something and build up a whole new memory representation. The concept of schema is not well defined. It has been greatly criticized as being fuzzy and sloppy, and it is both fuzzy and sloppy. But I think this is because it's in an early stage of development. The concept is very important because, as I said, it argues for a certain kind of structure of the knowledge within memory that is heavily based on experience; it says that once you start developing a particular set of knowledge structures, you're committed to them for the rest of your life, essentially. They will be very difficult to change. Possible, but difficult.

This morning I was talking with Dave McNeill, who wrote a book on language, action, and thought (McNeill, 1979), which revives the Whorfian hypothesis. Essentially the Whorpian hypothesis says that different peoples in different cultures come to view the world differently, and their mental structures for the world are different.

Q: By "view of the world," you mean the way they experience the world?

A: I mean the way people experience the world, and what is important in the world for people in our culture may be quite different from what is important for people in some other culture, even if the environment were the same. Their language and their thoughts would reflect that. It's not that thought follows linguistic structure; it's that the culture determines the mental structures, and both thought and language reflect the mental structures. The notion of schemas fits this analysis very well. In fact, schemas tend automatically to lead to this idea. The way you originally organize your data structures will determine your future organization.

But so far the development of cognitive concepts has excluded a number of things. It's excluded feelings, it's excluded emotions, it's excluded images and other analogical representations. Psychologists are just now beginning to look at the mechanisms controlling action ... (p. 386)

Peter Nicholls

 * The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
 * retitled The Science Fiction Encyclopedia in the US
 * edited with John Clute and Brian Stableford
 * contributing editor David Langford
 * awarded the 1980 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book,


 * cf. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)

Andrew Ortony

 * Metaphor and Thought
 * Cambridge University Press (ed.)


 * 1979 in philosophy

John Paul

 * Redemptor Hominis
 * The first encyclical of his.


 * personalism, distributism


 * The ``exploration of contemporary human problems and especially their proposed solutions found in a deeper understanding of the human person.``
 * "Since this man is the way for the Church, the way for her daily life and experience, for her mission and toil, the Church of today must be aware in an always new manner of man's 'situation.'"
 * ``Yet again, the true measure of good is the effect on the human person, not just mere accomplishment and accumulation. The encyclical teaches that even if contrary to its intention, any purely materialistic system that essentially ignores the human person must in the end condemn man to being a slave of his own production.``

Karl Popper

 * Objective Knowledge&#58; An Evolutionary Approach
 * Rev. ed. (1st ed. 1972)

Ilya Prigogine

 * Dialogues with Nature
 * with Isabelle Stengers

Michael Reddy

 * Conduit Metaphor&#58; A Case of Frame Conflict in Our Language about Language
 * In: Andrew Ortony (ed.) 284-324

George Robertson

 * The ZOG Approach to Man-Machine Communication
 * Technical Report CMU-CS-79-148, with Donald L. McCracken and Allen Newell, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA


 * ZOG was an early hypertext system developed at Carnegie Mellon University during the 1970s by Donald McCracken and Robert Akscyn. ZOG was first developed by Allen Newell and George Robertson to serve as the front end for AI and Cognitive Science programs brought together at CMU for a summer workshop. The ZOG project was as an outgrowth of long-term artificial intelligence research led by Allen Newell and funded by the Office of Naval Research.
 * ZOG consisted of frames that contained a title, a description, a line containing ZOG system commands, and selections (menu items) that led to other frames. ZOG pioneered the "frame" or "card" model of hypertext later popularized by HyperCard. In such systems, the frames or cards cannot scroll to show content that is part of the same document but held offscreen. Instead, text that exceeds the capacity of one screen must be placed in another (which then constitutes a separate frame or card).
 * The ZOG database became fully functional around 1977. Beginning in 1980, ZOG was ported from DEC Vax version (written in an experimental language called "L*") to the Pascal-based Three Rivers PERQ workstation and was used for a shipwide 'intranet' on the American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. In 1981, Rob Akscyn and Donald McCracken, two principals from the ZOG project, founded Knowledge Systems to develop and market a commercial follow-on to ZOG called "KMS" ("Knowledge Management System").

Richard Rorty

 * Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

John Searle

 * Expression and Meaning
 * Cambridge University Press


 * Metaphor
 * In: Andrew Ortony (ed.)

William Schutz

 * Profound Simplicity
 * Bantam, New York, NY

Slamecka

 * Vladimir Slamecka, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing (1979: she retired)


 * Pragmatic Observation on Theoretic Research in Information Science
 * Journal of the American Society of Information Science. 26: 318-320.


 * Vladimir Slamecka, Henry N. Camp and Albert N. Badre (School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology), and W. Dallas Hall (School of Medicine, Emory University) (1977). "MARIS: A knowledge system for internal medicine, " Information Processing & Management, Volume 13, Issue 5, 1977, pp. 273-276.
 * Abstract
 * Computer systems for clinical consulting on patient management operate on descriptions of medical expertise derived from repositories of systematized knowledge of medicine (textbooks and/or panels of experts) or from empirical situations embedded in medical records. The paper describes MARIS, a conversational system of the latter category, designed to provide relatively powerful consulting services for the management of patients in internal medicine.
 * Pearson and Slamecka (1982). "Informatics as a Semiotic Discipline," Science Communication, 4: 199-207.

David Swinney

 * Lexical Access during Sentence Comprehension&#58; (Re) Consideration of Context Effects
 * Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 645-659


 * Cf. (1976) "Effects of Prior Context upon Lexical Access during Sentence Comprehension," Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, l5, 68l-689
 * David Swinney
 * CV

Stuart Umpleby

 * Computer Conference on General Systems Theory&#58; One Year's Experience
 * In: Madeline M. Henderson and Marcia J. MacNaughton (eds.). Electronic Communication: Technology and Impacts. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, pp. 55-63


 * Academic Globalization
 * Papers and presentations
 * To be Presented in the World Universities Forum 2008
 * Davos, Switzerland, January 31 - February 2, 2008
 * Stuart Umpleby

Francisco Varela

 * Principle of Biological Autonomy
 * North Holland


 * Cf. Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch (1991) The Embodied Mind (MIT Press)

Immanuel Wallerstein

 * The Capitalist World-Economy
 * Cambridge University Press

John Wheeler

 * Some Men and Moments in the History of Nuclear Physics&#58; The Interplay of Colleagues and Motivations
 * University of Minnesota Press

Terry Winograd

 * Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
 * with Fernando Flores; Ablex

Gerard de Zeeuw

 * Context and Time
 * in: G. de Zeeuw and P. van den Eeden (eds.) Problems of Context, Amsterdam: V.U.-Boekhandel


 * When to Stop Improvement
 * in: R. Ericson (ed.) Improving the Human Condition: Stability in Social Systems, Proceedings Society for General Systems Research


 * See also
 * Ranulph Glanville "Doing the Right Thing: the Problems of ... Gerard de Zeeuw, Academic Guerilla," in: ``Systems Research and Behavioral Science`` (preprint pdf)
 * Martha Vahl (2002) "Gerard de Zeeuw: models, systems, support and research," in: ``Systems Research and Behavioral Science`` (preprint pdf)
 * Problems of ... meetings (html)
 * "Improvement and research: a Paskian revolution," Systems Research 10, 3, 193-203 (1993)

Gary Zukav

 * The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
 * Cf. David Bohm, F. David Peat, Jack Sarfatti, Fred Alan Wolf, Fritjof Capra