Tag: Interdisciplinary

Free Download Systems, Self-Organisation and Information: An Interdisciplinary Perspective By Pereira Junior Alfredo; William A. Pickering; Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin
2018 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 1138609927 | PDF | 16 MB
Complex system studies are a growing area of central importance to a wide range of disciplines, ranging from physics to politics and beyond. Adopting this interdisciplinary approach, Systems, Self-Organisation and Informationpresents and discusses a range of ground-breaking research in complex systems theory.Building upon foundational concepts, the volume introduces a theory of Self-Organization, providing definitions of concepts including system, structure, organization, functionality, and boundary. Biophysical and cognitive approaches to Self-Organization are also covered, discussing the complex dynamics of living beings and the brain, and self-organized adaptation and learning in computational systems. The convergence of Peircean philosophy with the study of Self-Organization also provides an original pathway of research, which contributes to a dialogue between pragmatism, semeiotics, complexity theory, and self-organizing systems.As one of the few interdisciplinary works on systems theory, relating Self-Organization and Information Theory, Systems, Self-Organisation and Informationis an invaluable resource for researchers and postgraduate students interested in complex systems theory from related disciplines including philosophy, physics, and engineering.

Free Download Linda de Greef, Ger Post, Christianne Vink, "Designing Interdisciplinary Education: A Practical Handbook for University Teachers (Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 946298476X | PDF | pages: 180 | 1.8 mb
Interdisciplinary education has been identified by many educational organisations in Europe and the United States as important for what lies ahead, and it has become a buzzword in some debates about educating for the future. Now, more than ever, higher education is challenged to educate students to see beyond the limits of their own discipline and to come up with innovative integrated solutions for our global challenges. But how do you define interdisciplinarity? How do you measure whether a student has integrated different insights? How do you challenge students to step across disciplinary borders?

Free Download Number Concepts: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009462539 | 100 Pages | PDF (True) | 3.4 MB
This Element, written for researchers and students in philosophy and the behavioral sciences, reviews and critically assesses extant work on number concepts in developmental psychology and cognitive science. It has four main aims. First, it characterizes the core commitments of mainstream number cognition research, including the commitment to representationalism, the hypothesis that there exist certain number-specific cognitive systems, and the key milestones in the development of number cognition. Second, it provides a taxonomy of influential views within mainstream number cognition research, along with the central challenges these views face. Third, it identifies and critically assesses a series of core philosophical assumptions often adopted by number cognition researchers. Finally, the Element articulates and defends a novel version of pluralism about number concepts.

Free Download Hemanshu Kaul, "Advances In Interdisciplinary Applied Discrete Mathematics"
English | 2010 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 9814299146 | PDF | 3,9 mb
In the past 50 years, discrete mathematics has developed as a far-reaching and popular language for modeling fundamental problems in computer science, biology, sociology, operations research, economics, engineering, etc. The same model may appear in different guises, or a variety of models may have enough similarities such that same ideas and techniques can be applied in diverse applications. This book focuses on fields such as consensus and voting theory, clustering, location theory, mathematical biology, and optimization that have seen an upsurge of new and exciting works over the past two decades using discrete models in modern applications. Featuring survey articles written by experts in these fields, the articles emphasize the interconnectedness of the mathematical models and techniques used in various areas, and elucidate the possibilities for future interdisciplinary research. Additionally, this book discusses recent advances in the fields, highlighting the approach of cross-fertilization of ideas across disciplines.

Free Download Proceedings of the 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage: EARTH 2018 by Alessandro Luigini
English | PDF | 2019 | 757 Pages | ISBN : 3030122395 | 195.5 MB

Free Download Cattle and People : Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Relationship
by Catarina Ginja, Elizabeth Wright
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1948488736 | 365 Pages | True PDF | 74 MB

Free Download Psychosocial Occupational Health
by Siegrist, Johannes;Li, Jian;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0192887920 | 312 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.16 MB

Free Download Carl Plantinga, "Screen Stories and Moral Understanding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 0197665667 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 733 KB + 12 MB

Free Download Achim Stephan, "Depression, Emotion and the Self: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1845407466 | ASIN: B00LVRYAIE | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.8 mb
This volume addresses the question of what it is like to be depressed. Despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted into the causes and treatment of depression, the experience of depression remains poorly understood. Indeed, many depression memoirs state that the experience is impossible for others to understand. However, it is at least clear that changes in emotion, mood, and bodily feeling are central to all forms of depression, and these are the book’s principal focus. In recent years, there has been a great deal of valuable philosophical and interdisciplinary research on the emotions, complemented by new developments in philosophy of psychiatry and scientifically-informed phenomenology. The book draws on all these areas, in order to offer a range of novel insights into the nature of depression experiences. To do so, it brings together a distinguished group of philosophers, psychiatrists, anthropologists, clinical psychologists and neuroscientists, all of whom have made important contributions to current research on emotion and/or psychiatric illness.

Free Download Intruders in the Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Thought Insertion (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry) edited by Tom McClelland, Pablo Lopez-Silva
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 0192896164 | True EPUB | 360 pages | 2.7 MB
Thought insertion is the delusion that one’s thoughts are not one’s own, which causes people to believe that external agents have inserted ideas or thoughts into their minds. More prevalent in schizophrenia, thought insertion has been regarded as one of the most complex psychiatric symptoms. It is easy to see why it is such an intriguing phenomenon, as it blurs our understanding of some of the most fundamental aspects of our mind.