计算机和社会控制

我要谈的内容是社会控制活动中计算机的作用问题。控制的概念很复杂、很微妙,但我们可以从不多的例子中理解其含义。很早以前,农夫控制一些牛来耕地,他的妻子控制手工织机把布织成自己所需的图案。现在,人们控制着复杂的机器和发动机驱动的车辆,恒温调节装置控制着房间的温度。现代化的炼油厂几乎全都是由计算机控制的。旧金山有一种快速运营系统,这个系统完全用计算机控制客运汽车,当然有时也会出问题。在过去的两个世纪里,特别是我们生活的时代,机器越来越多地参与了控制的活动。我谈论这些活动的方法一方面是历史性的:回顾一下这种控     

公孙龙和“白马非马”

解释的不确定性关于白马的反论是在《公孙龙子》一书第二章开端叙述的。这个反论是由四个字组成的语句来表述的:白马非马,即“白马不是马”。文章随后又以对话形式来论证这个反论是可以被肯定的。因此,阐明和解释这个反论已经成了学者们十分感兴趣的问题。现代对这个反论已经有了许多解释性的理论,这些理论几乎全都是采用西方哲学传统中形而上学的、精神的、抽象的或语义学的概念。但问题在于阐明为什么公孙龙认为这个反论是可以被肯定的。在此,根据我的哲学观点对这个反论以及随后的对话进行唯名论的说明。我坚决主张,我们不需要把马当作“马的性质”;也不     

布洛赫——中间世界的思想家

说出把共产党人和布洛赫分开的东西是容易的。这里我指的不是老年布洛赫对“苏联的官僚主义”所作的动情感的、不恰当的指责,不是他对“社会主义的畸形发展”和现实的社会主义国家中“没有自由”的指责,如此等等。这不仅是因为他的明确的和富有战斗性的政治态度同上述言论是对立的,他在反对帝国主义的威胁时基本上始终是站在社会主义阵营一边的,而首先是因为这样一个问题:布洛赫的哲学对于马列主义到底具有什么意义。这个问题十分尖锐,因为布洛赫认为自己是一位进一步贯彻了马克思、恩格斯和列宁的思想的哲学     

西方资产阶级哲学的现时状况

3.试图克服非历史的和反进化主义的基本立场西方哲学的主要流派都持有反形而上学的立场,并固有着所谓的“现象学内在论”。这种内在论以各种方式断定人和世界的融合性或世界对人的直接赋予性;与以上两个特点密切相联系的是这些流派的其他一些基本原则和原理,特别是它们所共有的非历史的和反进化的研究方法,它们就是用这种方法来解释人的全部问题,解释文化生活和社会生活问题、认识的理论和方法论问题。形而上学的还原论对各种现实现象实质进行解释所依据的原则,是认为这些现象有一个外部的和     

萨特尔和他的《辩证理性批判》

萨特尔写的《辩证理性批判》(1960)实际上是他历史论的第一卷。这是一本令人兴奋而又晦涩难懂的著作,它那令人眼花缭乱的分析连接着离题万里的议论,天才的见解埋没在曲折的思路和叙述的沙漠中,人们总是无法弄清楚他是朝着哪条道路行进。在进行综合的崇高意愿背后,该书还显示了它的抱负:“对历史的认识在什么条件下才是可能的?在怎样的范围内,那些被揭示的联系是必要的?什么是辩证的理性?”(第135页,以下未注书名的均指《辩证理性批判》)这种计划表面看来是康德主义的,但它的新颖性又说明它是来自我们时代不可超越的理论——马克思主义。这本著作注意的就是这两方面要求的结合。这位战士和介     

阿尔都塞的多元决定与结构因果观

在阿尔都塞的马克思著作研究中,多元决定和结构因果性这两个概念是十分重要的。本文将通过考察阿尔都塞对这两个概念在理解马克思的“方法论”上的价值和应用的论述,来解释这两个概念。但这种研究方法并不认为在《资本论》或其他著作中,马克思实际上有一种具体的或明确的方法论。对我们来说,马克思主义中是否有方法论仍然是一个未解决的问题。对于任何的马克思方法论的探讨,这些概念都是重要的。本文的任务之一就是表明,马克思在政治经济学中的贡献和“理论革命”不能简单地用方法论来描绘。马克思对黑格尔的辩证法思     

Pursuing and distancing: the construct and its measurement

Although the concept of interpersonal pursuing and distancing has been introduced and used clinically, the lack of a reliable and valid measure has deterred its more formal investigation and relevance to personality theory. The Pursuing-Distancing (P-D) Scale, a 92-item measure of the behavioral expression of these characteristics, was developed. Evidence for internal consistency as well as internal support of construct validity is presented and discussed. An 80-item revised scale is available from the authors and is currently being evaluated in a variety of external validation settings.     

Accommodation to increased accuracy demands by the right and left hands

This study was designed to identify the phase of rapid aimed movements responsible for hand differences in motor skill, and to evaluate potential differences between the hands in accommodating to greater accuracy demands. In both experiments, an accelerometer mounted on a stylus allowed key changes in acceleration to be used to partition the movement into phases. In Experiment 1, slower left hand movement times were attributable primarily to a terminal homing-in phase, especially as target size decreased. Since error rates varied as a function of hand and target size, speed-accuracy trade-offs may have occurred. Experiment 2 rigidly controlled error rate and confirmed the major hand difference to occur in the latter phase of the movement where error correction is presumed. Although less pronounced, adjustments were made in the earlier movement phases as well. Accommodation to greater accuracy demands involved moving the stylus closer to the target before decelerating to engage in error correction. This adjustment to gain enhanced precision was more pronounced in the left hand.     

Quantitative assessment of infant reaching movements

We have identified a fundamental property of human motor behavior as a tight coupling of the curvature-speed relationship in the reaching movements of 5- to 9-month-old infants. This relationship termed a movement unit, occurs regardless of the distance of duration of the reach and in spite of the developmental change that occurs in grasping during this period. Movement unit durations are tightly clustered around 200 ms regardless of overall duration or distance or the position of the unit in the reach. The curvature-speed coupling has been identified by others in adult reaching and handwriting. Models of biological motor control must account for this invariant relationship.     

Conditional relations by monkeys: Reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity

Two cynomolgous macaques categorized six colors into two groups of three after conditional discrimination training (zero-delay symbolic match-to-sample). The procedures resulted in the establishment of relations among the elements of each set-relations that were not specifically trained and that can be characterized by the properties of reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity. Each set of colors was related to a characteristic pattern of responding: One response pattern involved temporal duration (press and hold the response keys); the second response pattern entailed repeated pressing and releasing of the response keys (fixed ratio 8). Six combinations of two colors were trained, three combinations from each set. After discriminative performance stabilized for each monkey, they were tested with 10 additional color combinations, all of which differed from the training combinations. The conditional relations established between test combinations can be characterized as stimulus equivalence. The training procedures were analogous to the procedure of using category names, and have implications for understanding the function of language in the formation of equivalence classes.