人=机器人论题的困境与出路——评勃克斯的逻辑机器哲学

计算机科学与信息技术的迅猛发展,必然引起哲学范式的转换,从而提出具有创新意义的研究纲领.逻辑机器哲学是传统哲学与现代计算机科学、信息技术的哲学思考相结合的产物.它通过人与计算机的类比,探讨用计算机模拟人类心智的可能性以及有关的哲学问题.从本质上看,勃克斯的逻辑机器哲学及其人=机器人论题建基于心智的计算观,而心智的计算观不断地受到了严重的质疑.人工生命的进化研究成果表明,心智的计算观的困境是可以摆脱的."人工意识"的计算机生成和进化系统的动力学研究,将为拯救和发展心智的计算观开辟了新的道路.     

Evaluating increased effort for item disposal to improve recycling at a university

An evaluation of increased response effort to dispose of items was conducted to improve recycling at a university. Signs prompting individuals to recycle and notifying them of the location of trash and recycling receptacles were posted in each phase. During the intervention, trashcans were removed from the classrooms, and one large trashcan was available in the hallway next to the recycling receptacles. Results showed that correct recycling increased, and trash left in classrooms increased initially during the second intervention phase before returning to baseline levels.     

The Pragmatics of Slurs

I argue that the offense generation pattern of slurring terms parallels that of impoliteness behaviors, and is best explained by appeal to similar purely pragmatic mechanisms. In choosing to use a slurring term rather than its neutral counterpart, the speaker signals that she endorses the term (and its associations). Such an endorsement warrants offense, and consequently slurs generate offense whenever a speaker's use demonstrates a contrastive preference for the slurring term. Since this explanation comes at low theoretical cost and imposes few constraints on an account of the semantics of slurs, this suggests that we should not require semantic accounts to provide an independent explanation of the offense profile.     

Intelligence moderates the benefits of strategy instructions on memory performance: an adult-lifespan examination

Whether older adults can compensate for their associative memory deficit by using memory strategies efficiently might depend on their general cognitive abilities. This study examined the moderating role of an IQ estimate on the beneficial effects of strategy instructions. A total of 142 participants (aged 18–85 years) received either intentional learning or strategy (“sentence generation”) instructions during encoding of word pairs. Whereas young adults with a lower IQ benefited from strategy instructions, those with a higher IQ did not, presumably because they already use strategies spontaneously. Older adults showed the opposite effect: following strategy instructions, older adults with a higher IQ showed a strong increase in memory performance (approximately achieving the level of younger adults), whereas older adults with a lower IQ did not, suggesting that they have difficulties implementing the provided strategies. These results highlight the importance of the role of IQ in compensating for the aging-related memory decline.     

Stimulus-response incompatibility eliminates inhibitory cueing effects with saccadic but not manual responses

There are thought to be two forms of inhibition of return (IOR) depending on whether the oculomotor system is activated or suppressed. When saccades are allowed, output-based IOR is generated, whereas input-based IOR arises when saccades are prohibited. In a series of 4 experiments, we mixed or blocked compatible and incompatible trials with saccadic or manual responses to investigate whether cueing effects would follow the same pattern as those observed with more traditional peripheral onsets and central arrows. In all experiments, an uninformative cue was displayed, followed by a cue-back stimulus that was either red or green, indicating whether a compatible or incompatible response was required. The results showed that IOR was indeed observed for compatible responses in all tasks, whereas IOR was eliminated for incompatible trials—but only with saccadic responses. These findings indicate that the dissociation between input- and output-based forms of IOR depends on more than just oculomotor activation, providing further support for the existence of an inhibitory cueing effect that is distinct to the manual response modality.     

纳斯尔与刘述先:"回儒对话"语境中的"传统"与"现代"之争

本文目的在于对伊斯兰哲学家纳斯尔与新儒家代表人物刘述先在当代“回儒对话”语境中的一场争论进行回顾和总结。本文首先对争论双方的身份以及争论之缘起和大致经过进行了简要介绍,描述了纳斯尔与刘述先的“传统”与“现代”之争的具体内容,并对这场争论背后所潜含的思想实质进行了讨论。     

积极心理健康的内涵解析

学术界一般把积极心理学视野下的心理健康称为积极心理健康,它是当代心理健康相关学科发展的一个潮流.积极心理健康认为消除或摆脱了各种心理问题的人并不一定就意味着心理健康,心理健康还意味着正向力量或积极品质的产生与增加,因此,心理健康相关学科在研究人的各种心理问题的同时,也应该花相同精力或时间去研究人的积极力量和积极品质.在研究思路上,积极心理健康也表现出了一个非常明显的新特点,强调心理健康研究要从以关注个体总的心理状态为主的研究思路转向于以关注个体内差异为主的研究思路.     

论道德挫折

道德挫折是利他行为者遭到受助者消极或恶意回应而产生的心理挫折形式,其不仅是一种个人挫折,更是一种社会挫折,即造成了社会资本的损失.对于道德挫折,应从其心理发生机制来加以深入探析,即主要从挫折情境、挫折认知与挫折反应来加以说明.另外,道德挫折对于学校道德教育而言既是必须面对的挑战,也是可以积极利用的遭遇.