In 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]

In 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]

Reading in Tibetan is notoriously difficult. Native speakers and second language learners alike struggle with literacy and reading comprehension. For a language with such a rich literary heritage, this poses a problem. How can students of Tibetan literature engage with these sophisticated texts when reading fluency is so difficult to obtain? The…[Read more]

It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the environment since its introduction in a sphere in which a different logic and approach to nature are the essential conditions for the maintenance of the ecosystem and its complex relations between humans and non-human organisms. The amazon rainforest is a portion…[Read more]

The creation of mental models is one of the key modes of human thinking and is how we interact with the world. However, our perception of time and how we experience time is directly linked to this sort of modeling behavior.

Semantic and syntactical judgments play a central role in the development of classification systems. Syndetic relationships are relationships between indexing terms, sometimes referred to as cross references. Due to the extensiveness of synonyms for different concepts in natural languages, subject indexing has historically focused on developing…[Read more]

This presentation was part of a symposium on teaching Logic courses at the Canadian Philosophical Association’s 2019 meeting. It combined a discussion of growth mindset (Carole Dweck) with the idea of “small teaching” (James Lang), involving participants in talking about ways that students in logic courses might approach the subject as something…[Read more]

Martin Heidegger y Karl Löwith,Briefwechsel. 1919–1973, edición y comentarios A. Denker, Karl Alber (Martin Heidegger Briefausgabe, II.2),Friburgo/Múnich, 2017, 330 pp.

REVISTA DE FILOSOFÍA DIÁNOIA, Volumen 64, Número 83 noviembre de 2019–abril de 2020, publicación editada por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México a través del Instituto…[Read more]

The urban turn in Henri Lefebvre: its spatial tenets and his architectural references

Social organizations, institutions, governments, and bureaucracies are all manifestations of power distribution. Many contemporary theories on power are at least partly informed by notions that were introduced in General Systems Theory. Public libraries are open systems. In an average organization, a hierarchy divides tasks, sets rules, and…[Read more]

Contemporary engaged Buddhist scholars typically claim either that Buddhism always endorsed social activism, or that its non-endorsement of such activism represented an unwitting lack of progress. This article examines several classical South Asian Buddhist texts that explicitly reject social and political activism. These texts argue for this…[Read more]

Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]

Henri Lefebvre’s (HL) large production about cities, urban, urban space and society could indicate its relevance to the architecture produced after the heyday of the neoliberal cycle and its crisis in 2008. This author introduced the practical-sensitive basis in the debate between the spatial and social processes to discuss the ideological d…[Read more]

Dini çoğulculuk, dini dışlayıcılık ve kapsayıcılıktan farklı olarak, her dinsel inanış taraftarlarının kendi dinleri içinde kalarak ilahi selamete erişeceğini söyler. Temelde, teolojik ve felsefi boyutları olan dini çoğulculuk tartışmasının siyasete bakan bir yönü de vardır. İslam tarihinde Meşşâî felsefenin kurucusu ve mutluluk filozofu ola…[Read more]

Ruwen Ogien pleasantly reminds us the pleasures of doing philosophy through this extremely lucid and accessible primer on ethics. Presenting nineteen moral puzzles and seven chapters on moral intuitions, Ogien shows the readers that philosophy is not the distant and dry discipline far from life that it is made out to be. Philosophy has to do with…[Read more]

Episodic memory (EM) involves re-experiencing past experiences by means of mental imagery. Aphantasics (who lack mental imagery) and people with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) lack the ability to re-experience, which would imply that they don’t have EM. However, aphantasics and people with SDAM have personal and affective…[Read more]

(First paragraphs.) — The notion of “mental time” refers to the experience and awareness of time, including that of past, present, and future, and that of the passing of time. This experience and awareness of time raises a number of puzzling questions. How do we experience time? What exactly do we experience when we experience time? Do we actua…[Read more]

Discover the history and specificity of French Business Schools, while delving into some related governance issues