‘There is nothing more practical than a good theory’: Conceptual tools for conservation practice

Faced with the growing number of case studies in contemporary art, philosophy provides conservators with a series of conceptual tools that allow to theorize their practice. The notion of intentionality and attentionality borrowed from Genette enables a better understanding of the problems that Dirty Corner by Anish Kapoor (a work vandalized on many occasions) poses. I will show that the conservator deals with the issue of the identity of a contemporary work in a different way from the art historian, and that philosophy is a practical tool to understand the specificity of the former's approach and intervention.     

Playing Social Chess: Children's play and social intelligence

Humans live in complex social environments. By the time they reach adulthood, most people have developed highly sophisticated social skills, including the ability to infer the 'invisible' mental states in others, and to act upon those inferences; they have become experts at 'social chess'. This paper draws upon research from developmental and evolutionary psychology, primatology, as well as studies of autistic children, to explore the processes by which children acquire the complex skills underpinning social interaction. It also examines obstacles to social skill acquisition. In light of ethological studies of social play in humans and other primates, it is argued that play is a fundamental medium for acquiring social skills.     

Studying new forms of participation and identity in mathematics classrooms with integrated communication and representational infrastructures

Wireless networks are fast becoming ubiquitous in all aspects of society and the world economy. We describe a method for studying the impacts of combining such technology with dynamic, representationally-rich mathematics software, particularly on participation, expression and projection of identity from a local to a public, shared workspace. We describe the types of mathematical activities that can utilize such unique combinations of technologies. We outline specific discourse analytic methods for measuring participation and methodologies for incorporating measures of identity and participation into impact studies.

Appraisal and Distancing Responses to Hurtful Messages II: A Diary Study of Dating Partners and Friends

This study examined the interaction between perceived cancer risk and self-efficacy related to cancer screening on cancer-related information seeking and scanning behaviors (SSB) among the general population. Individuals completed a cross-sectional survey, were classified into 1 of 4 clusters based on their relative risk and self-efficacy belief scores (i.e., high relative risk and high self-efficacy, high relative risk and low self-efficacy, low relative risk and high self-efficacy, and low relative risk and low self-efficacy), and asked about their information SSB related to the colonoscopy, prostate-specific antigen test, or mammogram. A national probability sample of 2,489 adults aged 40 to 70 took part in this study. Individuals who perceived themselves to be at high relative risk for cancer and had high self-efficacy beliefs in performing cancer-screening behaviors generally reported the highest amounts of SSB for cancer-screening information, compared to the others.     

Curriculum translation and environmental education: considering issues of discursive intentionality, interpretation, and validity

We would like to thank our commentators Reis, Ercikan and Alper for their insightful comments on our research study and respond in brief to a few of their criticisms. More specifically, we would like to address what we consider to be the three main issues they raise with regard to the practices of curriculum translation and implementation across languages, namely viewing speakers’ intentions as a mode of signification in discourse analysis, exploring curriculum translation through an interpretive research approach, and establishing the validity of research on curriculum translation.

Explicit versus implicit understanding of teaching: Does knowing what teaching is help children to learn from it?

One hundred and sixteen Korean 3- to 5-year-olds were individually taught animal names through a game, either in a direct condition in which the instructional goal was stated or an indirect condition in which it was not. How much they learned and how well they understood the intentionality of teaching were also measured. Korean children seemed to have relatively rapid development in understanding of the intentionality of teaching, and this understanding was correlated with their identification of the goal of the game. The direct condition produced better learning for the children who had higher understanding of the intentionality of teaching.     

试论胡塞尔现象学的开放性及意义

始于二十世纪初的德国的现象学运动,在不同的领域产生了广泛而深远的影响,它表明：现象学是一种开放的哲学,在今天,它仍然有着重大的理论和现实意义,首先,现象学的方法是一种思辨综合的哲学方法;其次,现象学的“意向性”理论和“生活世界”的观念为哲学研究开辟了广阔的视野;最后,现象学作为一种哲学态度,一种哲学方法乃至一场哲学运动,必将以其开放性和包容性为人类赢得崭新的思想发展空间。     

现象学与19世纪科学论的促逼

19世纪下半期被海德格尔描述成科学论再度昌盛的年代。科学论作为实证主义首先指英法社会学思潮,作为哲学的内在冲动则是从新康德主义一直到胡塞尔现象学的最高原则和最终目标。胡塞尔的现象学劳作,力图摆脱哲学的实证主义化和心理学化,他的哲学创获被海德格尔正确地概括为现象学的三个基本发现：意向性、范畴直观、先天。     

意向性视角下的禁忌语研究

禁忌语属于言语行为规范的范畴,是社会文化的组成部分,与各民族基本的价值观大体一致。其运作过程中,心智的意向性作为先导,话语主体出于“利己”的动机,在具体言语活动中基于求得或求免原则进行价值判断和选择,决定意向态度和意向内容,即什么不能说,应该避讳,进而调整具体言语表征形式。此外,禁忌语也表现出一定的动态性和相对性。