the mit press technology as experience sep 2004
the mit press technology as experience sep 2004
... WRIGHT TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY AS EXPERIENCE AS EXPERIENCE TECHNOLOGY AS EXPERIENCE In Technology as Experience, John McCarthy and Peter Wright argue that any account of what is often called the user ... Lecturer at the University of York. Technology as Experience expertly explores the emotional and aesthetic dimesions of technological encounters, from the vi...
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the mit press rationality and logic sep 2006
... one of these schemata is such that some sentence follows with necessity from the assertion of some other sen- tences, together with the assumption of their being so or (what is the same) their ... follows with necessity from the assertion of some other sentences, together with the assumption of their being true, is to say that it is impossible that the sentences assumed to be true...
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the mit press real natures and familiar objects apr 2004
... at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, one microparticle in the star Sirius, and the entirety of the Navy’s latest Ohio-class submarine. Neither folk the- ories nor learned theories about how the ... though Conventionalism 17
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the mit press wired for innovation how information technology is reshaping the economy oct 2009
... a ways to go. In the late 1990s, there was a fi nancial bubble in the technology sector. One need not look further than the rise and fall of the NASDAQ index (fi gure 1.1), the rise and subsequent ... informa- tion technology wasn’t the sole cause of the increased growth. A signifi cant body of research fi nds that the reason technology played a larger role in the acce...
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the mit press organisms and artifacts design in nature and elsewhere apr 2004
... keep them at the bottom of the sea, and to protect them when drifted by the tide against rocks. Animals of the molluscous division, which inhabit the deep sea, and float singly, or in groups, as the ... meaning, the proposed analysis has value, and for similar reasons. The question of the status of the analysis—whether it cleans up actual meaning, whether it exposes actua...
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the mit press true to life why truth matters oct 2004
... exist. Yet the phlogiston theory was a very reasonable hy- pothesis at the time. It was highly confirmed by the standards of the day. The most knowledgeable scientists believed it. Yet it was mistaken. The ... results in a loss of mass. According to the very best science of the day, the common cause was the release of an invisible gas, “phlogiston,” into the atmosphere....
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the mit press evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology nov 2007
... This was balanced by the recognition of the importance of “sympathy” that bonds humans together, as when we care for the suffering or happiness of others. The allusion was to Adam Smith’s The Theory ... interpretation of the “data” is biased. It is not the will- ingness to test hypotheses that they see as the problem, but the quality of the tests. Kitcher (1985, 8) put...
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the mit press reason in the age of science sep 1983
... has proposed the main task of the political philosopher to be that of understanding the classical works in political theory, ancient as well as modern, as the authors themselves understood them. ... research and on the other within the Anglo-Saxon pragmatic tradition of thought. With the thematization of language as it belongs indissolubly to the human life world, a...
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the mit press women art and technology oct 2003
... Arts, London. The exhibition was designed by Franciszka Themerson. The site photo includes, in the foreground, Gordon Pask’s The Colloquy of Mobiles and, behind them, the fiberglass spheres in ... overcome the reluctance and lack of experience that still exist, as well as to mediate newer aesthetic modes inherent in new experiences. Reichardt was at the forefront of underst...
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the mit press americas environmental report card are we making the grade dec 2004
... in large areas of Texas. Wells must be deepened and the energy cost to pump the water to the surface increases to the point where farming becomes uneco- nomical. In northeast Texas the area under ... production has steadily declined in recent decades. No doubt much of the decline has resulted from passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, which restricts the discharge of untreat...
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