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Charles Darwin University
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Philosophy | Philosophy of Cognition | Ethical Theory | Epistemology | Information Systems | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
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Publications
Keeping track of objects while exploring an informationally impoverished environment: Local deictic versus global spatial strategies
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Date: 16-03-2010
DOI: 10.1167/3.9.323
Artistic understanding matters to musical judgment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Art and Science: A Philosophical Sketch of Their Historical Complexity and Codependence
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1111/JAAC.12398
An Account of Image Perceptual Understanding Based on Epistemic Attention and Reference
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/11795018_21
Attention, Information, and Epistemic Perception
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: 15-04-2011
Conditional Objectivism: A Strategy for Connecting the Social Sciences and Practical Decision-Making
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Chapitre 1. L’identification des objets et celle des lieux sont-elles interdépendantes ?
Publisher: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
Date: 2005
A Psychohistorical Philosophy for the Science of the Arts
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
History, Causal Information, and the Neuroscience of Art: Toward a Psycho-Historical Theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Empathy, honour, and the apprenticeship of violence: rudiments of a psychohistorical critique of the individualistic science of evil
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-12-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S11097-019-09652-3
Abstract: Research seeking to explain the perpetration of violence and atrocities by humans against other humans offers both social and in idualistic explanations, which differ namely in the roles attributed to empathy. Prominent social models suggest that some manifestations of inter-human violence are caused by parochial attitudes (attitudes characterized by interests centred on one's own community) and obedience reinforced by within-group empathy. In idualistic explanations of violence, by contrast, posit that stable intra-in idual characteristics of the brain and personality of some in iduals lead them to commit violence and atrocities. An in idualistic explanation argues that the chief cause of violence is the perpetrator’'s lack of empathy with the victim. To offer the rudiments of a critique of the in idualistic approach, I critically examine a model stating that violence is caused by empathy erosion (Baron-Cohen 2011). Specifically, the discussion of the empathy-erosion model is applied to the case of honour-based violence (HBV), a type of violence known for its communal character. Building from prior enquiries into violence and social cognition, I argue that an empathy-erosion explanation of HBV is defective because it does not consider important cultural and historical enablers of violence. Finally, as an alternative to in idualism, I propose a psychohistorical approach to HBV in the migration context. This alternative combines psychological and philosophical enquiry with historical and ethnographical analysis. The psychohistorical approach hypothesises that distinct processes of cultural learning of honour codes both scaffold HBV and modulate the perpetrators’ emotions and empathy.
Keeping track of objects while exploring a spatial layout with partial cues: Location-based and direction-based strategies
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Date: 08-2004
DOI: 10.1167/4.8.364
Artistic misunderstandings: The emotional significance of historical learning in the arts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17001625
Abstract: The Distancing-Embracing model does not have the conceptual resources to explain artistic misunderstandings and the emotional consequences of historical learning in the arts. Specifically, it suggests implausible predictions about emotional distancing caused by art schemata (e.g., misunderstandings of artistic intentions and contexts). These problems show the need for further inquiries into how historical contextualization modulates negative emotions in the arts.
History, Causal Information, and the Neuroscience of Art
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Toward a theory of the empirical tracking of individuals: Cognitive flexibility and the functions of attention in integrated tracking
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
The Functions of Environmental Art
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 10-2014
DOI: 10.1162/LEON_A_00828
Abstract: The psycho-historical theory of art posits that the functions of an artwork are effects of that artwork selected and reproduced because they fulfill humans’ mental and social needs. To develop this account, I hypothesize a cluster of core functions of environmental art, which encompasses effects such as tracking, broadcasting, emotions manipulation, cooperation, and critical reflection.
Agent tracking: a psycho-historical theory of the identification of living and social agents
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-04-2014
Explaining Person Identification: An Inquiry Into the Tracking of Human Agents
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-08-2014
DOI: 10.1111/TOPS.12109
Abstract: To introduce the issue of the tracking and identification of human agents, I examine the ability of an agent ("a tracker") to track a human person ("a target") and distinguish this target from other in iduals: The ability to perform person identification. First, I discuss influential mechanistic models of the perceptual recognition of human faces and people (the face-recognition program). Such models propose detailed hypotheses about the parts and activities of the mental mechanisms that control the perceptual recognition of persons. However, models based on perceptual recognition are incomplete theories of person identification because they do not explain several identification behaviors that are fundamental to human social interactions (e.g., identifying unobservable persons and imposters). Furthermore, recognition-based models tend to appeal to the controversial concept of the "identity" of a person without explaining what determines personal identity and persistence. To overcome these limitations, I propose to integrate the face-recognition program into a broader causal-historical theory of identification. The causal-historical theory of identification complements models focused on perceptual recognition because it can account for the types of non-perceptual identification overlooked by the face-recognition program. Moreover, it can decompose the identification behaviors into tracking processes that succeed or fail to be sensitive to causal characteristics of a target. I illustrate these advantages with a discussion of the difference between the tracking of a person understood as either a causally continuous biological organism (organism-based tracking) or a psychologically continuous mind (psychological tracking). Finally, I argue that the causal-historical theory provides a theoretical framework for investigating the tracking of relations between a target and its contextual and historical attributes, such as a target's possessions.
The principle of ontological commitment in pre- and postmortem multiple agent tracking
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X0627910X
Abstract: This commentary suggests that understanding the “Folk Psychology of Souls” requires studying a problem articulating ontology with psychology: How do human beings, both as perceivers and thinkers, track and refer to (1) living and dead intentional agents and (2) supernatural agents? The problem is discussed in the light of the principle of the ontological commitment in agent tracking.
The decommission of I See Red: a case study in the relations between art and law
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 10-01-2020
A study in the cognition of individuals’ identity: Solving the problem of singular cognition in object and agent tracking
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.1016/J.CONCOG.2006.09.006
Abstract: This article compares the ability to track in iduals lacking mental states with the ability to track intentional agents. It explains why reference to in iduals raises the problem of explaining how cognitive agents track unique in iduals and in what sense reference is based on procedures of perceptual-motor and epistemic tracking. We suggest applying the notion of singular-files from theories in perception and semantics to the problem of tracking intentional agents. In order to elucidate the nature of agent-files, three views of the relation between object- and agent-tracking are distinguished: the Independence, Deflationary and Organism-Dependence Views. The correct view is argued to be the latter, which states that perceptual and epistemic tracking of a unique human organism requires tracking both its spatio-temporal object-properties and its agent-properties.
Context-Dependent and Epistemic Uses of Attention for Perceptual-Demonstrative Identification
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/11508373_6
A psycho-historical research program for the integrative science of art
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 18-03-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12002464
Abstract: Critics of the target article objected to our account of art appreciators' sensitivity to art-historical contexts and functions, the relations among the modes of artistic appreciation, and the weaknesses of aesthetic science. To rebut these objections and justify our program, we argue that the current neglect of sensitivity to art-historical contexts persists as a result of a pervasive aesthetic–artistic confound we further specify our claim that basic exposure and the design stance are necessary conditions of artistic understanding and we explain why many experimental studies do not belong to a psycho-historical science of art.
The psychological basis of music appreciation: Structure, self, source.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1037/REV0000364
Abstract: Research has investigated psychological processes in an attempt to explain how and why people appreciate music. Three programs of research have shed light on these processes. The first focuses on the appreciation of musical structure. The second investigates self-oriented responses to music, including music-evoked autobiographical memories, the reinforcement of a sense of self, and benefits to in idual health and wellbeing. The third seeks to explain how music listeners become sensitive to the causal and contextual sources of music making, including the biomechanics of performance, knowledge of musicians and their intentions, and the cultural and historical context of music making. To date, these programs of research have been carried out with little interaction, and the third program has been omitted from most psychological enquiries into music appreciation. In this paper, we review evidence for these three forms of appreciation. The evidence reviewed acknowledges the enormous ersity in antecedents and causes of music appreciation across contexts, in iduals, cultures, and historical periods. We identify the inputs and outputs of appreciation, propose processes that influence the forms that appreciation can take, and make predictions for future research. Evidence for source sensitivity is emphasized because the topic has been largely unacknowledged in previous discussions. This evidence implicates a set of unexplored processes that bring to mind causal and contextual details associated with music, and that shape our appreciation of music in important ways. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
The artful mind meets art history: Toward a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 18-03-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12000489
Abstract: Research seeking a scientific foundation for the theory of art appreciation has raised controversies at the intersection of the social and cognitive sciences. Though equally relevant to a scientific inquiry into art appreciation, psychological and historical approaches to art developed independently and lack a common core of theoretical principles. Historicists argue that psychological and brain sciences ignore the fact that artworks are artifacts produced and appreciated in the context of unique historical situations and artistic intentions. After revealing flaws in the psychological approach, we introduce a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation . This framework demonstrates that a science of art appreciation must investigate how appreciators process causal and historical information to classify and explain their psychological responses to art. Expanding on research about the cognition of artifacts, we identify three modes of appreciation: basic exposure to an artwork, the artistic design stance , and artistic understanding . The artistic design stance, a requisite for artistic understanding, is an attitude whereby appreciators develop their sensitivity to art-historical contexts by means of inquiries into the making, authorship, and functions of artworks. We defend and illustrate the psycho-historical framework with an analysis of existing studies on art appreciation in empirical aesthetics. Finally, we argue that the fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure can be amended to meet the requirements of the framework. We conclude that scientists can tackle fundamental questions about the nature and appreciation of art within the psycho-historical framework.
Keeping Track of Invisible Individuals While Exploring a Spatial Layout with Partial Cues: Location-based and Deictic Direction-based Strategies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2008
Editorial: Objects and Sound Perception
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-12-2009
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