Networks as a case of distributed cognition

Within the development of recent theories of epistemologies, notions of situated, embodied, extended and distributed cognition has been objects of study. Cognition is here seen as instantiated within different relationships, or networks, obtaining among humans and the world. However, what is shared by participating in a network is seldom addressed. This article will analyse and sketch the possibility of understanding a cognitive network, exemplified by a crime scene investigation, involving shared cognition understood as distributive ampliative cognition

On Vagueness:A Wittgensteinian Discussion

I will here use Wittgenstein’s scarce comments on vagueness in Philosophical Grammar as a perspective for discussing Boulanger’s use of the same concept. The aim is presenting a view on the vagueness not presupposing that vague concepts can be treated as determinable in the same way as non-vague concepts, instead vagueness calls for a high degree of context sensitivity and understanding of purposefulness

The application of industrialised building system in residential project

Industrialised Building System (IBS) is an alternative of construction that can change many aspects in building construction. The Industrialised Building System (IBS) is a construction system that is built using prefabricated components and is systematically done using machine, formworks and other forms of mechanical equipment. Before this, the construction industry in Malaysia had faced so many problems related to the increasing of using foreign workers, waste of building materials, uncontrolled quality of building materials, unsafe construction site and delay of construction period. This study is done in order to identify the number of Industrialised Building System (IBS) used in residential project, to analyze the types of Industrialised Building System (IBS) used in residential project, and to analyze the method to expand the use of Industrialised Building System (IBS) in residential project. The study is done by distributing the questionnaire by postage delivery and conducting an interview. Through detailed reading and distributed questionnaire, the number of Industrialised Building System used in residential project is identified. To conclude, the Industrialised Building System is still not widely used in the residential project. Most of the housing companies are using precast-concrete framing, panel and box system in residential project. Based on the results obtained, to reduce the Industrialised Building System (IBS) component price rate is the most preferable solution to this matter

Goodman and Cavell on fakes

What is a fake artwork? This is seldom asked in aesthetics even though judging an artwork as excellent or original implicitly posits criteria for fraudulent or dubious artworks as well. This article presents Nelson Goodman’s proposal of how we are to understand fakes. It will criticize his predominantly cognitive approach for failure of incorporating a sense of aesthetic value, thereby leaving the possibility of artworks which are fakes but nevertheless originals unexplained. Instead Stanley Cavell’s writings on aesthetic judgment are explored establishing a better frame for understanding these artworks